Lawrence (surname)
Lawrence is an English-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
A–D
- Abbott Lawrence, a noted merchant and founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Abbott Lawrence, US representative from Massachusetts
- Abraham Riker Lawrence, New York Supreme Court Justice
- Allan Lawrence , Ontario provincial MPP and federal MP
- Alonzo Lawrence, American football player
- Amos Adams Lawrence, abolitionist and founder of the University of Kansas
- Amos Lawrence, Massachusetts philanthropist and politician
- Andrew Lawrence
- Bert Lawrence, Ontario provincial MPP
- Bill Lawrence, American screenwriter and the creator of Scrubs
- Brenton Lawrence, Australian Rugby League player
- Brian Lawrence, American baseball pitcher
- Bruno Lawrence, New Zealand actor and musician
- Carmen Lawrence, Australian politician
- Carol Lawrence, American actress most often associated with musical theatre
- Casey Lawrence, American baseball pitcher
- Charles Lawrence , British military officer and later governor of Nova Scotia
- Chris Lawrence , Australian Rugby League player
- Christopher Lawrence
- Claudia Lawrence, disappeared in York, England in 2009
- Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, Mayor of New York City, and US Congressman
- Curly Lawrence, British model engineer
- Cyril Lawrence, English footballer
- D. H. Lawrence, English author
- Davey Lawrence, English ice hockey goaltender
- David Lawrence
- David Lawrence , English cricketer
- Debbi Lawrence, American racewalker
- Derek Lawrence, English record producer
- Dexter Lawrence, American football player
- Don Lawrence, British comic book artist
- Dorothy Bell Lawrence, New York assemblywoman
- Doug Lawrence , jazz saxophonist with Count Basie Orchestra
- Doug Lawrence, a comic and voice talent
- Douglas Lawrence, Australian organist, conductor, and choir director
E–J
- Edith Lawrence, British artist
- Edward A. Lawrence, New York politician
- Effingham Lawrence, US Congressman from Louisiana
- Ellis F. Lawrence, architect and founder of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon
- Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: best known for inventing the cyclotron, and his later work in the Manhattan Project
- Eugene Lawrence, American basketball player
- Fenda Lawrence, 18th-century slave trader
- Florence Lawrence, inventor and silent film actress from Hamilton, Ontario
- Frances Lawrence
- Francis Lawrence
- Frederick William Lawrence, Canadian–American airbrush painter
- Frederick Newbold Lawrence, American president of the New York Stock Exchange
- Gaylon Lawrence, American businessman and farmer
- Geoffrey Lawrence
- George Alfred Lawrence, English novelist
- George Newbold Lawrence, American businessman and amateur ornithologist
- George P. Lawrence, former US Representative from Massachusetts
- George St. Patrick Lawrence, English soldier
- George Van Eman Lawrence, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Gertrude Lawrence, English actress and musical comedy performer
- Hal Lawrence, Canadian naval officer, historian and author
- Henry Arnold Lawrence, English rugby union player
- Henry Montgomery Lawrence British soldier
- Herbert Lawrence British soldier
- Holly Lawrence, British triathlete
- Jacob Lawrence, painter
- Jacqueline Lawrence,, Australian slalom canoeist
- James Lawrence, English footballer
- James Lawrence, American naval captain and hero of the War of 1812
- Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
- Joey Lawrence, American comic actor
- John Hundale Lawrence, a nuclear medicine pioneer, brother of Ernest O. Lawrence
- John L. Lawrence, New York politician
- John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, British statesman
- Joseph Lawrence , member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Josie Lawrence, English actress and comedian
K–S
- Katrina Lawrence,, Australian slalom canoeist
- Lawrence, an English cricketer whose first name is not known
- Liam Lawrence, English-born Irish footballer
- Liz Lawrence, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Margaret Morgan Lawrence, American psychiatrist
- Martin Lawrence, American actor and comedian
- Mary Lawrence , American film and television actress and author
- Mary Lawrence , American sculptor
- Matthew Lawrence,, English footballer
- Michael Lawrence
- Mike Lawrence , American bridge player
- Mr. Lawrence,, American actor
- Nathaniel Lawrence, New York politician
- Patrice Lawrence, British writer and journalist
- Peter Lawrence
- Peter Lawrence, British biologist
- Philip Lawrence, murdered headmaster of St. George's Roman Catholic School
- Rashard Lawrence, American football player
- R. D. Lawrence, Canadian naturalist and writer
- Reginald Frederick Lawrence, South African entomologist
- Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. the first Black American astronaut and member of the proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory program of the U.S. Air Force
- Rosalyn Lawrence,, Australian slalom canoeist
- Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward,, American socialite.
- Samuel Lawrence
- Samuel Lawrence , New York politician
- Samuel Lawrence, Canadian politician
- Scott Lawrence, American film and television actor and voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars video games
- Sharon Lawrence, American television actress
- Murder of Stephen Lawrence
- Stringer Lawrence, English soldier
- Syd Lawrence, British bandleader and founder of the Syd Lawrence Orchestra big band
T–Z
- T. E. Lawrence, British soldier and author
- Tayna Lawrence, Jamaican athlete
- Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter
- Tommy Lawrence, Scottish footballer
- Toni Lawrence, convicted of criminal confinement in the torture-murder of Shanda Sharer
- Tracy Lawrence, country singer and musician
- Trevor Lawrence
- Vicki Lawrence, American actress, singer, and comedian
- Washington H. Lawrence, founder of National Carbon Company
- Wendell Lawrence, Bahamian triple jumper
- William Lawrence
- William Appleton Lawrence, 3rd Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts
- William Lawrence , English surgeon and natural historian, a pre-Darwinian advocate of anthropoid origin of mankind
- William Lawrence, the 7th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- William Lawrence, member of the United States House of Representatives from the 17th District of Ohio
- William Lawrence, Republican politician from Ohio
- William P. Lawrence, United States naval officer
- William Witherle Lawrence, American philologist