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- Anne Gilbert de Laval (1762–1810), French general of the Napoleonic Wars
- François de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec City
- Gustav de Laval, a Swedish engineer
- Jacques-Désiré Laval, a Spiritan priest and beatus
- Pierre Laval, the prime minister of France at various times before World War II, and of the Vichy France government
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