Lawson

Lawson may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Lawson, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
• Lawson, New South Wales, a town in the Blue Mountains
• Mount Lawson (Queensland)

Canada

• Lawson, Saskatchewan, a hamlet
• Lawson Sector, a sector in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Lawson Island, Nunavut
• Mount Lawson (disambiguation)

United States

• Lawson, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
• Lawson, Colorado, an unincorporated community
• Lawson, Missouri, a city
• Lawson, Mesquite, Texas, a former unincorporated community, now part of Mesquite
• Balmoral, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community previously known as Lawson
• Lawson Peak (California), a mountain
• Mount Lawson (Washington)
• Lawson Army Airfield, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States

Antarctica

• Lawson Nunatak, Mac. Robertson Land
• Lawson Nunataks, Oates Land

People and fictional characters

• Lawson (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
• Lawson (given name), a list of people

Music

• Lawson (band), a British pop rock band
  • Lawson (EP), a 2015 EP by the band
• Lawson (album), a 2005 album by John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew

Schools

• Lawson State Community College, a public, historically black community college in Alabama, United States
• Sam H. Lawson Middle School, Cupertino, California, United States
• The Lawson Academy, Houston, Texas, United States, a charter middle school
• Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy (formerly Lord Lawson of Beamish Community School), a coeducational secondary school and sixth form in Birtley, County Durham, England

Ships

• HMS Lawson, an American-built British Royal Navy frigate 1943–1946
• USCGC Lawrence Lawson, a United States Coast Guard cutter
• Thomas W. Lawson (ship), a schooner built in 1902 and destroyed in 1907

Transport

• Lawson Airplane Company-Continental Faience and Tile Company, a historic demolished factory complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
  • Lawson L-2, a 1920s biplane airliner
  • Lawson L-4, a 1920 biplane airliner designed for long-distance flights
• Lawson railway station, Lawson, New South Wales, Australia

Other uses

• Lawson (play), a 1943 Australian play by Oriel Gray
• Lawson (store), a convenience store chain headquartered in Japan
• Lawson Software, a company acquired by Infor
• Lawson baronets, two titles in the Baronetage of England and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, two of them extant
• Lawson Adit, a horizontal mine tunnel on the University of California, Berkeley campus
• Lawson Apartments, Perth, Western Australia
• Lawson Arena, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
• Lawson Tower, Scituate Center, Massachusetts, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places

See also

• Lawson criterion, a figure of merit in nuclear fusion research
• Lawsone, a naphthoquinone dye from henna
• Lausen, a Swiss municipality
• Jean de Lauson (1584–1666), Governor of New France
• Lauzon (disambiguation)