Laurin Leonard Lawson (March 11, 1876 – January 28, 1938) was an American brigadier general.

[1] After completing his education, Lawson worked as the shipping clerk for the Washington Shoe Manufacturing Company of Seattle.

Lawson also participated in the United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 and the Punitive Expedition in 1916 and 1917.

Lawson made colonel on February 6, 1918, and in May that year he became commandant of the Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

At the time of his death, Lawson was on active duty with the organized Reserve at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.