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Laura Haddock
Laura Jane Haddock (born 1985) is an English actress known for Meredith Quill in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight, and TV leads in Da Vinci's Demons, White Lines, and The Recruit.
Laura Hamilton
Laura Hamilton (born 1982) is an English TV presenter and property expert, best known for Channel 4's A Place in the Sun since 2011; also Dancing on Ice runner-up, Fort Boyard host, and renovator of over 21 properties.
Laura Harrier
Laura Harrier (born 1990, Chicago) is an American actress and model known as Liz Allan in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Patrice Dumas in BlacKkKlansman, and Suzanne de Passe in Michael (2026).
Laura Harring
Laura Harring (Laura Elena Martínez Herring), born 1964 in Los Mochis, Mexico, is an actress and former beauty queen; first Latina Miss USA (1985), best known as Rita in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001).
Laura Harris
Laura Harris (Laura Elizabeth Harris, born 1976, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known for Daisy Adair in Dead Like Me, Marie Warner in 24 season 2, The Faculty, A Mighty Wind, and Defying Gravity.
Laura Herz
Laura Herz (Laura M. Herz) is a semiconductor photophysicist and Professor of Physics at Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the 2024 Michael Faraday Medal.
Laura Imbruglia
Laura Imbruglia, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter born 1983 in Sydney, younger sister of Natalie Imbruglia; self-releasing artist behind four albums including Laura Imbruglia (2006) and Scared of You (2019), and creator of the web series Amateur Hour.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), American author of the Little House series (1932–1943), fiction based on her frontier childhood; written with editor-daughter Rose Wilder Lane; The First Four Years posthumous 1971.
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham (born 1963, Glastonbury, Connecticut) is an American conservative host of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle (since 2017), formerly of the nationally syndicated Laura Ingraham Show, LifeZette co-founder, and Reagan White House speechwriter.
Laura Innes
Laura Innes (born 1957, Pontiac, Michigan) is an American actress and director, known as Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER (1995–2009), a three-time Emmy nominee, and director of The West Wing's "Shibboleth".
Laura J. Esserman
Laura J. Esserman is an American surgeon and breast cancer researcher at UCSF who has directed its Breast Care Center since 1996 and leads the I-SPY 2 trial.
Laura J. Richardson
Laura J. Richardson is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, first woman to command U.S. Southern Command (2021-2024), former Army North commander, 101st Airborne assault helicopter battalion commander in Iraq, later USGLC advisory council co-chair.
Laura J. Snyder
Laura J. Snyder is an American historian, philosopher, and writer on the history of science, author of The Philosophical Breakfast Club and Eye of the Beholder.
Laura James
Laura James (born 1990), also Laura Ellen Ecker, American model and actress, winner of America's Next Top Model Cycle 19 College Edition (2012); daughter of Dynasty actor John James; later campaigns for Guess and acting roles in S.W.A.T. and Howl.
Laura Jane Grace
Laura Jane Grace (born 1980) is the American punk musician who founded Against Me! and came out as transgender in 2012 while fronting the band, chronicled in Transgender Dysphoria Blues; distinguish her from other Laura Janes by the Against Me! and Tranny memoir connections.
Laura Jarrett
Laura Jarrett is an American television journalist and NBC News senior legal correspondent. She previously worked for CNN and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson, born 1957, in Burbank, California, American actress; played Terry Hartford on Falcon Crest 1983–1986 (80 episodes); films include Opening Night, Four Christmases, Red Eye.
Laura Jones (Texas politician)
Laura Jones is an American politician and Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 8th district in 2026, facing Republican Jessica Hart Steinmann in November.
Laura Keene
Laura Keene (Mary Frances Moss, 1826-1873), British-born American actress and one of the first female theatre managers in the United States; ran Laura Keene's Theatre on Broadway and starred in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot.
Laura Kelly
Laura Kelly, also known as Laura Jeanne Kelly, is an American politician and Democrat serving as the 48th governor of Kansas since 2019, the first Democrat elected to the office since 2006.
Laura Kenny
Dame Laura Kenny (née Trott), British track cyclist, five Olympic golds and a silver 2012–2021 in team pursuit, omnium, and Madison; Britain's most successful female Olympian; retired March 2024.
Laura Kightlinger
Laura Kightlinger is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for a deadpan style, for writing on Roseanne and Will & Grace, and for creating the IFC series The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman.
Laura Kim
Laura Kim (born 1982, Seoul) is a Korean-Canadian fashion designer, co-founder of Monse with Fernando Garcia, and Oscar de la Renta co-creative director 2016–2026 after twelve years rising from intern to design director.
Laura Kraut
Laura Kraut (born 1965, Camden, South Carolina) is an American Olympic show jumper: team gold Beijing 2008 on Cedric, team silver Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 on Baloutinue, WEG gold 2018, over 90 Nations Cups, and 2025 Dublin Rolex Grand Prix winner.
Laura Kuenssberg
Laura Kuenssberg (born 1976, Italy) is a British BBC journalist, the corporation's first female political editor (2015-2022), now presenter of BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
Laura L. Bellows
Laura L. Bellows is an American nutrition scientist who studies how eating habits and activity develop in early childhood, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2011.
Laura L. Kiessling
Laura L. Kiessling is an American chemical biologist who studies how cells use carbohydrate coats, called glycans, to signal; she has been the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at MIT since 2017.
Laura Lee (bassist)
Laura Lee (Laura Lee Ochoa) is the American bassist and vocalist of Houston trio Khruangbin, known for self-taught, Jamerson-style melodic grooves, an SX Jazz Bass copy, and her 2025 Fender signature Jazz Bass.
Laura Lee McConnell
Laura Lee McConnell is an American environmental chemist known for tracking pesticides through water, air, and soil, a 1997 PECASE recipient and later a Bayer Science Fellow.
Laura Leighton
Laura Leighton (born Laura Miller, 1968, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American actress known as Sydney Andrews on Melrose Place (1993–1998, Golden Globe-nominated) and Ashley Marin on Pretty Little Liars; married co-star Doug Savant since 1998.