Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
Laurence Leamer is an American author and journalist. Leamer is a former Ford Fellow in International Development at the University of Oregon and a former International Fellow at Columbia University. He is regarded as an expert on the Kennedy family and has appeared in numerous media outlets discussing American politics. Leamer has also written best-selling biographies of other Americans, including Johnny Carson, the Reagan family, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has also written a book about Donald Trump's historical resort, Mar-a-Lago. His most recent book, Capote's Women, was a national bestseller. It is being made into an eight-part series starring Naomi Watts and directed by Gus Van Sant.
Laurence Lerner, often called Larry, was a South African-born British literary critic, poet, novelist, and lecturer, recognized for his achievement with his election to The Royal Society of Literature.
Laurence Walter Meynell was the English author of over 150 books, who wrote also as Valerie Baxter, Robert Eton, Geoffrey Ludlow and A. Stephen Tring.
Laurence Dollins Perrine was a Southern Methodist University professor whose literature textbooks became standard works nationwide. He was the son of Lorenzo Brown Perrine and Mary Edmond (née) Dollins, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "The Huguenot".
Laurence Rees is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by them, during the 20th century. He is the former Head of BBC TV History Programmes.
Laurence S. Moss (1944–2009) was an American economist who specialized in history of economic thought and economics of entrepreneurship. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University, and later earned a law degree from Suffolk University. Moss was the leading expert on the economics of Mountifort Longfield. His doctoral dissertation was published as Mountiford Longfield: Irelands's First Professor of Political Economy. He served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology from 1997 until the end of his life in 2009.
Laurence Senelick is an American scholar, educator, actor and director. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books.
Laurence Shames (born 1951) is an American writer.
Laurence Steinberg is an American university professor of psychology, specializing in adolescent psychological development.
