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Larry Mullen Jr.
Larry Mullen Jr. (born 1961, Dublin) is the Irish drummer who founded U2 with a 1976 school noticeboard ad. Known for martial drumming, dyscalculia, a neck injury that sidelined him from Sphere, and his return for Carnaval De Luz.
Larry Nance
Larry Nance (Larry Donell Nance, born 1959), NBA forward-center for the Phoenix Suns (1981-88) and Cleveland Cavaliers (1988-94); won the NBA's first Slam Dunk Contest in 1984, three-time All-Star, 2,027 career blocks.
Larry Nance Jr.
Larry Nance Jr. (born 1993) is an American NBA forward-center, 2015 Lakers first-round pick (27th), son of dunk champion Larry Nance Sr.; played for Lakers, Cavaliers, Blazers, Pelicans, Hawks, and signed with the Indiana Pacers in July 2026.
Larry Nassar
Larry Nassar (Lawrence Gerard Nassar), former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University sports doctor, sexually abused hundreds of gymnasts under medical pretenses; sentenced to 60 federal years plus 40-175 and 40-125 state years after FBI and institutional failures.
Larry Niven
Larry Niven (Laurence van Cott Niven, born 1938), American hard science fiction author, SFWA Grand Master 2014, creator of the Known Space future history and the Ringworld novels, five-time Hugo winner and frequent collaborator with Jerry Pournelle.
Larry Niven bibliography
Larry Niven bibliography: catalog of the science fiction author's works from "The Coldest Place" (1964) through Ringworld, Known Space, and collaborations with Pournelle, Barnes, Benford, and Lerner, with opus numbers and in-universe chronology codes.
Larry Norton
Larry Norton is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the Norton–Simon model of tumor growth, dose-dense chemotherapy, and HER2-directed breast cancer therapy.
Larry Nuesslein
Larry Nuesslein (Lawrence Adam Nuesslein, 1895-1971), American rifle shooter; five medals at Antwerp 1920 including two golds in 50m small-bore rifle standing, plus 1923 and 1927 World Championship medals.
Larry O'Brien
Larry O'Brien (Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr., 1917-1990), Democratic strategist, JFK and LBJ congressional liaison, US Postmaster General 1965-1968, DNC chairman 1968-1972 whose Watergate office was burgled, and third NBA commissioner 1975-1984, namesake of the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy
Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy: NBA Finals championship trophy, formerly the Walter A. Brown Trophy, renamed 1984 for commissioner Larry O'Brien; sterling silver and 24k gold vermeil, made by Tiffany & Co. since 1977, redesigned 25.5-inch 2022 version with champion-etched base.
Larry Page
Larry Page (born 1973) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, invented PageRank, and led Alphabet as CEO until 2019.
Larry Palmer
Larry Palmer (Laurence James Palmer, born 7 January 1938, Malden, Massachusetts) is an American ice hockey goaltender, West Point 1959 graduate, and backup goalie on the United States' gold-medal 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic team; later an investment banker in Switzerland.
Larry Pressler
Larry Lee Pressler (born 1942) is a former Republican U.S. senator from South Dakota (1979–1997) who chaired the Senate Commerce Committee and sponsored the Telecommunications Act of 1996, refused an Abscam bribe, lost his 1996 reelection to Tim Johnson, and ran again as an independent in 2014, winning 17.09 percent.
Larry Questad
Larry Questad (Lawrence Ronald Questad, 1943-2020), American sprinter, NCAA 100 yards champion 1963 for Stanford, sixth in the 1968 Olympic 200 m final in 20.62, later an IBM engineer and Idaho business owner.
Larry R. Churchill
Larry R. Churchill is an American bioethicist who held the Ann Geddes Stahlman chair at Vanderbilt and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1991.
Larry R. Jones
Larry R. Jones, also cited as L. R. Jones, is an American cardiac molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Charles Fisch Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Larry R. Kaiser
Larry R. Kaiser is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who led surgery at Penn, served as President of UTHealth Houston, and joined Alvarez & Marsal in 2020.
Larry R. Rohrschneider
Larry R. Rohrschneider was an American cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who showed that Src and other oncoproteins act at cell adhesion sites.
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire, born 1941 in Iowa, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies how memory is organized in the brain, including declarative memory.
Larry R. Williams
Larry R. Williams is an American futures trader and author who created the Williams %R indicator and set a record 11,376% return in the 1987 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading.
Larry Ray (criminal)
Lawrence "Larry" Ray (a.k.a. Lawrence Grecco) is an American ex-convict who moved into his daughter's Sarah Lawrence College housing in 2010 and ran an extortion, sex trafficking, and forced labor scheme; convicted 2022, sentenced to 60 years, affirmed on appeal in 2025.
Larry Rhoden
Larry Rhoden is an American Republican politician and rancher who became the 34th Governor of South Dakota in January 2025, succeeding Kristi Noem, after serving as her lieutenant governor.
Larry Rickles
Larry Rickles (Lawrence Corey Rickles, 1970-2011) was an American screenwriter and producer, son of Don Rickles; he won a 2008 Primetime Emmy for producing the HBO documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project and wrote for Murphy Brown.
Larry Robbins
Larry Robbins is an American hedge fund manager who founded Glenview Capital Management in New York in 2000, known for concentrated healthcare investments and an engagement style he calls suggestivism.
Larry Romano
Larry Romano (Lawrence John Romano, born 1963, Mount Vernon, NY) is an American actor known for Richie Iannucci on The King of Queens, NYPD Blue, Donnie Brasco, The Thin Red Line, and The Irishman, and not related to Ray Romano.
Larry S. Davis
Larry S. Davis is an American computer scientist who founded the University of Maryland's UMIACS and is known for computer vision and the POSIT algorithm.
Larry Samuelson
Larry Samuelson, born 1953, is an American economic theorist at Yale known for evolutionary game theory and repeated games, and president of the Econometric Society in 2025.
Larry Sanders (basketball)
Larry Sanders (born 1988) is an American former NBA center-forward, VCU product drafted 15th overall by Milwaukee in 2010; 2012-13 elite shot-blocker who retired in 2015 over mental health, briefly returned with Cleveland.
Larry Sanders (politician)
Larry Sanders, also known as Lawrence Sanders, is a British Green Party politician, born 1935 in New York, who is the older brother of US senator Bernie Sanders.
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger, born Lawrence Mark Sanger in 1968, is an American philosopher and internet developer best known as a co-founder of Wikipedia, which he named and organized.