Laura

A notable musician - Laura Les of 100 gecs fame.

Laura Pausini (b. 16 May 1974) - Italian singer, known for hits like "La Solitudine" and "Strani Amori".

Laura Marano who plays Ally Dawson in hit Disney Channel sitcom "Austin & Ally".

A famous bearer of this name is Peruvian Talk Show Hostess Laura Bozzo, born August 19, 1951 in Callao, Perú. She is well known for her controversial talk show that started in 1997 called Laura en America, which was broadcasted all over the United States, and in Spanish-speaking countries.

Laura Spencer is an American actress. She is known for playing Jane Bennet in the 2012 web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries which is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, intern Jessica Warren in seasons 9 to 12 of Bones, and Emily Sweeney in seasons 7 to 10 of the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory.

"Laura" is a classic film noir from 1944, where a detective falls obsessively in love with a woman named Laura (played by Gene Tierney) while investigating her apparent murder.

Laura Wilson is the main character from the graphic novel series "The Wicked and the Divine", about teenagers who are reincarnated as gods. She is eventually the incarnation of the Greek goddess Persephone.

Laura Jane Grace is the singer and lead guitarist for the punk band Against Me!

Hurricane Laura is a major hurricane that trekked through the Caribbean islands and is currently threatening the coastal areas of the Texas-Louisiana border.

Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American political activist and internet personality who recently won the primary of Florida's 21st Congressional District.

"Laura se fue" is a popular song of the artist Nek.

Laura Peverara (c. 1550 – 4 January 1601) was an Italian virtuoso singer who was also a harpist and dancer; born and raised in Mantua. Her father, Vincenzo, was a merchant, an intellectual who tutored princes, leading to Laura being brought up in courtly society. In the 1570s she was singing in Verona.

Laura Martinozzi (27 May 1639 – 19 July 1687) was a Duchess consort of Modena by marriage to Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena. She served as regent of Modena during the minority of her son Francesco from 1662 until 1674.

Laura Battiferri (1523–1589) was an Italian poet during the Renaissance period. She was born in Urbino, Italy as the illegitimate daughter of Giovanni Antonio Battiferri and Maddalena Coccapani of Carpi. She published two books of poetry: "The First Book of Tuscan Works" (Florence, 1560) and "The Seven Penitential Psalms… with some Spiritual Sonnets" (Florence, 1564). She died in 1589 while compiling a third, "Rime", which was never published. She married the sculptor, Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1550 and they remained married until her death.

Laura de Noves (1310–1348) was the wife of Count Hugues de Sade (ancestor of the Marquis de Sade). She could be the Laura that the Humanist poet Francesco Petrarch wrote about extensively; however, she has never been positively identified as such. Laura had a great influence on Petrarch's life and lyrics.

Laura Neri (Greek: Λάουρα Νέρι) is a director of Greek and Italian origins. Born in Brussels, Belgium, she is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles and has lived in Belgium, the US, the UK, Greece and briefly in Argentina.

Laura Biagiotti (August 4, 1943 – May 26, 2017) was an Italian fashion designer and the founder of the House of Biagiotti. The House of Biagiotti is listed among the largest fashion houses in Italy. Its products include women's wear, men's wear, accessories and watches.

Laura Torrisi (b. 1979) is an Italian actress.

Laura Faye Smith is a popular American voice actress who’s best known for voicing Rosalina in the Mario games since 2013 to the present, starting in Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U. She also voiced Baby Rosalina in Mario Kart 8, which was also for the Wii U, released on May 30th, 2014. She is the current voice actress of Rosalina and Baby Rosalina in the series.

Lauren Daigle - American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter that is crossing over to AC and POP.

Laura Southern, Canadian youtuber and journalist.

I feel like no one's mentioned another classic Laura; Laura Wingfield, the shy and innocent character in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." I am IN LOVE with that show, and Laura is my dream role. I did get to play her for a scene in an Intermediate Acting course, but I'm hoping someday I'll get to play her in a full production. People have said that it's a perfect role for me.

