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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- Field: Film Clear ×
Michael Bay
Born 1965
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Born 1962
John Lasseter
Born 1957
Ray Harryhausen
1920 - 2013
Tony Goldwyn
Born 1960
Brian Grazer
Born 1951
Clifton Collins Jr.
Born 1970
Gale Anne Hurd
Born 1955
Leo McCarey
1898 - 1969
Busby Berkeley
1895 - 1976
Don Murray (actor)
Born 1929
Steve Oedekerk
Born 1961
Adam Shankman
Born 1964
Sage Stallone
1976 - 2012
Gregg Araki
Born 1959
Richard D. Zanuck
1934 - 2012
Josh Trank
Born 1984
Walter Mosley
Born 1952
Jack Bender
Born 1949
Raja Gosnell
Born 1958
Douglas Trumbull
Born 1942
Tom Mankiewicz
1942 - 2010
Charles Roven
Born 1949
Neal H. Moritz
Born 1959
Barbara Broccoli
Born 1960
LisaGay Hamilton
Born 1964
Tim Story
Born 1970
Charles Shyer
Born 1941
Jake Paltrow
Born 1975
Iwao Takamoto
1925 - 2007
David Twohy
Born 1955
Jeff Nathanson
Born 1960
Charles Band
Born 1951
Josie Davis
Born 1973
Tay Garnett
1894 - 1977
Efren Ramirez
Born 1973
Andrew Blake (director)
Born 1947
Eleanor Coppola
Born 1936
Alan Rudolph
Born 1943
Gary Kurtz
1940 - 2018
Al Adamson
1929 - 1995
Paul Hunter (director)
-
Arthur Lubin
1898 - 1995
Brian Tochi
Born 1963
Mark Andrews (filmmaker)
Born 1970
Gia Coppola
Born 1987
Jason Blum
Born 1969
Tim Hunter (director)
Born 1947
Christopher Rouse (editor)
Born 1958
William A. Fraker
1923 - 2010
Jack Hill
Born 1933
Joel Cox
Born 1941
Vivian Kubrick
Born 1960
Rockne S. O'Bannon
Born 1955
Carroll Ballard
Born 1937
Margaret Booth
1898 - 2002
Lesley Selander
1900 - 1979
Kevin Tancharoen
Born 1984
Conrad Buff IV
Born 1948
Matthew Rolston
Born 1955
Vincent McEveety
1929 - 2018
Roger Barton (film editor)
Born 1965
Curtis Harrington
1926 - 2007
Robert Butler (director)
Born 1927
Richard Chew
Born 1940
David Brenner (editor)
-
Barbara Hammer
1939 - 2019
Walt Becker
Born 1968
Christian Nyby
1913 - 1993
Arthur Schmidt (film editor)
Born 1937
Randa Haines
Born 1945
Jennifer Todd
Born 1969
Morgan Neville
Born 1967
James Goldstone
1931 - 1999
Gary Goetzman
Born 1952
Richard Elfman
Born 1949
Stuart Heisler
1896 - 1979
Bobby Roth
Born 1950
Tony Randel
Born 1956
Gregory Dark
Born 1957
Michael Arias
Born 1968
Don Lusk
1913 - 2018
David Kirschner
Born 1955
Vicky Jenson
Born 1960
Jack Haley Jr.
1933 - 2001
Jerry Jameson
Born 1934
Christopher Coppola
Born 1962
Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)
1897 - 1952
Jeff Pollack
1959 - 2013
David H. DePatie
Born 1929
Ted Tetzlaff
1903 - 1995
Steve Binder
Born 1933
David Gest
1953 - 2016
Michael Wayne
1934 - 2003
Lawrence Turman
Born 1926
Don E. Fauntleroy
Born 1953
Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker)
Born 1951
Shana Feste
Born 1975
Leslie Iwerks
Born 1970
Lee Toland Krieger
Born 1983
William Hornbeck
1901 - 1983
Alan Ladd Jr.
Born 1937
Neil Travis
1936 - 2012
Arthur P. Jacobs
1922 - 1973
Gian-Carlo Coppola
1963 - 1986
Daniel Knauf
Born 1958
Nina Jacobson
Born 1965
Pat Myne
Born 1966
Robert C. Jones
Born 1936
Tom Murton
1928 - 1990
George Stevens Jr.
Born 1932
Fredric Steinkamp
1928 - 2002
Billy Weber
-
Peter Douglas
Born 1955
David Bretherton
1924 - 2000
Jerry Thorpe
1926 - 2018
Harry Keller
1913 - 1987
Gary Nelson (director)
Born 1934
Ceán Chaffin
Born 1957
Bryan Spicer
-
Bradley Gregg
Born 1966
Kurt Voss
Born 1963
Steve Boyum
Born 1952
Adrienne Fazan
1906 - 1986
Gary D. Roach
Born 1964
Mark Jones (filmmaker)
Born 1953
Michael Katleman
Born 1950
Frank J. Urioste
Born 1938
Donn Cambern
Born 1929
Joel Douglas
Born 1947
Paul Rubell
Born 1952
Howard Kazanjian
Born 1942
Michael Tronick
Born 1949
Hal Roach Jr.
1918 - 1972
Charles Correll (director)
1944 - 2004
Warren Miller (director)
1924 - 2018
David Weisbart
1915 - 1967
David T. Friendly
Born 1956
Joel Siegel
1943 - 2007
Brian Flemming
Born 1966
Ari Sandel
Born 1974
Max Winkler (director)
Born 1983
Susan Landau Finch
Born 1960
William Steinkamp
Born 1953
Brandon Trost
Born 1981
Gene Allen (art director)
1918 - 2015
Joseph Culp
Born 1963
John Dunning (film editor)
1916 - 1991
Burt Topper
1928 - 2007
Ryan Kavanaugh
Born 1974
Fred Haines
1936 - 2008
Ray McCarey
1904 - 1948
Frank Capra Jr.
