Lawson (given name)
Lawson is a masculine given name borne by:
- Lawson Aschenbach, American racing driver
- Lawson Butt, British actor and director of the silent era
- Lawson Craddock, American former road and track racing cyclist
- Lawson Crouse, Canadian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
- Lawson D'Ath, English footballer
- Lawson Duncan, American retired tennis player
- Lawson D. Franklin, American planter, slave trader and businessman
- Lawson Harris, American director, actor, producer and writer
- Lawson Harvey, American lawyer, politician and justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
- Lawson Humphries, Australian rules footballer
- Lawson Fusao Inada, Japanese-American poet
- Lawson Insley, 19th century daguerreotyptist in Australia and New Zealand
- Lawson Little, American golfer
- Lawson Luckie, American football player
- Lawson Oyekan, British-Nigerian contemporary ceramic sculptor
- Lawson P. Ramage, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient
- Lawson Roll, English former cricketer
- Lawson Rollins, American guitarist
- Lawson Sabah, Ghanaian footballer
- Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, British microbiologist and parasitologist
- Lawson Steele, African-American politician in Alabama during the Reconstruction era
- Lawson Sunderland, American soccer player in the Netherlands
- Lawson Tait, Scottish surgical pioneer
- Lawson Thomas, American lawyer and civil rights activist, first African-American judge appointed in the American South since Reconstruction
- Lawson C. Tosh, American politician
- Lawson Vaughn, American retired soccer player
- Lawson Wilkins, American pediatric endocrinologist
- Lawson Wood, English painter, illustrator and designer
- Lawson Wulsin, American psychiatrist and author