Larry Page

Page in 2006, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Lawrence Edward Page

Place of Birth: Lansing, Michigan, U.S.

Date of Birth: March 26, 1973

Ethnicity:
*father – English, some Irish, distant German and French
*mother – Ashkenazi Jewish

Larry Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He founded Google with Sergey Brin, in 1998. He has served as CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, and co-created PageRank, a search ranking algorithm for Google.

Larry is the son of Gloria (Weinstein) and Carl Victor Page. His father was a professor at the Michigan State University. His mother worked at the Lyman Briggs College under the MSU. Larry’s mother was Jewish. Larry is not religious.

Larry is married to Lucinda Southworth, with whom he has two children. Lucinda is the sister of actress and model Carrie Southworth. He became a New Zealand citizen in 2021.

Larry’s paternal grandfather was Carl Davis Page (the son of Henry Horace Page and Annie Drucilla Pardue/Perdue). Carl was born in Tennessee. Henry was the son of John D. Page and Emily Sullivan. Annie was the daughter of Jefferson Davis “Jeff” Pardue and Mary Elizabeth McCaig.

Larry’s paternal grandmother was Pauline Aquilla Chipman (the daughter of James Edward Chipman and Allie May Oxley). Pauline was born in Missouri. James was the son of Joseph H. Chipman and Sarah A. Miller. Allie was the daughter of Aquilla V. Oxley and Mariah Caroline Riddle.

Larry is a second cousin, once removed, of pin-up model Bettie Page. Larry’s paternal great-grandmother, Annie Drucilla Perdue, was the twin sister of Bettie’s paternal grandmother, Emily Corilla Pardue. They married brothers Henry Horace Page and John Benton Page, Larry’s great-grandfather and Bettie’s grandfather, respectively.

Larry’s maternal grandfather was named Samuel Weinstein. Samuel moved to Israel.

Larry’s maternal grandmother was Mollie Shrensel (the daughter of Sam Shrensel and Rebecca Helfgot). Rebecca was the daughter of Avrum Meyer Helfgot and Malka “Mollie.”

Sources: Information about Larry’s family – https://tao221.wordpress.com

Genealogy of Larry Page – https://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Page family (through Bettie Page’s father) – https://www.wikitree.com

Genealogies of Larry’s paternal grandparents, Carl Davis Page and Pauline Aquilla Chipman – https://www.findagrave.com

Genealogy of Larry’s mother (focusing on her own mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com