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Lawnmower Dog

"Lawnmower Dog" is the second episode of Rick and Morty season 1 (Adult Swim, December 9, 2013), written by Ryan Ridley. It parodies Inception and The Lawnmower Man, introduces Scary Terry, and features Snuffles becoming Snowball, a sapient dog who returns in season 9's "Jer Bud".

Lawren Sack

Lawren Sack is a plant ecophysiologist and professor at UCLA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, known for research on leaf hydraulics, venation, and drought tolerance.

Lawrence (band)

Lawrence is a New York soul-pop band formed in 2013 around siblings Clyde and Gracie Lawrence; an eight-piece with a horn section, known for Breakfast, Hotel TV, Family Business, and 2023 Senate ticketing testimony.

Lawrence (musician)

Lawrence is the main alias of Peter M. Kersten, a German electronic music producer from Hamburg who makes melancholic house and techno and co-founded Dial Records in 2000 and the Smallville store and label in 2005.

Lawrence A. Chasin

Lawrence A. Chasin is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, known for work on mammalian cell genetics, gene amplification, and pre-mRNA splicing.

Lawrence A. Frohman

Lawrence A. Frohman (1935–2018) was an American neuroendocrinologist who defined hypothalamic control of growth hormone, isolated GHRH, and chaired medicine at the University of Illinois.

Lawrence A. Klobutcher

Lawrence A. Klobutcher is a molecular biologist at UConn Health who studies genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa, including DNA elimination and frameshifting in Oxytricha and Euplotes.

Lawrence A. Loeb

Lawrence A. Loeb is an American biochemist and pathologist at the University of Washington, known for the mutator phenotype hypothesis of cancer and for developing Duplex Sequencing.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Lourens Alma Tadema), Dutch-born Victorian painter (1836-1912) of classical Roman and Egyptian scenes with archaeological detail; London-based, Royal Academician, knighted 1899, Order of Merit 1905.

Lawrence B. Curtis

Lawrence B. "Buck" Curtis was an American petroleum engineer at Conoco, widely credited as the father of the tension-leg platform and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Lawrence B. Jones

Lawrence B. Jones (Lawrence Billy Jones III, born 1992) is an American libertarian commentator and co-host of Fox & Friends since 2023; formerly host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country and editor-in-chief of Campus Reform.

Lawrence Bender

Lawrence Bender (born 1957, The Bronx) is an American producer of Tarantino films (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds), Good Will Hunting, and An Inconvenient Truth; also activist and Global Zero founder.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a Department of Energy national laboratory in Berkeley, California, managed by the University of California. Ernest O. Lawrence founded it in 1931 around his cyclotron.

Lawrence Bishnoi

Lawrence Bishnoi (born Balkaran Brar, 1993) is an imprisoned Indian gangster alleged to run the transnational Bishnoi gang, linked to the Sidhu Moosewala and Baba Siddique murders, listed as a terrorist entity in Canada in 2025, and indicted in the US in 2026 over the Nijjar assassination.

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, the Tool Box Killers, murdered five teenage girls in Southern California in 1979 using tools and a tape recorder; Bittaker died on death row in 2019, Norris in 2020.

Lawrence Bogorad

Lawrence Bogorad (1921–2003) was an American plant molecular biologist and Harvard professor, a pioneer of chloroplast genetics who sequenced the first chloroplast genes and mapped chloroplast DNA.

Lawrence Bragg

Lawrence Bragg, also known as William Lawrence Bragg, was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg.

Lawrence C Katz

Lawrence C Katz (1956–2005) was an American neuroscientist, James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for developing optical imaging and photostimulation to map developing brain circuits.

Lawrence C. Evans

Lawrence C. Evans, born 1949, is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley known for nonlinear partial differential equations and his graduate textbook Partial Differential Equations.

Lawrence C. F. Horle

Lawrence C. F. Horle (1892–1950) was an American electrical engineer who led radio standardization, served as IRE president in 1940, and received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1948.

Lawrence Carin

Lawrence Carin is an American machine-learning researcher and Duke University professor known for Bayesian compressive sensing, who co-founded Signal Innovations Group and Infinia ML and was KAUST provost from 2020 to 2023.

Lawrence Carter (sociologist)

Lawrence Carter, known as Larry, was an American sociologist and professor at the University of Oregon, co-author of the Lee-Carter mortality forecasting model used by the Census Bureau.

Lawrence Chan

Lawrence Chan, born in Hong Kong in 1942, is a physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for a 2003 gene therapy that reversed diabetes in mice.

Lawrence Corey

Lawrence Corey is an American virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who founded the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and led the US COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Lawrence D. Bobo

Lawrence D. Bobo is an American sociologist, the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor at Harvard, known for his group position theory of racial prejudice and studies of public opinion.

Lawrence D. Brown

Lawrence D. Brown (1940–2018) was an American statistician, Miers Busch Professor at Wharton, known for decision theory, admissibility of estimators, and his 1996 nonparametric equivalence paper.

Lawrence D. Burns

Lawrence D. Burns is an American automotive engineer who spent roughly forty years at General Motors, led its research and planning from 1998 to 2009, and later advised Waymo.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Lawrence Dallaglio (Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio), born 1972, English rugby union number 8 and back row; 85 England caps, 2003 World Cup and Grand Slam winner, lifelong Wasps player, 2016 World Rugby Hall of Fame inductee.

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), British novelist, poet, and travel writer born in Jullundur, India; author of The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea, 1957–60), Prospero's Cell, and Bitter Lemons; friend of Henry Miller.

Lawrence E. Jenkins

Lawrence E. "Larry" Jenkins (1933–1996) was an American electrical engineer and Lockheed executive who developed the Agena satellite's precision attitude control system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.