Laurens (given name)
Laurens is a masculine Dutch given name, the equivalent of Lawrence. Notable people with the name include:
- Laurens Jan Anjema, Dutch squash player
- Laurens Jacobsz Alteras, Dutch vice admiral
- Laurens Bake, Dutch poet
- Laurens Bogtman, Dutch baritone singer
- Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch politician
- Laurens Janszoon Coster, Dutch printer
- Laurens Craen, Dutch painter
- Laurens ten Dam, Dutch road racing cyclist
- Laurens de Graaf, Dutch pirate, mercenary and naval officer
- Laurens Theodorus Gronovius, Dutch naturalist
- Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ
- Laurens ten Heuvel, Dutch footballer
- Laurens Hull, American physician and politician
- Laurens Perseus Hickok, American philosopher
- Laurens van der Post, Afrikaner author, journalist, philosopher
- Laurens Reael, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and an admiral of the Dutch navy
- Laurens Shull, American football player, businessman and soldier
- Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel, Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and later of Holland
- Laurens Vanthoor, Belgian auto racer
- Laurens van der Vinne, painter from the Netherlands
- Laurens De Vreese, Belgian road bicycle racer
