List of Famous people named Larry

Name Larry is among the most common names in USA, Canada. Often it's a shorthand for Lawrence. Similar names: Lawrence, Lara, Lari, Laro. Here are some famous Larrys:

Larry Hoover

First Name Larry
Born on November 30, 1950 (age 72)

Larry Hoover is an American gang leader, a founder of the Chicago street gang called the Gangster Disciples. Hoover is currently serving six life sentences at the ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. His sentences include a 150–200 year sentence for a 1973 murder; and in 1997, after a 17–year investigation of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison, he received a life sentence.

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Larry David

Lawrence Gene David

Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, of which David was the head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. David has written or co-written the stories of every episode of the improvisational comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm since its pilot episode in 1999.

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Larry Nassar

Lawrence Gerard Nassar
First Name Larry
Born on August 16, 1963 (age 59)

Lawrence Gerard Nassar is an American convicted serial rapist and sex offender, former USA Gymnastics national team doctor, former osteopathic physician, and former professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Nassar's cumulative sexual assault crimes were the basis of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal that began in 2015, in which he was accused of assaulting at least 265 young women and girls dating back to 1992. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts, and he has admitted to 10 of those accusations.

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Larry Elder

First Name Larry
Born on April 27, 1952 (age 71)

Laurence Allen Elder is an American libertarian talk radio host, author, attorney, and documentary filmmaker who hosts The Larry Elder Show. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from 2010 to 2014. The show is nationally syndicated, first through ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and Salem Media Group since 2015. Elder has also written nonfiction books and a nationally syndicated column through Creators Syndicate. Elder is currently a candidate for governor of California, running to replace Gavin Newsom in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election.

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Larry Fitzgerald

Larry Darnell Fitzgerald Jr. is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Pittsburgh, where he earned unanimous All-America honors. He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He is widely considered by fans and peers to be one of the greatest receivers in NFL history.

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Larry King

Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
First Name Larry
Born on November 19, 1933
Died on January 23, 2021 (aged 87)

Larry King was an American television and radio host, whose awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE Awards. He hosted over 50,000 interviews.

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Larry Bird

Larry Joe Bird

Larry Joe Bird is an American former professional basketball player, coach and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "The Hick from French Lick" and “Larry Legend”, Bird is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

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Larry Page

First Name Larry
Born on March 26, 1973 (age 50)
Net Worth $91.5B

Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin.

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Larry Flynt

First Name Larry
Born on November 1, 1942
Died on February 10, 2021 (aged 78)

Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt has fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 murder attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.

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Larry Silverstein

First Name Larry
Born on May 30, 1931 (age 92)

Larry A. Silverstein is an American businessman. Among his real estate projects, he is the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as one of New York's tallest residential towers at 30 Park Place, where he owns a home. His worth has been estimated at $3.5 billion as of 2016.

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Larry Kudlow

First Name Larry
Born on August 20, 1947 (age 75)

Lawrence Alan Kudlow is an American financial analyst who served as the Director of the National Economic Council from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a television financial news host.

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Larry the Cable Guy

Daniel Lawrence Whitney
First Name Larry
Born on February 17, 1963 (age 60)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Daniel Lawrence Whitney, known professionally by his stage name Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian, with a career spanning over 30 years.

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Larry Nance, Jr.

Larry Donnell Nance Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Wyoming, where he was considered one of the best big men in the Mountain West Conference after leading the 2014–15 Wyoming Cowboys to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002. Nance was drafted 27th overall in the 2015 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. In February 2018, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Larry Holmes

First Name Larry
Born on November 3, 1949 (age 73)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the Easton Assassin.

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Larry Walker

First Name Larry
Born on December 1, 1966 (age 56)

Larry Kenneth Robert Walker is a Canadian former professional baseball right fielder. During his 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played with the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, and St. Louis Cardinals. In 1997, he became the only player in major league history to register both a .700 slugging percentage (SLG) and 30 stolen bases in the same season, on his way to winning the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). The first player in more than 60 years to record a batting average of .360 in three consecutive seasons from 1997 to 1999, Walker also won three NL batting championships. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2007, and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2009, and was named the 13th-greatest sporting figure from Canada by Sports Illustrated in 1999. In 2020, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and will become the first member of the Hall to be depicted in a Rockies uniform on his plaque.

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Larry Nance

Larry Donnell Nance Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. A forward from Clemson University, Nance played 13 seasons (1981–1994) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Phoenix Suns and Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Larry Ellison

First Name Larry
Born on August 17, 1944 (age 78)
Net Worth $93.0B

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation. As of October 2019, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the sixth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $69.1 billion, increased from $54.5 billion in 2018. He is also the owner of the 41st largest island in the United States, Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands with a population of just over 3000.

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Larry Kramer

First Name Larry
Born on June 25, 1935
Died on May 27, 2020 (aged 84)

Laurence David Kramer was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the film Women in Love (1969) and received an Academy Award nomination for his work.

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Larry King

First Name Larry
Born on January 30, 1945 (age 78)

Larry King is an American attorney, real estate broker, promoter, bridge player, one of the founders of World Team Tennis, and the ex-husband of former World No. 1 professional tennis player Billie Jean King.

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Larry Sanders

First Name Larry
Born on April 29, 1935 (age 88)

Lawrence Sanders is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and Health Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator and twice U.S. presidential candidate.

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