Lazarus Walter Macior (August 26, 1926 Yonkers - October 5, 2007) was an American botanist.

[1] He served in World War II as a Japanese linguist.

He became a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Assumption, in 1956.

He was a Faculty Research Associate at the University of California, Davis, in 1984.

[2] A scholarship at the University of Akron was named for him.