Lauritzen

Lauritzen may refer to:

Surname:

• Carl Lauritzen (1879–1940), Danish actor
• Dag Otto Lauritzen (born 1956), retired Norwegian professional cyclist
• Flemming Lauritzen (born 1949), former Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Henny Lauritzen (1871–1938), Danish stage and film actress of the silent era in Denmark
• Jan Thomas Lauritzen (born 1974), Norwegian handball player
• Lau Lauritzen Sr. (1878–1938), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era
• Lau Lauritzen Jr. (1910–1977), Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director
• Lauritz Lauritzen (1910–1980), German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
• Per Roger Lauritzen (born 1956), Norwegian non-fiction writer
• Peter Lauritzen (born 1959), Danish civil servant
• Sarah Lauritzen (born 1976), Danish rower
• Sebastian Lauritzen (born 1983), Swedish professional ice hockey winger
• Steffen Lauritzen (born 1947), Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford
• Torkil Lauritzen (1901–1979), Danish actor
• Vilhelm Lauritzen (1894–1984), Danish modern architect, founder of Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter

Geography:

• Lauritzen Bay indents the coast of Antarctica between Cape Yevgenov and Coombes Ridge
• Lauritzen Canal, shipping waterway, part of the larger Port of Richmond in Richmond, California
• Lauritzen Gardens, (formally Omaha Botanical Gardens), botanical gardens and arboretum in Omaha, Nebraska

Corporate:

• J. Lauritzen A/S (JL), Danish shipping company with worldwide operations headquartered in Copenhagen
• Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects (VLA), architectural firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Lauritzen Corporation, financial and interstate bank holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska

See also

• Lauritzen Award (Danish: Lauritzen-prisen), Danish film award
• Lauritzen Hoffman Growth Theory or Hoffman nucleation theory, describes the crystallization of a polymer in terms of the kinetics and thermodynamics of polymer surface nucleation
• Lauritzen A.S. v Wijsmuller B.V, (The Super Servant Two), a Court of Appeal case in English contract law
• Lauritz (given name)
• Ritzen (surname)