Christianity

• William Lawrence (Bishop of Massachusetts), the 7th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
• William Appleton Lawrence
  William Appleton Lawrence
  William Appleton Lawrence was the third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts . His father, William Lawrence, was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts ....
  
  , 3rd Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts

Politics

• Abbott Lawrence
  Abbott Lawrence
  Abbott Lawrence was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist...
  
  , US representative from Massachusetts
• Amos Lawrence
  Amos Lawrence
  Amos Lawrence, was an American merchant and philanthropist.-Biography:...
  
   (1786–1852), Massachusetts philanthropist and politician
• Carmen Lawrence
  Carmen Lawrence
  Carmen Mary Lawrence is a retired Australian politician; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia....
  
   (b. 1948), Australian politician
• George Van Eman Lawrence
  George Van Eman Lawrence
  George Van Eman Lawrence was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
  
   (1818–1904), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• George P. Lawrence
  George P. Lawrence
  George Pelton Lawrence was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Lawrence graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and from Amherst College in 1880. He studied law at the Columbia Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in North Adams...
  
  , former US Representative from Massachusetts
• John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
  John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
  John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, GCB, GCSI, PC , known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was an Englishman who became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.-Early life:Lawrence came from Richmond, North Yorkshire...
  
   (1811–79), British statesman
• Joseph Lawrence (Pennsylvania)
  Joseph Lawrence (Pennsylvania)
  Joseph Lawrence was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:Joseph Lawrence was born near Hunterstown, Pennsylvania. He moved with his widowed mother to a farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1789, and attended the common schools...
  
   (1786–1886), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• William Lawrence (35th Congress)
  William Lawrence (35th Congress)
  William Lawrence was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 17th District of Ohio. Lawrence was born in Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio...
  
  , member of the United States House of Representatives from the 17th District of Ohio
• William Lawrence (Ohio)
  William Lawrence (Ohio)
  William Lawrence was a Republican politician from Ohio. He was most noted for being a US Representative, and was influential in attempting to impeach Andrew Johnson, creating the United States Department of Justice, helping to create the American Red Cross, and ratifying the Geneva...
  
  , Republican politician from Ohio

Education

• Amos Adams Lawrence
  Amos Adams Lawrence
  Amos Adams Lawrence , the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence, was a key figure in the United States abolition movement in the years leading up to the Civil War, and instrumental in the establishment of the University of Kansas and Lawrence University in Appleton,...
  
   (1814–1886), abolitionist and founder of the University of Kansas
• Philip Lawrence
  Philip Lawrence
  Philip Ambrose Lawrence QGM, was a London-based headmaster who was stabbed to death outside the gates of his school when he went to the aid of a pupil who was being attacked by a gang.-Biography:...
  
   (1947–1995), murdered headmaster of St. George's Roman Catholic School

Artistry

• Don Lawrence
  Don Lawrence
  Donald Southam Lawrence was a British comic book artist and author.Lawrence is best known for his comic strips The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn and the Storm series, first published in the Dutch weekly Eppo...
  
   (1928–2003), British comic book artist
• Doug Lawrence, a comic and voice talent
• Ellis F. Lawrence
  Ellis F. Lawrence
  Ellis Fuller Lawrence was an American architect who worked primarily in the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1914, he helped found and was the first dean of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts, a position he held until his death.Lawrence concurrently served as campus...
  
  , architect and founder of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts
  University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts
  The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts is a public school of architecture and visual arts in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the only school in Oregon to offer architecture degrees accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. The school, founded in 1914 by...
  
   at the University of Oregon
  University of Oregon
  -Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
  
  
• Frederick William Lawrence
  Frederick William Lawrence
  Frederick William Lawrence was a Canadian/American airbrush painter, and probably the father of realistic spray painting.Formerly an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , he served with the Canadian Army in World War I, where he was severely wounded. After months of hospitalisation, he...
  
   (1890- ?), Canadian–American airbrush painter
• Jacob Lawrence
  Jacob Lawrence
  Jacob Lawrence was an American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth...
  
   (1917–2000), painter
• Mary Lawrence
  Mary Lawrence
  Mary Lawrence [Tonetti] was an American sculptor. Lawrence was born in New York City into a prominent New York family whose ancestors included John Lawrence, mayor of New York City from 1673–1675 and 1691–1692, and the War of 1812 patriot, Captain James Lawrence who died after uttering the words,...
  
   (1868–1945), American sculptor
• Thomas Lawrence (painter)
  Thomas Lawrence (painter)
  Sir Thomas Lawrence RA FRS was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his...
  
   (1769–1830), English portrait painter

Sports

• Brian Lawrence
  Brian Lawrence
  Brian Michael Lawrence is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He batted and threw right-handed.-High school:Lawrence attended Carthage High School in Carthage, Texas...
  
   (1976-Present), American baseball pitcher
• Davey Lawrence (1985-Present), English ice hockey goaltender
• David Lawrence (cricketer)
  David Lawrence (cricketer)
  David Valentine Lawrence is a former English cricketer, who played in five Tests and one ODI for England from 1988 to 1992....
  
