List of people from San Bernardino, California

The following is a list of notable people from San Bernardino, California .

Arts

• Jerome Bixby – writer ^{[1] [2]}
• Gene Hackman – actor and novelist ^{[3] [4]}
• Kirk Harris – actor, writer ^[5]
• Edith Head – costume designer ^[6]
• Poison Ivy – producer and guitarist for the Cramps ^[7]
• Brenden Jefferson – actor
• Roscoe Karns (1891–1970) – actor ^{[8] [9]}
• David Lauser – drummer
• Julie London – singer, actress ^[10]
• Michael Reaves – screenwriter
• Fuerza Regida – music group ^{[11] [12]}
• Bob Spalding – guitarist/bassist for The Ventures, born in San Bernardino
• Lakeith Stanfield – actor ^[13]
• Moses Sumney – singer-songwriter ^[14]
• Twyla Tharp – choreographer and dancer ^{[15] [16]}
• Philip Michael Thomas – actor ^{[17] [18]}
• Jason Thornberry – writer, musician
• Miranda Weese – dancer ^[19]
• Jefferson Wood – illustrator
• Shailene Woodley – actress ^[20]

Journalism

• Wilbur H. Durborough (1882-1946) – photojournalist and film correspondent in World War I ^{[21] [22]}
• Ron Magers – reporter and news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago ^{[23] [24]}

Politics

• Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd treasurer of the United States ^{[25] [26] [27]}
• Stephen W. Cunningham – first UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–41
• Merritt B. Curtis – brigadier general in the Marine Corps and candidate for president of the United States in 1960
• Dirk Kempthorne – Idaho governor, U.S. senator, U.S. Secretary of the Interior; moved to San Bernardino at a young age, lived there through junior college ^{[28] [29]}
• Claude R. Kirk, Jr. – governor of Florida ^{[30] [31]}

Science

• Michael R. Clifford – astronaut ^[32]
• Howard Georgi – professor of physics at Harvard University ^{[33] [34]}

Sports

• Tyler Ankrum – NASCAR driver ^{[35] [36]}
• Branden Becker – baseball player ^{[37] [38]}
• Glenn Braggs – baseball player ^{[39] [40]}
• Greg Bunch – basketball player
• Brandie Burton – golfer ^{[41] [42]}
• Chuck Carr – baseball player ^{[43] [44] [45]}
• Layshia Clarendon – basketball player ^{[46] [47]}
• Kenny Clark – football player ^{[48] [49]}
• Mark Collins – football player ^{[50] [51] [52]}
• Jayden Daniels – football player ^[53]
• Rich Dauer – baseball player ^{[54] [55]}
• Shawn Estes – baseball player
• King Green – mixed martial artist ^{[56] [57]}
• Charles Johnson – football player ^{[58] [59]}
• Al Jury – football referee ^{[60] [61]}
• Damontae Kazee – football player ^{[62] [63]}
• Bob Lemon – baseball player and manager ^{[64] [65]}
• Paul Lim – darts player
• Alberto Madril – wrestler
• Alexander Mattison – football player ^{[66] [67]}
• Jason Moore – football player ^[68]
• Ryan Nece – football player ^{[69] [70]}
• Craig Newsome – football player
• Derek Parra – Olympic speed skater ^{[71] [72]}
• Stephanie Rehe – tennis player
• Ricky Romero – wrestler
• Bryon Russell – basketball player ^{[73] [74]}
• Swede Savage – race car driver ^{[75] [76]}
• Daryl Sconiers – baseball player
• Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942) – long distance runner ^{[77] [78]}
• Jeremy Stevenson – hockey player
• Dave Stockton – golfer ^{[79] [80]}
• Jalin Turner – mixed martial artist ^{[81] [82] [83]}
• Lisa Marie Varon – wrestler ^{[84] [85]}
• Charlie Venegas – speedway rider

Other

• Anthony Acevedo (1924–2018) – Mexican-American engineer and U.S. soldier incarcerated at the Berga concentration camp during World War II ^[86]
• John Brown (1817–1889) – mountain man, fur trapper and trader, prominent businessman in San Bernardino ^{[87] [88]}
• Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's ^{[89] [90]}
• Rizwan Farook – terrorist ^{[91] [92]}
• Walter Knott (1889–1981) – founder of Knott's Berry Farm ^{[93] [94]}
• Anna Nieto-Gómez – Chicana feminist
• Fredrick D. Scott – business consultant ^[95]

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