List of people from Alhambra, California

Last updated April 13, 2024

This article lists people from Alhambra, California.

Hank Aguirre, baseball player
Duane Allen, football player^[1]
Atlas, graffiti artist
Jairo Avila Jr., NASCAR driver
Andrew E. Bellisario, Roman Catholic bishop
Ron Cey, baseball player
Jack Chick Christian evangelist and cartoonist
Roberta Collins, actress
Dean Cundey, cinematographer and film director
Clive Cussler, novelist
Alexander Fost, dancer, So You Think You Can Dance contestant
Amy Kim Ganter, author
Bob Givens, animator
Sam Hanks, race car driver, won 1957 Indianapolis 500
Rico Harris, former Harlem Globetrotter missing since 2014
James Jannard, fashion designer
Frank Tenney Johnson, western artist
Kazu Kibuishi, graphic novel illustrator
Ralph Kiner, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player, broadcaster
Kenny Loggins, musician
Danny Lopez, world champion boxer^[2]
Lance Mountain, professional skateboarder
Jacqueline Nguyen, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Frank Pastore, baseball player
Albie Pearson, baseball player
Ke Huy Quan, actor, stunt coordinator
Noé Ramirez, baseball player^[3]
Jim Rathmann, race car driver, won 1960 Indianapolis 500
Norman Rockwell, artist, lived in Alhambra in the early 1930s^[4]
Dorothy Howell Rodham (1919 – 2011), homemaker, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Tex Schramm, president of NFL's Dallas Cowboys
Dean Scofield, actor
Peter Seidler, Founder and managing partner of Seidler Equity Partners. Chairman and owner of the San Diego Padres
Phil Spector, music producer
Mickey Thompson (1928-1988), race car driver. Born in Alhambra
Cheryl Tiegs, model
Melissa Villaseñor, comedian and impressionist, Saturday Night Live
Mitch Vogel, actor
Ron Warner, Third Base Coach for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
James D. Watkins, admiral^[5]
Betty White, actress^[6]^[7]
Verne Winchell, businessman
Xasthur, black metal band
Rolly Crump, Animator and designer

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References

↑ "Duane Allen, 65; NFL player for Rams in '60s". Los Angeles Times . May 9, 2003. p. B13 – via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Rock 'n' Roll: Danny "Little Red" Lopez - Boxing.com". www.boxing.com.
↑ Ardaya, Fabian (May 3, 2019). "'That's the motherland, man:' Noé Ramirez, a proud Mexican, gets to pitch in his parents' homeland". The Athletic . Retrieved March 1, 2022.
↑ "City of Alhambra: A personal recollection". Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
↑ "Navy Admiral James D. Watkins, an Alhambra native, dies at 85". Archived from the original on August 9, 2012.
↑ Richmond, Ray (2021). Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life. becker&mayer! books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7603-7321-7.
↑ Stange, Mary Zeiss; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (2013). The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE Publications. p. 1064. ISBN 978-1-4522-7068-5.

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[1] "Duane Allen, 65; NFL player for Rams in '60s". Los Angeles Times . May 9, 2003. p. B13 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Rock 'n' Roll: Danny "Little Red" Lopez - Boxing.com". www.boxing.com.

[3] Ardaya, Fabian (May 3, 2019). "'That's the motherland, man:' Noé Ramirez, a proud Mexican, gets to pitch in his parents' homeland". The Athletic . Retrieved March 1, 2022.

[4] "City of Alhambra: A personal recollection". Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2011.

[5] "Navy Admiral James D. Watkins, an Alhambra native, dies at 85". Archived from the original on August 9, 2012.

[6] Richmond, Ray (2021). Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life. becker&mayer! books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7603-7321-7.

[7] Stange, Mary Zeiss; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (2013). The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE Publications. p. 1064. ISBN 978-1-4522-7068-5.

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