   (1964-Present), English cricketer
• Debbi Lawrence
  Debbi Lawrence
  Deborah A. Lawrence is a retired female racewalker from the United States. She set her personal best in the women's 10 km race walk event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Göteborg, Sweden.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   (1961-Present), American racewalker
• Henry Arnold Lawrence
  Henry Arnold Lawrence
  Henry Arnold Lawrence was a rugby union forward who played club rugby for Richmond F.C. and international rugby for England. He was the third captain of the England rugby team.-Personal life:...
  
   (1848-1902), English rugby union player
• Tayna Lawrence
  Tayna Lawrence
  Tayna Lawrence is a Track and Field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race....
  
   (1975-Present), Jamaican athlete
• Wendell Lawrence
  Wendell Lawrence
  Wendell Lawrence is a retired male triple jumper from the Bahamas, best known for finishing 17th at the 1992 Olympic Games. He set his personal best in 1992.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   (1967-Present), Bahamian triple jumper

Literature

• D. H. Lawrence
  D. H. Lawrence
  David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
  
   (1885-1930), English author
• George Alfred Lawrence
  George Alfred Lawrence
  George Alfred Lawrence was a British novelist and barrister.-Biography:George Alfred Lawrence was born at Buxted, Sussex, the eldest child of the Revd Alfred Charnley Lawrence, Curate of Uxfield Chapel, Buxted, and the Hon...
  
   (1827-76), English novelist
• T. E. Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
   (1888-1935), British soldier and author

Military

• Charles Lawrence (British Army officer) (1709-1760), British military officer and later governor of Nova Scotia
• George St. Patrick Lawrence
  George St. Patrick Lawrence
  General Sir George St Patrick Lawrence was an officer in the British Indian Army.-Early life:Lawrence, third son of Lt.-Col. Alexander Lawrence , was elder brother of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence...
  
   (1804-84), English soldier
• Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  Henry Montgomery Lawrence
  Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence was a British soldier and statesman in India, who died defending Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny.-Career:Lawrence was the brother of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence and was born at Matara, Ceylon...
  
   (1806-57) British soldier
• James Lawrence
  James Lawrence
  James Lawrence was an American naval officer. During the War of 1812, he commanded the USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon...
  
   (1781-1813), American naval captain and hero of the War of 1812
  War of 1812
  The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...
  
  
• Major
  Major
  Major is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...
  
   Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
  Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
  Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut.-Early years:...
  
   (1935-1967) the first Black American astronaut
  Astronaut
  An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
  
   and member of the proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory
  Manned Orbiting Laboratory
  The Manned Orbiting Laboratory , originally referred to as the Manned Orbital Laboratory, was part of the United States Air Force's manned spaceflight program, a successor to the cancelled Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar military reconnaissance space plane project...
  
   program of the U.S. Air Force
• Stringer Lawrence
  Stringer Lawrence
  Major-General Stringer Lawrence was an English soldier, the first Commander-in-Chief, India, sometimes regarded as the "Father of the Indian Army"....
  
   (1697-1775), English soldier
• Thomas Edward Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
   (1888-1935), a British soldier, also known as Lawrence of Arabia
• William P. Lawrence
  William P. Lawrence
  William Porter Lawrence , United States Navy, was a decorated Naval Aviator who served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy from 1978-1981...
  
   (1930 - 2005), a Naval Aviator and Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
• Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence was an American songwriter. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.- Biography :...
  
   , a Royal Navy Soap Boy, from Southborough.

Theatre, television and film

• Florence Lawrence
  Florence Lawrence
  Florence Lawrence was a Canadian inventor and silent film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star." When she was popular, she was known as "The Biograph Girl," "The Imp Girl," and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces." Lawrence appeared in more than 270 films for various motion...
  
   (1886-1938), inventor and silent film actress from Hamilton, Ontario
• Gertrude Lawrence
  Gertrude Lawrence
  Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.-Early life:...
  
   (1898-1952), English actress and musical comedy performer
• Joey Lawrence
  Joey Lawrence
  Joseph "Joey" Lawrence is an American actor, R&B-singer, and TV-host. He is known for his roles in the TV-series Gimme a Break!, Blossom, and Melissa & Joey.- Early life :...
  
   (born 1976), American comic actor
• Martin Lawrence
  Martin Lawrence
  Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably the films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House...
  
   (born 1965), American actor and comedian
• Mary Lawrence (actor)
  Mary Lawrence (actor)
  Mary Lawrence was an American actress, who had a lengthy career in film and television.She had a recurring role in the TV series Casey Jones , where she played Casey's wife Alice Jones...
  
   (1918–1991), American film and television actress and author
• Sharon Lawrence
  Sharon Lawrence
  Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence is an American television actress. She is best known for the role of Sylvia Costas Sipowicz in the Television series NYPD Blue...
  
