List of people from Whittier, California

Entertainment

Gary Allan (born Gary Allan Herzberg), country music artist, graduated La Serna High School

Antagonist, metal band signed to Prosthetic Records

Andrea Barber, actress (Full House)

Caprice Bourret, supermodel

Cold War Kids, indie rock band

Pete Dee Davison, musician (The Adicts)

Joy Enriquez, singer, actress (7th Heaven)

Dana Ferguson, actress and younger sister of Stacy Ferguson

Staff Fieldhouse, musician

Funeral Party, punk/rock band

William Garwood, actor and director of early silent films in the 1910s

David Hidalgo, musician (Los Lobos)

Kathy Hilton, actress, socialite, mother of Paris and Nicky Hilton

Gabriel Iglesias, comedian and actor

Vic "the Brick" Jacobs, radio personality

Adrienne Janic, co-host of Overhaulin', model, and Fanta Girl

Mark Kostabi, composer and artist

Paul Kostabi, artist, musician, and producer

John Alan Lasseter, Academy Award–winning animator and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios

Roger Lodge, actor (host of Blind Date)

Long Gone John, founder of Sympathy for the Record Industry

Alex Lopez, drummer for Suicide Silence, signed to Century Media Records

Martika, singer

Tim Minear, screenwriter, director

Roger Mobley, child actor, moved to Whittier in 1957

Lorna Patterson, actress

Merle Pertile, Playboy Playmate, January 1962

Vaneza Leza Pitynski, actress (The Brothers Garcia)

Popoff, hip hop artist

Chuck Prophet, musician (solo artist and founder of the band Green On Red)

Ron Shelton, director, screenwriter (Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Tin Cup)

Eric Stoltz, actor (Memphis Belle, Jerry Maguire, Pulp Fiction)

Geoff Stults, actor (7th Heaven)

Lauren Tewes, actress (The Love Boat)

George Thatcher, trombonist

Tom Waits, actor, singer-songwriter

Tina Yothers, actress (Family Ties)

Michael Sweet musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)

Robert Sweet musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)

Oz Fox musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)

Arts and literature

Horace Bristol, photographer, Life Magazine

Roberto Chavez, fashion and fine art photographer (member of the Whittier Cultural Arts Commission)

Firoozeh Dumas, author

Christine Dzidrums, author

M.F.K. Fisher, author

Dave Freeman, author

Mark Kostabi, painter, left Whittier to be discovered in New York

Paul Kostabi, artist, musician, and producer

Carol Lay, artist

Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect

Craig McCracken, animator

Tim Miller, performance artist (member of the NEA Four)

Cherríe Moraga, poet, essayist, playwright

Joe Ranft - animator, storyboard artist

Nicole Stansbury, author

Diane Wakoski, poet

X-8, artist, publisher

Government

George Allen, United States Senator (Virginia)

Louis Caldera, United States Secretary of the Army

Ronald B. Cameron, Congressman

Raymond F. Chandler, Sergeant Major of the Army, first enlisted commandant of United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

James Ferguson, Air Force General

Jacob F. Gerkens - first chief of the LAPD

Gabriel Green, write-in presidential candidate

Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States

Gary Miller, Republican U.S. Representative for California's 31st congressional district. Miller grew up in Whittier.

Pat Nixon, First Lady, wife of President Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, played football at Whittier High School and Whittier College

Pío Pico, last Mexican governor of Alta California

Anthony Rendon, assemblyman representing California's 63rd State Assembly district

Sports

Shirley Babashoff, Olympic gold medalist swimmer

Chet Brewer, Negro League baseball player

George Buehler, football player

Mitchell Callahan, hockey player

Chuck Cary, baseball player

Bob Chandler, football player

Dave Dalby, football player, center, Oakland Raiders, R.I.P.

Oscar de la Hoya, Olympic and professional boxing champion

Andy Etchebarren, baseball player (last man to bat against Sandy Koufax)

Vince Evans, football quarterback

Arturo Frias, boxing champion

Michael Garciaparra, baseball player

Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player

Greg Hancock, speedway champion

Payton Jordan, coach of 1968 U.S. Olympic track and field

Mark Kotsay, baseball player

Dan Owens, football player

Jamie Quirk, baseball player

Ante Razov, soccer player

Anthony Reyes, baseball player

Kim Rhode, Olympic gold medalist, (double trap and skeet shooter)

Mark Sanchez, football quarterback, Philadelphia Eagles

Adam Snyder, football player, San Francisco 49ers

Jenny Topping, Olympic gold medalist, softball

Jim Zorn, football quarterback, coach Washington Redskins

Eddie Zosky, baseball player

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Miscellaneous

Milo Burcham, aviator, test pilot

Tricia Nixon Cox - daughter of President Nixon

Francis A. and Hannah Nixon, parents of President Nixon

William Patterson, Convair executive vice president, Atlas missile engineer

John Quijada, linguist, constructed language expert

Nadya Suleman, mother of the Suleman octuplets (born January 26, 2009)

Kerry Thornley, founder of Discordianism