Telltale's Jurassic Park: The Game featured a character named Laura Sorkin, one of the park's scientists.

Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie (The TV show).

Laura Haruna is Hamtaro's owner in the anime Hamtaro.

Laura is the name of one of the American speech synthesisers by Acapela Group as well as one of Dutch voices by Vocalizer.

Laura Fella is a member of the German pagan folk band Faun.

Laura Vanderboom (1935-1971) is a descendant of the mysterious Vanderboom family featured in the Cube Escape app series. She is the main character of Cube Escape: The Lake and Cube Escape: Seasons.

Laura Marina Villanueva, from Santa Marta, Peru. Her older sister's 45-year-old companion, a former soldier and her neighbor, raped the girl three times, just before her birthday on June 24. Her pregnancy was discovered in late September, at 19 weeks, by chance after she was admitted for a snake bite. The father, Gaudencio Castañeda Pulido, was on the run when the discovery was reported in the media and continued threatening to kill the girl and her mother, Nidia Villanueva Tolentino. On January 24, 2012, she delivered a 2.21 kilograms (4.9 lb) boy by cesarean section, whom she named Justin, after singer Justin Bieber. Castañeda Pulido, who had previously impregnated the girl's then-15-year-old sister, was sentenced to 35 years in jail.

Laura G. Ling is an American journalist and writer. She worked for Current TV as a correspondent and vice president of its Vanguard Journalism Unit, which produced the Vanguard TV series. She was the host and reporter on E! Investigates, a documentary series on the E! Network. In November 2014, it was announced that Ling joined Discovery Digital Networks as its Director of Development.

Laura Shields is an English model and beauty pageant titleholder. Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester and brought up in neighbouring Rochdale, to a Sri Lankan mother and an English father. She was signed to Elite Modelling Agency before her 15th birthday but is no longer a signed model at the agency. Shields became Miss UK International and represented the UK in Miss International 2004, placing in the top 10, and was the 3rd runner up in Miss Europe 2005. She was a model on the NBC show Deal or No Deal, holding case number 22 for season 2. She was listed in Stuff magazine's 101 sexiest women online in 2005 and has appeared in numerous magazines.

Laura Põldvere, sometimes known professionally as simply Laura, is an Estonian singer. She represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as part of the girl group Suntribe and did so again in 2017 in a duet with Koit Toome, singing "Verona" but failed to qualify to the final.

Laura Ann Osnes is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as Sandy, South Pacific as Nellie Forbush, Anything Goes as Hope Harcourt, and Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, for which she received a Drama Desk Award and her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.

Laura Dianne Vandervoort is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Sadie Harrison in the CTV teen drama Instant Star, Arla "The Bolt-Gun Killer" Cogan in the Syfy supernatural drama Haven, Kara Zor-El in The CW serial drama Smallville, and Lisa in the ABC science fiction series V. In 2014, she starred in the Space drama series Bitten, a TV adaption of Kelley Armstrong's book series Women of the Otherworld as Elena Michaels.

Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer and artist whose work is focused on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia.

Laura Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in American Graffiti and as rebellious teenager Julie Mora Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time. She is more recently known for her role in the Disney Channel science fiction show So Weird.

Laura Antonelli was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1965 and 1991. Laura Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Italy, former capital of Istria. She moved with her family first to Genoa and then to Venice, before they all eventually settled in Naples. She had a childhood interest in education, and as a teenager she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance."

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-78), was the first woman to officially teach at a college in Europe. In 1732, she was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna at the age of 21 and two years later was given the chair of philosophy. In 1738, she married Giuseppe Veratti, a fellow academic and had eight children. She was mainly interested in Newtonian physics and taught courses on the subject for 28 years. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy. In her lifetime, she published 28 papers, the vast majority of these on physics and hydraulics, but she wrote no books. In 1745, Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV, established an elite group of 25 scholars, Bassi pressed hard to be appointed to this group and he appointed her to the final position, the only woman in the group. In 1776, at the age of 65, she was appointed to the chair in experimental physics by the Institute of Sciences.

