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Lauren Drain

Lauren Drain (born 1985, Tampa, Florida) is an American registered nurse and author of Banished (2013), a New York Times bestselling memoir of her years in the Westboro Baptist Church and her 2007 excommunication.

Lauren E. Banks

Lauren E. Banks (born 1990, Durham, North Carolina) is an American actress, a Howard University and Yale School of Drama graduate known for Siobhan Quays in City on a Hill and Jennie Reeves in Lawmen: Bass Reeves.

Lauren Edwards

Lauren Edwards (Lauren Rae Edwards), Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochester and Strood since July 2024, majority 2,930; former CWU researcher, Bank of England regulator, and Medway Council cabinet member.

Lauren Faust

Lauren Johanna Faust (born 1974) is an American animator, writer, director and producer, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls, Emmy winner for Foster's Home, distinct from the opera Faust and Faust International.

Lauren German

Lauren German (born 1978, Huntington Beach, California) is an American actress known as Chloe Decker in Lucifer (2016–2021), Leslie Shay in Chicago Fire, and for the horror films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel: Part II.

Lauren Goodger

Lauren Goodger (Lauren Rose Goodger, born 1986, Hackney, London) is an English reality-TV personality, original cast member of The Only Way Is Essex from 2010, founder of Lauren's Way, and author of Secrets of an Essex Girl.

Lauren Gottlieb

Lauren Gottlieb (born 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American dancer and actress, SYTYCD season 3 top-six finalist, lead of India's first 3D dance film ABCD (2013), Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa runner-up and judge, and Naatu Naatu Oscars performer.

Lauren Graham

Lauren Graham (Lauren Helen Graham), American actress born 1967 in Honolulu, star of Gilmore Girls' Lorelai Gilmore and Parenthood's Sarah Braverman, author of Talking as Fast as I Can, SMU MFA 1992.

Lauren Gross

Lauren Gross is Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, which she joined in 2010 after working at his hedge fund Clarium Capital.

Lauren Harries

Lauren Harries (Lauren Charlotte Harries, born James Charles Harries, 1978) is a British media personality, former child antiques expert on Wogan, Celebrity Big Brother 2013 finalist, artist, and brain-surgery survivor.

Lauren Hemp

Lauren Hemp (born 2000) is an English winger for Manchester City and England, two-time Euro winner (2022, 2025), 2023 World Cup finalist, record four-time PFA Young Player of the Year.

Lauren Henry

Lauren Henry (born 2001, Rugby, England) is a British rower, Leicester Rowing Club, Olympic gold in the women's quadruple sculls at Paris 2024, and first British woman to win World Championship gold in the women's single sculls (Amsterdam 2026).

Lauren Holiday

Lauren Holiday (Lauren Nicole Cheney, born 1987) is an American retired midfielder, 133-cap USWNT player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012), 2015 World Cup champion, 2013 NWSL MVP with FC Kansas City, and 2023 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee.

Lauren Holly

Lauren Holly (born 1963) is an American actress known as Maxine Stewart on Picket Fences, Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, and Motive's Betty Rogers; based in Canada since the 2000s.

Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton (Mary Laurence Hutton), American model and actress born 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina; record American Vogue cover holder, 1973 Revlon contract, films American Gigolo and The Gambler.

Lauren J. King

Lauren Jennifer King, born 1982, is a US district judge for the Western District of Washington since 2021 and Washington State's first Native American federal judge.

Lauren Jackson

Lauren Jackson, born 1981 in Albury, Australia, is a Hall of Fame basketball player: 3-time WNBA MVP with the Seattle Storm, 5-time Olympic medalist with the Opals, 2006 world champion, and first Australian in the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Lauren James

Lauren James (born 2001, London) is an English forward for Chelsea and England, sister of Reece James; Euro 2025 winner, 2023 World Cup standout, FIFPro World XI 2023, Chelsea contract to 2030.

Lauren Jauregui

Lauren Jauregui (born 1996, Miami) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, formerly of Fifth Harmony (X Factor 2012, third place); solo since 2018 with "Expectations," EPs Prelude (2021) and In Between (2023), now independent via Attunement/AWAL.

Lauren Jewett

Lauren Jewett is an American Democratic politician and special education teacher running in 2026 for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 1st District against incumbent Steve Scalise.

Lauren Kuby

Lauren Kuby is an American Democratic politician and Arizona state senator from District 8, elected in 2024 after serving on the Tempe City Council from 2014 to 2022.

Lauren Lake

Lauren Lake, American attorney and Emmy-winning TV judge from Detroit, executive producer and judge of Lauren Lake's Paternity Court (2013–2022) and We the People with Judge Lauren Lake; also singer, author, WEEN co-founder.

Lauren Lake's Paternity Court

Lauren Lake's Paternity Court, first known as Paternity Court, is an American half-hour court show where family lawyer Lauren Lake hears paternity disputes and delivers DNA test results.

Lauren Lane

Lauren Lane (Laura Kay Lane), American actress born 1961 in Oklahoma City, played C.C. Babcock on The Nanny (1993-1999, 145 episodes) and Chris Novak on Hunter; now Professor and Head of Acting at Texas State University.

Lauren Lapkus

Lauren Lapkus (Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus, born 1985), American actress and improviser from Evanston, Illinois; Susan Fischer on Orange Is the New Black, Denise in Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and host of Threedom, Newcomers, and With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus.

Lauren Laverne

Lauren Laverne (born Lauren Cecilia Gofton, 1978, Sunderland) is an English broadcaster, former Kenickie singer, host of BBC 6 Music mid-mornings and Desert Island Discs since 2018.

Lauren Lee Smith

Lauren Lee Smith (born 1980, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress known for Mutant X's Emma DeLauro, Lara Perkins on The L Word, CSI's Riley Adams, The Listener, Frankie Drake Mysteries, and films Lie With Me, Trick 'r Treat, and The Shape of Water.

Lauren London

Lauren London, born 1984 in Los Angeles, is an American actress and model who broke out as New New in ATL (2006), later starred in This Christmas, The Game, Without Remorse (2021), and Netflix's You People (2023), and was the partner of Nipsey Hussle from 2013 until his 2019 killing.

Lauren Lyle

Lauren Lyle (born 1992, Scotland) is a Scottish actress known as Marsali in Outlander and the lead of ITV's Karen Pirie, winning two 2023 BAFTA Scotland awards; also Vigil, The Ridge, Toxic Town.

Lauren Matsumoto

Lauren Cheape Matsumoto is an American Republican politician serving as Minority Leader of the Hawaii House of Representatives, representing District 38 in Mililani since her 2012 election at age 25.