List of Famous people named Lawrence

Lawrence Sheldon Strulovitch, best known as Lawrence Stroll, is a Canadian billionaire businessman, part-owner of the Aston Martin F1 Team and collector of vintage Ferraris. According to Forbes, he has a net worth of US$2.6 billion, as of September 2020.

Lawrence Okolie is a British professional boxer. He held the Commonwealth cruiserweight title from 2018 to 2019, and the British and European cruiserweight titles separately in 2019. Okolie is known for his long reach and punching power. As of October 2020, he is ranked as the world's seventh best active cruiserweight by The Ring magazine and ninth by BoxRec.

Lawrence Weiner is an American conceptual artist. He is one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often takes the form of typographic texts.

Lawrence Julius Taylor, nicknamed "L.T.", is an American former professional American football player. Taylor played his entire professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giants (1981–1993) in the National Football League (NFL).

Lawrence Edward Kasdan is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the co-writer of the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), The Force Awakens (2015), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Kasdan also co-wrote the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and is the writer-director of Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), and The Accidental Tourist (1988). Kasdan is known for updating old Hollywood genres—film noir, science-fiction, westerns—in a classical dramatic style with quick-witted dialogue, but dealing with contemporary social themes. As a director, Kasdan has made various personal films that examine characters and generations.

Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai is a Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was appointed as the Minister for Education and the Second Minister for Finance by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He was elected as the People's Action Party Central Executive Committee member and the Advisor to PAP Policy Forum.

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. He was the author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration. Ferlinghetti was best known for his first collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies. Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, leading the city of San Francisco to proclaim his birthday, March 24, "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".

Lawrence "Larry" Seldon Bacow is an American lawyer, economist, author and university administrator, and the current 29th President of Harvard University. He assumed office on July 1, 2018, succeeding Drew Gilpin Faust. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bacow was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was previously at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has been a member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, one of the university's governing boards, since 2011.

Lester Lawrence Lessig III is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries.

Lawrence Ko is a Taiwanese actor.