Laurie Magnus (5 August 1872 – 28 April 1933) was an English author, journalist, and publisher.
He was educated at St Paul's School, and graduated with a Master of Arts from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read classics.
[1] He was the Berlin correspondent of the London Morning Post (1896–1900) and leader-writer for the same paper.
Magnus edited a series of Secondary Education Text-Books for the publishing house of John Murray, published A Primer of Wordsworth, translated the first volume of Greek Thinkers (from the German of Theodor Gomperz), and edited Prayers from the Poets and Flowers of the Cave (in conjunction with Cecil Headlam).
Magnus unsuccessfully ran as a Unionist for Bristol North in the December 1910 British general election, and was a major in the Royal Defence Corps during World War I.