Editing Larry Ellison (section)

{{short description|American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1944)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Larry Ellison
| image              = Larry Ellison picture.png
| caption            = Ellison in 2016
| birth_name         = Lawrence Joseph Ellison
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1944|8|17}}
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| education          = {{ubl|[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] (no degree)|[[University of Chicago]] (no degree)}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|[[Businessman]]|[[investor]]}}
| title              = [[Organizational founder|Co-founder]], [[Chair (officer)|executive chairman]] and [[chief technology officer|CTO]] of [[Oracle Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/executives/ellison/index.html |title=Lawrence J. Ellison – Executive Biography |publisher=[[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] |access-date=July 17, 2015 |archive-date=July 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708103632/http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/executives/ellison/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
| spouse             = {{plainlist|1=
* {{marriage|Adda Quinn|1967|1974|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Nancy Wheeler Jenkins|1977|1978|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Barbara Boothe|1983|1986|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Melanie Craft|2003|2010|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Nikita Kahn| |2020|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Jolin (Keren) Zhu|2023|}}
}}
| children           = {{plainlist|1=
* [[David Ellison]]
* [[Megan Ellison]]
}}
}}

'''Lawrence Joseph Ellison''' (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded software company [[Oracle Corporation]]. He was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014 and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman.

As of May 2025, Ellison is the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, according to ''[[Bloomberg Billionaires Index]]'', with an estimated net worth of US$189 billion,<ref name="larry_net">{{cite news |title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Larry Ellison |website=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/lawrence-j-ellison/ |access-date=May 29, 2025 |archive-date=December 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216135438/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/lawrence-j-ellison/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the fourth-wealthiest person in the world according to ''[[Forbes]],'' with an estimated net worth of US$203.9 billion.<ref name="Forbes_net">{{cite news |title=The world's real-time billionares |website=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires |access-date=May 29, 2025 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211234232/https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98% of [[Lanai|Lānaʻi]], the sixth-largest island in the [[Hawaiian Islands]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/larry-ellison-island-hawaii.html |title=Larry Ellison Bought an Island in Hawaii. Now What? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 23, 2014 |last1=Mooallem |first1=Jon |access-date=January 23, 2021 |archive-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319221718/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/larry-ellison-island-hawaii.html |url-status=live }}</ref>