Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names.
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Notable people named Larry
Entertainment and media
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
Laurence Fishburne, American actor
Larry Flynt (born 1942), American pornographer
Larry Gatlin, country singer
Larry Miller (actor), actor and stand-up comedian
Larry Mullen, drummer and founder of the group U2
Laurence Olivier, British actor
Larry (cartoonist), British cartoonistInformation technology
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
Larry C. Johnson, former CIA intelligence officer and political commentator
Larry Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
Larry Wu-Tai Chin, Chinese double agent who worked in the CIA
Sports
American football
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 CardinalsBaseball
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
Larry Bird, American Hall of Fame basketball player
Larry Brown (basketball), American Hall of Fame basketball coach
Larry Hughes, US basketball player
Larry Johnson (basketball, born 1969), former US basketball player
Larry Riley, General Manager of the Other sports
Larry Holmes, boxer
Larry Huras, ice hockey player and coach
Larry Murphy, NHL ice hockey player
Larry Zbyszko, professional wrestler and commentator
Criminals
Larry Hoover, gang leader
Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., bank robber and leader of the High Incident BanditsLarry Singleton, rapist and mutilator
Fictional characters
Animation
Larry the Cucumber, character from VeggieTales; also goes by the alter-ego of Larry Boy
Larry Burns (The Simpsons), the son of Mr. Burns, portrayed by Rodney Dangerfield in The Simpsons
Television
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 "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 Fleinhardt, a character who is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and CalSci professor in the CBS crime drama NUMB3RS, played by Peter MacNicol
Video games
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 Butz, the friend of Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney series text) � e l �ot �q >OtherOther
Cyclone Larry, a category-5 cyclone that made landfall in Australia in 2006
Larry Cearlock a resident of Springfield , Illinois .
See also
Lawrence (disambiguation)