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Andrea Mead-Lawrence (born April 19, 1932) is a former American alpine skier. She was the first American alpine skier to win two Olympic gold medals.
Mead was born in Rutland County, Vermont into an alpine skiing family that owned and operated the Pico Peak ski area. At the age of 15, she competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and placed eighth in the slalom. Four years later at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway she came out on top in both the slalom and the giant slalom events. She succeeded Gretchen Fraser, who had won gold in the slalom in 1948, as the top American woman ski racer.
She married fellow ski team member David Lawrence in 1951. The couple divorced in 1967.
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