List of people from Los Angeles

The following is a list of notable people who were born in, or are residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Los Angeles, California. Those born in Los Angeles have their names printed in bold. Note that Los Angeles natives are also referred to as Angelenos.fact|date=September 2007

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A

*Willie Aames – actor
*Paula Abdul – singer, choreographer
*Ben Affleck – actor
*Amy Adams – actress
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*Francia Almendarez – actress
*Herb Alpert – musician, composer
*Garret Anderson – professional baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
*Tiffanie Anderson – singer from "Girlicious"
*Mike Andrews (1943-) – major league baseball player
*Julie Andrews – actress
*Angelyne – "celebrity"
*Jennifer Aniston – actress
*Eric Appel – writer
*Christina Applegate – actress
*Anne Archer – actress
*Robin Arcuri– actress
*Desi Arnaz Jr. – actor, musician
*Lucie Arnaz – actress
*Nnamdi Asomugha – professional football player for the Oakland Raiders
*Mackenzie Astin – actor
*Sean Astin – actor

B

*Fay Bainter – actress
*Diane Baker – actress
*Tyra Banks – fashion model
*Carol Barbee – television producer, television writer
*Andrea Barber – actress
*Drew Barrymore – actress
*John Drew Barrymore – actor
*Earl Battey, (1935-2003) – major league baseball player
*Michael Bay – director
*Beck – singer
*Ed Begley Jr. – actor
*Leo Beiethaupt - auto racer
*John Beradino (1917-1996), – major league baseball player and actor
*Justin Berfield – actor
*Busby Berkeley – choreographer, director
*Candice Bergen – actress
*Corbin Bernsen – actor
*Barbara Billingsley – actress
*Thora Birch – actress
*Francesca Lia Block – author
*Blues Boy Willie – blues singer and musician
*Chastity Bono – gay rights activist
*Richard Boone – actor
*Kate Bosworth – actress
*Leigh Brackett – writer
*Milton Bradley – professional baseball player
*Nicholas Brendon – actor
*Eileen Brennan – actress
*Beau Bridges – actor
*Jeff Bridges – actor
*James Brolin – actor
*Josh Brolin – actor
*Alton Brown – chef, television host
*Julie Brown – actress
*Chris Brown- Singer
*Sandra Bullock – actress
*Charles Bukowski – author
*Jake Busey – actor

C

*Scott Caan – actor
*John Cage – composer
*Rory Calhoun – actor
*Stephen J. Cannell – director, writer, producer
*Belinda Carlisle – singer
*David Carradine – actor
*Keith Carradine – actor
*Robert Carradine – actor
*Leo Carrillo – actor
*Helena Bonham Carter – actress
*Patrick Cassidy – actor
*Shaun Cassidy – singer, actor, producer
*Lacey Chabert – actress
*Richard Chamberlain – actor
*Marge Champion – actress, dancer
*Charles Chaplin Jr. – actor
*Sydney Chaplin – actor
*Jack Chick – evangelist
*Warren Christopher – diplomat
*Liz Claman – CNBC anchor
*Mindy Cohn – actress
*Natalie Cole – singer
*Ry Cooder – musician, composer
*Jackie Coogan – actor
*Coolio – rap artist
*Jackie Cooper – actor
*Kevin Corcoran – actor, director, producer
*Noreen Corcoran – former actress and dancer
*Kevin Costner – actor
*Pat Corrales (1941-) – major league baseball
*Miranda Cosgrove actress, singer player and manager
*Al Cowens (1951- ) – major league baseball player
*Nikki Cox – actress
*Johnny Crawford – actor
*Richard Crenna – actor, director
*James Cromwell – director
*David Crosby – musician
*Gary Crosby – actor
*Andraé Crouch – musician
*Ice Cube – musician, composer, actor
*Jamie Lee Curtis – actressMiley Cyrus singer/actress

D

*Elizabeth Daily – actress
*Harry Danning – major league baseball player
*Kim Darby – actress
*Ben Davidson – American football player
*Eric Davis – professional baseball player
*Roxann Dawson – actress
*Frances Dee – actress
*Gloria DeHaven – actress
*Milton DeLugg – composer, band leader
*John Densmore – musician
*John Derek – actor
*Laura Dern – actress
*Zooey Deschanel – actress
*Leonardo DiCaprio – actor
*Roy Edward Disney – producer
*Bobby Doerr (1918 - ) – major league baseball player
*Nate Dogg – rap artist
*Micky Dolenz – actor, musician
*Eric Dolphy – musician
*Tony Dow – actor
*Morton Downey Jr. – talk show host
*Daryl Dragon – musician
*Dr. Dre – musician, composer
*Brian Downing (1950- ) – major league baseball player
*Elonka Dunin – cryptographer, video game developer
*Clea DuVall – actress

E

*Larry Elder – radio personality
*Jenna Elfman – actress
*Bret Easton Ellis – novelist
*Dock Ellis (1945- ) – major league baseball player
*James Ellroy – author
*Eazy-E – rapper

F

*Mia Farrow – actress
*David Faustino – actor
*Carrie Fisher – actress, writer, producer
*Rhonda Fleming – actress
*Bridget Fonda – actress
*Harrison Ford – actor
*Jodie Foster – actress, director, producer
*Stan Freberg – voice actor
*Brendan Fraser– actor

G

*Harry Gamboa, Jr. – artist
*John Gavin – actor
*Mark Geragos – criminal defense attorney
*Balthazar Getty – actor
*Melissa Gilbert – actress, director, labor union president
*Glasses Malone – rapper
*Sharon Gless – actress
*Joe Gold – Founder of Gold's Gym
*Tony Goldwyn – actor
*Pancho Gonzales – tennis star
*Jaime Gonzalez – medicine first-year medical student
*Dexter Gordon – composer
*Joe Gordon – professional baseball player
*Joseph Gordon-Levitt – actor
*Gloria Grahame – actress
*Sandi Griffiths – singer
*Josh Groban – singer
*Tony Gwynn – professional baseball player
*Jake Gyllenhaal – actor
*Maggie Gyllenhaal – actress
*Genie, feral child
*The Game rapper and actor

H

*James Hahn – former mayor of Los Angeles
*Randa Haines – director, producer
*H. R. Haldeman – Watergate scandal figure, White House Chief of Staff
*Alan Hale Jr. – actor
*Jack Haley Jr. – actor, director, writer, producer
*Mariska Hargitay – actress
*Ray Harryhausen – special effects director
*John "Morrison" Hennigan – professional wrestler
*Barbara Hershey – actress
*Paris Hilton – actress, author, recording artist and model
*Jerome Hines – actor
*Dustin Hoffman – actor
*Gaby Hoffmann – actress
*Tim Holt – actor
*James Horner – composer
*Robert Horton – actor
*C. Thomas Howell – actor
*Kate Hudson – actress
*D.L. Hughley – actor, comedian
*Helen Hunt – actress
*William Hung (American Idol)

I

*Amanda Ireton – Comedian
*Lance Ito – judge (most famous in the O.J. Simpson Trial)

J

*Etta James – singer
*Keyshawn Johnson – American football player
*Michael Johns – American Idol (season 7) contestant
*Angelina Jolie – actress
*Florence Griffith Joyner – track and field runner
*Jack Jones – singer, actor
*Tommy Lee Jones – actor
*Jerry Jones – American football executive, owner of the Dallas Cowboys
*Marion Jones – athlete, winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics
*Florence Griffith Joyner – athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist
*John Morrison – professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment

K

*Daryn Kagan – CNN anchor
*Chris Kattan – actor, comedian
*Julie Kavner – actress, voice actor
*Diane Keaton – actress
*Michael Keaton – actor
*Jack Kemp – American football player, politician
*Val Kilmer – actor
*Holly King – actress
*Suge Knight – record producer
*Wayne Knight – actor
*Dave Koz – composer, musician
*Robby Krieger – musician
*Lisa Kudrow – actress
*Henry Kuttner – writer
*Kerry King – guitarist of Slayer

L

*Shia LaBeouf – actor
*Matthew Laborteaux – actor
*Patrick Labyorteaux – actor
*Carlos Lacamara – actor, playwright
*Alan Ladd, Jr. – director, producer
*Juliet Landau – actress
*Avril Lavigne – musician, actress
*Christopher B. Landon – screenwriter
*Michele Lee – actress
*Jason Scott Lee – actor
*Jennifer Jason Leigh – actress
*Chris Lemmon – actor
*Jared Leto – actor and musician
*Shannon Leto – musician and socialite
*Juliette Lewis – actress
*Allan Linder – visual artist
*Roger Linn – inventor of the digital drum machine
*Tone Loc – musician
*Heather Locklear – actress
*Lauren London actress
*Jon Lovitz – actor
*Charles Herbert Lowe – biologist
*Steve Lukather – musician

M

*James MacArthur – actor
*Roger Mahony – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles
*"'Wendie Malick – actress
*Cheech Marin – comedian, musician, actor
*Biddy Mason – pioneer African-American businesswoman
*Leo McCarey – actor, composer, director, writer, producer
*Kent McCord – actor
*Maureen McCormick – actress
*Carey McWilliams – writer, editor
*Kristy McNichol – actress
*Katharine McPhee – singer
*Wendy Melvoin – musician
*Lee Meriwether – actress, Miss America
*Denise Milani – glamour model
*Michael Milken – financier & philanthropist
*Penelope Ann Miller – actress
*Yvette Mimieux – actress
*Liza Minnelli – actress, singer
*Andrew Mishkin – commander of the Mars rover
*Christopher Mitchum – actor, writer, director
*Marilyn Monroe – actress
*Warren Moon – American football player
*Chris Masters – Professional Wrestler
*Terry Moore – actress
*William R. Moses – actor
*Walter Mosley – novelist
*Megan Mullally – actress
*Keith Munyan – photographer
*Michael Murphy – actor
*Don Murray – actor
*Eddie Murray – professional baseball player
*MURS – noted rapper
*Martin Edmondson – noted artist
*Thom Mayne – noted architect

