Leadership

• Lawrence A. Bossidy
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Allied Signal (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)
• Lawrence J. Ellison
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Oracle (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)
• Lawrence A. Hough
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Student Loan Marketing Association (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)
• Lawrence A. Del Santo
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Vons (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)
• J. Lawrence Wilson
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Rohm & Haas (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)

Science and Philosophy

• Lawrence D. Bell (born 1894, died 1956)

  American aircraft manufacturer; designer of the first supersonic airplane.

  • Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame (see list of National Aviation Hall of Fame)
• Lawrence J. DeLucas

  American astronaut.

  • Astronaut on Columbia (1992) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Lawrence R. Klein

  American economist known for using models to study economic fluctuations and policies.

  • 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Economics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics)
• Lawrence B. Sperry, Sr. (born 1893, died 1923)

  American pilot and aircraft designer.

  • Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame (see list of National Aviation Hall of Fame)

Sports

• Lawrence ''Yogi'' Berra
  • 1951, 1954-55 American League Most Valuable Player (see list of American League Most Valuable Players)
  • Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 (see list of Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
• Lawrence J. Brignolia

  American runner.

  • 1899 Boston Marathon champion (see list of Boston Marathon Winners)
• Lawrence Taylor

  American football player.

  • 1986 National Football League Player of the Year (see list of NFL Players of the Year)

Stage and Screen

• Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (born 1953)

  American actor and director.

  • Portrayed Freddie ''''Boom Boom'''' Washington (see list of Actors on ''Welcome Back, Kotter'')
  • Portrayed Noah (see list of Actors on ''Roots'')
• Dr. Lawrence Jacoby

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Russ Tamblyn (see list of Characters on ''Twin Peaks'')
• Lawrence Payton (born 1930)

  American singer.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording, as a member of The Four Tops (see list of Recording Personalites with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Lawrence Tibbett
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording (see list of Recording Personalites with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Lawrence Welk (born 1903, died 1992)

  American bandleader.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television (see list of Television Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording (see list of Recording Personalites with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Lawrence A. Cremin
  • 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History)
• Lawrence Crockett

  Fictional character.

  • The Lot''s second selectman and proprietor of Crockett''s Southern Maine Insurance and Realty in Stephen King''s novel Salem''s Lot (see list of Characters in Salem's Lot)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919)

  American poet, publisher and painter.

  • Wrote A Coney Island of the Mind; founded City Lights Books (see list of Writers of the Beat Generation)
• Lawrence H. Gibson
  • 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Triumphant Empire: Thunderclouds Gather in the West (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History)
• Lawrence Sanders (born 1920)

  American novelist.

  • Wrote The Anderson Tapes (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
• Lawrence Thompson
  • 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)