Famous People with Name Lawrence

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs: In 1983, Lawrence won the NAACP Image Award as best actor for his performance as Frankie in Richard Wesley's The Mighty Gents. He later gained praise afor his portrayal as Joseph Jackson in ABC-TV's highly-rated mini-series The Jacksons: An American Dream, he starred on the Fox Network short lived cult science fiction TV series Alien Nation as Sgt. Dobbs, and as Rushion, the headstrong, unapologetic entrepreneur and father of Moesha's boyfriend Q in Moesha

Lawrence Halprin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Halprin: is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator.Halprin's work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, 'playable' civic fountains most common in the 1970s, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where "Ira's Fountain" is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra: is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Arguably the most beloved baseball player since Babe Ruth, Berra was one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times, and one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series.

Lawrence Robert "Larry" Klein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Robert "Larry" Klein: is an American economist.Professor Klein is a graduate of Los Angeles City College, where he learned calculus; the University of California, Berkeley, where he began his computer modeling and earned a B.A. in Economics in 1942; he earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1944.

Lawrence Weiss            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Weiss: better known by the stage names Larry Harmon and Bozo the Clown, was an American entertainer.Harmon was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army. Upon returning he attended the University of Southern California where he majored in theater and performed in the Spirit of Troy marching band. Harmon married wife Susan in 1978 and together they had five children.

Brenda L. Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brenda L. Lawrence: is the current mayor of Southfield, Michigan and was the Democratic nominee for Michigan lieutenant governor in 2010. In the early 1990s, as an active member of the Parent Teacher's Association at her children's school, she sought and earned a seat on the

Elisha Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elisha Lawrence: was an American Federalist Party politician, who represented Monmouth County in the New Jersey Legislative Council, the precursor to the New Jersey State Senate, from 1780 through 1783, from 1789 through 1792 and in 1795. He served as Vice-President of Co

Samuel Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Lawrence: was an American politician from New York. He was appointed a judge of the Marine Court of New York City. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1811, and was Clerk of New York County from 1811 to 1812. He was a presidential elector in 1816 and

Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence: was a politician from New York. He became the first popularly elected Mayor of New York City after the law was changed in 1834. Lawrence was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1833, to May 14, 1834, when he resigne

Albert Benjamin Rutter (Bert) Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Albert Benjamin Rutter (Bert) Lawrence: was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Lawrence was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1963 as a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He first represented the Ottawa-area riding of Russell and then, beginning with the 1967 election, representing Carleton East. In 1969, Ontario Premier John Robarts brought Lawrence into the cabinet as minister without portfolio, and promoted him in 1970 to Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs. He ran in the 1971 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership convention to succeed Robarts, and came in fifth place. The new premier, Bill Davis, made Lawrence his Minister of Health until 1972 when he became Provincial Secretary for Resources Development. He attempted a move to federal politics by running as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Ottawa—Carleton in the 1980 federal election but was defeated by Liberal Jean-Luc Pépin. He died in Gatineau, Quebec in 2007.