Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving was an English dramatist and actor. He died along with his wife, Mabel, in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster.

Mabel Lucy Hackney was a British actress and the wife of the dramatist and actor Laurence Irving and daughter-in-law of the actor Henry Irving in whose company she acted before she joined that of her husband. She died along with her husband in the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster in 1914.