Lawrence (given name)
Lawrence is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the French Laurent, which is in turn derived from the Latin Laurentius or Old Greek Lavrenti. Pet forms of Lawrence include Larry, Lawrie and, less commonly, Law.
People
Arts and entertainment
- Lawrence Brownlee, American opera singer
- Lawrence Cheng, Hong Kong film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and master of ceremonies
- Lawrence Chou, Hong Kong-Canadian singer and actor
- Lawrence David, American comedian, actor, writer, and television producer
- Lawrence Gray, American actor
- Lawrence (musician), English singer, songwriter and guitarist Lawrence Hayward
- Lawrence Simon, better known by the ring name Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler
- 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
- Lawrence Wong Guan Yi, Singaporean actor
Business
- Lawrence Bossidy, former chairman of Honeywell, former CEO and chairman of AlliedSignal
- Lawrence Ellison, American businessman and entrepreneur, co-founded Oracle Corporation
- Lawrence Ho, Chinese-Canadian businessman
- Laurence Moskowitz, communications executive
- Lawrence E. Page, American co-founder of Google Inc.
- Lawrence Stroll, Canadian businessman, part-owner of Racing Point F1 Team
- Lawrence Wackett, airplane designer, entrepreneur and manager, the father of the Australian aircraft industry
- Lawrence Yu, Hong Kong businessman
Christianity
- Lawrence of Rome, deacon and Roman Catholic saint, born in Spain
- Lawrence I (bishop of Milan), bishop of Milan from 490 to c. 511, Roman Catholic saint
- Lawrence (archbishop of Split), Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Split 1060–1099
- Brother Lawrence de la Résurrection, Carmelite friar
Criminals
- Lawrence Grecco, known as Larry Ray, American criminal
- Lawrence Nassar, also known as Larry Nassar, US Lebanese criminal and former physician
- Lawrence Singleton, American criminal
Education
- Lawrence S. Bacow, American former president of Tufts University
- Lawrence Klein, American economist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
- Lawrence Krauss, Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist, professor of physics, and President of The Origins Project Foundation
- Lawrence C. Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, and journalist
- Lawrence Lessig, professor of physics at Cornell University
- Lawrence Solan, American professor of law at Brooklyn Law School
- Lawrence A. Tabak, American dentist and biomedical scientist
- Lawrence Schiffman, American professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU
- Lawrence Summers, American economist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, president of Harvard University
- Lawrence Zalcman, professor of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University
Politics
- Lawrence (judge royal), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172
- Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet politician
- Lawrence Cartwright, Bahamian politician
- Lawrence A. Conner, Sr., American politician
- Lawrence T. Fuglaar, American politician
- Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go, Filipino politician
- Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician and former Prime Minister
- Lawrence Hislop, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Lawrence M. Rulison, American lawyer and politician
- Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai, Singaporean economist and politician, fourth Prime Minister of Singapore
- Lawrence Xu-Nan, New Zealand politician
Sports
- Lawrence Akandu, Nigerian-born Hong Kong football player
- Lawrence Harvey Brown, known as Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
- Lawrence Cager, American football player
- Lawrence Chimezie Akandu, Nigerian-born Hong Kong football player
- Lawrence Dallaglio, English former rugby union player
- Lawrence Demmy, British ice dancer
- Lawrence Hardy, English footballer
- Lawrence Jacquelin, American NASCAR driver
- Lawrence Lemieux, Canadian sailor
- Laurence McGivern, Irish Paralympic swimmer
- Lawrence Morgan, Australian sportsman
- Lawrence Moten, American basketball player
- Laurence Myers, known as Lon Myers, American sprinter and middle distance runner
- Lawrence Naesen, Belgian cyclist
- Lawrence Ng (fencer), Hong Kong fencer
- Lawrence Okoye, British-born American football player and Olympian
- Lawrence Peckham, Australian high jumper
- Lawrence Sampleton, American former football player
- Lawrence Sapp, American Paralympic swimmer
- Lawrence Sherry, American Major League Baseball player and coach
- Lawrence Taylor, American Hall-of-Fame football player
- Lawrence Thomas (footballer), Australian footballer
- Lawrence Virgil, American football player
- Laurence Whiteley,, British parasport rower
- Lawrence Woods, American football player
Writers
- Lawrence Hill, Canadian writer
- Lawrence O'Toole (journalist), Canadian journalist
- Lawrence Wright, American writer and journalist
Other
- Lawrence Baskir, American federal judge
- Lawrence Hargrave, Australian inventor, explorer, astronomer, engineer and aeronautical pioneer
- Lawrence Joel, U.S. Army medic awarded the Medal of Honor
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, English interior designer and television personality
- Lawrence Oates, member of ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole
Fictional characters
- Lawrence, character in the 1995 American coming-of-age teen comedy movie Clueless
- Lawrence Alamain, character 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, minor character from animated children's television series Mona the Vampire
- Lawrence, character from 2003 comedy film School of Rock
- Lawrence, character from comedy-drama television series Insecure
- Dr. Lawrence Gordon, character from the Saw franchise
- Lawrence John Wargrave, character from Agatha Christie's novel ''And Then There Were None''