Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page, born 26 March 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan, is the co-founder of Google (1998) and Alphabet Inc. (2015). He was Google's first CEO (1998–2001), again from 2011 to 2015, and then Alphabet CEO from 2015 to 2019.

His Parents

Father: Carl Victor Page Sr. (1938 – 1996) — Professor of Computer Science at Michigan State University; pioneer in artificial intelligence. Died when Larry was 23.

Mother: Gloria Page née Hartwig — Jewish-American; computer programming instructor at Michigan State.

His Brother

Carl Victor Page Jr., born 1962, is Larry's elder brother — a serial entrepreneur and an early investor in his brother's company. He co-founded eGroups (sold to Yahoo for $432 million in 2000).

His Wife: Lucy Southworth

Lucinda "Lucy" Southworth, born 1978, is an American computer scientist (PhD in biomedical informatics from Stanford). She and Larry married in December 2007 on Richard Branson's private Necker Island in the Caribbean.

Their Children

The couple have two sons, both born in the 2010s — names kept private.

The Page Family Tree at a Glance

Parents: Carl Page Sr. (1938 – 1996, MSU CS professor); Gloria Page née Hartwig (MSU programming instructor).

Brother: Carl Page Jr. (b. 1962) — entrepreneur, eGroups founder.

Wife: Lucinda "Lucy" Southworth (b. 1978, Stanford PhD); married December 2007.

Children: Two sons (private).

Larry Page:

  • Born 26 March 1973, East Lansing, MI
  • East Lansing Montessori; East Lansing High School
  • Michigan State University (B.Sc. Computer Engineering, 1995, with honours)
  • Stanford University (M.S. Computer Science, 1998; PhD left incomplete to found Google)
  • Co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, September 1998
  • CEO of Google (1998–2001, 2011–2015); CEO of Alphabet 2015–2019
  • Stepped back to focus on private projects including Kitty Hawk (electric aviation)

What the Page Family Story Teaches Us

Two computer-science academic parents at Michigan State. An entrepreneur elder brother who built and sold his own successful company. A computer-scientist wife. A son who, raised by two CS professors, went on to invent the modern internet's most consequential search algorithm.

For every family — large or small, famous or otherwise — the Page story carries the same lesson. The professions parents do in adjacent fields can produce children who combine them in new ways. Larry's father did AI, his mother taught programming — and Larry's PageRank algorithm is, in essence, both. Write down what your parents did. The combinations they create are the seeds of what their children later build.

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