Laur is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...
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surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
, the 50th most popular.
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Jarno Laur (born 1975), politician
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Katrin Laur
Katrin Laur (née Poola, born in 1955, in Tartu, Estonia) is an author, film director, and professor who currently lives in Estonia and Germany.
In 1973 in Soviet-occupied Tallinn she graduated from a school that gave an excellent command of En ...
(born 1955), film director, producer and scenarist
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Mati Laur
Mati Laur (born 17 June 1955, in Abja-Paluoja) is an Estonian historian. He has written and co-authored many textbooks about early modern Estonia. He has published a number of scholarly articles about eighteenth-century Estonia, which also was ...
(born 1955), historian
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Tiido Laur
Tiido Laur (1882–1930), also known as Tiido Lauri, was an Estonian politician and archivist.
Laur was born on 31 August 1882 in Kohtla, Viru County. He sat in the Estonian Provincial Assembly, which governed the Autonomous Governorate of Estoni ...
(1882–1930), politician and archivist
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Uno Laur
Uno Laur (born 8 June 1961 in Rakvere), also known as Kohtla-Järve Uno (a nickname derived from his hometown Kohtla-Järve), is an Estonians, Estonian anarchist and the iconoclastic ex lead singer of the Must Mamba and Röövel Ööbik, "the o ...
(born 1961), musician
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Ferdinand Samuel Laur
Ferdinand Samuel Laur (22 February 1791 – 2 July 1854) was a Swiss composer, conductor, choirmaster, and music teacher. He founded the Basel Choral Society in 1824. A hymnal he composed that was published in 1820 is now used in the national an ...
, Swiss composer, conductor, choirmaster, and music teacher
See also
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Lauer
Lauer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Andrew Lauer (born 1965), American filmmaker
* Bonnie Lauer (born 1951), American golfer
* Brad Lauer (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey coach
* Bruno Lauer (born 1965), American profes ...
(surname)
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Lau (disambiguation)
Lau or LAU may refer to:
People
* Lau (surname)
* Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
* Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
* LAU (musician): Laura Fares
Places
* Lebane ...
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Laura –
Laure –
Lauri –
Lauro
Lauro is a town and '' comune'' (municipality) in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy. It is located in lower Irpinia, in a woody valley. Sights include the remains of a 1st-century BC Roman ''thermae
In ancient Rome, (fr ...
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Laurus
''Laurus'' () is a genus of evergreen trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus contains three or more species, including the bay laurel or sweet bay, ''L. nobilis'', widely cultivated as an ornamental plant and a cul ...
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Estonian-language surnames