Lalor is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 surname derived from the Gaelic

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 O Leathlobhair, meaning Half Leper. This is also the origin or the other variations in spelling of the name, O'Lawlor

O'Lawlor

O'Lawlor also known as Lawlor, Lawler, and Lalor is an Irish surname belonging to one of the Seven Septs of Laois.The Gaelic family name now most frequently found in English as Lawlor was Ó Leathlobhair. The earliest historical record now extant tells us that Lethlobar was a King of Ulidia who died...

, Lawlor and Lawler. It is most commonly found around the midlands of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 especially County Laois

County Laois

County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It was formerly known as Queen's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The county's name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix. Laois County Council...

, being one of the Seven Septs (Clans) of Leix (O'Lalors, O'Moores, O'Dowlings, O'Dorans, O'Devoys, O'Kellys, and McEvoys). It is not, as some people have claimed, of Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 origin. It can also refer to:

• Denis Lalor
  Denis Lalor
  Denis Lalor is a former hurling and gaelic football player from County Laois in Ireland.He played for Laois senior football and hurling teams throughout the 1990s....
  
  , athlete
• Francis Ramsey Lalor
  Francis Ramsey Lalor
  Francis Ramsey Lalor was a Canadian politician.Born in St. Catharines, Canada West, Lalor was educated at the Durnville Public and High Schools. A merchant and manufacturer, he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Haldimand at the general elections of 1904...
  
   (1856–1929), politician
• John Lalor
  John Lalor
  John Lalor was an Irish journalist and author.Lalor, son of John Lalor, a Roman Catholic merchant, was born at Dublin in 1814, and educated at a Roman Catholic school at Carlow and at Clongowes College. On 6 June 1831 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1837...
  
   (1814–1856), journalist and author
• James Fintan Lalor
  James Fintan Lalor
  James Fintan Lalor was an Irish revolutionary, journalist, and “one of the most powerful writers of his day.” A leading member of the Irish Confederation , he was to play an active part in both the Rebellion in July 1848 and the attempted Rising in September of that same year...
  
  , Irish rebel
• Kieran Lalor
  Kieran Lalor
  Kieran Michael Lalor is an American politician, entrepreneur and author who founded Iraq Vets for Congress . He works in the defense industry, and is a former social studies teacher, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War.Lalor was the Republican candidate in New York's 19th congressional...
  
  , politician
• Mike Lalor
  Mike Lalor
  John Michael Lalor is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman. Although a U.S. citizen by birth, Mike Lalor spent his growing years in Fort Erie, Ontario. Mike played in the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens, St...
  
   (born 1963), ice hockey player
• Patrick Lalor (born 1926), politician
• Peter Lalor
  Peter Lalor
  Peter Fintan Lalor was an activist turned politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion, an event controversially identified with the "birth of democracy" in Australia.- Early life and migration to Australia :...
  
  , the leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion
• Richard Lalor
  Richard Lalor
  Richard Lalor was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for Queen's County, 1880-85 and for Queen's County , 1885-92....
  
   (1823–1893), politician
• Richard Lalor Sheil
  Richard Lalor Sheil
  Richard Lalor Sheil , Irish politician, writer and orator, was born at Drumdowney, Slieverue, County Kilkenny, Ireland...
  
   (1791–1851), politician, writer and orator
• Teresa Lalor
  Teresa Lalor
  Teresa Lalor, V.H.M., was an Irish immigrant to the United States, and a nun, co-foundress, with the Most Rev...
  
   (?-1846), nun

See also

• Lalor, Victoria
  Lalor, Victoria
  Lalor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whittlesea. At the 2006 Census the suburb had a population of 19,561...
  
  , an outer suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Lalor railway station, a station on the Epping line
• Lalor Park, New South Wales
  Lalor Park, New South Wales
  Lalor Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lalor Park is located 35 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Lalor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region...
  
  
• Division of Lalor
  Division of Lalor
  The Division of Lalor is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne. It includes the suburbs of Werribee, Point Cook, Laverton, Rockbank and Melton....
  
  , an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria, Australia
• ST Lalor, a tugboat