Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed Jewish mother. His biological father was an Italian-American See more

1977–1994
During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His first project included a database for the CIA, code-named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by a paper written by See more

Ellison was critical of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, saying that "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly … See more

In 1997, Ellison received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
In 2013, Ellison was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame.
In 2019, the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative … See more

In 1992 Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center. In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison … See more

According to reports in 2019, Larry Ellison has funded illegal annexation projects in East Jerusalem that received criticism from Palestinians as well as Israeli peace activists and archaeologists. Additionally, in 2019 a $1 billion lawsuit was filed against several … See more

Marriages
Ellison has been married six times:
1. Ellison married Adda Quinn in 1967. They divorced in 1974.
2. Ellison … See more