Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong (1913-1977), also known as "Seven Fingers", was a Filipino-American labor organizer. He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage, that became known as the Delano grape strike. He has been described as "one of the fathers of the West Coast labor movement." He is regarded as a key figure of the Asian American movement.
This name is borne by novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936). His well-known screenplays include "The Last Picture Show" (1971), for which he won a BAFTA Award, and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), for which he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award. He is also the author of the Lonesome Dove saga, the first, "Lonesome Dove", won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
One famous bearer is Larry Mullen Junior, the drummer of U2.
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I can't believe nobody has yet to put Larry King on here! He's that news reporter who has his own news show "Larry King Live." His real name is Lawrence Harvey Zeiger.