This is a list of notable people who were born or who lived a significant amount of time in La Jolla, San Diego, California.
Actors and actresses
Gary Erwin - TV personality and member of docu-series, Addicted to Beauty, which aired on the Oxygen (TV channel)
Shane Harper - actor and musician
Charlotte Henry - actress
Izetta Jewel - stage actress, women's rights activist and local radio personality
James Maslow - actor, songwriter and singer
Danica McKellar - actress
Zoe McLellan - actress
Gregory Peck - actor
Robin Wright - actress, attended La Jolla High School
Autumn Reeser - actress (The O.C.), born in La Jolla and lived there until age 17
Cliff Robertson - actor
Raquel Welch - actress
Film and television executives
Donald De Line - studio executive and film producer (Pretty Woman) at Walt Disney Productions and its Touchstone Pictures division since 1985, native La Jollan
Gore Verbinski - director of Pirates of the Caribbean
Carlos Blanco Aguinaga - novelist and literary critic, founded the Spanish section of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego
Raymond Chandler - noir novelist, moved to La Jolla and uttered the aphorism about La Jolla, "A nice place — for old people and their parents"
Deepak Chopra - spiritual writer, ran his Center for Well Being in La Jolla until recently
Peter Economy - author, editor, ghostwriter, and publishing consultant
Debbie Ford - self-help author of best-selling The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998)
Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - children's author, long-time resident of La Jolla, namesake of the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego
Audrey Geisel - Seuss' widow
Anne Rice - novelist and author of Interview with the Vampire, moved to La Jolla from New Orleans in March 2005
Alan Russell - bestselling mystery and crime novelist
Robin Crosby - rock musician who played electric guitar for the metal band Ratt, born and attended high school in La Jolla
Warren DeMartini - rock musician who plays electric guitar for the metal band Ratt, attended high school in La Jolla
Michael Franks - musician, born in La Jolla
Amelita Galli-Curci - Italian operatic coloratura soprano
Sam Hinton - folk singer and marine biologist
Bruce Robinson - singer-songwriter and former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees, graduated from La Jolla High School in 1972
Andy Skib - guitarist and keyboardist in David Cook's band
Nathan Williams - lead singer for the pop and punk band Wavves, went to high school in La Jolla
J.J. Cale - singer-songwriter and guitarist; lived and died in La Jolla
Armi Kuusela - winner of the first Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1952, lives in La Jolla with her husband, Albert Williams
Ivan Boesky - financier convicted of insider trading, lived in La Jolla for several years
Betty Broderick - convicted of second degree murder, lived in La Jolla, found guilty on December 11, 1991 and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda Kolkena
Andrew Cunanan - infamous spree killer of Gianni Versace and three others, graduated from The Bishop's School in 1987
Government and politics
David Hall - former Governor of Oklahoma, moved to La Jolla following his release from federal prison with his wife, former Oklahoma First Lady Jo Evans Hall; died 2016
Hyrum Rex Lee - former American Samoa Governor; lived with his wife, First Lady Lillian Lee, in a $5 million high-rise condo in the Shore Towers until their deaths in 2001 and 2010, respectively.
John McCain - United States Senator from Arizona, 2008 Presidential nominee of the Republican Party, owns a home in La Jolla with his wife, Cindy McCain
Geoffrey R. Pyatt - United States Ambassador to Ukraine, born in La Jolla in 1963
Mitt Romney - former Governor of Massachusetts and the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election, and his wife, former Massachusetts First Lady Ann Romney, briefly owned a $12 million vacation home there 2008-2015
Business and finance
Warren Buffett - billionaire, lead shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, has a second house in La Jolla
David C. Copley - former owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune and member of the Forbes 400 until his death in 2012
Benjamin Graham - economist and value investor, lived in La Jolla at the end of his life
Trip Hawkins - 64th employee at Apple Computer and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate, graduated from Muirlands Junior High and La Jolla High School
Irwin Mark Jacobs - electrical engineer, co-founder and chairman of the board of Qualcomm
Daniel Lawrence, founder of clothing retailer Charlotte Russe
William Lerach - securities lawyer whose cases include Enron
Ted Waitt - founder of Gateway, Inc.
Science and technology
Geoffrey Burbidge and Margaret Burbidge - astronomers holding positions at UCSD after many years, reside near La Jolla Shores
Francis Crick - Nobel Prize in medicine winner for his work to identify the essential structure of DNA, long-time resident of La Jolla
Hillman Curtis - web designer
Lawrence J. Fogel - inventor of active noise cancellation, studied artificial intelligence, long-time resident of La Jolla
Robert Galambos - researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation
Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics winner; long-time resident of La Jolla
Kary Mullis - Nobel Prize in Chemistry-winning biochemist and surfer from La Jolla, invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method of DNA analysis
Walter Munk - oceanographer, lives in La Jolla
Leslie Orgel - research chemist, lived in La Jolla from 1964 to 2007
Sally Ride - astronaut
Carl Rogers - psychologist and researcher of psychotherapy
Jonas Salk - virologist and founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine
Ellen Browning Scripps - philanthropist, founder of Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Scripps College, member of the Forbes 400
K. Barry Sharpless - Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, lives in La Jolla
Benjamin Elazari Volcani - microbiologist
List of people from La Jolla Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
