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Laurence H. Pearl
Laurence H. Pearl is a British structural biologist, Professor at the University of Sussex, known for solving the Hsp90 chaperone structure and Hsp90 cancer inhibitors.
Laurence H. Tecott
Laurence H. Tecott is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for linking serotonin receptor subtypes to appetite, obesity, and anxiety.
Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey (Larushka Mischa Skikne), 1928-1973, Lithuanian-born British actor, star of Room at the Top (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962); not the Human Centipede actor Laurence R. Harvey.
Laurence J. Adams
Laurence J. Adams (1921–2008) was an American aerospace engineer who managed the Titan rocket programs, helped defend Martin Marietta from a hostile takeover in 1982, and became its president.
Laurence J. Miller
Laurence J. Miller is an American gastroenterologist and molecular pharmacologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for work on cholecystokinin and secretin receptors, including a 2020 cryo-EM structure of secretin bound to its receptor.
Laurence Jackson
Laurence Jackson (1900-1984), Scottish curler and farmer, won gold in men's team curling for Great Britain at Chamonix 1924 alongside his father Willie Jackson; medal confirmed posthumously in 2006.
Laurence Jay Korn
Laurence Jay Korn is a molecular biologist known for his work on Xenopus 5S ribosomal RNA gene transcription at Stanford University and for founding the biotech company Protein Design Labs.
Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff is an American economist, the William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University, known for co-inventing generational accounting and for fiscal gap estimates far above official US debt.
Laurence L. Robbins
Laurence L. Robbins was an American radiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's radiology department from 1946, taught at Harvard, and presided over the Radiological Society of North America in 1959.
Laurence L. Sloss
Laurence L. Sloss (1913–1996) was an American stratigrapher at Northwestern University who subdivided the North American craton's sedimentary record into six unconformity-bounded sequences, pioneering sequence stratigraphy.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 1965, London) is a British interior designer, TV presenter and artist, famous as lead designer of BBC's Changing Rooms from 1996, known for flamboyant maximalist design and purple signature colour.
Laurence Luckinbill
Laurence Luckinbill (Larry Luckinbill), American actor, playwright, and director born in Fort Smith, Arkansas; originated Hank in The Boys in the Band, played Sybok in Star Trek V, and tours one-man shows on LBJ, Darrow, Roosevelt, and Hemingway.
Laurence O. Trussell
Laurence Trussell is a neuroscientist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for his 2001 Nature work on presynaptic glycine receptors in the auditory brainstem.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989), Baron Olivier, English stage and film actor-director; founding director of the National Theatre (1962–1973); Oscar-winning Hamlet (1948); namesake of the Olivier Awards and the Olivier Theatre.
Laurence Retman Young
Laurence Retman Young (1935–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and bioastronautics expert at MIT who studied the vestibular system, space motion sickness, and flight simulation.
Laurence Rickard
Laurence (Larry) Rickard, born 1975 in Brighton, is an English comedy writer and actor of Horrible Histories, Yonderland, Bill, Ghosts, and Amandaland, distinguished from namesakes by his BAFTA-winning work with the six-person Them There troupe.
Laurence Rupp
Laurence Rupp is an Austrian theater and film actor, born in Vienna in 1987, known for playing Arminius in Netflix's Barbarians and winning the Austrian Film Prize for Cops.
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), Anglo-Irish clergyman and novelist, author of Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey (1768), famed for digressive, typographically experimental narrative and vast European influence.
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe, Laurence H. Tribe, American constitutional law scholar, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School (1968-2020), author of the 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law and advocate in 35 Supreme Court cases.
Laurence Zitvogel
Laurence Zitvogel is a French clinical oncologist and immunologist, professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for immunogenic cell death and how gut microbiota shape cancer immunotherapy response.
Laurence-Moon syndrome
Laurence-Moon syndrome (LMS, OMIM 245800, ORPHA 2377) is a very rare autosomal recessive PNPLA6-related disorder with progressive spastic paraplegia, chorioretinal dystrophy, and hypogonadism, distinct from Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is an American billionaire businesswoman, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and founder of Emerson Collective, which owns The Atlantic and holds a stake in Monumental Sports.
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, an honorary Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor, leads the Opto-electronic Materials group at TU Delft, where his ultrafast spectroscopy studies showed efficient carrier multiplication in lead chalcogenide nanosheets.
Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking
Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking (1895–1963) was a Dutch botanist and microbiologist known for the dictum "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects" and for articulating geobiology.
Laurens Molenkamp
Laurens Molenkamp is a Dutch condensed matter physicist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 1999, known for the first observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in 2007.
Laurens van der Maaten
Laurens van der Maaten is a Dutch machine-learning researcher, co-creator of t-SNE with Geoffrey Hinton, a tech lead on Meta's Llama 3, and an Anthropic researcher since 2025.
Laurent Abel
Laurent Abel is a French physician-scientist at Inserm who heads the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases in Paris and New York, identifying genetic causes of severe tuberculosis and COVID-19.
Laurent Blanc
Laurent Blanc, born 1965 in Alès, is a French football manager and former defender; 97 France caps, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner, later coach of Bordeaux, France, PSG, Lyon, and Al-Ittihad.
Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard, born 1957, is a French-Canadian intensivist and researcher whose work on mechanical ventilation and ARDS shaped intensive care, including a landmark 1995 NEJM trial of noninvasive ventilation.
Laurent Castéra
Laurent Castéra is a French hepatologist, professor of hepatology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, who led EASL and pioneered noninvasive liver fibrosis testing.