• Source: 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


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
Walt Faulkner: race car driver
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
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)
Nicolas Cage: actor
Mary Castle: actress
George Chakiris: Academy Award-winning actor
Dick Christie: actor
Charlet Chung: actress
Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
Helios Creed: guitarist and singer
Jonathan Davis: lead singer for KoЯn
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
Don Dixon: astronomical artist
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
David Lau: poet
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
Scout Taylor-Compton: actress
Tiffani Thiessen: actress
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
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
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
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)
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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