Laurel (given name)
Laurel is a unisex given name. The name is of English origin from the Latin Lauras with the meaning referring to the laurel tree. Various names related to Laurel are Laura, Lauren, Lori, and Lorraine. Another related name would be the Germanic Mythology name Lorelie which means "luring rock" and is mentioned in a German legend saying that a maiden named Lorelei, who lives upon a rock in Rhine River, lures fishermen into death by her songs.
Laurel may refer to:
People
- Laurel Aitken (1927–2005), nicknamed the "Godfather of Ska"
- Laurel Arnell-Cullen (born 1994), British singer
- Laurel Beckett (fl. 1960s–2010s), American biostatician
- Laurel G. Bellows (fl. 1970s–2010s), American lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association
- Laurel Burch (1945–2007), folk artist known for her brightly colored feline themes
- Laurel Braitman (born 1978), American science historian and writer
- Laurel Coppock (born 1977), American comedic actress
- Laurel Cronin (1939–1992), American actress
- Laurel Clark (1961–2003), astronaut and doctor who flew on the last flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
- Laurel Collins (1984), Canadian politician
- Laurel Griggs (2006–2019), American child actress
- Laurel Edwards (born 1966), Australian television presenter
- Laurel Halo (born 1985), American electronic musician
- Laurell K. Hamilton (born 1963), American author
- Laurel Goodwin (1942–2022), American actress
- Laurel Hester (1956–2006), American police lieutenant
- Laurel Holloman, American actress
- Laurel Martyn (1916–2013), Australian ballerina
- Laurel Massé (born 1951), American singer
- Laurel McGoff (born 1995), actress
- Laurel Lea Schaefer (born 1949), former Miss America titleholder
- Laurel Schafer (fl. 1990s–2020s), Canadian organic chemist
- Laurel Snyder (born 1974), American poet
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), an American historian
- Laurel Nakadate (born 1975), American visual artist
- Laurel van der Wal (1927–2019), American aeronautical engineer
- Laurel Rose Willson (1941–2002), discredited American author
- Laurel Woodcock (1960–2017), Canadian artist and academic
- Laurel Zuckerman (born 1960), American author
Fictional characters
- Laurel Banning, a character from All My Children
- Laurel Darkhaven, a character from the comic book series Rising Stars
- Laurel-Ann Drummond, a character in the horror movie Pontypool
- Laurel Gand, also known as Andromeda, a superheroine from DC Comics
- Laurel Kent a superheroine from DC Comics
- Laurel Lance, also known as Black Canary, a superheroine from DC Comics
- Laurel Lance (Arrowverse), a character from the television series Arrow who was adapted from Laurel Lance
- Laurel Limoges, a character from Privileged (TV series)
- Laurel, the main character from the YA novel Wings (Aprilynne Pike)
- Laurel Scott, from the film The Oscar
- Laurel Thomas, a character on the soap opera Emmerdale
- Laurel Yeung, from Edgemont (TV series)
- Laurel Stevenson, from the novella/TV movie The Langoliers
- Laurel Weaver, the mortician from Men in Black. Becomes Agent L.
- Laurel Gray, a major character in the novel and film adaptation In a Lonely Place
- Laurel, a secondary character in the children's picture book 10,000 Dresses
- Laurel Castillo, from How to Get Away with Murder
- Laurel Duglose, the late biological mother of protagonist Randal Pearson in This Is Us
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