William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998) was a British physician, Olympic rowing champion and gold medallist.

Laurie was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, in 1915, the elder son of William Walker Laurie (1882–1976), a tenant farmer who later worked for the Ely Sugar Beet Company, and Margaret Grieve (née Mundell) (1886–1959), who took in paying guests at their house, and during the Second World War was live-in housekeeper for Bishop George Chase, then master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

[4] After war interrupted their rowing careers, Laurie and Wilson returned to Henley in 1948, once again winning the Silver Goblets.

This was followed a month later by a gold medal in the coxless pair event at the 1948 Olympics in London, rowing on their familiar Henley course.

Laurie and Wilson were the best pair of their generation, and it was not until Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes won the Olympics in 1988 that Britons once more excelled in this class of boat.

They had two daughters and two sons, the youngest of whom is the actor Hugh Laurie, who followed in his father's footsteps, rowing for Selwyn College and Cambridge University.