Laura Halford, a gymnast who took part in the Glasgow 2014: Commonwealth Games.

Laura Bailey is an American actress, voice actress, ADR director, and line producer.

Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A famous fictional bearer is Laura Petrie from the Dick Van Dyke show. She was played by Mary Tyler Moore.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the non-fictional series The Little House on the Prairies is a famous bearee.

Laura is the eponymous Mary Sue of the poorly written fanfic Legolas by Laura.

Laura Chinchilla is the current president of Costa Rica.

President Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica (2004), played by actress Mary McDonnell, is a famous character with this name.

'Ballet For Laura' and 'Laura's Summer Ballet' are children's books from the 1960s written by Linda Blake.

English folk musician Laura Marling.

Laura Rogers is half of the musical duo, The Secret Sisters.

Actress Laura Dern is a famous bearer of this beautiful name. She is beautiful herself, and epitomizes what I would think a "Laura" would look like, although I have known several Lauras and they are all very different in looks and personality. Laura Dern has starred in a number of great movies, such as "Jurassic Park" and "October Sky". My mom wanted to name me this but my dad liked the wretched "Amanda" better. Curse you dad!

I can't believe someone hasn't mentioned Laura Winslow, one of the main characters of Family Matters. Also, I pronounce the name LAW-rah.

The lovely Laura Innes, who plays Sophia on the wonderful new TV series "The Event" is a famous bearer.

A fictional famous bearer of this name is Laura Thyme from the ITV British murder mystery series Rosemary and Thyme, played by Pam Ferris. I also think this is a lovely name, but sadly a bit too overused. :)

Laura Dewey Bridgman (1829-1889) was the first deaf-blind American to get a good education, learn to communicate fully, and become famous, fifty years before Helen Keller. At the age of two, she caught scarlet fever along with the rest of her family, and got it so badly that she was not only rendered blind and deaf, but also lost her sense of smell and taste. In childhood, she was discovered by Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, director of the famous Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston (and later husband of Julia Ward Howe), and given an education using tactile type and the manual alphabet. She met the fellow dead-blind Helen Keller when she was a much older woman.

There is a little girl named Laura in Silent Hill 2.

Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 - October 14, 1996) was a famous actress of the silent screen. She appeared, among other films, in "The Cat and the Canary" (1927) and Show Boat" (1929). She played Magnolia in the latter.

A famous bearer is American actress/singer Laura Bell Bundy (born April 10, 1981). Among her notable stage acting credits include "Ruthless! The Musical" off-Broadway as Tina Denmark from March 1992 until January 1993, as Amber von Tussle in the Broadway production of "Hairspray" from July 2002 until July 2003, serving as standby in the Broadway production of "Wicked" for stars Kristin Chenoweth and Jennifer Laura Thompson, and as Elle Woods in the Broadway production of "Legally Blonde: The Musical" in Seattle in January and February 2007 and on Broadway from April 2007 until July 2008. Additionally, she starred as Marah Lewis on the soap opera "Guiding Light" from October 1999 until October 2001.

There is the River Laura that runs through Romania and the Ukraine. It probably has a different pronunciation in those languages.

A famous bearer is American actress Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964). She's received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for roles in films like "You Can Count On Me" (2000), "Kinsey" (2004), an additional Academy award nomination for "The Savages" (2007), an additional Golden Globe nomination for "The Squid and the Whale" (2005), and a BAFTA nomination for "Mystic River" (2003). She's also won Emmy Awards for her roles in the 2001 telefilm "Wild Iris" in 2002, as well as a guest appearance on "Frasier" in 2004.

Not many people know this, but famous singer or actor (I don't know which he is) Justin Timberlake had a twin sister Laura Kathrine who died two minutes after her birth. She was born five minutes after the pop senstaion and died shortly after that.

