List of people from San Bernardino, California

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

Arts

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

Journalism

• Ron Magers – reporter and news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago ^{[21] [22]}
• Wilbur H. Durborough (1882-1946) – photojournalist and film correspondent in World War I ^{[23] [24]}
• Henry L. Hooks (1921-2021)-first photojournalist in the IE to have African-American photos published in the San Bernardino Sun Telegram ^[25]

Politics

• Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd Treasurer of the United States ^{[26] [27] [28]}
• 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 ^{[29] [30]}
• Claude R. Kirk, Jr. – Governor of Florida ^{[31] [32]}

Science

• Michael R. Clifford – astronaut ^[33]
• Howard Georgi – professor of physics at Harvard University ^{[34] [35]}

Sports

• Jayden Daniels – football player ^[36]
• Tyler Ankrum – NASCAR driver ^{[37] [38]}
• Glenn Braggs – baseball player ^{[39] [40]}
• Branden Becker – baseball player ^{[41] [42]}
• Greg Bunch – basketball player
• Brandie Burton – golfer ^{[43] [44]}
• Chuck Carr – baseball player ^{[45] [46] [47]}
• Layshia Clarendon – basketball player ^{[48] [49]}
• Kenny Clark – football player ^{[50] [51]}
• Mark Collins – football player ^{[52] [53] [54]}
• Rich Dauer – baseball player ^{[55] [56]}
• Shawn Estes – baseball player
• King Green – mixed martial artist ^{[57] [58]}
• Charles Johnson – football player ^{[59] [60]}
• Al Jury – football referee ^{[61] [62]}
• Damontae Kazee – football player ^{[63] [64]}
• Bob Lemon – baseball player and manager ^{[65] [66]}
• Paul Lim – darts player
• Alberto Madril – wrestler
• Alexander Mattison – football player ^{[67] [68]}
• Jason Moore – football player ^[69]
• Ryan Nece – football player ^{[70] [71]}
• Craig Newsome – football player
• Derek Parra – Olympic speed skater ^{[72] [73]}
• Stephanie Rehe – tennis player
• Ricky Romero – wrestler
• Bryon Russell – basketball player ^{[74] [75]}
• Swede Savage – race car driver ^{[76] [77]}
• Daryl Sconiers – baseball player
• Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942) – long distance runner ^{[78] [79]}
• Jeremy Stevenson – hockey player
• Dave Stockton – golfer ^{[80] [81]}
• Jalin Turner – mixed martial artist ^{[82] [83] [84]}
• Lisa Marie Varon – wrestler ^{[85] [86]}
• 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 ^[87]
• John Brown (1817–1889) – Mountain man, fur trapper and trader, prominent businessman in San Bernardino. ^{[88] [89]}
• Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's ^{[90] [91]}
• Anna Nieto-Gómez – Chicana feminist
• Rizwan Farook, terrorist ^{[92] [93]}
• Fredrick D. Scott – business consultant ^[94]
• Walter Knott (1889–1981) – Founder of Knott's Berry Farm ^{[95] [96]}

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