List of people from Long Beach, California
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The following notable people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Long Beach, California.
Sports people[]
- Greta Andersen: 1948 Olympic swimming gold medalist, and long-distance swimmer, originally from Denmark
- Milton Bradley: baseball player
- Tiny Broadwick: pioneering female parachutist[1]
- Lynne Cox: long-distance open-water swimmer and writer
- Walt Faulkner: race car driver
- Lisa Fernandez: three-time Olympic softball gold medalist
- Bobby Grich: baseball player
- Chris Gwynn: baseball player
- Tony Gwynn: Hall of Fame baseball player
- Terry Kennedy: skateboarder
- Doug Krikorian: sportswriter
- Bob Lemon: baseball player and manager, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
- Ed Lytle: baseball player
- Joe Maddon: Major League Baseball manager
- McKayla Maroney: artistic gymnast
- Misty May-Treanor: professional beach volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist
- James McDonald: baseball player
- Willie McGinest: football player, three-time Super Bowl champion
- Marquez Pope: National Football League figure
- Beans Reardon:[2] baseball umpire
- Matt Treanor: baseball player
- Chase Utley: baseball player
- Carl Weathers: football player and actor
Entertainment[]
- Adrian Young: musician, songwriter and drummer
- Millicent Borges Accardi: writer, National Endowment for the Arts award for poetry
- Fatty Arbuckle: actor
- Richard Bach: author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Bad Azz: hip hop artist
- Theda Bara: actress
- Frank Black (aka Black Francis): leader of the Pixies rock group
- Jan Burke: mystery author, 2000 Edgar Award for Best Novel (for Bones)
- Dan Castellaneta: actor and voice actor
- Mary Castle: actress
- George Chakiris: Academy Award-winning actor
- Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
- Jonathan Davis: lead singer for KoЯn
- Tray Deee: rapper from the Eastsidaz
- The Dove Shack (consisting of rappers C-Knight, Bo-Roc and 2Scoops): G-funk/hip hop group
- Cameron Diaz: actress
- Don Dixon: astronomical artist
- Domino: rapper
- Melissa Etheridge: rock singer
- Goldie Loc: rapper from the Eastsidaz
- Donna Hilbert: poet
- James Hilton: author, wrote 1937 novel Lost Horizon
- John Lee Hooker: blues singer
- bassist/musician from Alternative Rock band The Unlikely Candidates
- Marilyn Horne: opera singer
- Thelma Houston: R&B singer
- Gabriel Iglesias: stand-up comedian
- Robert Irwin: artist
- DeForest Kelley: Star Trek actor
- Vicki Lawrence: comedian and actress
- Bill Maher: actor, comedian, talk show host
- Camryn Manheim: actress
- Wendi McLendon-Covey: actress
- Robert Mitchum: actor
- Ericson Alexander Molano: gospel singer
- Manny Montana: actor
- Frances O'Connor: sideshow performer, without arms
- Ikey Owens: keyboardist of The Mars Volta
- Paulina Peavy: artist, inventor, painter, designer, sculptor, poet, writer, and lecturer.
- Upton Sinclair: author
- Dylan and Cole Sprouse: teen actors, The Suite Life on Deck
- Vince Staples: rapper
- Brendon Urie: musician, Panic! at the Disco
- Mike Vallely: skateboarder, musician Black Flag[3]
- John Wayne: actor
Other[]
- Elizabeth Milbank Anderson: philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education; her house is now the Long Beach Museum of Art
- Dorothy Buffum Chandler: Los Angeles philanthropist (wife of Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times) and namesake of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
- Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan: flew unauthorized "wrong way" flight from New York to Ireland
- William John Cox: public interest attorney, author and political activist
- George Deukmejian: Governor of California, 1983–1991
- John Mack Faragher, American historian and author[4]
- Albert P. Halfhill: father of tuna packing industry
- Edwin J. Hill: Medal of Honor recipient[5]
- Jesse James: custom motorcycle and car builder, West Coast Choppers and Monster Garage
- Paula Jones: Civil Servant
- Long Gone John: entrepreneur, owner and CEO of Sympathy for the Record Industry
- Isaac C. Kidd: Medal of Honor recipient[5]
- Richard H. Leigh: four-star admiral
- Annabel Parlett McMillin - American First Lady of Guam. [6]
- Frank Merriam: Governor of California, 1934–1939
- William F. Prisk: California State Senator, editor-publisher of Long Beach Press-Telegram
- Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): murder victim (Originally from Boston, Massachusetts)
See also[]
- List of mayors of Long Beach
References[]
- ^ "Too late for a moonwalk". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, UT. August 3, 1974. p. 2A. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- ^ Grobaty, Tim. "Column: Safe at home—Bluff Park and the Beans House • Long Beach Post News". lbpost.com.
- ^ Guzman, Richard (May 12, 2014). "Black Flag launches tour with new lead singer, Long Beach resident Mike Vallely". Press-Telegram. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ^ SCOTT, JANNY (September 25, 1993). "Times Announces Winners of Annual Book Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ a b Archbold, Rich (April 29, 2016). "Long Beach remembers Pearl Harbor and its heroes: Rich Archbold". Press Telegram.
- ^ "AU History Photograph and Print Collection". wrlc.org. June 1945. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
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