Since 1982, when I bought a book that I no longer have called The Stooge Chronicles, I've known Larry's real name to be Louis Feinberg, but Michael Fleming's 1999 The Three Stooges-An Illustrated History refers to him as LAWRENCE Feinberg. Though the name Larry is generally short for Lawrence, in the case of the Middle Stooge it's "soitenly" not the case. Maybe Fleming should've done a better job researching Larry's actual history.