1934 - 2007
Joone (director)
Born 1969
Cash Warren
Born 1979
Eric Newman (producer)
-
Chris Stokes (director)
Born 1966
John Goldwyn
Born 1958
Leslie Irvin (parachutist)
1895 - 1966
Jay Sandrich
Born 1932
Scott Stuber
-
Anna Biller
-
Charles Swenson
Born 1941
Paul Smith (animator)
1906 - 1980
Scott Marshall (director)
Born 1969
Norman Campbell
1924 - 2004
Cisco Adler
Born 1978
Nicole Rocklin
Born 1979
Peter E. Berger
1944 - 2011
Alan Baumgarten
Born 1957
William F. Claxton
1914 - 1996
John Pomeroy
Born 1951
Jeffrey Hornaday
Born 1956
Thom Eberhardt
Born 1947
Buzz Feitshans
Born 1937
Dana E. Glauberman
Born 1968
Tony Thomas (producer)
Born 1948
Christian Gudegast
Born 1970
Nora Grossman
Born 1983
David Valdes
Born 1950
Arthur Marks
1927 - 2019
Marjorie Fowler
1920 - 2003
Bernard Girard
1918 - 1997
Julia Crawford Ivers
1869 - 1930
Pete Burness
1904 - 1969
Edward M. Abroms
1935 - 2018
Valerie Faris
Born 1958
Justin Slayer
Born 1972
Mason (director)
-
Lee Shallat Chemel
Born 1943
Charles Braverman
Born 1944
Scott Alexander (scénariste)
Born 1963
Jeff Gourson
Born 1946
Lindsay Doran
Born 1949
William Higgins (director)
Died 2019
Mike Jittlov
Born 1948
George Folsey Jr.
Born 1939
Cal Howard
1911 - 1993
Billy Gilbert (silent film actor)
1891 - 1961
Prudence Farrow
Born 1948
Debra Neil-Fisher
Born 1958
Mike Mendez
Born 1973
Stephen McEveety
Born 1954
Joseph McMillan Johnson
1912 - 1990
Matt Tyrnauer
Born 1950
Brad Mirman
Born 1953
Walt Martin
1945 - 2014
George White (film editor)
1911 - 1998
Steven E. Gordon
Born 1960
Jonathan Kaufer
1955 - 2013
Dann Cahn
1923 - 2012
Rob Hedden
Born 1954
Ned Tanen
1931 - 2009
Andrew Ahn
-
David Blewitt
1928 - 2010
Walt Mulconery
1932 - 2001
Abigail Disney
Born 1960
Hilton A. Green
1929 - 2013
Don Guidice
1932 - 2010
Lawrence D. Foldes
Born 1959
Brooke Hunter
Born 1968
Louis J. Horvitz
Born 1946
Kristine Belson
Born 1964
Edward Curtiss
1898 - 1970
Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)
Born 1939
Alan Purwin
1962 - 2015
Stanley Sheff
-
Greg Shapiro
Born 1972
Aubrey Scotto
1895 - 1953
Sharon Oreck
Born 1955
Mattie Do
-
Dean Goodhill
Born 1944
John C. Howard
1930 - 1983
Gregg Landaker
Born 1951
Gary Shimokawa
Born 1942
Jerry Warren
1925 - 1988
Robert Swarthe
Born 1942
Timothy A. Chey
-
Daniel Rappaport
Born 1970
Merv Adelson
1929 - 2015
Matthew Robinson (director)
Born 1978
Ami Horowitz
-
Stuart Benjamin
Born 1946
Greg Orloff
Born 1959
Camille Billops
1933 - 2019
Rick Sloane
Born 1961
Barry Ptolemy
Born 1969
Chris Marrs Piliero
-
Jason Trost
Born 1986
Garin Hovannisian
Born 1950
Brian Ronalds
Born 1973
Dermott Downs
Born 1962
Hawk Koch
Born 1945
Rick Bassman
Born 1961
Bryn Mooser
Born 1979
Rachel Goslins
Born 1969
Michael Preece
Born 1936
Erma Elzy-Jones
-
Rick Dior
1947 - 1998
Charles de Lauzirika
Born 1967
James Cullen Bressack
Born 1992
Frank Mazzola
1935 - 2015
Stan Hough
1918 - 1990
Hollingsworth Morse
1910 - 1988
John Longenecker
Born 1947
Karl Schaefer
-
Braden Barty
Born 1970
Cle Shaheed Sloan
Born 1971
Gabriel Cowan
Born 1973
Nicholaus Goossen
Born 1978
Carl Monson
1932 - 1988
Bud Molin
1925 - 2007
George Glass
1910 - 1984
Craig Saavedra
Born 1963
Anthony Lucero
Born 1967
Michael Sloane
Born 1959
Christopher Horner (director)
Born 1955
Steven C. Melendez
Born 1945
Wren T. Brown
Born 1964
P. David Ebersole
Born 1964
Eric Leiser
-
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell
Born 1977
Stephen Brown (film producer)
Born 1961
Christine Fugate
Born 1963
Sasha Knezev
Born 1973
David Garfield
1943 - 1994
Adrian Picardi
Born 1987
Daphne Wayans
Born 1971
Pamela Tom
-
Geoffrey James Clark
Born 1981
Sean Lurie
-
Jules Levy (producer)
1923 - 2003
Joan C. Gratz
Born 1941
Mike Mayer
-
Gregory Goodman
-
William Wiard
1927 - 1987
James D. Brubaker
Born 1937
Sandy King
Born 1952
John Wellington Ennis
Born 1973
Josephine Wayne
1908 - 2003