Laurence vs. Lawrence

Laurence

Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and male in English). The English masculine name originates from a French form of the Latin Laurentius, a name meaning .

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Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the Church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)

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Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)

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English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

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English actress (1898-1952)

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United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

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English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

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a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856