Famous People with Name Lawrence

Lawrence Michael Foust            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Michael Foust: A 6'9" center from La Salle University, Foust was selected by the Chicago Stags in the 1950 NBA Draft, but the Stags franchise folded before the start of the 1950-51 NBA season, and Foust joined the Fort Wayne Pistons. On November 22, 1950, Foust scored the winning basket in a 19-18 Pistons victory over the Minneapolis Lakers, the lowest scoring game in NBA history. Foust later joined the Lakers in 1957, and he also spent two-and-a-half seasons with the St. Louis Hawks, retiring in 1962 with 11,198 career points and 8,041 career rebounds.

Lawrence Ronald Costello            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Ronald Costello: was an American professional basketball player and coach.He was known as the National Basketball Association's last two-handed set shooter. After playing at Niagara University, he joined the Philadelphia Warriors in 1954. Two years later he was traded to the Syracuse Nationals. He retired in 1965 from the Philadelphia 76ers (the former Syracuse Nationals), but eventually came back for the 1966-67 NBA season after new head coach Alex Hannum told him he needed a veteran point guard. With 42 games into the season, Costello ripped his Achilles tendon on January 6, 1967 and was replaced by Wali Jones. He did, however, come back to participlate in the 1967 playoffs. Costello ended his career for the second and final time in 1968.

Lawrence T. Cannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence T. Cannon: is a retired American basketball player. A 6'4" (1.93 m) guard, he played collegiately for La Salle University.He played for the Miami Floridians (1969-70), Denver Rockets (1970-71), Memphis Pros (1971-72), Indiana Pacers (1971-72, 1973-74) in the ABA for 194 games and Philadelphia 76ers (1973-74) in the NBA for 19 games.

Lawrence Edward Roberts            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Edward Roberts: is an American professional basketball player formerly in the NBA. He was a second round draft pick (55th overall) of the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2005 NBA Draft and was then traded to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Lawrence Tierney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Tierney: was an American actor. Known as a gangster actor, Lawrence's most memorable parts may have been the title role in Dillinger, and the role of Joe Cabot in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) almost fifty years later.

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

Richard Webster Lawrence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Webster Lawrence: as an American bobsledder who competed in the 1930s.