John Lawrence
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  • John Lawrence (illustrator)
    John Lawrence (illustrator)
    John Lawrence is an eminent English illustrator and wood engraver. He has twice won The Francis Williams Award for illustration , and twice been runner-up for the Kurt Emil - Maschler Award...

    , English illustrator and wood engraver
  • John Lawrence (martyr)
    John Lawrence (martyr)
    John Lawrence was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. His story was recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.He was executed in Colchester, Essex; he apparently had to be taken to the stake in a chair because the irons he had been kept in in prison and the lack of food had left him too...

  • John Lawrence (Irish landowner), Irish landowner, owner of Ballymore Castle
    Ballymore Castle
    Ballymore Castle in Lawrencetown, County Galway, Ireland was originally a Madden tower house of the 15th century. A house was added in 1620, and the castle has been much altered since then....

  • John Lawrence (musician)
    John Lawrence (musician)
    John Lawrence is a Welsh musician. He was a founding member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, but left the band in 1999, prior to the release of the band's sixth album Spanish Dance Troupe...

     a.k.a. Infinity Chimps, Welsh musician
  • John Lawrence (New York)
    John Lawrence (New York)
    John Lawrence was Mayor of New York City from 1672 to 1674, and again in 1691.-Life:He arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1635, and later removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts and later to Long Island. In 1644, he was one of the patentees of Hempstead under grant by Dutch Colonial Governor Willem...

    , mayor of New York City from 1673 to 1675, and again from 1691 to 1692
  • John Lawrence (Philadelphia), mayor of Philadelphia from 1765 to 1767
  • John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
    John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
    John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, GCB, GCSI, PC , known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was an Englishman who became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.-Early life:Lawrence came from Richmond, North Yorkshire...

     (1811–1879), Irish nobleman
  • John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey
    John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey
    John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin, 2nd Baron Oaksey is a British aristocrat, horse racing journalist and television commentator/presenter, and former amateur jockey. He is the son of the noted jurist Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey. He prefers to be called Oaksey although...

    , British aristocrat, amateur jockey and horse racing commentator and journalist
  • John Geddes Lawrence, American medical technologist
  • John G. M. Lawrence (1915 - 2001), British socialist activist
  • John H. Lawrence
    John H. Lawrence
    John Hundale Lawrence was an American physicist and physician best known for pioneering the field of nuclear medicine. -Background:John Hundale Lawrence was born in Canton, South Dakota...

     (1904 - 1991), American physicist and pioneer in nuclear medicine
  • John Shelton Lawrence
    John Shelton Lawrence
    John Shelton Lawrence is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. His initial major publication, The American Monomyth, written with Robert Jewett, was published in 1977.-Career:...

    , American professor of philosophy and non-fiction writer
  • John W. Lawrence
    John W. Lawrence
    John Watson Lawrence was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Flushing, New York, in August 1800, Lawrence attended the local schools.He engaged as a mercantile clerk....

     (1800 - 1888), U.S. Representative from New York
  • Johnny Lawrence
    Johnny Lawrence
    John Lawrence, known as "Johnny", was a diminutive Yorkshire-born all-round cricketer whose middle or lower order batting and leg-break and googly bowling were of great importance to Somerset in the 10 cricket seasons immediately after the Second World War.-Early career and playing style:Born at...

     (1911 - 1988), English cricketer who played for Somerset
  • John Lawrence (Pennsylvania), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  • John Lawrence, co-plaintiff in United States Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas
    Lawrence v. Texas
    Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by proxy, invalidated sodomy laws in the thirteen other states where they remained in existence, thereby making same-sex sexual activity legal in...


See also

  • Jack Lawrence (disambiguation)
    Jack Lawrence (disambiguation)
    Jack Lawrence was an American songwriter.Jack Lawrence may also refer to:*Jack Lawrence , British comic book artist and animator*Jack Lawrence , American bass guitarist...

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