Richard Lawrence may refer to:
- Richard Lawrence (failed assassin) (1800/1801–1861), attempted to assassinate U.S. President Andrew Jackson
- Richard Lawrence (bobsleigh) (1906–1974), U.S. athlete; bronze medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Richard A. Lawrence, Sr. (1906–1993), mayor of Melbourne, Florida (1949–1953, 1962)
- Richard Lawrence (art director)
- Richard Lawrence (cricketer), English professional cricketer
- Richard Lawrence (politician) (born 1942), Republican politician in Vermont
- Richard Lawrence (Labour Candidate) (born 1987), Ecclesall Labour Candidate
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or lawrence:
“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“Before Lawrence, I had known a good deal about labor, but I had not felt about it. I had not got angry. In Lawrence I got angry. I wanted to do something about it.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)