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Lauren Tewes
Lauren Tewes (Cynthia Lauren Tewes), born 1953, Braddock, Pennsylvania, American actress; played cruise director Julie McCoy on The Love Boat (1977–1987, 199 episodes), Golden Globe nominee; later Seattle stage actress, sous-chef, Twin Peaks and Potato Dreams of America roles. Not the musician of the same name.
Lauren Tom
Lauren Tom (born 1961, Chicago) is an American Obie-winning actress and voice actor: Lena in The Joy Luck Club, Julie on Friends, Amy Wong on Futurama, Minh and Connie on King of the Hill.
Lauren Tsai
Lauren Tsai (born 1998, Wellesley, Massachusetts) is an American artist, model, and actress known for Terrace House: Aloha State, her 2018 Marc Jacobs Japan collaboration, and playing Switch in Legion season 3.
Lauren Underwood
Lauren Underwood, Democratic U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th District since 2019, registered nurse, former HHS official, co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus and author of the Momnibus Act; faces James Marter in 2026.
Lauren Vélez
Lauren Vélez (Luna Lauren Vélez), American actress of Puerto Rican descent born 1964 in Brooklyn; known as Det. Nina Moreno on New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on Oz, and Maria LaGuerta on Dexter, and as the voice of Rio Morales in the Spider-Verse films.
Lauren Weeks
Lauren Weeks is an American HYROX athlete, three-time individual world champion (2020, 2021, 2023), and world record holder who trains over 20 hours weekly and coaches via The Hybrid Engine with husband Anthony Peressini.
Lauren Weisberger
Lauren Weisberger (born 1977, Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and former Anna Wintour assistant at Vogue whose 2003 debut The Devil Wears Prada spawned films, a West End musical, and over 12 million books sold.
Lauren Wenger
Lauren Wenger is an American former water polo player, born in 1984, who won Olympic silver in 2008 and gold at the 2012 London Games with the United States.
Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood (Ilene Rappaport; Chunky) is an American singer-songwriter and producer best known for her 1979 duet "Please Don't Leave" and the 1981 song "Fallen," linked to Pretty Woman.
Lauren Woolstencroft
Lauren Woolstencroft is a Canadian retired Para alpine skier who won eight Paralympic golds between 2002 and 2010, sweeping all five standing alpine events at Vancouver 2010.
Laurence (Laurentius)
Laurence (Laurentius), who died in 619, was the second Archbishop of Canterbury, a Roman missionary of Augustine's 597 expedition who held the young English Church together.
Laurence A. Boxer
Laurence A. Boxer (1940–2017) was an American pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the University of Michigan whose research defined modern knowledge of neutrophil biology and phagocyte disorders.
Laurence A. Harker
Laurence A. Harker (1932–2020) was a Canadian-born American hematologist and physician-scientist who worked on platelet function and thrombosis, best known for his 1972 NEJM study standardizing the template bleeding time.
Laurence A. Turka
Laurence A. Turka is an American transplant immunologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital whose laboratory first showed that blocking CD28 signals prevents allograft rejection.
Laurence Auzière-Jourdan
Laurence Auzière-Jourdan (born Laurence Auzière, 1977) is a French cardiologist in Nogent-sur-Marne, daughter of Brigitte Macron and stepdaughter of President Emmanuel Macron; married to radiologist Guillaume Jourdan, she keeps a low public profile.
Laurence B. Ellis
Laurence B. Ellis was an American cardiologist at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School who directed the follow-up of the closed mitral valvuloplasty series from 1948 to 1973.
Laurence Ball
Laurence Ball is an American macroeconomist, professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1994, known for work on inflation, unemployment, and monetary policy, including the 4% inflation target case.
Laurence C. Baker
Laurence C. Baker is an American health economist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies the organization and economic performance of the United States health care system.
Laurence C. Seifert
Laurence C. Seifert, known as Larry Seifert, is an American engineering executive who retired as Executive Vice President of AT&T Wireless and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst is a British evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath since 1997 and founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution.
Laurence D. Marks
Laurence D. Marks, born 1954, is a British-born materials scientist known for electron microscopy of nanoparticles and the Marks decahedron, a nanoparticle shape named after him.
Laurence de Leval
Laurence de Leval, born 1970, is a Belgian hematopathologist and professor at the University of Lausanne, known for identifying the follicular helper T-cell origin of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
Laurence Dudley Stamp
Laurence Dudley Stamp, known as Sir Dudley Stamp, was a British geographer who directed the 1930s Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, mobilizing some 250,000 volunteers to map land use.
Laurence E. Earley
Laurence E. Earley, also known as Laurence Elliott Earley, was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1990.
Laurence Edward Scriven
Laurence Edward Scriven, known as Skip Scriven (1931–2007), was an American chemical engineer and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota whose work on coating processes shaped modern coating science.
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne (Laurence John Fishburne III, born 1961, Augusta, Georgia) is an American actor known as Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It, and Thurgood Marshall; winner of three Emmys and a 1992 Tony, with a 1993 Oscar nomination.
Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox (Laurence Paul Fox), English actor and political activist, born 1978 in Yorkshire; DS Hathaway in ITV's Lewis (2006-2015), founder of the Reclaim Party in 2020, and a recurring libel defendant after his 2020 'paedophile' tweets.
Laurence H. Hurley
Laurence H. Hurley (born 1944) is an English-born medicinal chemist known for designing cancer drugs targeting DNA, especially G-quadruplexes, and is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.
Laurence H. Kedes
Laurence H. Kedes, known as Larry, was an American molecular biologist who cloned the first protein-coding gene from an animal cell and founded USC's Institute for Genetic Medicine.
Laurence H. Kyle
Laurence H. Kyle was an American endocrinologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., known for studies of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease and body composition.