Laurens van den Acker (born 5 September 1965, Deurne, North Brabant) is a Dutch automobile designer.

Van den Acker joined Ford Motor Company, where J Mays had become vice-president of Design, in 1998.

He was responsible for the Mazda concepts Nagare (Los Angeles 2006), Ryuga (Detroit 2007), and Hakaze (Geneva 2007).

In September 2009, he became Senior Vice President of Renault Corporate Design to replace Patrick le Quément.

[citation needed] Richard Blackburn wrote in an article in Sydney Morning Herald that van den Acker 'still has some of the sketches' of cars 'he penned as a five-year-old, with smoke bellowing from exhausts and cartoon-like lines depicting the wind.