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Lawrence E. Kahn

Lawrence E. Kahn, born in 1937, is an American senior United States district judge for the Northern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 1996.

Lawrence E. King Jr.

Lawrence E. King Jr. was an Omaha banker and Republican fundraiser whose Franklin Community Federal Credit Union CD fraud left about $40 million missing in 1988.

Lawrence E. Samelson

Lawrence E. Samelson is an American immunologist who spent his career at the NIH, discovered the TCR zeta chain and LAT, and shared the 2019 William B. Coley Award.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr. is a chemical engineer who worked at Exxon Research and Engineering on coal gasification and liquefaction, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Lawrence F. Brass

Lawrence F. Brass, known as Skip Brass, is an American hematologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 1982, studying platelets, hemostasis, and thrombosis.

Lawrence F. Dahl (1929–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who determined the X-ray structures of transition-metal cluster compounds, from simple carbonyls to record palladium clusters.

Lawrence F. Katz

Lawrence F. Katz (born 1959) is an American labor economist, the Elisabeth Allison Professor at Harvard and editor of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, known for research on wage inequality.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and activist who co-founded City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco. He was tried for obscenity in 1957 for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl.

Lawrence Fong

Lawrence Fong is a physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who treats prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers and directs the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, after founding UCSF's Cancer Immunotherapy Program.

Oct 10, 2026

Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence Freedman, born 1948, is a British historian of strategy and nuclear affairs, Professor of War Studies at King's College London and Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign.

Lawrence G. Ferguson

Lawrence G. (Gil) Ferguson, U.S. Army lieutenant general from Tupelo, Mississippi; Air Force Academy 1990 cross-commission into Army; Special Forces officer; commanded 1st SFC and took USASOC command November 24, 2025.

Lawrence G. Griffis

Lawrence G. Griffis, known as Larry Griffis, is an American structural engineer at Walter P Moore in Houston, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Lawrence G. Raisz

Lawrence G. Raisz was an American physician-scientist in bone and mineral metabolism, a founder of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and first editor of its journal.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr., also credited as Larry Gilliard Jr., is an American actor born in New York City in 1971, best known for D'Angelo Barksdale on The Wire and Bob Stookey on The Walking Dead.

Lawrence Gowan

Lawrence Gowan, also known as Gowan, is a Scottish-born Canadian rock vocalist and keyboardist (born 1956, Glasgow), famous for the 1985 album Strange Animal and A Criminal Mind, and Styx's lead vocalist and keyboardist since July 8, 1999, replacing Dennis DeYoung.

Lawrence Grossman

Lawrence Grossman, born 1946 in Toronto, is a cosmochemist at the University of Chicago known for calculating mineral condensation sequences and showing CAIs are the Solar System's oldest solids.

Lawrence H. Aller

Lawrence H. Aller (1913–2003) was an American astronomer who specialized in the chemical analysis of planetary nebulae and stellar atmospheres, and a UCLA professor from 1962.

Lawrence H. Cohn

Lawrence H. Cohn (1937–2016) was an American cardiac surgeon and Harvard professor who led cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and performed more than 11,000 operations.

Lawrence H. Einhorn

Lawrence H. Einhorn is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who developed the cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that made metastatic testicular cancer highly curable.

Lawrence H. Skromme

Lawrence H. Skromme (1913-2012) was an American agricultural engineer who rose to vice president of engineering at Sperry-New Holland and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Lawrence J. Appel

Lawrence J. Appel is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose research on diet and behavior treats hypertension, kidney disease, and obesity; he led the landmark 1997 DASH trial.

Lawrence J. C. VanDyke

Lawrence J. C. VanDyke is an American jurist serving as a judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Oct 10, 2026

Lawrence J. Christiano

Lawrence J. Christiano is an American macroeconomist, the Alfred W. Chase Professor at Northwestern University, best known for the 2005 CEE model of nominal rigidities.

Lawrence J. Kunz

Lawrence J. Kunz was an American clinical microbiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's clinical microbiology laboratory in Boston from 1952 to 1982, known for NEJM papers on Pasteurella and streptococcal infections.

Lawrence J. Marnett

Lawrence J. Marnett is an American pharmacologist and biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research defined how normal metabolism damages DNA and how COX-2 is targeted by aspirin-like drugs.

Lawrence J. O'Neill

Lawrence J. O'Neill is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of California appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.

Lawrence J. Stern

Lawrence J. Stern is an American immunologist and Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for determining the structure of the human MHC protein HLA-DR1.

Lawrence J. Vilardo

Lawrence Joseph Vilardo, born in 1955 in Buffalo, New York, is a United States district judge for the Western District of New York, nominated by President Obama in 2015.