Renowned British actor and director.

Innovative, satirical 18th-century English novelist.

Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature.

Friar Laurence or Friar Lawrence is a character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

(18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.

Nineteenth-century British author, diplomat.

Laurence Michael Yep (born June 14, 1948) is an American writer.

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961; usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor.