List of Famous people named Laurence

Laurence Ivor Juber, is an English musician, fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician. He played guitar in the rock band Paul McCartney and Wings from 1978 to 1981.

Laurence Rosenthal is a former American composer, arranger and conductor for theater, television and film.

Laurence Hirsch Silberman is an American lawyer, jurist, and government official who serves as a circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was appointed in October 1985 by Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000. On June 11, 2008, Silberman was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the government of the United States.

Laurence Oliphant, a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his scheme for planting Jewish farming colonies in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Oliphant was a UK Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs.

Laurence Plazenet is a French novelist. She was born in Paris and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. A literature PhD, she taught at Sorbonne, and studied at Princeton. She has written three novels:

• L’amour seul
• La Blessure et la soif
• Disproportion de l’homme