Laureano is a male name and a surname, both deriving from Latin: Laurentius, meaning "laurelled". Alternate spelling include Laurean (Romania, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Brazil, France, Mexico, Yugoslavia) and Laurian (Romania, Italy, France).

People

Given names

• Laureano Barrau, a Spanish impressionist painter
• Laureano Fuentes, wrote the first opera to be composed on the island (Cuba), La hija de Jéfe (the Chief's daughter)
• Laureano Gómez, the President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953
• Laureano Ibarra, an American retired competitive pair skate
• Laureano López Rodó, Spanish lawyer and politician
• Laureano Leone, a former politician in Ontario, Canada
• Laureano Olivares, a Venezuelan film and television actor best known for his role in Elia Schneider's movie Sicario at the age of 16
• Laureano Pineda, the 26th and 29th President (then called Supreme Director) of Nicaragua from 5 May to 11 August 1851, as dissident from 4 August, and from 11 November 1851 to 1 April 1853
• Laureano Ramírez, a retired Dominican boxer, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the Men's Flyweight division
• Laurean Rugambwa, was the first modern African Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Laureano Sanabria Ruiz, a.k.a. Laure, is a Spanish professional footballer who currently plays for Deportivo de La Coruña, mainly as a right back
• Laureano Tombolini, an unattached Argentine football goalkeeper who plays for Instituto
• Laureano de Torres y Ayala, colonial governor of Cuba and Spanish Florida
• Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, a Venezuelan intellectual and sociologist
• August Treboniu Laurian, a Transylvanian Romanian politician, historian and linguist

Surnames

• Gustavo Laureano, a Puerto Rican guitarist and composer, better known for being the lead singer of the band La Secta AllStar
• José Laureano, a Puerto Rican professional boxer
• Manny Laureano, the Principal Trumpet of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies
• Marta Laureano, most notable for her involvement in a controversially ruled child custody battle
• Napoleão Laureano, a Brazilian cancer specialist
• Ramón Laureano, a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Cleveland Guardians
• Ricky Laureano, a Puerto Rican musician most known for being the guitarist and one of the main songwriters of the Rock en Español band Fiel a la Vega
• Tony Laureano, an extreme metal drummer, originally from Puerto Rico