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Laurent Dassault
Laurent Dassault is a French industrial heir and company director, the second son of Serge Dassault and grandson of Marcel Dassault, honorary chairman of the family holding's supervisory board since 2025.
Laurent Dubreuil
Laurent Dubreuil (born 1992, Quebec City) is a Canadian long track speed skater and sprinter, Olympic silver (1000m, Beijing 2022) and bronze (500m, Milano Cortina 2026) medallist, 500m world champion 2021, and first Canadian under 34 seconds in the 500m.
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Canadian physician and former NFL guard (Chiefs, Jets), Super Bowl LIV champion, first active NFL player with a medical degree (McGill, 2018), 2020 opt-out for COVID-19 front-line work.
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier is a Swiss population geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern, known for the Arlequin software and genomic studies of how humans settled Europe.
Laurent Farinelli
Laurent Farinelli is a University of Geneva alumnus who co-developed the DNA colonies invention in 1996 with Pascal Mayer, recognized by the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Laurent Gbagbo
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo, Ivorian historian and politician, founded the FPI in 1982, was president of Côte d'Ivoire 2000-2011, refused to concede the 2010 election, was arrested in 2011, acquitted by the ICC in 2019, and barred from the 2025 election.
Laurent Keller
Laurent Keller, born 1961, is a Swiss evolutionary biologist and University of Lausanne professor known for discovering the fire ant social chromosome, a supergene controlling colony organization.
Laurent Koscielny
Laurent Koscielny, born 1985 in Tulle, France, is a retired central defender who played nine seasons at Arsenal (353 games, 3 FA Cups), won 51 France caps, finished Euro 2016 runner-up, ended at Bordeaux in 2022, and is now FC Lorient sporting director.
Laurent Lafforgue
Laurent Lafforgue, born 1966 in Antony, France, is a French mathematician who proved the Langlands correspondence for GL(r) over function fields, winning the Fields Medal in 2002.
Laurent Laizet
Laurent Laizet is a French quantitative trader who co-founded Qube Research & Technologies, a London-based quantitative hedge fund, and serves as its Chief Investment Officer.
Laurent Laloux
Laurent Laloux is a French quantitative finance executive who serves as Chief Product Officer and board member of the Paris hedge fund Capital Fund Management.
Laurent Marcangeli
Laurent Marcangeli (born 1980 in Ajaccio) is a French politician of Horizons, deputy for Corse-du-Sud's first constituency and president of the Horizons & Indépendants group in the National Assembly.
Laurent Mendy (footballer, born 1997)
Laurent Mendy (born 1997) is a French footballer, centre-back or defensive midfielder for Heart of Midlothian; joined from Forest Green Rovers in July 2026 for over £500,000, distinct from the Senegalese midfielder born 2001.
Laurent Nguyen
Laurent Nguyen is a Belgian neurobiologist at the University of Liège who studies how the cerebral cortex is built, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Regulation of Neurogenesis.
Laurent Nuñez
Laurent Nuñez, born 1964 in Bourges, is a French politician and senior civil servant who has been Minister of the Interior since October 2025, after serving as Prefect of Police of Paris.
Laurent Ottoz
Laurent Ottoz (Laurent Jacques Denis Ottoz Calvesi), Italian hurdler born 1970 in Brescia; son of Eddy Ottoz. Broke his father's 110mH Italian record with 13.42 (1994), holds the 200mH world best 22.55, and ran 48.52 in the 400mH at Atlanta 1996.
Laurent Panifous
Laurent Panifous is a French politician and former Socialist who led the LIOT group in the National Assembly before becoming Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament in 2025.
Laurent Papazian
Laurent Papazian (born 1959) is a French intensivist known for the 2010 ACURASYS trial of neuromuscular blockade in ARDS; after nearly 40 years in Marseille, he works in Bastia, Corsica.
Laurent Peyrin‐Biroulet
Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet is a French professor of gastroenterology at Nancy University Hospital who served as President of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2020 to 2023.
Laurent Porchier
Laurent Porchier, born 1968 in Bourg-de-Péage, is a French rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's lightweight coxless four at Sydney 2000 with Bette, Hocdé, and Dorfman, plus four World medals and a 2001 lightweight eight world title.
Laurent Ritter
Laurent Ritter is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile gaming company, with Alexandre Yazdi in 2013, serving as its managing director while Voodoo became a leader in hyper-casual mobile games.
Laurent Saint-Cyr
Laurent Saint-Cyr (Anthony Franck Laurent Saint Cyr), Haitian businessman and private-sector representative, was the final rotating coordinator of the Transitional Presidential Council from August 7, 2025 to February 7, 2026, succeeding Fritz Alphonse Jean before handing power to PM Fils-Aimé.
Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) was a French mathematician who created the theory of distributions, rigorously generalizing functions, and in 1950 became the first French Fields Medalist.
Laurent series
A Laurent series, also called a Laurent expansion or bilateral power series, is a doubly infinite power series in positive and negative powers of z, valid on an annulus.
Laurent Sifre
Laurent Sifre is a French artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded the Paris startup H, serving as its Chief Technological Officer, after nearly a decade at Google DeepMind.
Laurent Wauquiez
Laurent Wauquiez, born 1975 in Lyon, is a French politician of Les Républicains, deputy for Haute-Loire, and president of the Droite républicaine group in the National Assembly.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939–2001), Congolese rebel leader and president of the DRC 1997–2001; led the AFDL, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, to overthrow Mobutu in 1997, ruled authoritarianly, and was assassinated by his bodyguard in January 2001.
Laurentia
Laurentia, the North American craton, is the ancient geological core of North America, assembled by 1.7 billion years ago and including Greenland and northwest Scotland until the Late Cretaceous.
Laurentia Tan
Laurentia Tan (Tan Yen-Yi), born 1979, Singaporean para-equestrian dressage rider with cerebral palsy and deafness; four Paralympic medals, first Singaporean Paralympic and first Asian Paralympic equestrian medallist.
Laurentian Chronicle
The Laurentian Chronicle (Лаврентьевская летопись) is a Russian chronicle manuscript copied by the monk Lavrenty in 1377, preserving the oldest surviving copy of the Primary Chronicle.