N

*Laraine Newman – actress
*Randy Newman – composer, musician
*Thomas Newman – composer
*Julie Newmar – actress
*Larry Niven – science fiction writer
*Jeanette Nolan – actress
*Sheree North – actress
*Christian Nyby – producer, film editor, director

O

*Rockne S. O'Bannon – director, writer, producer
*John O'Brien – football player
*Ryan O'Neal – actor
*Tatum O'Neal – actress
*Bob Ojeda – baseball player
*Masi Oka – actor on NBC's "Heroes"
*Edward James Olmos – actor, writer, producer, director
*Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – actresses
*Haley Joel Osment – actor
*Emily Osment – actress

P

*Bill Paxton – actor
*David Paich – musician
*Gwyneth Paltrow – actress
*Terry Pendleton – professional baseball player
*People Under the Stairs– Underground Hip-Hop Group
*Melina Perez professional wrestler
*Chynna Phillips – singer
*Paul Pierce professional Basketball player of the Boston Celtics
*Mike Post – composer
*Tyrone Power, Jr. – actor
*Stefanie Powers – actress
*Freddie Prinze Jr. – actor
*Rain Pryor – actress
*Tayshaun Prince– NBA Detroit Pistons
*Bill Pullman – actor

R

*Greg Randall – professional TV chef
*Dennis Rasmussen – professional baseball player
*Ron Reagan – television host, ballet dancer
*Harold Rhodes – inventor of the Rhodes piano
*Giovanni Ribisi – actor
*Sally Ride – astronaut
*Herb Ritts – director
*Gary Ross – film director
*Katharine Ross – actress
*Charles Ruggles – actor
*Patrice Rushen – singer, musician

*Katey Sagal – actress
*Susan Saint James – actress
*Jay Sandrich – director, producer
*Dick Sargent – actor
*William Schallert – actor
*Jason Schwartzman – actor, musician
*Melody Thomas Scott – actress
*Tupac Shakur – noted rapper and actor born in baltimore grew up in queens New York moved to oakland
*Harry Shearer – actor, comedian, musician, composer
*Brad Sherman – congressman
*Joel Siegel – film critic
*James Sikking – actor
*Jonathan Silverman – actor
*John Singleton – director, writer, producer
*Leonard Slatkin – conductor
*Erika Slezak – actress
*Duke Snider – professional baseball player
*Randy Spelling – actor
*Tori Spelling – actress
*Robert Stack – actor
*Adlai Stevenson – politician
*Earl Stevenson – actor
*Michelle Stith – President, Church of Scientology in Los Angeles
*Jill St. John – actress
*Dean Stockwell – actor
*Madeleine Stowe – actress
*Darryl Strawberry – professional baseball player
*Jeff Stryker – pornographic film actor
*Cree Summer – actress
*Adam Summerfield – Musician, Author, Attorney

T

*Miiko Taka –, actress
*George Takei – actor
*Russ Tamblyn – actor, dancer
*Buck Taylor – actor
*Elizabeth Taylor – actress (UK-born but grew up in Los Angeles)
*Shirley Temple – actress
*Tere Tereba – Fashion designer, writer, actress
*Robin Thicke – singer
*Jennifer Tilly – actress
*Michael Tilson Thomas – conductor
*Dean Torrence – musician
*Robert Towne – director, writer, producer
*Larry Tripplett – American football player
*Lisa Tucker – Singer

U

*Uriel Saenz – fashion designer

V

*Ritchie Valens – musician, composer
*Leslie Van Houten – Charles Manson acolyte
*Gwen Verdon – actress, dancer
*Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris - World War II flying ace and founder of the United States Navy Blue Angels
*Victoria – professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment

W

*Andrew W.K. – musician, composer
*Robert Wagner – actor
*Lindsay Wagner – actress
*Tyler Walker - NASCAR driver
*Burt Ward – actor
*Rick Ware - NASCAR driver
*Earl Warren – Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States
*Doodles Weaver – comedian
*Jack Webb – actor, producer
*Michael Welch – actor
*Ming-Na Wen – actress
*Sylvester Weaver – television executive
*Edward Weston – photographer
*Wil Wheaton – actor
*Anson Williams – actor
*Anthony A. Williams – mayor of Washington, D.C.
*Cindy Williams – actress
*Esther Williams – actress, swimmer
*Rita Wilson – actress
*Paul Winfield – actor
*Ilene Woods – actress
*Anna May Wong – actress
*Dorell Wright – NBA Small forward for the Miami Heat
*Jamal Wright – rapper
*Noah Wyle – actor
*Meg White – musician

Y

*Ace Young - singer
*Elliott Yamin - singer

Z

*Richard D. Zanuck – film producer
*Ahmet Zappa – musician
*Dweezil Zappa – musician

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