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Laurel Canyon (2002 film)
Laurel Canyon (2002) is Lisa Cholodenko's drama starring Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, and Alessandro Nivola; released by Sony Pictures Classics in March 2003, 103 minutes, $3.7 million gross.
Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles
Laurel Canyon is a Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles along Laurel Canyon Boulevard, known for its 1960s-70s singer-songwriter scene, Wonderland Avenue Elementary gifted magnet school, 1910 first U.S. trolley bus line, and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone hillside terrain.
Laurel Clark
Laurel Clark, born Laurel Blair Salton Clark, was an American Navy physician and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
Laurel Halo
Laurel Halo is an American composer, producer, and DJ born in Detroit and based in Los Angeles, best known for her acclaimed 2012 avant-pop album Quarantine on Hyperdub.
Laurel Holloman
Laurel Holloman (born 1971, Chapel Hill, NC) is an American actress and painter, known as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and Tina Kennard on The L Word; since 2010 a full-time abstract painter.
Laurel Hubbard
Laurel Hubbard (born 1978, Auckland), formerly Gavin Hubbard, is a New Zealand weightlifter and the first openly transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics in an individual sport, Tokyo 2020 +87 kg, where she failed all three snatches and placed last.
Laurel Lee
Laurel M. Lee, born 1974, is an American Republican politician who has represented Florida's 15th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2023, after serving as Florida's Secretary of State and a circuit court judge.
Laurel Marsden
Laurel Marsden (born 2001) is an American actress known as Zoe Zimmer in Ms. Marvel (2022) and Amy in The Pope's Exorcist (2023); debut in Contempt (2019), later Dead of Winter (2025).
Laurel wreath
Laurel wreath (laurel crown, wreath of laurel): a crown of bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) foliage worn as an emblem of victory and honour, from the Pythian Games and Roman triumphs to poet laureates and Nobel laureates.
Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel, Mississippi: a Pine Belt city and Jones County judicial seat, founded 1882 as a yellow-pine lumber town, later an oil and manufacturing center, population about 17,700, known for its historic district and HGTV's Home Town.
Laurelia
Laurelia (pukatea, Chilean laurel) is a genus of two evergreen tree species in Atherospermataceae, order Laurales, native to New Zealand and Chile; L. novae-zelandiae is endemic to New Zealand, L. sempervirens is Near Threatened in Chile.
Lauren "Lolo" Spencer
Lauren "Lolo" Spencer, also known as Lolo Spencer, is an American actress, model, and disability advocate born in 1987. Known for Give Me Liberty, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Bob Trevino Likes It, and her YouTube channel Sitting Pretty; diagnosed with ALS at 14.
Lauren Alaina
Lauren Alaina, born Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth in 1994, is an American country singer from Rossville, Georgia, who finished runner-up to Scotty McCreery on American Idol in 2011.
Lauren Ambrose
Lauren Ambrose, born Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso (1978, New Haven), is an American actress known as Claire Fisher on Six Feet Under, Dorothy Turner on Servant, Van on Yellowjackets, and Tony-nominated Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
Lauren Ash
Lauren Ash (born 1983, Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and comedian, a Second City Toronto and Chicago Mainstage alumna, best known as Dina Fox on Superstore and Lexi on Not Dead Yet, with a 2025 pop-punk debut album.
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske (1924–2014), American film and stage actress famous for The Look and husky voice; star of To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo; Bogart's widow; two-time Tony winner.
Lauren Bailey Zapata
Lauren B. Zapata is an American CDC epidemiologist in Atlanta who co-authors the U.S. MEC and SPR contraceptive guidance and received a 2011 PECASE award.
Lauren Bennett
Lauren Diane Bennett was an English singer from Meopham, Kent, known for featuring on LMFAO's 2011 hit "Party Rock Anthem" and for the girl groups Paradiso Girls and G.R.L.
Lauren Boebert
Lauren Boebert (born 1986) is the Republican U.S. Representative for Colorado's 4th Congressional District since 2025, formerly CO-3. Former Shooter's Grill owner; won 2022 by 546 votes, switched districts, won 2024 with 53.64%; faces Eileen Laubacher in 2026.
Lauren Boyle
Lauren Boyle (Lauren Marie Boyle), New Zealand distance freestyle swimmer, born 1987 in Auckland; three-time Olympian, 2012 short-course 800 m world champion, five long-course World Championship medals, and 2014 Commonwealth 400 m freestyle gold; retired 2017.
Lauren Branning
Lauren Branning (Lauren Beale) is a fictional EastEnders character, first appearing 3 July 2006, played by Madeline Duggan then Jacqueline Jossa; daughter of Max and Tanya Branning, wife of Peter Beale, mother of Louie and Jimmy.
Lauren Buglioli
Lauren Buglioli (born 1987) is an American actress, also known as Vanessa McBride on CBS's Beyond the Gates. Born in Los Angeles, raised in London, Atlanta-based; known for Florida Man, Bad Monkey, and A Jazzman's Blues.
Lauren Bush
Lauren Bush, also known as Lauren Bush Lauren, is an American social entrepreneur and former model who founded FEED Projects in 2007 to fund school meals.
Lauren Chen
Lauren Chen (Lauren Yu Sum Tam, born 1994, Quebec) is a Canadian conservative commentator and YouTuber who co-founded Tenet Media, the outlet accused in the 2024 DOJ indictment of channeling nearly $10 million in RT Russian funding to right-wing influencers.
Lauren Cohan
Lauren Cohan (Lauren Elizabeth Cohan, born 1982) is an American-British actress known for Maggie on The Walking Dead and Dead City; also Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Chuck, Whiskey Cavalier.
Lauren Cole Sallan
Lauren Cole Sallan is an American paleobiologist who studies how mass extinctions and ecological interactions shaped vertebrate diversity and body size, using fishes as her main model system.
Lauren Collins
Lauren Felice Collins (born 1986, Thornhill, Ontario) is a Canadian actress best known as Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2009), later in Take the Lead, Charlie Bartlett, What We Do in the Shadows, My Dead Mom, and Frankenstein (2025).
Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad (LC), born 1986, American reality TV star of MTV's Laguna Beach and The Hills, later fashion designer of LC Lauren Conrad at Kohl's, NYT bestselling author, and Little Market cofounder.
Lauren Daigle
Lauren Daigle (born 1991, Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American contemporary Christian pop singer on Centricity Music, later Atlantic. Two-time Grammy winner whose 2018 album Look Up Child and 6x Platinum single "You Say" set Billboard Christian chart records.
Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis (born 1993, Gates Mills, Ohio) is a retired American tennis player, career-high No. 26, two WTA titles (Auckland 2017, Hobart 2023), famous for the 2018 Halep Australian Open marathon and 2019 Kerber upset.