| ![Show Contents]() Lars History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
 Norway The origin of the distinguished Lars family can be traced to the rugged Scandinavian country of Norway. The surname Lars is derived from the personal name Lars, which is a pet form of the name Lawrence. This name is in turn derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which literally means man from Laurentium, a town in Italy named for its laurels or bay trees. The popularity of this name in medieval Europe is due to the exploits of a saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century. The suffix -sen and its variants are translatable as son of.
 Lars migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Lars Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Joh Lars, aged 20, who landed in New York in 1862 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Lars (post 1700) | + |
- Ralph Lars Herseth (b. 1946), American politician, Member of South Dakota State House of Representatives 2nd District, 1975-86; Member of South Dakota State Senate 2nd District, 1989-96 2
- Lars "Laban" Arnesson (1936-2023), Swedish professional football player and manager and bandy player. He was the coach of the Sweden national football team from 1980 to 1986
- Lars Gunnar Torbjörn Kullänger Axelman (1932-2023), Swedish television producer, director and writer
- Lars Vogt (1970-2022), German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher, noted by The New York Times for his interpretations of Brahms
- Lars Jamel Tate (1966-2022), American professional NFL football running back who played for three seasons in the National Football League with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears from 1988 to 1990
- Lars Bloch (1938-2022), Danish actor and producer, sometimes credited as Lars Block or Carlos Ewing
- Lars Endel Roger Vilks (1946-2021), Swedish visual artist and activist who was known for his drawings of Muhammad
- Lars Rüdiger (1996-2020), German diver, he won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he won a bronze medal at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
- Lars Christer Hall (1938-2018), Swedish advertiser and art director
- Lars Swenson (1842-1904), American politician, Member of Minnesota State Senate 29th District, 1887-89
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Lars migration to the United States 
