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Smith was born in 1947 in Tampa, Florida, [1] and attended Thomas Richard Robinson High School in Tampa. [2] As a junior in 1963, Smith was the star running back on the Robinson Knights high school football team, and led his team to Florida's first-ever state championship football game before losing to the Coral Gables Cavaliers 16–14. [3]
Lawrence Smith (June 11, 1952 – December 19, 2014) was a pioneering American musician and hip hop record producer. He is best known for his co-productions (with Russell Simmons ) of Run-DMC 's Run-D.M.C. (1984) and King of Rock (1985) and his solo production of Whodini 's Escape (1984) and Back in Black (1986).
Larry Smith (June 23, 1938 [1] – February 19, 2018) was an American puppeteer and producer of children's programming in the Cincinnati area since 1957. His most notable work was a popular afternoon puppet/cartoon show airing on WXIX Television. Smith was raised in Dayton, Ohio. At the age of five he began a lifelong fascination with puppets ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Larry Dean Smith (September 12, 1939 – January 28, 2008) [1] was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Tulane University (1976–1979), the University of Arizona (1980–1986), the University of Southern California (1987–1992), and the University of Missouri (1994–2000).
Larry Grayson Smith (June 2, 1940 – August 12, 1973) was a professional stock car racing driver. He made his debut in the 1971 World 600 in the #92 Ford , finishing 22nd. He would go on to run three more races that year, acquiring one top-ten finish.
Larry Earnest Wright (April 17, 1949 – January 27, 2024), better known under alias L. W. Wright, was an American confidence trickster. In 1982, he posed as a stock car racing driver to compete in the Winston 500 , a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway .