List of people from Long Beach, California facts for kids

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

• Adrian Young: musician, songwriter and drummer
• Brooks Wackerman: 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
• 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
• Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
• Scout Taylor-Compton, actress
• Jonathan Davis: lead singer for KoЯn
• Shane Dawson: YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, writer, and musician
• Tray Deee: rapper from Tha 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
• 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
• 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.
• Jenni Rivera: singer, television personality
• 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

Other

• John Mack Faragher: American historian and author
• Annabel Parlett McMillin - American First Lady of Guam.
• Bayless Conley: televangelist
• 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
• 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
• Meredith Thompson: law enforcement special agent
• 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