Lawrence Fitzroy Powell (9 August 1881 – 17 July 1975) was an English literary scholar.
Upon the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Powell was declared unfit for active service but he joined the Admiralty two years later.
Johnsonian scholar R. W. Chapman asked Powell to revise George Birkbeck Hill's edition of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson in 1923.
Durham University awarded Powell a Doctor of Letters in 1935 on the strength of his work on Boswell.
Right up until his death, Powell continued research for an updated edition of the Life of Johnson.