Famous People with Name Larry

Larry Blyden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Larry Blyden: was an American Tony Award winning actor and game show host, best known for his appearances on Broadway and as the host of the game show What's My Line?Blyden's career had three distinct phases. For most of his career, he was known as a good, solid character actor for TV and also as a highly in demand Broadway actor. For television is concerned, he starred in one sitcom, "Harry's Girls", which ran from 1963 to 1964. In this adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play "Idiot's Delight", Blyden starred as Harry, who was a vaudeville style performer constantly getting into trouble and falling in love. Blyden also did many guest performances on dramatic anthology series such as Playhouse 90, Omnibus,

Larry M. Christiansen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Larry M. Christiansen: is a chess Grandmaster who grew up in Riverside, California. He was U.S. champion in 1980, 1983, and 2002. He describes his playing style as "aggressive, tactical" and lists his favorite opening as the Sämisch King's Indian.

Larry Melvyn Evans            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Larry Melvyn Evans: is an American chess grandmaster and journalist. He won or co-won the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times.Evans was born in Manhattan on March 22, 1932, and learned much about the game by playing for ten cents an hour on 42nd Street in New York City[citation needed]. He became a rising young star. At age 14, he tied for fourth-fifth place in the Marshall Chess Club championship. The next year he won it outright, becoming the youngest Marshall champion up until that time.

Larry W. Esposito            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Larry W. Esposito: an American planetary astronomer and a Professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado. A 1973 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esposito received his Ph.D in Astronomy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1985, he was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society. His current work involves planetary atmospheres and ring systems.

Larry Rivers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Larry Rivers: was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York on (Long Island) and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.Rivers is considered by many scholars a "Godfather" of Pop art, because he was one of the first artists to really merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947-48, and then at New York University. He was a pop artist of the New York School, reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art.

Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby: (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball.