Peter Lawrence may refer to:
- Peter Lawrence (anthropologist) (1921–1987), British-born Australian anthropologist
- Peter Lawrence (author), American author and screenwriter
- Peter Lawrence (biologist) (born 1941), English developmental biologist
- Peter Lawrence (teacher) (1913–2005), British teacher and author
- Peter Lee Lawrence (1945–1974), German actor
- Peter Max Lawrence (born 1977), American contemporary artist
- Peter B. Lawrence, British amateur astronomer
- Pete Lawrence (born 1957), musician
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or lawrence:
“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It’s a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.”
—Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney)