Laurence Eliot Bunker (June 27, 1902 – October 10, 1977) was an American Army Colonel, who served as aide-de-camp to General Douglas MacArthur from 1946 to 1952.

Bunker was born and raised in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, where he lived his entire life at the family home on Chestnut Street.

[4] Shortly after leaving MacArthur's staff in November 1952, Col. Bunker retired from the armed forces.

[4] In 1958, he was one of the eleven original founding members of the John Birch Society, alongside Robert W. Welch Jr., Fred C. Koch, and Revilo P. Oliver, among others.

[5] He remained a member of the National Council of the JBS, the society's top governing body, through the end of his life.