Lauro Cruz (20 May 1933-January 29, 2017) was an American state politician who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from a district in Harris County, Texas.
Cruz was the first Mexican-American legislator to be elected in Harris County since Lorenzo De Zavala in 1836.
A Democrat who served three terms, Cruz focused on the areas of minimum wage, rights for farm workers, and migrant worker housing and transportation.