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.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Music
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Other
- Field: Politician Clear ×
Adlai Stevenson II
1900 - 1965
Earl Warren
1891 - 1974
Eric Garcetti
Born 1971
H. R. Haldeman
1926 - 1993
Jan Brewer
Born 1944
Ed Royce
Born 1951
Judy Chu
Born 1953
Hilda Solis
Born 1957
Carla Anderson Hills
Born 1934
Ami Bera
Born 1965
Henry Waxman
Born 1939
Duke Cunningham
Born 1941
David Schweikert
Born 1962
John W. Gardner
1912 - 2002
Karen Bass
Born 1953
Janice Hahn
Born 1952
Nils Muižnieks
Born 1964
Howard Berman
Born 1941
Diane Watson
Born 1933
Anthony A. Williams
Born 1951
Laura Richardson
Born 1962
Charles Djou
Born 1970
John B. T. Campbell III
Born 1955
Jack Williams (American politician)
1909 - 1998
David McReynolds
1929 - 2018
James Hahn
Born 1950
Buck McKeon
Born 1938
John S. Herrington
Born 1939
Floyd Flake
Born 1945
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Born 1932
Alphonzo E. Bell Jr.
1914 - 2004
Gloria Negrete McLeod
Born 1941
Steve Bartlett
Born 1947
Bill Sarpalius
Born 1948
Anthony Rendon (politician)
Born 1968
Howard Wolpe
1939 - 2011
John H. Rousselot
1927 - 2003
Lionel Van Deerlin
1914 - 2008
Mel Levine
Born 1943
Stanley Knowles
1908 - 1997
Wes Cooley
1932 - 2015
Ted Morton
Born 1949
David Hammerstein Mintz
Born 1955
Victor Veysey
1915 - 2001
Frederick Eaton
1856 - 1934
Robert Badham
1929 - 2005
William M. Ketchum
1921 - 1978
Thomas M. Rees
1925 - 2003
Gil Cisneros
Born 1971
Kathy Augustine
1956 - 2006
Ronald P. Spogli
Born 1948
John Pérez
Born 1969
LaToya Cantrell
Born 1972
John M. Costello
1903 - 1976
Ed Crane (political activist)
Born 1944
Alex Padilla
Born 1973
Jan Laverty Jones
Born 1949
John C. Elliott
1919 - 2001
Dick Mountjoy
1932 - 2015
Roberta Achtenberg
Born 1950
Edward M. Davis
1916 - 2006
Carmen Chu
Born 1978
Jack Weiss
Born 1964
Wesley Chesbro
Born 1951
Sharon Runner
1954 - 2016
Zev Yaroslavsky
Born 1948
Jeff Stone (California politician)
Born 1956
Art Torres
Born 1946
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Born 1954
Walt Brown
Born 1926
Ira Reiner
Born 1936
Michael D. Antonovich
Born 1939
Gail Schoettler
Born 1943
Jay Walker (legislator)
Born 1972
Robert Hertzberg
Born 1954
Bernice Layne Brown
1908 - 2002
Douglas Bruce
Born 1949
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
-
Jason Frierson
Born 1970
Patricia Bates
Born 1939
Vi Simpson
Born 1946
Don Benton
Born 1957
Jason Boe
1929 - 1990
Leon Young
Born 1967
Andrew Ullmann
Born 1963
Kenneth Hahn
1920 - 1997
Frank Artiles
Born 1973
James T. Butts Jr.
Born 1953
Paul Koretz
Born 1955
Michael Allen (California politician)
Born 1947
Matt Dababneh
Born 1982
Craig Huey
Born 1950
Pat Nolan
Born 1950
Marc Levine
Born 1974
Vincent de Roulet
1925 - 1975
Tony Mendoza (politician)
Born 1971
Bill Rosendahl
1945 - 2016
Curren Price
Born 1950
Rod Pacheco
Born 1958
Sean Wallentine
Born 1970
Rocky Chávez
Born 1951
Bill Paparian
Born 1949
Phil Wyman
1945 - 2019
Rocky Delgadillo
Born 1960
Fran Pavley
Born 1948
Laura Thielen
Born 1961
Holly Mitchell
Born 1964
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas
Born 1987
Lorie Zapf
-
Raul Bocanegra
Born 1971
Jesse Petrilla
Born 1983
Wilfred Von der Ahe
1910 - 1998
Dan K. Morhaim
Born 1948
Mike Gipson
Born 1966
Lance Clow
Born 1947
Cynthia Thielen
Born 1933
John Noguez
Born 1964
Scott Craig
Born 1964
Jim Wheeler
Born 1953
Kiki Curls
Born 1968
Ed Reyes
Born 1959
Peter F. Schabarum
Born 1929
Shane Pendergrass
Born 1950
Mary Alice Ford
1935 - 2008
Denise Moreno Ducheny
Born 1952
Marshall Wright (politician)
Born 1975
Hans Dunshee
Born 1953
Randy Kirner
Born 1946
Tom Calderon
-
Dennis R. Patrick
Born 1951
Charles W. Lyon
1887 - 1960
Bill Campbell (California politician)
Born 1942
Ron Lurie
Born 1941
Sharon Quirk-Silva
Born 1962
Autumn Burke
Born 1973
Jeff Dial
Born 1976
Jim Corbett (politician)
1924 - 2007
Phil Soto
1926 - 1997
Edmund D. Edelman
1930 - 2016
David Schultheis
Born 1940
Anthony Adams (politician)
Born 1971
Bernie Richter
1931 - 1999
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Born 1930
Susan Castillo
Born 1951
Charlene Zettel
Born 1947
Nolan Frizzelle
1921 - 2013
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Born 1970
John Lewis (California politician)
Born 1954
Edward Craig (politician)
1896 - 1979
Kim Schrier
Born 1968
David Roberti
Born 1939
Monica Rodriguez
-
Gwen Moore (California politician)
Died 2020
Dennis Zine
Born 1947
Linda Parks
Born 1957
Eric J. Perrodin
Born 1959
Randolph Townsend
Born 1947
Garrett Michael Hayes
Born 1956
Leonard Christian
Born 1965
Elizabeth Cervantes Barron
Born 1938
Hector De La Torre
-
Chris Brown (California politician)
Born 1981
Vanessa Delgado
Born 1977
Robert Campbell (California politician)
1937 - 2020
Dan O'Keefe (politician)
-
Larry Galizio
Born 1964
Serge Dedina
Born 1964
Newton Russell
1927 - 2013
Kevin Murray (politician)
Born 1960
Nick Pacheco
Born 1964
Mark Hodgins
Born 1947
Richard Polanco
Born 1951
Richard Katz (politician)
-
Tina Park
-
Luz Rivas
Born 1974
John Dougall (Utah politician)
Born 1966
Alan Sieroty
Born 1930
George Nakano
Born 1935
Paul H. Lamport
1907 - 1984
Robert Levitt
1926 - 1998
Lloyd E. Levine
Born 1969
Diane Martinez
Born 1953
Dale Brandland
-
Jorge Astiazarán Orcí
Born 1962
Dale Doig
-
Martin Gallegos
-
John Driscoll (Montana politician)
Born 1946
Willard H. Murray Jr.
Born 1931
Dave Elder (politician)
Born 1942
Ronald Cordova
Born 1946
Don Garrison
1925 - 2018
Mark A. Pierce
-
Frank Luckel
-
Gordon Willden
1929 - 2019
John Moreno (Politiker)
1927 - 1999
W. Don MacGillivray
-
Donna F. Tuttle
Born 1947
Marcia de Braga
1937 - 2010
Arthur Widén
1905 - 1989
Karen Schmidt
Born 1945