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Quentin Charles Lansman (1920-1969) was a minister and educational administer in the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) Church and later the United Methodist church. He served as both a pastor and later as a General Officer in the Board of Christian Education for the EUB Church and following its merger, as the Associate Director in the Department of Campus Ministry of the Division of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church.

Born in Shelby County, Iowa on September 6, 1920, he was the son of Charles and Johanna Lansman. He was educated in Audubon, Iowa and attended Westmar College at Lemars, Iowa, receiving his B.A in 1943. Lansman subsequently attended Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville, Illinois and received his Bachelor of Divinity in 1946. Lansman served two congregations in the Iowa Conference of the EUB Church: at Noble Center EUB in Griswold, Iowa and at Waterloo First EUB Church. Lansman enrolled in the Northwestern University PhD program and lived in Naperville Illinois during his resident work, serving as Associate Minister at Naperville First EUB Church. From 1959 to 1968 Lansman was a General Officer in the Board of Christian Education of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, based in Dayton, Ohio. Following its merger with the Methodist Church in 1968, Lansman became the Associate Director in the Department of Campus Ministry of the Division of Higher Education of the newly formed United Methodist Church, in Nashville, Tennessee. Lansman completed his doctorate at Northwestern in June, 1969 with his dissertation entitled, An Historical Study of the Development of Higher Education and Related Theological and Educational Assumptions in the Evangelical United Brethren Church: 1800-1954.

Lansman died unexpectedly on December 28, 1969 at the Lloyd Geweke ranch near Ord, Nebraska. Sections of his dissertation were posthumously published as a book with the title Higher Education in the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1800-1954 in 1972 by the Board of Education of The United Methodist Church.

Martin Emert Lawson (1867-1956), American judge, was born on May 15, 1867 near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. When he was four, his family moved to a new home near Ellisville, Illinois. Three years later, the family moved to Osborn, Missouri.

At twenty, Lawson attended Gem City Business College in Quincy, Illinois. After graduation he moved to Kansas City and worked in a grocery store, where he was introduced to the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Eventually he studied law, passed the Missouri bar in 1890, and joined a law office as a partner. In the meantime, Lawson became active in his local church. He served as Sunday School superintendent for thirty years.

In the Missouri Conference, he served as member and eventual president of the Board of Church Extension, and was a member of the Board of Education and Board of Missions.

On October 20, 1894, he married Kate Riley. Kate died on October 30, 1949. They had two children, James E. and Nancy.

Lawson was active in the general church in both the annual conference and general conference levels. He was instrumental in drawing up plans for the 1939 merger for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Lawson helped form the Judicial Council, known originally in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as the Court of Appeals. He was an initial member of the Court and helped to shape what later became the Judicial Council's policies in both the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Methodist Church.

Lawson died on January 1, 1956 in Liberty, Missouri.