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Lawrie is a ( patronymic or paternal) family name. Variants of which include: Laurie, Lorrie, Larry, Laury, Lawry and Lowrie. It is also used as a given name.
Notable people with this surname include:
- Andy Lawrie (b. 1978), Scottish football (soccer) defender
- Bobby Lawrie (b. 1947), Scottish football (soccer) winger
- Brett Lawrie (b. 1990), Canadian baseball player
- Corey Lawrie (b. 1980), New Zealand rugby league player
- Deborah Lawrie (b. 1953), Australian aviator
- Ellis Lawrie (1907-1978), Australian politician
- Gawen Lawrie, American politician
- Gerald Lawrie, (b. 1945), Australian-born American cardiothoracic surgeon
- James Lawrie (b. 1990), Northern Irish football (soccer) striker
- John Lawrie, (1875-1952), Scottish-born Canadian politician
- Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), American sculptor
- Margaret Lawrie (1917-2003), Anthropologist of the Torres Strait
- Nate Lawrie (b. 1981), American NFL player
- Paul Lawrie (b. 1969), Scottish golfer
- Peter Lawrie (b. 1974), Irish golfer
- Robin Lawrie (b. 1945), English writer
Usage examples of "lawrie".
One of the reasons Dougal Lawrie did so much dispatch riding was that languages came easily to him.
But she was a pert one, trouble looking for a place to happen, Lawrie reckoned.
Dougal Lawrie found himself unable to leave the pressing darkness just yet.
What was there of the bold and daring that Lawrie Logan was not, in our belief, able to perform?
For a while there was confusion all round the pit-mouth, but with a white fixed face and glaring eyes, Lawrie Logan advanced to the very brink, with the rope bound in many firm folds around him, and immediately behind him stood his grey-headed father, unbonneted, just as he had risen from a prayer.
With what wonder and admiration did all the Manse-boys witness and hear reported the feats of Lawrie Logan!
Byllinge soon became insolvent and turned over his nine-tenths interest to his creditors, appointing Penn and two other Quakers, Gawen Lawrie, a merchant of London, and Nicholas Lucas, a maltster of Hertford, to hold it in trust for them.
They conveyed this lease and their claims to Penn, Lawrie, and Lucas, who thus became the owners, as trustees, of pretty much all West Jersey.
Sir Walter Scott was an honorary member, as was Robert Louis Stephenson, and Captain Lawrie of Krakatoa fame.
He paid her the high compliment of wishing that she had, although he had done very well out of the marriages he had made, for his first wife, Annie Logan, had brought him his partnership in the firm, and his second, Christian Lawrie, had brought him a deal of money.