Laura Edwards is the name of a 1945 girl from the Sisters In Time series.

The Italian poet Petrarch wrote sonnets to his love, a woman named Laura.

Famous bearer includes famous author Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of The Ingalls sisters, and second daughter of Charles & Caroline Ingalls.

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Laura's character was in all of the 'Little House' books, portrayed by Melissa Gilbert in the famous '70's-'80's television series, and also in many miniseries and movies based off of the life of the Ingalls Family.

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She married at 18 in 1885 and they had two children (one surviving): she had daughter Rose Wilder Lane, at age 19, and an unnamed baby boy, who died soon after birth in 1889.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957, 3 days after turning 90.

The most famous female soap opera character of the 1980's was General Hospital's Laura Spencer, played by Genie Francis. During her character's heyday on the show, Christopher Cross released a lachrymose single called "Think of Laura", about a friend of his who had passed away. The song became linked with the GH character, which was kind of weird, because the TV Laura wasn't dead.

In the series Remington Steele, actress Stephanie Zimbalist played Laura Holt.

Mexican actress Laura Elena Harring, known for her role in Mulholland Drive.

Laura Palmer was the main character (more of a catalyst) for the cult TV series, Twin Peaks. Laura Dannon was Nora Zehetner's character in Brick, too - both breaking the wholesome "Laura Ingalls Wilder" mold for the name.

Laura Skimpole was Harold Skimpole's Sentiment daughter in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens.

Laura is a gameshow model (Deal or No Deal) on NBC.

There is an author named Laura Lippman.

Laura: a song by the Scissor Sisters! Why don't you give me your love?

Laura Hawkins was the girl after whom Mark Twain modeled his character Becky Thatcher. She lived across the street from him when he was growing up, and her house can be visited by tourists today.

Actress Laura Prepon plays Donna on "That 70's Show."

The song "Laura" by "El Canto del Loco" is very famous and it's good.

The Italian poet Petrarcar made this name popular. In his sonnets he used the name Laura for the woman he loved, but who was unreachable for him. Schiller and other poets have since than used the name for women they loved, but who were out of their reach.

Famous bearer is Laura Ashley, a British designer.

It reminds of the song 'Laura!' LAURA was also the name and the character of a film starring Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt.

Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon is the birth name of actress Reese Witherspoon.

My name is also Laura and I've always wanted to know things about it. I was watching my favourite TV show Supernatural and there was a focus on the Woman in White (or LaLlorona) so I did some research on her and I found she has four names; Sofia, Maria, Linda and LAURA, each name with a different story. So I looked at Laura and this is what i found.

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Laura was an attractive girl from an extremely humble background. Almost as soon as she could walk, she began working to help support the family. When she was sixteen she landed a dream job as a sales clerk. Within a few days on the job, she met Miguel, a well-to-do man who relentlessly pursued her until she finally agreed to go out with him. One evening after only a few weeks of knowing each other he asked her to marry him. Laura accepted, and that night she made love for the first time. After their passionate night, everything changed. Miguel refused to see her. Laura soon discovered she was pregnant and struggled to hide it as long as she could. When her parents finally found out, they threw her out of the house. Her baby was born sick and undernourished. With no other place to go, Laura turned to Miguel and begged for his help. He told her to stay out of his life. Laura wandered to a nearby lake and slowly walked into the water until both she and her baby were consumed. A few weeks later, Miguel mysteriously disappeared. Since then, men who have been out drinking or cheating on their wives have also disappeared, all having last been seen following a mysterious woman through the winding streets of the dark city. (this is from the website http://www.lallorona.com/La_index.html)

Laura Fairlie is the fictional character in the book The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. She's a beautiful girl with golden hair.

A famous bearer is Laura Esquivel, author of "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Law of Love."

A famous bearer of this name is the renowned children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder. She wrote nine books, and five were Newbery Honor Books.

Not only was Laura Ingalls Wilder a famous author, she also is one of the most well-known western pioneers in American history.