Famous People with Name Lawrence

Lawrence Donald Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Donald Clark: is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids. His most common subject is youth that casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a subculture (such as pun

Lawrence Denny Lindsley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Denny Lindsley: was an American photographer and also worked as a miner, hunter, and guide. Lindsley was a grandson of Seattle pioneer, David Thomas Denny (1832-1903), a member of the Denny Party.

Lawrence Morris Lambe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Morris Lambe: was a geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). He was Canada's first great geologist. His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden Age of Dinosaurs in the province.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison: is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. He is currently listed on Forbes list of billionaires as the #14 richest person in the world as of August 29, 2008. Ellison is the 3rd riche

Lawrence Gowan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Gowan: a Canadian musician. Gowan has been both a solo artist and the current keyboardist and vocalist of the band Styx. His musical style is usually classified in the category of progressive rock. In 2006 Lawrence Gowan's home was featured on MTV's Cribs.At the

Steve Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Steve Lawrence: Lawrence had success on the pop record charts in the late 50's and early 1960s with such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" (U.S. #1), "Pretty Blue Eyes" (U.S. #9), "Footsteps" (U.S. #7), "Portrait of My Love" (U.S. #9), and "Party Doll" (U.S. #5). However much of his musical career has centered on nightclubs and the musical stage. Lawrence is an actor as well, appearing in guest roles on television shows in every decade since the 1950s,[5] in shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, Night Gallery, Police Story, Murder, She Wrote, Gilmore Girls, and CSI. In the 1960s Lawrence was the star of a variety show called The Steve Lawrence Show, "the last television show in black and white on CBS".[2]. Lawrence also appeared in the last season of The Nanny as Fran's never-before-seen father, Morty Fine.

Marc Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marc Lawrence: was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence appeared in films beginning in 1931, Garfield followed starting his film acting in 1938. Lawrence's pock-marked complexion and brooding appearance made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee

George Newbold Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Newbold Lawrence: was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.Lawrence conducted Pacific bird surveys for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men co-authored Birds of North America in 1858.Lawrence left his collection of 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of Natural History. Lawrence's Goldfinch Carduelis lawrencei was named for him by Cassin.

Jacob Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jacob Lawrence: was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.[1]Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth century African American painters, a distinction shared with Romare Bearden. Lawrence was only in his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him nationally famous. The series of paintings was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune magazine. The series depicted the epic Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

Wendy Barrien Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wendy Barrien Lawrence: is a Captain in the U.S. Navy, a helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the US Naval Academy to fly in space and she has also visited the Russian Space Station Mir. She was a mission specialist on