Comments for LAURA:

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.

-- AndrewJKD  3/24/2005

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

-- Anonymous User  4/26/2007

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

-- Phoenix Flower  10/7/2005

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

-- Anonymous User  1/15/2006

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.

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)

-- lorii3  1/28/2006

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

-- flowerkate  3/5/2006

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

-- Anonymous User  3/8/2006

Famous bearer is Laura Ashley, a British designer.

-- Anonymous User  3/24/2006

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.

-- Zucker  4/18/2006

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

-- Keira_111  4/27/2006

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

-- Tudor  6/14/2006

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.

-- Anonymous User  7/18/2006

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

-- Kalvin  10/25/2006

There is an author named Laura Lippman.

-- Anonymous User  11/28/2006

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

-- Taydbug112  12/15/2006

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

-- Kate  5/2/2007

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.

-- Anonymous User  8/27/2007

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

-- Anonymous User  9/18/2007

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

-- Anonymous User  9/18/2007

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.

-- elizabeth hamlet  10/7/2007

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

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.

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.

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

-- Sarah Elizabeth  10/31/2007

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

-- Anonymous User  12/12/2007

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

-- Patricia Underwood  2/16/2008

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.

-- Patricia Underwood  2/17/2008

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.

-- AndrewJKD  3/18/2008

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

-- Hushpuppy  11/1/2008

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.

-- AndrewJKD  12/9/2008

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.

-- alberto  12/11/2008

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

-- Rachelgirl1989  4/5/2009

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.

-- Anyechka  9/10/2009

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