Lawrence may refer to:

Education

Colleges and universities

Lawrence Technological University Lawrence Technological University (LTU) (Lawrence Tech) is a private university in Southfield, Michigan. It was founded in 1932 in Highland Park, Michigan, as the Lawrence Institute of Technology (LIT) by Russell E. Lawrence. The university move ...

, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States *

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...

, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States

Preparatory & high schools

Lawrence Academy at Groton Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1792 by a group of fifty residents of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts ...

, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States *

Lawrence College, Ghora Gali Lawrence College Ghora Gali is a school situated in Murree Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan. The college is located in the foothills of the Himalayas and Pir Panjal at a height of about 1950 metres (6395 feet) above sea level, covering an area of . It ...

, a high school in Pakistan *

Lawrence School, Lovedale The Lawrence School, Lovedale (formerly known as Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School), the namesake of its founder Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB, is a co-educational boarding school located at Lovedale, which is a li ...

, a high school in India *

The Lawrence School, Sanawar The Lawrence School, Sanawar, is the oldest Co-Ed boarding school in the world near Solan city. Established in 1847, its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious and oldest schools in Asia. It is located in the ...

, a high school in India

Research laboratories

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...

, United States *

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

, United States

People

Lawrence (given name) Lawrence is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the French '' Laurent'', which is in turn derived from the Latin ''Laurentius'' or Old Greek ''Lavrenti''. Pet forms of ''Lawrence'' include ''Larry'' and ''Lawrie''. People Christian ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Lawrence (surname) Lawrence is an English-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–D * Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), a noted merchant and founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts * Abbott Lawrence, US representative from Massachusetts * Abraham ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Lawrence (band) Lawrence is a US-based soul-pop group founded by New York City-raised sibling duo Clyde and Gracie Lawrence, who have been singing, performing, and writing songs together since their early childhood. Today, Lawrence is an eight-piece band that ...

, an American soul-pop group *

Lawrence (judge royal) Lawrence ( hu, Lőrinc; died after 1180) was a nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary, who served as Judge royal ( la, curialis comes) between 1164 and 1172, during the reign of Stephen III of Hungary. He was loyal to Géza II of Hungary as, accordi ...

(died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 *

Lawrence (musician) Lawrence Hayward (born 12 August 1961) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is known as the frontman in the English indie pop bands Felt, Denim, and Mozart Estate (formerly Go-Kart Mozart). He has never used his surname in credit ...

, Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British musician *

Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. "Laurel wreath, laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the Persecution of Christians, perse ...

(died 258), deacon and Roman Catholic saint, born in Spain *

Lawrence I (bishop of Milan) Lawrence I ( la, Laurentius, it, Lorenzo) was Archbishop of Milan from 490 to c. 511. He is honoured as a saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is July 25. Life Most of the information we have about this bishop are due to the writing ...

, bishop of Milan from 490 to c. 511, Roman Catholic saint *

Lawrence, Archbishop of Split Lawrence (Latin: ''Laurentinus''; Croatian: ''Lovro Dalmatinac''; died 8 July 1099) was a benedictine monk and Archbishop of Split (1060-1099). He first served as a bishop of Osor, but had to withdraw because of his reformist stances. In 1060, he w ...

(died 1099), Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Split 1060–1099 *

Brother Lawrence Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, OCD (c. 1614 – 12 February 1691) served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. Christians commonly remember him for the intimacy he expressed concerning his relationship to God as recorded in ...

(died 1691), Carmelite friar

Places

Australia

Lawrence, New South Wales Lawrence is a small town 13 km from Maclean, New South Wales, Australia. It is accessed by the Lawrence car ferry from Woodford Island or by travelling 30 kilometres north from Grafton. At the 2016 census, the population of Lawrence w ...

Lawrence Rocks The Lawrence Rocks are a group of two rocky islets, 6.8 ha and 1.5 ha in area, with an associated reef, 2.4 km south-east of Point Danger in western Victoria, Australia, and about 6 km south-east of the city of Portland. ...

, Victoria, Australia

United States

Lawrence, Illinois Lawrence is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Chemung Township, McHenry County, Illinois, United States. Lawrence is northwest of Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambri ...

Lawrence, Indiana Lawrence is a city in Marion County, Indiana, United States. It is one of four " excluded cities" in Marion County. The city is home to Fort Benjamin Harrison within Fort Harrison State Park. The population was 46,001 at the 2010 census. The ci ...

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Waka ...

Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Lawrenceburg is a home rule-class city in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 10,505 at the 2010 census. It is the seat of its county. Lawrenceburg is part of the Frankfort, Kentucky, micropolitan statistical area. His ...

, formerly known as Lawrence *

Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and Nort ...

Lawrence, Michigan Lawrence is a village in Van Buren County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 996 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Lawrence Township. It is host to an annual Ox Roast, Homecoming festival, and Farmer's Market. G ...

Lawrence, Minnesota Lawrence is an extinct village in section 16 of St. Lawrence Township, Scott County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The GNIS The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than tw ...

Lawrence, Mississippi Lawrence is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Mississippi Newton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,720. Its county seat is Decatur. History Newton County w ...

Lawrence, Nebraska Lawrence is a village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census. History Lawrence was platted in 1886 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for a ...

