Gary Lawrence is an American opinion pollster. He received a PhD in public affairs communication from Stanford University in 1972. He runs a polling company called Lawrence Research in Santa Ana, California. Lawrence is a Latter-day Saint. In the spring of 2007 he conducted a poll on the perception of Latter-day Saints in the United States. Lawrence has since written a book How Americans View Mormonism: Seven Steps to Improve Our Image. Lawrence has served as a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.