Lazenby (surname)

Last updated April 17, 2019

Lazenby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alec Lazenby (born 1927), academic
George Lazenby (born 1939), actor
George Lazenby (cabinetmaker) (1807–1895)
Roland Lazenby, American sportswriter and educator
Simon Lazenby, TV presenter and lead presenter of Formula One for Sky Sports
Tracy Lazenby (born 1959), former English professional rugby player
William Lazenby (died c. 1888), English publisher of pornography

Alec Lazenby is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge, University of New England, University of Tasmania, the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazenby served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England from 1970 to 1977, and the University of Tasmania from 1982 to 1991.

George Robert Lazenby is an Australian actor and former model. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). At age 29, he was the youngest actor to have portrayed Bond. Lazenby is also the only Bond actor to receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.

George Lazenby was an early settler of Western Australia, known for his cabinetmaking business and for being a Methodist preacher. A native of Spaldington in the north of England, he visited the Swan River Colony on his brother's ship in 1831 and emigrated there soon after, arriving on the Cygnet in January 1833. In the 1860s he built a house at Cardup, and established a flour mill and brick works—the latter continued in operation until the 1990s.

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