Laurie (given name)
Laurie is a unisex given name. Among males, it can be a short form of Lawrence, Laurence or Laurens. For females, it can be a short form of Lauren or Laura.
Laurie is the name of:
People
Women
- Laurie Allen, singer and musician, half of the Bobby & Laurie 1960s Australian singing duo
- Laurie Anderson, American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director
- Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer best known for children's and young adult novels
- Laurie Monnes Anderson, American politician
- Laurie Baker (ice hockey), American hockey player
- Laurie Bolger, English poet
- Laurie Brown (broadcaster), Canadian television host
- Laurie Butler, American chemist
- Laurie Byrd, American basketball coach
- Laurie David, American environmental activist
- Laurie Garrett, American Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and writer
- Laurie Graham (skier), Canadian retired downhill skier, member of several Halls of Fame
- Laurie Graham (novelist), English journalist, scriptwriter and novelist
- Laurie Helgoe, American clinical psychologist, educator
- Laurie Heyer, American mathematician
- Laurie Holden, American actress
- Laurie Hill (footballer, born 1970), American-born Mexican international soccer player
- Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist
- Laurie King, American author
- Laurie Metcalf, American actress
- Laurie Penny, English feminist columnist and author
- Laurie Petrou, Canadian author
- Laurie Scott (politician), Canadian politician
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, American writer and filmmaker
- Laurie Tackett, one of the perpetrators of the torture-murder of Shanda Sharer
- Laurie Walker (artist), Canadian artist
- Laurie Wayburn, American conservationist
- Laurie Williams (wheelchair basketball), British wheelchair basketball player
- Laurie Zio, Australian politician
Men
- Laurie Allan, English drummer
- Gerard Anderson, British hurdler
- Laurie Baker, British-born Indian architect
- Laurie Bell (footballer), English footballer
- Lawrence Bell (footballer), Scottish footballer
- Laurie Boschman, Canadian ice hockey player
- Laurie Brereton, Australian politician
- Laurie Bristow, British diplomat
- Laurie Brown (footballer), British footballer and manager
- Laurie Brown (physicist), American theoretical physicist
- Laurie Ferguson, Australian former politician
- Laurie Hill (footballer, born 1942), Australian rules footballer
- Laurie London, English musician
- Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
- Laurie Lynd, Canadian screenwriter and director
- Laurie Scott (footballer), English footballer
- Laurie Scott (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Laurie Spina, Australian former rugby league footballer
- Laurie Taylor (disambiguation)
- Laurie Walker (footballer),, English football goalkeeper
- Laurie Williams (cricketer), West Indian cricketer
Fictional characters
- Laurie Forman, in the TV show That 70s Show
- The title character of the TV series Laurie Hill
- Laurie Strode, in the Halloween film series, played by Jamie Lee Curtis
- Laurie Partridge, in the TV series The Partridge Family, played by Susan Dey
- Theodore Lawrence, called Laurie, in the novel Little Women
- Laurie, from the animated reality TV show The Ridonculous Race
- Laurie, later named Laurie du Salador, in Raymond E Feist 's The Riftwar Cycle
- Annie Laurie McShane, called Laurie in Betty Smith's novel ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''