Larry
| Larry |
| Other names |
| Related names |
Ilario (or female is Ilaria) as the Italian version |
| Larry |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Origin: Hella |
English |
| Meaning: |
"Laurel crowned"
"From Laurentum, Italy"
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Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names.
Larry may refer to the following:
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
- Larry Flynt (born 1942), American pornographer
- 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 (actor), 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
Politics
Sports
Baseball
- 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
Ice hockey
Other sports
Criminals
Animals
- Larry, Downing Street cat since February 2011
Fictional characters
Animation
Television
- 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
- 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
See also