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

  • , an American-built British Royal Navy frigate 1943–1946
  • , 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)