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Laura Coates

Laura Coates (born 1979) is an American attorney, CNN chief legal analyst and anchor of Laura Coates Live, SiriusXM host, and author of You Have the Right and Just Pursuit.

Laura Collett (Laura May Collett, born 1989), British eventing rider, MBE. Two Olympic team golds (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) plus Paris individual bronze on London 52; 2022 Badminton winner; 2025 European individual gold; 2026 world team gold and individual bronze.

Laura Connell

Laura Connell is a venture capital investor who leads growth-stage investing at the European venture firm Atomico, where she has led investments including PhysicsX, DeepL, Corti, and Pelago Health.

Laura Cutina

Laura Cutina (Cutina Licaciu), Romanian artistic gymnast, official birth year 1968 in Bucharest but likely 1970; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic team gold, 5th all-around, world team silver 1983 and 1985, retired 1987.

Laura D. Attardi

Laura D. Attardi is an American cancer geneticist at Stanford University who studies the p53 tumor suppressor and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Laura Davies

Laura Davies, formally Dame Laura Jane Davies, is an English professional golfer, born in Coventry in 1963, who won 87 tournaments, including four major championships.

Laura Dekker

Laura Dekker, born in 1995, is a New Zealand and Dutch sailor who became the youngest person to sail solo around the world, finishing in 2012 at age 16.

Laura Delano

Laura Delano, American writer and consultant, ex-psychiatric patient of 14 years, founder of Inner Compass Initiative (2018) and author of the 2025 memoir Unshrunk; not a physician, distinct from any namesake.

Laura DeMarco

Laura DeMarco is a mathematician at Harvard University, a professor there since 2020, who works in dynamical systems and arithmetic dynamics and won the 2017 Satter Prize.

Laura Dern

Laura Dern (born 1967, Los Angeles), American actress, daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd; Oscar winner for Marriage Story, known for David Lynch films, Jurassic Park, and five Golden Globe wins.

Laura Díaz Anadón

Laura Díaz Anadón is a Spanish and American climate change and energy policy economist who has held Cambridge's chair of climate change policy since 2017 and directs CEENRG.

Laura Donnelly

Laura Donnelly, Belfast-born actress (born 1982), Olivier winner for The Ferryman, known for Outlander, The Nevers, Werewolf by Night, The Hills of California, and partner of playwright Jez Butterworth.

Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren

Laura Dwyer-Lindgren is a health metrics researcher at the University of Washington's IHME who studies US disease burden and life expectancy disparities, known for the 2024 Ten Americas analysis.

Laura E. O'Dell

Laura E. O'Dell is an American behavioral neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies nicotine and alcohol addiction in vulnerable populations.

Sep 27, 2026

Laura Ellman

Laura Ellman is an American Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from the 21st district, serving since January 2019, with a background of more than 25 years in manufacturing and engineering.

Oct 22, 2026

Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel, born in Mexico City in 1950, is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter whose first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (1989), became one of the best-selling Latin American novels.

Oct 20, 2026

Laura Ester

Laura Ester (Laura Ester Ramos, born 1990, Barcelona), nicknamed Pajarito, Spanish water polo goalkeeper; Olympic gold Paris 2024 and silvers 2012/2020, world champion 2013, three European titles, seven Champions Leagues with CN Sabadell; retired 2025.

Sep 20, 2026

Laura F. Landweber

Laura F. Landweber, also published as Laura Landweber, is a molecular biologist at Columbia University who studies molecular evolution and RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance in the single-celled ciliate Oxytricha trifallax.

Sep 27, 2026

Laura Faver Dias

Laura Faver Dias is an American Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 62nd district, a former social studies teacher and Grayslake Village Trustee.

Laura Fernández

Laura Virginia Fernández Delgado, Costa Rican political scientist, president of Costa Rica 2026-2030 (PPSO); won the 1 February 2026 election with 48.3%, second woman president after Laura Chinchilla, Rodrigo Chaves's protégée.

Laura Fields

Laura Fields is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Notre Dame who studies how neutrino beams are produced and oscillate, and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Laura Flippes

Laura Flippes (Laura Esther Ghislaine Flippes, born 1994, Strasbourg) is a French left-handed handball right back/wing, Olympic gold medalist Tokyo 2020, silver Paris 2024, World champion 2017 and 2023, European champion 2018, playing for Metz Handball.