Famous People with Name Laya

Laya Francis            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Laya Francis: is a former Test and One Day International cricketer who represented India. She is a right-hand batsman and bowls right-arm medium fast. She has played four Tests and 11 ODIs for India.

Timothy Joseph Layana            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Timothy Joseph Layana: born March 2, 1964, in Inglewood, California

(Peter) Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard            Origin/Culture/Country: English

(Peter) Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard: a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.Layard assisted Claus Moser on the Robbins enquiry, and later developed a reputation in the economics of education (with Mark Blaug at LSE), and labour economics (in particular with Stephen Nickell). He advocated many of the policies which have characterised the New Labour government, partly by founding the influential Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. The approach he takes is based on the idea of welfare-to-work, where social welfare payments are structured in a way that encourages (or forces) recipients back into the job market.

Edgar Leopold Layard            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Edgar Leopold Layard: was a British naturalist mainly interested in ornithology , born in Italy. He was the sixth son of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service with his wife Marianne, the daughter of Nathaniel Austin of Ramsgate, Kent and hence he was the brother of the archaeologist and politician Sir Austen Henry Layard.

Richard Grenville Layard            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Richard Grenville Layard: is a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

(Peter) Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard,            Origin/Culture/Country: British

(Peter) Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard,: is a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.Layard was educated at Eton, where he was a King's scholar, at King's College, Cambridge and at the London School of Economics. In his early career he was Senior Research Officer for the famous Robbins Committee on Higher Education. This committee's report led to the massive expansion of UK university education in the 1960s and 1970's.