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.
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.
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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Earl Warren
1891 - 1974
Leo McCarey
1898 - 1969
Busby Berkeley
1895 - 1976
Fay Bainter
1893 - 1968
Scott O'Dell
1898 - 1989
Tay Garnett
1894 - 1977
Betty Blythe
1893 - 1972
Harley Earl
1893 - 1969
Arthur Lubin
1898 - 1995
Margaret Booth
1898 - 2002
Ernest Haller
1896 - 1970
Adela Rogers St. Johns
1894 - 1988
Stuart Heisler
1896 - 1979
Marie Mosquini
1899 - 1983
Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)
1897 - 1952
Hugo Benioff
1899 - 1968
Effa Manley
1897 - 1981
Alfred Gilks
1891 - 1970
Paul Williams (architect)
1894 - 1980
Ivan Murray Johnston
1898 - 1960
Johnny Lee (actor)
1898 - 1965
Myrtle Gonzalez
1891 - 1918
Florence Barker (actress)
1891 - 1913
Leslie Irvin (parachutist)
1895 - 1966
Art Lloyd
1896 - 1954
Karla Schramm
1891 - 1980
Jack Wagner (screenwriter)
1891 - 1963
Charles Schoenbaum
1893 - 1951
Billy Gilbert (silent film actor)
1891 - 1961
Marguerite Nichols
1891 - 1941
George Fish
1895 - 1977
Vivian Edwards
1896 - 1949
Ludy Langer
1893 - 1984
John F. Dockweiler
1895 - 1943
Edward Curtiss
1898 - 1970
Blue Washington
1898 - 1970
Winifred Bryson
1892 - 1987
Aubrey Scotto
1895 - 1953
Hank Bell
1892 - 1950
James Fitzpatrick (rugby union)
1892 - 1973
Owen Churchill
1896 - 1985
Fontaine La Rue
1897 - 1976
A. Earl Hedrick
1896 - 1985
Robert Odell
1896 - 1984
Kathleen Lockhart Manning
1890 - 1951
Norman Chandler
1899 - 1973
Reginald Berkeley
1890 - 1935
Garfield Bromley Oxnam
1891 - 1963
Robert Emmet Lucey
1891 - 1977
Mario Chamlee
1892 - 1966
Lela Bliss
1896 - 1980
John Laurence Seymour
1893 - 1986
Bernice Hansen
1897 - 1981
Edward Ray Robinson
1893 - 1979
Tony Boeckel
1892 - 1924
Youcca Troubetzkoy
1898 - 1992
James Dugan (director)
1898 - 1937
Gordon Rigby
1897 - 1975
Ray A. Robinson
1896 - 1976
Roy W. Hill
1899 - 1986
Farnum Fish
1896 - 1978
Ramona Langley
1893 - 1983
Milton Menasco
1890 - 1974
John Nolan (American football)
1899 - 1973
George Dromgold
1893 - 1948
Pete Schneider
1895 - 1957
Jack Killifer
1898 - 1956
Edward Craig (politician)
1896 - 1979
Jack Roche (baseball)
1890 - 1983
Dave Evans (racing driver)
1898 - 1974
Joseph Bennett (acteur)
1894 - 1931
Karl Schnell
1899 - 1992
Ollie Carlyle
1892 - 1933
Joseph Jessop
1898 - 1996
Claudius Ballard
1890 - 1967
Fred Ludlow
1895 - 1984
Ann Andrews
1890 - 1986
Harold Nye
1896 - 1965