Lawrence may refer to:

Education

Colleges and universities

Lawrence Technological University Lawrence Technological University (Lawrence Tech, LTU) is a private university in Southfield, Michigan. It was founded in 1932 in Highland Park, Michigan, as the Lawrence Institute of Technology (LIT) by Russell E. Lawrence. The university moved ...

, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States *

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a Private college, private liberal arts college and Music school, conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second colle ...

, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States

Preparatory & high schools

Lawrence Academy at Groton Lawrence Academy at Groton is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational college-preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts. Founded in 1792 as Groton Academy and chartered in 1793 by Governor John Hancock, Lawrence is the tenth ...

, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States * Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, a high school in Pakistan * Lawrence School, Lovedale, a high school in India * The Lawrence School, Sanawar, a high school in India

Research laboratories

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in the Berkeley Hills, hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established i ...

, United States *

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States. Originally established in 1952, the laboratory now i ...

, United States

People

Lawrence (given name) Lawrence is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the French language, French ''Laurent_(name), Laurent'', which is in turn derived from the Latin ''Laurentius'' or Old Greek ''Lavrenti''. Pet forms of ''Lawrence'' include ''Larry'', ' ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Lawrence (surname) Lawrence is an English, Scottish and Irish surname. It is derived from Middle English or old French given name ''Laurence''; itself derived from Latin ''Laurentius''. ''The Oxford dictionary'' ''of family names of Britain'' lists Laurence and McLare ...

, including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (band), an American soul-pop group * Lawrence (judge royal) (died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 * Lawrence (musician), Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British musician *

Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence (; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the Persecution of Christians, persecution of the Christians that the Roman Empire, Rom ...

(died 258), deacon and Roman Catholic saint, born in Spain * Lawrence I (bishop of Milan), bishop of Milan from 490 to c. 511, Roman Catholic saint * Lawrence, Archbishop of Split (died 1099), Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Split 1060–1099 *

Brother Lawrence Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, OCD (born Nicolas Herman; c. 1614 – 12 February 1691) was a French Catholic religious brother who served at a Discalced Carmelite monastery, what is now Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes in Paris. He is best reme ...

(died 1691), Carmelite friar

Places

Australia

Lawrence, New South Wales Lawrence is a small town 13 km from Maclean, New South Wales, Australia. It is accessed by the Lawrence car ferry from Woodford Island or by travelling 30 kilometres north from Grafton. At the 2021 census, the population of Lawrence ...

* Lawrence Rocks, Victoria, Australia

United States

* Lawrence, Illinois *

Lawrence, Indiana Lawrence is a city in Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States. It is one of four " excluded cities" in Marion County. The city is home to Fort Benjamin Harrison within Fort Harrison State Park. The population was 49,370 at ...

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70 in Kansas, Interstate 70, between the Kansas River ...

Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Lawrenceburg is a home rule-class city in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 11,728 at the 2020 census. It is the seat of its county. Lawrenceburg is part of the Frankfort, Kentucky, micropolitan statistical area. ...

, formerly known as Lawrence *

Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding communities include Methuen, Massachusetts, Methuen ...

Lawrence, Michigan Lawrence is a village in Van Buren County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 996 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Lawrence Township. It is host to a historic "Ox Roast & Homecoming Festival" which occurs annual ...

Lawrence, Minnesota Lawrence is an abandoned village in section 16 of St. Lawrence Township, Scott County, Minnesota, St. Lawrence Township, Scott County, Minnesota, Scott County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. History ...

Lawrence, Mississippi Lawrence is an unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) ...

Lawrence, Nebraska Lawrence is a village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census. History Lawrence was platted in 1886 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for a ...

Lawrence Brook Lawrence Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States. Course Originally a stream, its course now includes man-made lakes created by dams built in the 19th and 20th centuries: Deans Pond ( S ...

, New Jersey *

Lawrence, Nassau County, New York Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 6,483. The Village of Lawrence is in the southwestern corner of the Town of Hempstead, adjoining the border wit ...

, a village * Lawrence, St. Lawrence County, New York, a town * Lawrence, Pennsylvania *

Lawrence, Texas Lawrence is an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 279 in 2000. It is located within the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. History T ...

Lawrence, Utah Lawrence is an unincorporated community in northwestern Emery County, Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a bor ...

Lawrence, Washington Lawrence is an unincorporated community in Whatcom County, in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental juri ...

* Lawrence, Brown County, Wisconsin, a town * Lawrence, Marquette County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Lawrence, Rusk County, Wisconsin, a town * Lawrence Township (disambiguation)

Other places

* Lawrence (electoral district), Ontario, Canada *

Lawrence Pond Conception Bay South is a town in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is commonly called CBS. The town is located on the Avalon Peninsula which forms part of the southern shore of Conception Bay which is in turn part of t ...

, a community in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada *

Lawrence, New Zealand Lawrence is a small town in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on New Zealand State Highway 8, State Highway 8, the main route from Dunedin to the inland towns of Queenstown, New Zealand, Queenstown and Alexandra, New Zealand, Al ...

Ships

* , a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship * , a brig decommissioned in 1846 * , a 400-ton ''Bainbridge''-class destroyer commissioned in 1903 and serving until 1920 * , a ''Clemson''-class destroyer, serving from 1921 to 1945 * , a ''Charles F. Adams''-class destroyer commissioned in 1962, and serving through 1994 * ''Lawrence'' (schooner), a schooner launched in 1756

Transport

* Lawrence (Amtrak station), Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. * Lawrence (Caltrain station) in Santa Clara, California, U.S. * Lawrence (MBTA station) in Lawrence (near Boston), Massachusetts, U.S. * Lawrence Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada ** Lawrence station (Toronto), a Lawrence Avenue subway station ** Lawrence West station, a Lawrence Avenue subway station ** Lawrence East station, a Lawrence Avenue subway station * Lawrence station (CTA), a rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Other uses

* Lawrence (crater), a lunar impact crater * '' The Lawrence'', a newspaper founded 1881 *

Lawrence v. Texas ''Lawrence v. Texas'', 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a List of landmark court decisions in the United States, landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws Sodom ...

, a major Supreme Court of the United States decision