Lawrence (given name)

People

Christianity

• Lawrence of Rome, deacon and Roman Catholic saint, born in Spain
• Lawrence I, bishop of Milan from 490 to c. 511, Roman Catholic saint
• Brother Lawrence de la Résurrection, Carmelite monk

  Arts and entertainment

• Lawrence Brownlee, American opera singer
• Lawrence Gray, American actor
• Lawrence, English singer, songwriter and guitarist Lawrence Hayward
• Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor
• Lawrence Raghavendra, South Indian film actor
• Lawrence Saint, American stained glass artist
• Lawrence Weingarten, American film producer
• Lawrence Welk, American band leader, accordion player, and television host

  Business

• Lawrence Bossidy, former chairman of Honeywell, former CEO and chairman of AlliedSignal, current chairman of Merck & Co.
• Lawrence Hunt, internet entrepreneur and CEO of Silverjet
• Lawrence E. Page, co-founder of Google Inc.
• Lawrence Wackett, airplane designer, entrepreneur and manager, the father of the Australian aircraft industry

  Education

• Lawrence S. Bacow, former president of Tufts University
• Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University.
• Lawrence Lessig, professor of physics at Cornell University
• Lawrence Solan, American professor of law at Brooklyn Law School

  Politics

• Lawrence Beria, Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus during World War II, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, deputy premier of Soviet Union, member of the Politburo, serial killer and sexual predator, one of the leading perpetrators of the genocide Holodomor, overseer of the expansion of the Gulag labor camps, the principal organiser of Katyn Massacre
• Lawrence T. Fuglaar, American politician
• Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go, Filipino politician
• Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician and former Prime Minister
• Lawrence M. Rulison, American lawyer and politician

  Sports

• Lawrence Cager, American football player
• Lawrence Chimezie Akandu, Nigerian-born Hong Kong football player
• Lawrence Dallaglio, English former rugby union player
• Lawrence Okoye, British-born American football player and Olympian
• Lawrence Peckham, Australian high jumper
• Lawrence Sampleton, American former football player
• Lawrence Taylor, Hall-of-Fame American retired football player
• Lawrence Thomas , Australian footballer
• Lawrence Virgil, American football player

  Other

• Lawrence M. Baskir, American federal judge
• Lawrence Hargrave, Australian inventor, explorer, astronomer, engineer and aeronautical pioneer
• Lawrence Joel, United States Army medic awarded the Medal of Honor
• Lawrence Oates, member of the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole

  Fictional characters

• Lawrence Alamain, from the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Lawrence Fletcher, Ferb's dad and Phineas's stepdad in the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb
• Lawrence, a minor character from Mona the Vampire
• Lawrence, from School of Rock