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Laurie Davidson (actor)

Laurie Davidson (born 1992, Dulwich, London) is an English actor, a LAMDA graduate, best known as young William Shakespeare in TNT's Will (2017), Mr. Mistoffelees in Cats (2019), and Daniel in The Girlfriend (2025); not to be confused with the Australian art-department technician of the same name.

Laurie Davies (California politician)

Laurie Davies is an American politician and Republican member of the California State Assembly representing the 74th district, first elected after moving from Wisconsin in 1981.

Laurie Doherty

Laurie Doherty (Hugh Lawrence Doherty, 1875-1919), English tennis player, 1900 Olympic singles and doubles gold medalist, five-time Wimbledon singles champion, and first player to win a major outside his home country.

Laurie E. Comstock

Laurie E. Comstock is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago who studies Bacteroidales, the most abundant Gram-negative bacteria of the human intestine.

Laurie Evans (cricketer)

Laurie Evans (Laurie John Evans, born 1987, Lambeth, London) is an English right-handed T20 batsman for Surrey, formerly Warwickshire and Sussex, and franchises including Perth Scorchers; never capped by England.

Laurie Gilmore

Laurie Gilmore is the pen name of American romance writer Melissa McTernan, author of the bestselling Dream Harbor series, which began with The Pumpkin Spice Café in 2023.

Sep 20, 2026

Laurie Glimcher

Laurie H. Glimcher is an American immunologist who served as president and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 2016 to 2024, and previously was dean of Weill Cornell Medicine.

Laurie Goodyear

Laurie J. Goodyear is a metabolism researcher who heads Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Laurie H. Sehn

Laurie H. Sehn is a Canadian medical oncologist and lymphoma researcher in Vancouver who developed the revised International Prognostic Index and led trials of new lymphoma treatments.

Laurie Hernandez

Laurie Hernandez (Lauren Zoe Hernandez, b. 2000), American gymnast, 2016 Rio Olympic team gold and beam silver with the Final Five, DWTS season 23 champion, later NBC analyst, author, and UNICEF Ambassador.

Laurie Holden

Laurie Holden (Heather Laurie Holden) is an American-Canadian actress and activist, born 1969 in Los Angeles; known for The X-Files' Marita Covarrubias, Andrea in The Walking Dead, and Crimson Countess in The Boys.

Laurie J. Michelson

Laurie J. Michelson, born 1967 in Detroit, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Obama and confirmed in 2014.

Laurie J. Morrison

Laurie J. Morrison is a Canadian emergency physician and resuscitation scientist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook, known for research on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation guidelines.

Laurie Jinkins

Laurie Jinkins is an American Democratic politician serving as Speaker of the Washington House of Representatives since 2020, the first woman to hold the post.

Oct 10, 2026

Laurie L. Marker

Laurie L. Marker is a conservation biologist and cheetah specialist who co-founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia in 1990, the first international organization focused on wild cheetah survival.

Laurie Lee

Laurie Lee (Laurence Edward Alan Lee, 1914-1997), English poet and memoirist of Slad, Gloucestershire; author of Cider with Rosie (1959) and the autobiographical trilogy including A Moment of War; MBE 1952; distinct from the American actress and the Wyoming painter of the same name.

Laurie M. Gunter

Laurie Martin Gunter was an American gerontological nursing researcher and academic administrator who headed the Department of Nursing at Penn State from 1971 to 1976.

Laurie Metcalf

Laurie Metcalf (Laura Elizabeth Metcalf, born 1955) is an American actress, Steppenwolf founding ensemble member, Emmy-winning Jackie Harris on Roseanne, three-time Tony winner, and Oscar nominee for Lady Bird.

Laurie Morgan

Laurie Morgan (Lawrence Robert Morgan, 1915-1997), Australian equestrian who won individual and team eventing gold at Rome 1960 on Salad Days, Australia's first Olympic equestrian medals; also a VFL footballer, boxer, rower, and steeplechase jockey.

Oct 10, 2026

Laurie R. Santos

Laurie R. Santos is a Yale psychologist whose research moved from how monkeys think to the science of happiness, including Yale's most popular course and The Happiness Lab podcast.

Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons (born 1949, Long Island, NY) is an American Pictures Generation artist and filmmaker known for staged photographs of dolls, dummies, and objects with legs in domestic interiors; works include Walking House, The Love Doll, and the films The Music of Regret and MY ART.

Laurie Stevens

Laurie Stevens (Lawrence Stevens, 1913–1989), South African boxer; won lightweight gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, silver at the 1930 British Empire Games, and later the British Empire lightweight and South African welterweight pro titles.

Laurie Strode

Laurie Strode is the fictional protagonist of the Halloween horror franchise, created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in 1978 and played by Jamie Lee Curtis; the archetypal Final Girl who survives Michael Myers across four separate franchise timelines, concluding in Halloween Ends (2022).

Laurieann Gibson

Laurieann Gibson (born 1969, Toronto), also known as BoomKack, is a Canadian choreographer and creative director who choreographed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" and won the 2010 MTV VMA for Best Choreography.

Laurien Leurink

Laurien Leurink, Dutch field hockey midfielder (born 1994, Utrecht), won Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and gold at Tokyo 2020 with the Netherlands, earned 133 caps with 29 goals and 43 assists, and retired from international hockey in March 2023.

Laurien Willemse

Laurien Willemse (Laura Eveline Willemse-Gales), Dutch field hockey player born 1962 in Haarlem; won Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Los Angeles 1984 and bronze at Seoul 1988, scoring a 65th-minute penalty corner equalizer against Canada in 1984.

Laurier Macdonald High School

Laurier Macdonald High School is an anglophone public secondary school in Montreal's Saint-Léonard borough, an IB World School since 2002 serving about 600 students in Grades 7 to 11.

Laurin Hendrix

Laurin Hendrix is an American Republican politician representing District 14 in the Arizona House of Representatives. He resides in Gilbert and has served since 2023.

Laurin-Sandrow syndrome

Laurin-Sandrow syndrome (Sandrow syndrome, tetramelic mirror-image polydactyly, OMIM 135750) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant congenital disorder with polysyndactyly of the hands, mirror feet, nasal defects, and ulnar/fibular duplication, caused by ZRS microduplications on 7q36.3.