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Larry Fedora
Larry Fedora (born 1962) is an American football coach; head coach at Southern Miss (2008-11, 34-19) and North Carolina (2012-18, 45-43), later Baylor offensive coordinator and USFL New Orleans Breakers head coach.
Larry Fessenden
Larry Fessenden (born 1963, New York) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director of art-horror films including Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Depraved, and Blackout, and founder of the New York indie production company Glass Eye Pix (1985).
Larry Fine
Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg, 1902–1975) was the middle Stooge of the Three Stooges, a violinist and former boxer from Philadelphia who joined Ted Healy's act in the late 1920s and made 190 Columbia shorts before a 1970 stroke ended his career.
Larry Fink
Larry Fink, also known as Laurence D. Fink, is an American financier who co-founded BlackRock in 1988 and has been its only CEO, leading the world's largest asset manager.
Larry Fitzgerald
Larry Fitzgerald, wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals 2004–2020, second all-time in NFL receptions (1,432) and receiving yards (17,492), 11 Pro Bowls, 2008 playoff records, Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. (1942-2021), American publisher of Hustler magazine and founder of Larry Flynt Publications; survived a 1978 assassination attempt and won the 1988 Supreme Court free-speech case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.
Larry Fortensky
Larry Fortensky, American construction worker and Teamsters member, was Elizabeth Taylor's seventh and final husband; they met at the Betty Ford Center in 1988, married at Neverland Ranch in 1991, divorced in 1996, and he died in July 2016.
Larry Gallo
Larry Gallo, also known as Lawrence Gallo, was a Brooklyn mobster and operational leader of the Gallo faction in the Profaci crime family. He died in 1968.
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart (1928–2009), American comedy writer and playwright; creator and primary writer of M*A*S*H's first four seasons, co-writer of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, City of Angels, Oh God!, and Tootsie.
Larry Gene Bell
Larry Gene Bell (1948–1996), American murderer executed in South Carolina's electric chair for the 1985 kidnappings and murders of Shari Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick; in 2025 Charlotte police also named him in Sandee Cornett's 1984 killing.
Larry Gerace
Larry Gerace is a cell biologist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on the nuclear lamina and transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
Larry Gies
Larry Gies is an American businessman who founded Madison Industries, a Chicago-based industrial holding company, in 1994 and chairs Madison Air, which he took public in 2026.
Larry Gold
Larry Gold is an American molecular biologist affiliated with SomaLogic in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, known for SELEX and the SOMAmer-based SomaScan proteomics platform.
Larry Gonzales (politician)
Larry D. Gonzales, Republican Texas state representative for House District 52 (Round Rock) from 2011 to 2018, Appropriations subcommittee chair and Sunset Advisory Commission chairman who resigned in June 2018 and was succeeded by James Talarico.
Larry Graham
Larry Graham (born 1946), American funk bassist and baritone singer of Sly & the Family Stone and founder of Graham Central Station; inventor of slap bass, which he calls "thumpin' and pluckin'".
Larry Grayson
Larry Grayson (William Sully White, 1923-1995), English camp comedian and presenter, host of ITV's Shut That Door! and BBC's The Generation Game (1978-1982), known for catchphrases "Shut that door!" and "What a gay day!" and characters Everard and Slack Alice.
Larry Grooms
Larry Grooms is an American Republican politician who has represented District 37 in the South Carolina Senate since 1997, chairs the Senate Transportation Committee, and owns a convenience store chain.
Larry Guth
Larry Guth is an American mathematician and Claude E. Shannon Professor at MIT whose work spans metric geometry, harmonic analysis, and combinatorics, including the Kakeya and Erdős distinct distances problems.
Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman (1931–2012), American actor, son of Mary Martin; played Major Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie and J.R. Ewing on Dallas (1978–1991), the "Who shot J.R.?" phenomenon, Emmy-nominated, later TNT revival.
Larry Hankin
Larry Hankin (born 1937, New York City) is an American character actor, comedian, writer, and director; co-founder of The Committee improv troupe, Oscar-nominated for Solly's Diner, known as Mr. Heckles on Friends, Tom Pepper on Seinfeld, and Old Joe in Breaking Bad and El Camino.
Larry Hennig
Larry "The Axe" Hennig (1936–2018) was an American professional wrestler, a top star of Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association from the 1960s through the 1980s and father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
Larry Hillblom
Larry Hillblom (Larry Lee Hillblom) was an American lawyer who co-founded the courier company DHL in 1969 and died in a 1995 plane crash near Saipan.
Larry Hogan
Larry Hogan, born Lawrence Hogan Jr. in 1956, is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes (born 1949), "The Easton Assassin," American heavyweight boxing champion 1978-1985 (WBC, then IBF), 48-0 before losing to Michael Spinks, career record 69-6 with 44 knockouts, Hall of Fame 2008.
Larry Hoover
Larry Hoover (born 1950) is co-founder and "Chairman" of the Gangster Disciples street gang of Chicago, who led it from prison. Convicted of 1973 murder (150-200 years) and 1997 federal criminal enterprise (life); Trump commuted the federal sentence May 28, 2025; the Illinois term stands.
Larry Householder
Larry Householder, Ohio Republican and twice House speaker (2001–2005, 2019–2020), was convicted in 2023 of leading a $60 million FirstEnergy bribery conspiracy to pass House Bill 6, sentenced to 20 years, and lost all appeals through the Supreme Court in 2026.
Larry Hovis
Larry Hovis (1936–2003), American singer, actor, comedian, writer, and teacher; played Sgt. Andrew Carter on Hogan's Heroes (1965–71), wrote for and performed on Laugh-In, later taught acting at Texas State University.
Larry Hughes
Larry Hughes (Larry Darnell Hughes, born 1979, St. Louis) is an American former NBA shooting guard, 8th overall pick in 1998; 13 seasons, 8 teams, 14.1 ppg career, 2004-05 steals leader and All-Defensive First Team.
Larry J. Shapiro
Larry J. Shapiro is an American pediatrician and human geneticist, dean of Washington University School of Medicine from 2003 to 2015, known for research on X and Y chromosome genetics.
Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young (1967–2024) was an American social neuroscientist at Emory University, known for prairie vole research showing how oxytocin and vasopressin regulate social bonding.