Lawrence Brook Lawrence Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States. Course Originally a stream, its course now includes man-made lakes created by dams built in the 19th and 20th centuries: Deans Pond ( So ...

, New Jersey *

Lawrence, Nassau County, New York Lawrence is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 6,483. The Village of Lawre ...

, a village *

Lawrence, St. Lawrence County, New York Lawrence is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 1,715 at the 2020 census. The town is named after William Lawrence, an early land owner. The Town of Lawrence is on the eastern border of the county and is e ...

, a town *

Lawrence, Pennsylvania Lawrence is a census-designated place located in Cecil Township, Washington County in the state of Pennsylvania. The community is a Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county ...

Lawrence, Texas Lawrence is an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 279 in 2000. It is located within the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. History Th ...

Lawrence, Utah Lawrence is an unincorporated community in northwestern Emery County, Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its n ...

Lawrence, Washington Lawrence is an unincorporated community in Whatcom County, in the U.S. state of Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal gover ...

Lawrence, Brown County, Wisconsin Lawrence is a town in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 6,306 as of the 2020 census, up from 4,284 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated community of Little Rapids is located in the town. Geography The town of Law ...

, a town *

Lawrence, Marquette County, Wisconsin :''There is also the Town of Westfield in Sauk County.'' Westfield is a town located in Marquette County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 689. The Village of Westfield is located mostly within the town. The u ...

, an unincorporated community *

Lawrence, Rusk County, Wisconsin Lawrence is a town in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 240 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.7 square miles (123.6 km2), all land. Demog ...

, a town

Other places

Lawrence (electoral district) Lawrence was a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada. It was created prior to the 1987 provincial election from the parts of York South, Downsview, Wilson Heights and Armourdale and eliminated in 1996, when it was split between the ridings of ...

, Ontario, Canada *

Lawrence Pond Conception Bay South is a town located on the southern shore of Conception Bay on the Avalon Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is commonly called C.B.S. Conception Bay South is the ...

, a community in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada *

Lawrence, New Zealand Lawrence is a small town in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on State Highway 8, the main route from Dunedin to the inland towns of Queenstown and Alexandra. It lies 35 kilometres to the northwest of Milton, 11 kilometres nor ...

Ships

* , a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship * , a brig decommissioned in 1846 * , a 400-ton ''Bainbridge''-class destroyer commissioned in 1903 and serving until 1920 * , a ''Clemson''-class destroyer, serving from 1921 to 1945 * , a ''Charles F. Adams''-class destroyer commissioned in 1962, and serving through 1994 * ''Lawrence'' (schooner), a schooner launched in 1756

Transport

Lawrence (Amtrak station) Lawrence station is a train station in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, served by Amtrak's ''Southwest Chief'' train. The Lawrence station was built in 1956 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Stat ...

, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. *

Lawrence (Caltrain station) Lawrence station is a Caltrain commuter rail station in Sunnyvale, California. The station has four tracks with side platforms serving the outer tracks. The original Lawrence station was built by the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad The Sa ...

in Santa Clara, California, U.S. *

Lawrence (MBTA station) The Senator Patricia McGovern Transportation Center, also known as the McGovern Transportation Center or simply Lawrence station, is a transit station in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Commuter Rail's Haverhill Line. The modern stati ...

in Lawrence (near Boston), Massachusetts, U.S. *

Lawrence Avenue Lawrence Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is divided into east and west portions (Lawrence Avenue East and Lawrence Avenue West) by Yonge Street, the dividing line of east-west streets in Toronto. Route de ...

in Toronto, Ontario, Canada **

Lawrence station (Toronto) Lawrence is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located under Yonge Street at Lawrence Avenue, in the Bedford Park, Lawrence Park and Lytton Park neighbourhoods. Description The station is on four ...

, a Lawrence Avenue subway station **

Lawrence West station Lawrence West is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of William R. Allen Road at Lawrence Avenue West. The station serves the local communities of Lawrence Heights, Lawrence M ...

, a Lawrence Avenue subway station **

Lawrence East station Lawrence East is a rapid transit station on Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is located underneath the elevated portion of Lawrence Avenue East, in the Midland Avenue and Kennedy Road corridor. I ...

, a Lawrence Avenue subway station *

Lawrence station (CTA) Lawrence is a temporarily closed 'L' station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line. It is an elevated station located at 1117 West Lawrence Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The adjacent stations are Argyle, locate ...

, a rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Other uses

Lawrence (crater) Lawrence is a lunar impact crater that is located on a section of terrain to the east of Mare Tranquillitatis and northwest of Mare Fecunditatis. It was named after American physicist and Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence and American astronaut Robert ...

, a lunar impact crater * ''

The Lawrence ''The Lawrence'', founded 1881, is the third oldest high school newspaper and the newspaper of The Lawrenceville School. Published weekly, ''The Lawrence'' acts as a forum for the school community, both on and off-campus. It consists of 5 sections ...

'', a newspaper founded 1881 *

Lawrence v. Texas ''Lawrence v. Texas'', 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that most sanctions of criminal punishment for consensual, adult non- procreative sexual activity (commonly referred to as so ...

, a major Supreme Court of the United States decision