List of people from Santa Barbara, California

The following is a list of notable people from Santa Barbara, California.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Notable people from Santa Barbara

• Douglas Adams, author
• Elizabeth Laura Adams, writer ^[1]
• Tal Avitzur, sculptor
• Dylan Axelrod, Major League Baseball player
• Jeff Bridges, actor ^[2]
• Ashleigh Brilliant, cartoonist and writer ^[3]
• Princess Lilibet of Sussex, seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.
• Spencer Barnitz, musician
• Edwin Burr Babbitt, U.S. Army major general
• Colleen Ballinger, YouTube personality ^[4]
• Red Barrett, Major League Baseball player ^[5]
• Bobby Beausoleil, former member of the Manson Family, currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of his friend Gary Hinman
• Salud Carbajal, U.S. representative ^[6]
• Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player ^[7]
• Dakota Collins, soccer player ^[8]
• Jimmy Connors, Tennis champion
• Kami Craig, Olympic water polo player ^[9]
• Randall Cunningham, National Football League player ^[10]
• Shawn Dailey, musician
• Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer
• Marko DeSantis, musician
• Dean Dinning, musician, music producer, bassist
• Dishwalla, post-grunge alternative rock band ^[11]
• Anthony Edwards, actor
• Cynthia Ettinger, actress
• Chip Foose, actor
• Tyler Fredrickson, National Football League player, TV personality
• Keith Gledhill, tennis player
• Phillip Gonyea, musician
• Martin Gore, english songwriter, founding member of the British group Depeche Mode
• Sue Grafton, author ^[12]
• Parry Gripp, musician
• Brad Hall, actor
• Mary C. F. Hall-Wood (d. 1899), poet, editor, author
• Cole Hauser, actor ^[13]
• Marianna Hill, actress
• Eric Christopher Houston, mass-murderer
• Cady Huffman, actress
• Kathy Ireland, supermodel ^[14]
• Jason Johnson, Major League Baseball player
• William Lassiter, U.S. Army major general ^[15]
• Jan Lee, former Oregon State Representative
• Chuck Liddell, mixed martial artist
• Alex D. Linz, actor
• The Little Heroes, indie rock band
• Kenny Loggins, musician ^[16]
• Alex Mack, National Football League player
• George K. McGunnegle, U.S. Army officer ^[17]
• Randy Mantooth, actor
• MIchael McDonald, musician ^[18]
• Jerry Miley, actor
• Margaret Millar, writer
• Kim Miyori, actress
• Maika Monroe, professional kiteboarder, actress
• Harriet Moody, architect
• Thomas Moran, American landscape artist
• Luke Mullen, actor, filmmaker, environmentalist
• Todd Nichols, musician and member of Toad the Wet Sprocket ^[19]
• Peter Noone, lead singer Herman's Hermits
• Floyd Norman, animator, writer, comic book artist
• Monica I. Orozco, historian, archivist
• Charles A. Ott, Jr., United States Army Major General, director of the Army National Guard
• Katy Perry, singer-songwriter ^[20]
• Jeffrey Peterson, technology entrepreneur
• Lakey Peterson, professional surfer ^[21]
• Glen Phillips, singer-songwriter
• Rebecca N. Porter, educator, author, journalist
• Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org
• Michael Redmond, professional Go player
• James Read, actor
• Todd Rogers, professional beach volleyball player
• Charles R. Schwab, financial executive, founder of Charles Schwab & Co (world's largest discount stockbroker), multi-billionaire
• Edie Sedgwick, actress, model
• Scott Sipprelle, 2010 Republican nominee for Congress (NJ-12)
• Patricia Soltysik, aka Mizmoon, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Donald Spence, musician
• Ryan Spilborghs, Major League Baseball player
• Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jackson Stormo (born 1999), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Soul Majestic, reggae band
• Sugarcult, rock band
• James Arnold Taylor, voice actor
• Mia Talerico, actress
• Toad the Wet Sprocket, folk rock band
• Oprah Winfrey, media personality ^[22]
• David Woodard, conductor
• Felix Wormser, engineer and U.S. government official ^[23]

Eddie Mathews (1931-2001) - Hall of Fame MLB 3rd Baseman for the Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves (1962–66) Houston Astros (1967-68) and Detroit Tigers (1968) grew up in Santa Barbara and was nicknamed "The Santa Barbara Bomber" for his home run prowess.

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