Larry S. Gibson (born March 22, 1942) is a law professor, lawyer, political organizer, and historian.

He currently serves as a professor at the Francis King Carey School of Law in the University of Maryland, Baltimore; where he has been on the faculty for 50 years.

Gibson graduated from Howard University in 1964, where he served as student body president and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

[1] In 1971, Gibson filed a motion to try Charles Wyche separately from a group of Black Panther Party members accused of the kidnap and murder of Eugene Anderson.

[6] On November 14, 2019, Larry S. Gibson was named the Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at University of Maryland, Baltimore.

He went on to work on the local campaigns of Milton Allen for State's Attorney, William H. Murphy for judge , Paul Chester for Court Clerk, and Wayne Curry for County Executive.

[11] Under President Jimmy Carter, Gibson served as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

[5] In 2005, Larry Gibson worked with U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings to appeal to the Maryland State Legislature to rename Baltimore-Washington International Airport after Thurgood Marshall.