   (born 1961), American television actress
• Vicki Lawrence
  Vicki Lawrence
  Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedienne, and Billboard Hot 100 #1 singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1949), American actress, singer, and comedian

Music

• Carol Lawrence, American actress most often associated with musical theatre
• Derek Lawrence
  Derek Lawrence
  Derek Lawrence is a record producer, famous for his work for Joe Meek's Outlaws, Deep Purple, Machiavel and Wishbone Ash.Lawrence came in contact with Meek circa at the end of 1963, when he managed a group, Laurie Black and the Men of Mystery, that won a recording session at Joe Meek's studio. He...
  
  , record producer
• Doug Lawrence (jazz)
  Doug Lawrence (jazz)
  Doug Lawrence is a jazz tenor saxophonist from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
  
   (born 1956), jazz saxophonist with Count Basie Orchestra
• Syd Lawrence
  Syd Lawrence
  Syd Lawrence , was a British bandleader from Chester, England, who became famous in the UK for his orchestra's Big Band sound, which drew on the 1940s style of music of Glenn Miller and Count Basie amongst others....
  
  , founder and leader of the Syd Lawrence Orchestra big band
• Tracy Lawrence
  Tracy Lawrence
  Tracy Lawrence is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music...
  
  , country singer and musician

American community founding

• Abbott Lawrence
  Abbott Lawrence
  Abbott Lawrence was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist...
  
   (1792-1855), a noted merchant and founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts

Business

• George Newbold Lawrence
  George Newbold Lawrence
  George Newbold Lawrence was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.Lawrence conducted Pacific bird surveys for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men co-authored Birds of North America in 1858.Lawrence left his collection of 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of...
  
   (1806-1895), American businessman and amateur ornithologist
• Washington H. Lawrence
  W. H. Lawrence (industrialist)
  Washington Herbert Lawrence was a pioneer in the manufacture of electrical and carbon products who organized and served as the first president of the National Carbon Company, one of the founding members of the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.-Family and Early Life:Born on January 17, 1840, in...
  
   (1840–1900), founder of National Carbon Company
  National Carbon Company
  The National Carbon Company was founded in 1886 by the former Brush Electric Company executive W. H. Lawrence, in association with Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee, and Webb Hayes, son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1890, National Carbon merged with Thomson-Houston,...
  
  

Science and medicine

• Ernest O. Lawrence (1901–1958), a Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  -winning physicist: best known for inventing the cyclotron
  Cyclotron
  In technology, a cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. In physics, the cyclotron frequency or gyrofrequency is the frequency of a charged particle moving perpendicularly to the direction of a uniform magnetic field, i.e. a magnetic field of constant magnitude and direction...
  
  , and his later work in the Manhattan Project
  Manhattan Project
  The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
  
  
• John Hundale Lawrence, a nuclear medicine
  Nuclear medicine
  In nuclear medicine procedures, elemental radionuclides are combined with other elements to form chemical compounds, or else combined with existing pharmaceutical compounds, to form radiopharmaceuticals. These radiopharmaceuticals, once administered to the patient, can localize to specific organs...
  
   pioneer, brother of Ernest O. Lawrence
• Peter Lawrence (biologist), a British biologist
• William Lawrence (biologist) (1783–1867), a surgeon and natural historian, a pre-Darwinian advocate of anthropoid origin of mankind

Other

• Curly Lawrence
  Curly Lawrence
  Curly Lawrence, known as LBSC, was one of Britain's most prolific and well known model or scale-steam-locomotive designers. LBSC were the initials of Britain's London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. LBSC, “Curly” to his friends, was born 27 September 1883 and christened William Morris Benjamin...
  
   (1883-1967) British model engineer
• David Lawrence (disambiguation)
• Frances Lawrence (disambiguation)
• Francis Lawrence (disambiguation)
  Francis Lawrence (disambiguation)
  Francis Lawrence may refer to:*Francis Lawrence, American music video director and film director*Francis Lawrence of Saint Lawrence, cardinal and theologian aka Lorenzo Cozza*Francis L. Lawrence , eighteenth president of Rutgers University...
  
  
• John P. Lawrence, former Senior Advisor on terrorist organisations in the Middle East to the Secret Intelligence Service
• Peter Lawrence (disambiguation)
• Stephen Lawrence
  Stephen Lawrence
  Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager from Eltham, southeast London, who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993....
  
   (1974-1993), British race hate murder victim
• William Lawrence (disambiguation)

See also

• Laurence
  Laurence
  Laurence is an English male given name and surname. A female given name with identical spelling exists in French.In all cases it is derived from the Roman given name, Laurentius, which can mean either "from Laurentum" or "wreathed/crowned with laurel".-Given name:*Laurence Fishburne, American...
  
  
• Lawrence (given name)
  Lawrence (given name)
  Lawrence is a male given name. Some notable persons named Lawrence are listed below:-Antarctic Explorer:* Lawrence Oates , member of the ill fated Scott expedition to the South Pole.-Christianity:...
  
  
• Lawrence (disambiguation)