1. (Christianity) 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)
   - Lawrence of Rome, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius
    
2. English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
   - D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence
    
3. United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
   - Ernest Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence
    
4. English actress (1898-1952)
   - Gertrude Lawrence
    
5. English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
   - Sir Thomas Lawrence
    
6. T.E. Lawrence, British soldier and author who helped organize the Arab Revolt against Turkish rule (1916-1918) and later wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" about his experiences (1888-1935)
   - T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
    
7. A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856

Type of: actress, author, martyr, nuclear physicist, painter, pongo [Brit, informal], saint, soldier, town, writer

Part of: Kan., Kansas, KS, Sunflower State

Encyclopedia: Lawrence, Mississippi