Larry Leon Palmer (July 13, 1949 – April 21, 2021)[1][2] was an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2012 to 2015.

He served as vice consul in the Dominican Republic (1982–1984), and then as personnel officer in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Asuncion, Paraguay, from 1984 to 1986.

[6] In 1989, Palmer became a Pearson Fellow, serving as assistant to the president of the University of Texas at El Paso.

[9] On September 19, 2010, President Hugo Chávez announced on his weekly TV program that he would not allow Larry Palmer to take up his post in Caracas.

[11] Palmer was appointed to serve as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean in 2012.