The following notable people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Long Beach, California.
Sports Luis Aguilar: soccer player Greta Andersen: 1948 Olympic swimming gold medalist, and long-distance swimmer, originally from Denmark Alan Ashby: former professional baseball catcher Quinton Bell: National Football League player Ken Block: professional rally driver, co-founder of DC Shoes Milton Bradley: baseball player Tiny Broadwick: pioneering female parachutist Antoine Cason: football player Lynne Cox: long-distance open-water swimmer and writer J. P. Crawford: Major League Baseball player Travis d'Arnaud: Major League Baseball player Lisa Fernandez: three-time Olympic softball gold medalist Landry Fields: former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and currently the general manager of the Atlanta Hawks Bobby Grich: baseball player Chris Gwynn: baseball player Tony Gwynn: Hall of Fame baseball player Sara Hughes: beach volleyball player Jason Kapono: basketball player Terry Kennedy: skateboarder Billie Jean King: tennis Grand Slam winner Doug Krikorian: sportswriter Jason Leffler: NASCAR driver Tammy Leibl: beach volleyball player 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 Tommy Nance: Major League Baseball pitcher Matt Nieto: ice hockey player Marquez Pope: National Football League figure Beans Reardon: baseball umpire Charles Roberts: CFL running back Brian Scalabrine: basketball player Matt Treanor: baseball player Justin Turner: baseball third baseman Chase Utley: baseball player Carl Weathers: football player and actor Russell Westbrook: basketball player Christian Wood: basketball player
Entertainment Millicent Borges Accardi: writer, National Endowment for the Arts award for poetry Russell Allen: member of progressive metal band Symphony X Richard Bach: author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull Bad Azz: hip hop artist J Boog: American Samoan reggae singer Jan Burke: mystery author, 2000 Edgar Award for Best Novel (for Bones) Nicolas Cage: actor George Chakiris: Academy Award-winning actor Dick Christie: actor Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player Helios Creed: guitarist and singer Shane Dawson: YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, writer, and musician Tray Deee: rapper from Tha Eastsidaz Bo Derek: actress Scott Devours: drummer and songwriter Cameron Diaz: actress Nate Dogg: rapper, songwriter, and singer Snoop Dogg: songwriter, actor, and rapper Domino: rapper The Dove Shack (consisting of rappers C-Knight, Bo-Roc and 2Scoops): G-funk/hip hop group Melissa Etheridge: rock singer Kayla Ewell: actress Paloma Ford: R&B singer Warren G: songwriter and rapper Giveon: singer and songwriter Allie Goertz: musician and writer 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 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 Kap G: Mexican-American rapper Sally Kellerman: actress DeForest Kelley: Star Trek actor Greg Laswell: musician Vicki Lawrence: comedian and actress LBC Crew (consisting of rappers Bad Azz, Lil' C-Style, and Techniec) Laurie Lewis: singer and musician Camryn Manheim: actress Andy Martin: jazz trombonist Jennette McCurdy: former actress; author Wendi McLendon-Covey: actress Robert Mitchum: actor Ericson Alexander Molano: gospel singer Manny Montana: actor Bradley Nowell: lead singer and guitarist for the band Sublime Frank Ocean: singer, songwriter, and rapper 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 Rival Sons: rock band Jenni Rivera: singer, television personality Lupillo Rivera: Mexican-American singer and songwriter Peggy Ryan: dancer and actress Upton Sinclair: author Dylan and Cole Sprouse: actors, The Suite Life on Deck Vince Staples: rapper Michael Stuhlbarg: actor Norma Tanega: folksinger-songwriter Tay-K: rapper and convicted murderer Scout Taylor-Compton: actress Tiffani Thiessen: actress Twinz: rappers Mike Vallely: skateboarder, musician with Black Flag Brooks Wackerman: musician, songwriter and drummer Maitland Ward: actress Sandy West: singer and drummer Adrian Young: musician, songwriter and drummer
Other Elizabeth Milbank Anderson: philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education; her house is now the Long Beach Museum of Art Charlie Beck: retired LAPD chief Jacqueline Bishop: artist Bob Brogoitti: Oregon state legislator, born in Long Beach Dorothy Buffum Chandler: Los Angeles philanthropist (wife of Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times) and namesake of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Bayless Conley: televangelist 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 Lon Milo DuQuette: writer Tarek El Moussa: real estate investor and television personality John Mack Faragher: American historian and author Robert Garcia: U.S. representative; former mayor of Long Beach and Long Beach city councillor Tyler Haney, founder of Outdoor Voices Edwin J. Hill: Medal of Honor recipient 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 Paula Jones: civil servant Isaac C. Kidd: Medal of Honor recipient Charleen Kinser: toy designer Randy Kraft: serial killer Greg Laurie: televangelist Richard H. Leigh: four-star admiral Annabel Parlett McMillin: First Lady of Guam Frank Merriam: governor of California, 1934–1939 Opie Ortiz: artist William F. Prisk: California state senator, editor-publisher of Long Beach Press-Telegram Mark Ragins: psychiatrist in the recovery movement, founding member of the Village ISA Julio Salgado: Mexican artist San Kim Sean: martial artist Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): murder victim (originally from Boston, Massachusetts) Christopher Tyng: television composer Meredith Thompson: law enforcement special agent Matt Welch: blogger and journalist Grace Olive Wiley: herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes
See also List of mayors of Long Beach
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