- Full Name: Henry Archibald Lawson
- Birth: June 17, 1867
- Birth Place: Gulgong, New South Wales
- Parents: Niels Hertzberg Lawson and Louisa Albury
- Occupation: Journalist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist
- Literary Movement: Australian Realism, The Bulletin School
- Famous Works:
- Short Stories: "The Drover's Wife", "The Union Buries its Dead", "Up the Country"
- Poetry: "The Song of the Old Bullock Dray"," Steelman", "Faces in the Street", "The Teamsters"
- Awards:
- The Royal Commission on the Decline of the Birth Rate and Population of New South Wales (1895) Commission Prize for Poetry
- Death: September 2, 1922, Sydney, New South Wales
- Cause of Death: Liver Cirrhosis
- Legacy: Lawson is regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers and is credited for shaping Australian literature. His works vividly portray the lives and struggles of ordinary Australians, especially those living in the rural outback. Lawson's contribution to Australian literature earned him the nickname "the bush poet of the people."