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Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence, Laurence or Laraib. It can be a shortened form of those names.

Larry may refer to the following:

Notable people named Larry [edit]

Art [edit]

• Larry D. Alexander, Artist/Writer

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Entertainment and media [edit]

• Larry Silvers, stage name of American ballroom dancer Larry A. Smith. He and his partner Betty Silvers won first place in the US Latin Championship seven consecutive years. They also represented the US in the world championships many times and tied for seventh place in Japan in 1969.
• Larry, co-star of popular Xtranormal animated series
• Larry the Cable Guy, stage name of American comedian Daniel Lawrence Whitney
• Larry Boone, country singer
• Larry Collins, member of The Collins Kids
• Larry David, Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer, and film director
• Larry Emdur, Australian TV host
• Larry Feign, American cartoonist working in Hong Kong
• Larry Fine (actor), of the Three Stooges
• Larry Flynt (born 1942), American publisher
• Larry Gates, American actor
• Larry Gatlin, country singer
• Larry Hagman, actor, best known for the TV drama Dallas
• Larry Kenney, radio DJ and voice actor on Imus in the Morning
• Larry King, talk show host of Larry King Live on CNN
• Larry Miller (entertainer), actor and stand-up comedian
• Larry McMurtry, novelist, best known for Lonesome Dove
• Larry Mullen, drummer and founder of the group U2
• Larry Niven, science fiction author best known for Ringworld
• Larry Wachowski, one half of the Wachowski brothers, directors, most famously for The Matrix series
• Larry (cartoonist), British cartoonist

Information technology [edit]

• Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Larry Page, co-founder of Google Inc.
• Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia
• Larry Wall, creator of the Perl computer language

Politics [edit]

• Larry Craig, former Republican US senator from the state of Idaho
• Larry C. Johnson, former CIA intelligence officer and political commentator
• M. Larry Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
• Larry Wu-Tai Chin, Chinese double agent who worked in the CIA

Sports [edit]

American football [edit]

• Larry Csonka, National Football League Hall of Famer
• Larry Johnson (football player), American football player for the Washington Redskins
• Larry Fitzgerald, American football player for the Arizona Cardinals

Baseball [edit]

• Larry Andersen, former baseball pitcher
• Larry Anderson (baseball), former baseball pitcher for the Brewers White Sox
• Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, Yankees and Mets
• Larry Bowa, former shortstop for Phillies, Mets, and Cubs and former manager for Padres and Phillies
• Larry Brown (infielder), major league infielder in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly with the Cleveland Indians
• Larry Doby, first black baseball player in American League
• Larry Hisle, major league outfielder with Philadelphia Phillies, Brewers, and Twins
• Larry Jackson, major league pitcher in the 1950s and 1960s for the Cardinals, Cubs and Phillies
• Larry "Chipper" Jones, Atlanta Braves third baseman-outfielder
• Larry Sherry, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher
• Larry Walker, former major league outfielder

Basketball [edit]

• Larry Bird, American Hall of Fame basketball player
• Larry Brown (basketball), American Hall of Fame basketball All Star player & coach
• Larry Hughes, US basketball player
• Larry Johnson (basketball, born 1969), former US basketball player
• Larry Riley, General Manager of the Golden State Warriors
• Larry Nance, played thirteen seasons (1981–1994) in the NBA as a member of the Phoenix Suns and Cleveland Cavaliers.
• Wendy Larry, American basketball coach

Ice hockey [edit]

• Larry Huras, NHL ice hockey player and coach
• Larry Murphy (ice hockey), NHL ice hockey player
• Larry Zeidel, Canadian NHL ice hockey player

Other sports [edit]

• Larry Holmes, boxer
• Larry Zbyszko, professional wrestler and commentator

Criminals [edit]

• Larry Hoover, gang leader
• Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., bank robber and leader of the High Incident Bandits
• Larry Singleton, rapist and mutilator

Animals [edit]

• Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office since February 2011

Fictional characters [edit]

Animation [edit]

• Larry the Cucumber, character from VeggieTales; also goes by the alter-ego of Larry Boy
• Larry the Lobster, a fictional lifeguard on SpongeBob SquarePants
• Larry Palaroncini, character from Homestar Runner that plays in the band Limozeen
• Larry Burns (The Simpsons), the son of Mr. Burns, portrayed by Rodney Dangerfield in The Simpsons

Television [edit]

• Larry, of Ed and Larry, a pair of fictional characters on the TV series The West Wing
• Larry, of TV show Newhart, part of the dirty backwoods trio Larry, Darryl, and Darryl, and the only one who could speak; played by William Sanderson
• Larry Appleton, character on Perfect Strangers, often referred to as Cousin Larry
• Larry "Bud" Melman, recurring character on David Letterman shows
• Doctor Laurence Erhardt, one of the original mad scientists from Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV series
• Larry Sanders, character played by Gary Shandling on the Larry Sanders Show
• Larry Blaisdell, character played by Larry Bagby III on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Larry Fleinhardt, a character who is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and CalSci professor in the CBS crime drama NUMB3RS, played by Peter MacNicol

Video games [edit]

• List of Ace Combat characters#Larry Foulke, a fictional character from Ace Combat Zero that serves as the player's wingman and then defects to A World With No Boundaries
• Larry Koopa, the youngest of Bowser's children from Super Mario Bros. 3
• Larry Laffer, the fictional character from the Leisure Suit Larry adult video game series
• Larry Butz, the friend of Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney series

Other [edit]

• Cyclone Larry, a category-5 cyclone that made landfall in Australia in 2006
• The Larry shorts, early animated work from Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, which appeared and were aired in What A Cartoon!
• Larry's Creek, New Zealand, a body of water also known as the Awarau River
• Larry's River, Nova Scotia

References [edit]

See also [edit]

• All pages beginning with "Larry"
• Laurence (disambiguation)
• Lawrence (disambiguation)

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