Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP).

LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. The company has an annual turnover of approximately $300 million. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office often. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt.

Larry Claxton Flynt was born on November 1, 1942 in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, to Claxton Flynt and Edith (Arnett) Flynt. Flynt's family was destitute; he claims Magoffin County was the poorest in the nation at the time . He has a younger brother named Jimmy Ray Flynt, born June 20, 1948. His father was a soldier who fought in the Second World War, so Flynt was raised by his mother until 1945. In 1952 his parents divorced and he went to live with his mother in Hamlet, Indiana. His brother Jimmy went to live with his maternal grandmother. Two years later, Larry returned to live in Lakeville with his father because he did not get along with his mother's new boyfriend.