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Larry Bumpass
Larry Bumpass (Larry Lee Bumpass) is an American family demographer, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Larry Burrows
Larry Burrows (Henry Frank Leslie Burrows, 1926–1971) was a British photojournalist and war photographer for LIFE magazine, known for color Vietnam War coverage from 1962 to 1971.
Larry Cain
Larry Cain (born 1963, Toronto) is a Canadian sprint canoeist who won C-1 500m gold and C-1 1000m silver at Los Angeles 1984, Canada's first Olympic canoe gold since 1936, later a SUP coach.
Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton (born 1948, Torrance, California), also known as Mr. 335, is an American session guitarist and contemporary jazz artist who played on over 3,000 sessions and 100 gold albums, joined the Crusaders and Fourplay, and won four Grammys from 19 nominations.
Larry Charles
Larry Charles (born 1956, Brooklyn) is an American comedy writer and director, an original Seinfeld writer, Curb Your Enthusiasm director, and director of Borat, Brüno, The Dictator, and Religulous.
Larry Clark
Larry Clark (born 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American photographer and film director, author of Tulsa (1971) and director of Kids (1995), Bully (2001), and Ken Park (2002), known for documenting teenage sex, drugs, and violence.
Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen (Lawrence George Cohen), American filmmaker, 1936 or 1941 to 2019, director of low-budget New York horror and sci-fi (It's Alive, Q, The Stuff) and writer of Phone Booth.
Larry Cohen
Larry Neil Cohen (born 1959) is an American contract bridge player, writer, and teacher whose 1992 book To Bid or Not to Bid popularized the Law of Total Tricks.
Larry Cohen (union leader)
Larry Cohen is an American labor leader who served as president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) from 2005 to 2015 after building its organizing programs.
Larry Craig
Larry Edwin Craig (born 1945) was Idaho's five-term U.S. Representative and three-term Republican Senator (1991–2009), chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, whose career ended amid the 2007 Minneapolis airport restroom arrest scandal.
Larry Craig scandal
The Larry Craig scandal: the June 11, 2007 restroom arrest of the Idaho Republican senator at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, his disorderly conduct guilty plea, failed plea withdrawal, and September 2007 resignation.
Larry Crowne
Larry Crowne (2011) is an American romantic comedy directed by Tom Hanks, co-written with Nia Vardalos, starring Hanks and Julia Roberts. Released July 1, 2011 by Universal, it grossed $61.4 million worldwide on a $30 million budget and scored 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Larry Csonka
Larry Csonka (born 1946, Stow, Ohio), Hall of Fame fullback for the Miami Dolphins, 1968-74 and 1979, and Giants. Super Bowl VIII MVP, 8,081 career rushing yards, key runner on the 1972 perfect-season team.
Larry Culpepper
Larry Culpepper is an American family physician who founded the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.
Larry D. Alexander
Larry D. Alexander (Larry Dell Alexander, 1953–2021), Arkansas-born self-taught artist, Bible teacher, and former Detroit auto mechanic, known for crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings, the Dermott and Detroit series, and the 1995 Clinton Family Portrait.
Larry D. McLerran
Larry D. McLerran (born 1949) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist known for the Color Glass Condensate, quarkyonic matter, and the glasma in quantum chromodynamics.
Larry David
Larry David, American comedian and television producer born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York; co-creator and head writer of Seinfeld (1989-1997) and creator-star of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-2024), now behind Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness with the Obamas' Higher Ground.
Larry Davis (Louisiana politician)
Larry Davis is an American Republican politician, licensed minister, and consultant from Livingston Parish, Louisiana, running for the US House in the state's 6th Congressional District in 2026.
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is an Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Zip Co with Peter Gray in Sydney in 2013 and led the buy now, pay later provider as Global CEO until 2023.
Larry Doby
Larry Doby (1923-2003), American baseball pioneer: first Black player in the American League, debuting for Cleveland on July 5, 1947, 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson; .283 hitter, 253 home runs, 1948 World Series champion, 1978 second Black MLB manager, 1998 Hall of Fame inductee.
Larry Drake
Larry Drake (Lawrence Richard Drake), American character actor born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law (two Emmys, 1988 and 1989), Darkman's Robert G. Durant, and Dr. Giggles; died 2016.
Larry E. Kun
Larry E. Kun (1946–2018) was an American pediatric radiation oncologist who built St. Jude's brain tumor program and led trials delaying radiation for young children.
Larry E. Overman
Larry E. Overman, born in 1943, is an American organic chemist at the University of California, Irvine, known for the Overman rearrangement and over 100 total syntheses of natural products.
Larry Elder
Larry Elder (born 1952) is an American conservative talk radio host, lawyer, and author, the "Sage from South Central," KABC and Salem syndicated host, 2021 California recall candidate, and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful who withdrew in October 2023 endorsing Trump.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison, born Lawrence J. Ellison in 1944, is an American executive who co-founded Oracle in 1977 and was its CEO for nearly four decades.
Larry English
Larry English (born 1986, Aurora, Illinois) is a former NFL linebacker/defensive end, NIU's record holder with 31.5 sacks and two-time MAC MVP, drafted 16th overall by the Chargers in 2009; 64 career games, 12.0 sacks.
Larry Epstein
Larry G. Epstein is an economist and decision theorist, Professor at McGill University since 2021, known for the Epstein–Zin recursive utility framework and ambiguity aversion research with Martin Schneider.
Larry Eyler
Larry W. Eyler, the 'homosexual highway killer,' murdered young men in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin in the early 1980s. Released in 1983 after evidence was excluded, he killed again, was sentenced to death in 1986, and died of AIDS in 1994 after confessing to 21 murders.
Larry F. Pellett
Larry F. Pellett is an American aerospace engineer who led radar signature work at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Larry F. Thompson
Larry F. Thompson is an American chemical engineer who spent 26 years at Bell Labs developing lithographic resists for semiconductor manufacturing and is a National Academy of Engineering member.