34.0546° N, 118.2482° W

LOS ANGELES

Most Famous People Born in Los Angeles, USA

Notable people
6,947
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1958
Most distinctive
Actor 4.8×

A one-industry town that happens to be the entertainment industry. Roughly a quarter of all notable births in Los Angeles work somewhere in film — actors, animators, art directors, production designers, stunt performers, cinematographers — at concentrations no other city comes close to matching. There is almost no one here born before the studios arrived, and almost everyone after is, in one way or another, on the call sheet.

Standouts

Notable Births by Decade

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What Los Angeles Is Known For

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Actor is Los Angeles's biggest profession — 26% of all notables (1,787).

Los Angeles over-indexes on actor 4.8× the global rate.

Los Angeles under-produces politician — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Actor 1,787 4.8×
  2. Football 505 0.7×
  3. Film 365 4.3×
  4. Singer 294 2.0×
  5. Baseball 287 3.6×
  6. Basket 252 2.9×
  7. Music 248 2.5×
  8. Politician 200 0.2×
  1. Actor 1,787 4.8×
  2. Screenwriter 145 4.8×
  3. Producer 88 4.4×
  4. Film 365 4.3×
  5. Baseball 287 3.6×
  6. Basket 252 2.9×
  7. Music 248 2.5×
  8. Photographer 69 2.1×
  1. Politician 200 0.2×
  2. Writer 140 0.6×
  3. Football 505 0.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Los Angeles's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000
  • Film & TV
  • Sports
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
  • Other
All6,947
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Showing 78 of 6,947 notable people

0072 POLITICIAN

Earl Warren

1891 - 1974

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0206 FILM

Leo McCarey

1898 - 1969

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0210 FILM

Busby Berkeley

1895 - 1976

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0252 ACTOR

Fay Bainter

1893 - 1968

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0466 WRITER

Scott O'Dell

1898 - 1989

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0587 FILM

Tay Garnett

1894 - 1977

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0694 ACTOR

Betty Blythe

1893 - 1972

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0697 DESIGNER

Harley Earl

1893 - 1969

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0707 FILM

Arthur Lubin

1898 - 1995

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0864 FILM

Margaret Booth

1898 - 2002

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0896 CINEMA

Ernest Haller

1896 - 1970

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0984 SCREENWRITER

Adela Rogers St. Johns

1894 - 1988

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1063 FILM

Stuart Heisler

1896 - 1979

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1167 ACTOR

Marie Mosquini

1899 - 1983

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1190 FILM

Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)

1897 - 1952

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1401 PHYSICIST

Hugo Benioff

1899 - 1968

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1421 BASEBALL

Effa Manley

1897 - 1981

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1609 CINEMA

Alfred Gilks

1891 - 1970

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1623 ARCHITECT

Paul Williams (architect)

1894 - 1980

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1757 BOTANIST

Ivan Murray Johnston

1898 - 1960

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1860 ACTOR

Johnny Lee (actor)

1898 - 1965

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1861 ACTOR

Myrtle Gonzalez

1891 - 1918

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1893 ACTOR

Florence Barker (actress)

1891 - 1913

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1908 FILM

Leslie Irvin (parachutist)

1895 - 1966

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2151 CINEMA

Art Lloyd

1896 - 1954

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2308 ACTOR

Karla Schramm

1891 - 1980

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2335 SCREENWRITER

Jack Wagner (screenwriter)

1891 - 1963

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2412 CINEMA

Charles Schoenbaum

1893 - 1951

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2632 FILM

Billy Gilbert (silent film actor)

1891 - 1961

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2658 ACTOR

Marguerite Nichols

1891 - 1941

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2697 PLAYER

George Fish

1895 - 1977

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2948 ACTOR

Vivian Edwards

1896 - 1949

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2995 SWIMMER

Ludy Langer

1893 - 1984

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3065 LAWYER

John F. Dockweiler

1895 - 1943

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3103 FILM

Edward Curtiss

1898 - 1970

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3168 ACTOR

Blue Washington

1898 - 1970

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3197 ACTOR

Winifred Bryson

1892 - 1987

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3231 FILM

Aubrey Scotto

1895 - 1953

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3279 ACTOR

Hank Bell

1892 - 1950

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3287 PLAYER

James Fitzpatrick (rugby union)

1892 - 1973

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3331 SKIPPER

Owen Churchill

1896 - 1985

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3467 ACTOR

Fontaine La Rue

1897 - 1976

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3555 ART DIRECTOR

A. Earl Hedrick

1896 - 1985

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3556 ART DIRECTOR

Robert Odell

1896 - 1984

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3670 COMPOSER

Kathleen Lockhart Manning

1890 - 1951

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3783 PUBLISHER

Norman Chandler

1899 - 1973

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3960 LIBERAL

Reginald Berkeley

1890 - 1935

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3966 PRIEST

Garfield Bromley Oxnam

1891 - 1963

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4212 PRIEST

Robert Emmet Lucey

1891 - 1977

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4299 SINGER

Mario Chamlee

1892 - 1966

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4405 ACTOR

Lela Bliss

1896 - 1980

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4638 COMPOSER

John Laurence Seymour

1893 - 1986

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4649 ACTOR

Bernice Hansen

1897 - 1981

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4731 ART DIRECTOR

Edward Ray Robinson

1893 - 1979

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4745 BASEBALL

Tony Boeckel

1892 - 1924

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4771 ACTOR

Youcca Troubetzkoy

1898 - 1992

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5345 ACTOR

James Dugan (director)

1898 - 1937

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5363 SCREENWRITER

Gordon Rigby

1897 - 1975

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5433 OFFICER

Ray A. Robinson

1896 - 1976

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5562 PHILANTHROPIST

Roy W. Hill

1899 - 1986

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5733 AVIATOR

Farnum Fish

1896 - 1978

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5739 ACTOR

Ramona Langley

1893 - 1983

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5818 PAINTER

Milton Menasco

1890 - 1974

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5858 FOOTBALL

John Nolan (American football)

1899 - 1973

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5859 BUSINESS

George Dromgold

1893 - 1948

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5947 BASEBALL

Pete Schneider

1895 - 1957

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5993 FILM

Jack Killifer

1898 - 1956

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6023 POLITICIAN

Edward Craig (politician)

1896 - 1979

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6112 BASEBALL

Jack Roche (baseball)

1890 - 1983

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6245 ENGINEER

Dave Evans (racing driver)

1898 - 1974

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6511 ACTOR

Joseph Bennett (acteur)

1894 - 1931

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6530 BASEBALL

Karl Schnell

1899 - 1992

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6603 ACTOR

Ollie Carlyle

1892 - 1933

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6680 SAILOR

Joseph Jessop

1898 - 1996

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6715 PHYSICIAN

Claudius Ballard

1890 - 1967

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6924 MOTO

Fred Ludlow

1895 - 1984

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6929 ACTOR

Ann Andrews

1890 - 1986

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6934 ELEKTRIKER

Harold Nye

1896 - 1965

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