List of Famous people with last name Laughlin

Thomas Robert Laughlin Jr. was an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator, and activist.

Michael Stoddard Laughlin is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in 1938 and raised in Illinois.

James Laughlin was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.

Robert Betts Laughlin is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Gregory Haines Laughlin is a politician from the state of Texas. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.

Robert Moody Laughlin was an American anthropologist and linguist, and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. His research focused on the indigenous Maya peoples of Chiapas, Mexico and the Tzotzil language. In 1975, he published The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán, containing 30,000 entries. He also published works on other aspects of Tzotzil culture, such as folktales and ethnobotany, and helped to found a local writer's cooperative, Sna Jtz'ibajom, and a theatre troupe. His work is credited with helping to standardize how the Tzotzil language is written and with reviving interest in indigenous languages in the region. Laughlin died of COVID-19 in Arlington, Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia.