Gary Lawrence is an American opinion pollster. He received a PhD in communications psychology from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in 1972. He runs a polling company called Lawrence Research.

Lawrence is a Latter-day Saint. In the spring of 2007 he conducted a poll on the perception of Latter-day Saints in the United States.

Lawrence has since written a book How Americans View Mormonism: Seven Steps to Improve Our Image.

Lawrence has served as a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.