Lawrence Joseph Dwyer (2 February 1884 – August 1964) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative fullback who captained the Wallabies in 1913.
He made his New South Wales representative debut in 1910 appearing in two games against a touring All Blacks side playing alongside other future Wallaby captains in Sydney Middleton, Ward Prentice, Ted Fahey and Fred Wood.
[3] He made further state appearances for New South Wales that year and was selected in a Central-Western representative side which met a touring American Universities team.
In 1913 he was picked at captain for New South Wales and for Western Districts in matches against the visiting New Zealand national side.
He made three further Test appearances in 1914 when New Zealand toured Australia at the outbreak of World War I. Dwyer played thirty-one times for New South Wales in a ten-year career that continued until he was thirty-five.