List of people from Long Beach, California

The following notable people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Long Beach, California.

Sports people

• Alan Ashby: former professional baseball catcher
• Antoine Cason: football player
• Beans Reardon: baseball umpire
• Billie Jean King: tennis Grand Slam winner
• Bob Lemon: baseball player and manager, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
• Bobby Grich: baseball player
• Brian Scalabrine: basketball player
• Carl Weathers: football player and actor
• Chase Utley: baseball player
• Chris Gwynn: baseball player
• Christian Wood: basketball player
• Doug Krikorian: sportswriter
• Ed Lytle: baseball player
• Greta Andersen: 1948 Olympic swimming gold medalist, and long-distance swimmer, originally from Denmark
• J. P. Crawford: Major League Baseball player
• James McDonald: baseball player
• Jason Kapono: basketball player
• Jason Leffler NASCAR driver
• Joe Maddon: Major League Baseball manager
• Justin Turner: baseball third baseman
• Ken Block: professional rally driver
• Landry Fields: former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and currently the general manager of the Atlanta Hawks
• Lisa Fernandez: three-time Olympic softball gold medalist
• Lynne Cox: long-distance open-water swimmer and writer
• Marquez Pope: National Football League figure
• Matt Nieto: ice hockey player
• Matt Treanor: baseball player
• McKayla Maroney: artistic gymnast
• Milton Bradley: baseball player
• Misty May-Treanor: professional beach volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist
• Quinton Bell: National Football League player
• Russell Westbrook: basketball player
• Sara Hughes: beach volleyball player
• Tammy Leibl: beach volleyball player
• Terry Kennedy: skateboarder
• Tiny Broadwick: pioneering female parachutist
• Tommy Nance: Major league baseball pitcher
• Tony Gwynn: Hall of Fame baseball player
• Travis d'Arnaud: Major League Baseball player
• Walt Faulkner: race car driver
• Willie McGinest: football player, three-time Super Bowl champion

Entertainment

• Russell Allen: member of progressive metal band Symphony X
• Adrian Young: musician, songwriter and drummer
• Brooks Wackerman: musician, songwriter and drummer
• Dick Christie: actor
• 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
• J Boog: American Samoan reggae singer
• Michael Burger: actor, comedian, and game show host
• 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
• Charlet Chung: actress
• Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
• Helios Creed: guitarist and singer
• Scout Taylor-Compton, actress
• Jonathan Davis: lead singer for KoЯn
• Shane Dawson: YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, writer, and musician
• Tray Deee: rapper from Tha Eastsidaz
• Scott Devours: drummer and songwriter
• 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
• Kayla Ewell: actress
• Goldie Loc: rapper from Tha Eastsidaz
• Isidora Goreshter: actress
• half•alive (consisting of musicians Josh Taylor, Brett Kramer, and J. Tyler Johnson): indie pop band
• Jeff Hanneman, Slayer guitarist
• Ricky Harris, actor and producer
• LBC Crew (consisting of rappers Bad Azz, Lil' C-Style, and Techniec)
• Donna Hilbert: poet
• James Hilton: author, wrote 1937 novel Lost Horizon
• John Lee Hooker: blues singer
• Marilyn Horne: opera singer
• Thelma Houston: R&B singer
• Gabriel Iglesias: stand-up comedian
• Robert Irwin: artist
• Sally Kellerman: actress
• DeForest Kelley: Star Trek actor
• Greg Laswell: musician
• Vicki Lawrence: comedian and actress
• 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.
• Yolanda Pérez: singer-songwriter
• Jenni Rivera: singer, television personality
• Peggy Ryan: dancer and actress
• Upton Sinclair: author
• Michael Stuhlbarg: actor
• Dylan and Cole Sprouse: actors, The Suite Life on Deck
• Frank Ocean: American singer, songwriter, and rapper.
• Vince Staples: rapper
• Norma Tanega: folksinger-songwriter
• Tiffani Thiessen: actress
• Mike Vallely: skateboarder, musician Black Flag
• Maitland Ward: actress
• Snoop Dogg: songwriter, actor,and rapper
• Warren G: songwriter and rapper
• Nate Dogg: rapper, songwriter, and singer
• Nicolas Cage: American actor
• Bo Derek: actress
• Jennette McCurdy: Former actress
• Bradley Nowell: Lead singer, and guitarist for the band Sublime (band)
• Isidora Goreshter: actress
• Giveon: singer and songwriter*
• Rival Sons: rock band
• Lupillo Rivera: Mexican-American singer and songwriter
• Paloma Ford: R&B singer
• Kap G: Mexican-American rapper
• Sandy West: Singer and drummer
• Andy Martin: Jazz trombonist
• Laurie Lewis: Singer and musician
• Allie Goertz: Musician and writer

Other

• John Mack Faragher: American historian and author
• Annabel Parlett McMillin - American First Lady of Guam.
• Bayless Conley: televangelist
• Charleen Kinser: toy-designer
• Charlie Beck: retired LAPD chief
• 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
• Edwin J. Hill: Medal of Honor recipient
• Elizabeth Milbank Anderson: philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education; her house is now the Long Beach Museum of Art
• Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): murder victim (Originally from Boston, Massachusetts)
• Frank Merriam: Governor of California, 1934–1939
• George Deukmejian: Governor of California, 1983–1991
• Grace Olive Wiley: herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes
• Greg Laurie: televangelist
• Isaac C. Kidd: Medal of Honor recipient
• Jacqueline Bishop: artist
• Jesse James: custom motorcycle and car builder, West Coast Choppers and Monster Garage
• Julio Salgado, Mexican artist
• Lon Milo DuQuette, writer
• Long Gone John: entrepreneur, owner and CEO of Sympathy for the Record Industry
• Mark Ragins: American psychiatrist in the recovery movement, founding member of the Village ISA
• Matt Welch, blogger and journalist
• Meredith Thompson: law enforcement special agent
• Opie Ortiz, artist
• Paula Jones: Civil Servant
• Richard H. Leigh: four-star admiral
• San Kim Sean - martial artist
• Tarek El Moussa: real estate investor and television personality
• William F. Prisk: California State Senator, editor-publisher of Long Beach Press-Telegram
• William John Cox: public interest attorney, author and political activist

See also

• List of mayors of Long Beach

References