Larry Wall (geboren am 27.09.1954 in Los Angeles, USA) ist der Erfinder der Programmiersprache Perl (1987, während seiner Anstellung bei Unisys) sowie das Unix-Programm patch.

Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954 in Los Angeles, USA) is the inventor of the programming language Perl (1987, while he was employed at Unisys) and the Unix program patch.