Lourenço is a Portuguese surname and masculine given name of Latin origin. It is used in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries. The name was derived from the Roman surname Laurentius, which meant "from Laurentum". Laurentum was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of Rome.

Notable people named Lourenço

Given name
 Lourenço Andrade (born 1979), Brazilian footballer
 Lourenço da Silva de Mendouça (died 1698), Mbundu nobleman and abolitionist
 Lourenço da Veiga (born 1979), Portuguese auto racing driver
 Lourenço de Almeida (c. 1480–1508), Portuguese explorer and military commander
 Lourenço Filho (1897–1970), Brazilian educator and education theorist
 Lourenço José Boaventura de Almada, 13th Count of Avranches (1758–1815), Portuguese politician
 Lourenço Marques (explorer), Portuguese trader and colonizer
 Lourenço Martins (born 1997), Portuguese volleyball player
 Lourenço Mutarelli (born 1964), Brazilian comic book artist, writer and actor
 Lourenço Ortigão (born 1989), Portuguese actor
 Lourenço Soares de Valadares (c. 1230–1298), Portuguese nobleman

Surname
 Agostinho Lourenço (1886–1964), Portuguese soldier
 Aleixo Lourenco, Indian politician
 Ana Dias Lourenço (born 1957), Angolan economist, politician and government minister
 Bruno Lourenço (born 1998), Portuguese footballer
 Carlos Lourenço (1923–2008), Portuguese sailor
 Denílson Lourenço (born 1977), Brazilian judoka
 Didier Lourenço (1968–2023), Catalan-Spanish painter
 Eduardo Lourenço (1923–2020), Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher and writer
 Fausto Lourenço (born 1987), Portuguese footballer
 Hélder Lourenço (born 1954), Portuguese footballer
 Ivone Dias Lourenço (1937–2008), Portuguese communist
 Januário Lourenço (born 1974), Portuguese jurist
 João Lourenço (disambiguation), multiple people
 Joyner Lourenco (born 1991), Indian footballer
 Lourenço (footballer) (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
 Lucas Lourenço (born 2001), Brazilian footballer
 Luís Lourenço (born 1983), Angolan footballer
 Miguel Lourenço (disambiguation), multiple people
 Orlando Lourenco (born 1964), Zimbabwean tennis player
 Patrick Lourenço (born 1993), Brazilian amateur boxer
 Rodolfo Lourenço (born 1991), Portuguese footballer
 Rogério Lourenço (born 1971), Brazilian football manager and player
 Ruy Lourenco (1928–2021), American physician, academic administrator, researcher and professor
 Teresa Lourenço (1330–????), Portuguese noblewoman
 Teresa Lourenco (born 1981), Trinidadian model and actress
 Wilson R. Lourenço, French-Brazilian arachnologist

Portuguese given names
Portuguese masculine given names
Masculine given names
Surnames from given names
Portuguese-language surnames