Larry Richard Williams (born October 6, 1942) is an American author, stock and commodity trader, and 1970s–80s political candidate in the state of Montana.

[11] His son, Jason, a psychiatrist, has written a book on the personality of winning traders, The Mental Edge in Trading.

[12] In November 2014, at the Traders Expo in Las Vegas, Larry Williams recorded a series of four videos discussing his 50+ years of trading.

In 2018, he appeared as a guest on the NPR economics podcast Planet Money to discuss the story of his tax protest, extradition and trial.

[13] Williams funds a six-figure scholarship at the University of Oregon in honor of his college professor, Max Wales, restricted to "journalism and communication students who... have demonstrated creative talent, but may not have a high grade point average.