Charles Lawrence may refer to: Charles Lawrence (British Army officer) (1709–1760), British Army officer and Governor of Nova Scotia, 1756–1760 Charles Lawrence (merchant) (1776–1853), chairman of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Charles Lawrence (cricketer) (1828–1916), Anglo-Australian cricketer Charles Lawrence (mathematician), American bioinformatician and mathematician Charles Lawrence (priest) (1847–1935), Archdeacon of Suffolk (1901–1917) Charles B. Lawrence (judge) (1820–1883), American jurist Charles B. Lawrence (artist), American painter Charles Drummond Lawrence (1878–1975), judge for the United States Customs Court Charles Frederick Lawrence (1873–1940), English antiquarian Charles Radford Lawrence (1915–1986), African-American sociologist and Episcopal Church (USA) official Charles R. Lawrence (born 1989), American ultramarathon runner Charles S. Lawrence (1892–1970), United States army colonel Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate (1855–1927), Chairman of the London and North Western Railway Charles Lawrence, 2nd Baron Trevethin (1879–1959), British peer USS Charles Lawrence (DE-53), a 1943 Buckley-class destroyer escort