# List of people from Fullerton, California

Here follows a list of people from Fullerton, California; that is, of persons born in or who have spent a significant portion of their life in Fullerton, California.

## Arts

* Philip K. Dick, author, science fiction
* C.S. Forester, novelist
* Dave Halili, album cover illustrator and designer

## Athletics

* Paul Abbott, baseball pitcher
* Ed Amelung, baseball player
* Shaun Butler, BMX rider
* Al Campanis, baseball player and executive
* Gary Carter, baseball player, member of MLB Hall of Fame, attended Sunny Hills High School
* C. J. Cron, professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
* Hector Dyer, Olympic swimmer
* Jim Edmonds, baseball player
* Kay Hansen, mixed martial artist
* Lynn Hill, competitive rock climber
* D. J. Houlton, baseball player who currently plays for Yomiuri Giants in Japan
* Randy Jones, baseball pitcher
* Dan Kennedy, soccer player
* Kourtney Kunichika, professional ice hockey player for the Buffalo Beauts of the NWHL
* Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame baseball manager and Dodgers executive, lived in Fullerton
* Phil Nevin, baseball player
* David Newhan, baseball player
* Shawn Ray, bodybuilder
* Jack Salveson, baseball player
* Karlie Samuelson, basketball player
* Katie Lou Samuelson, basketball player
* John Sullivan, football player
* Jeff Tam, baseball player
* Keith Van Horn, basketball player
* Arky Vaughan, Hall of Fame baseball player
* Mike Witt, baseball pitcher
* Eric Wynalda, soccer player
* Gary Zimmerman, football player

## Film, television and theatre

* James Cameron, Oscar-winning film director
* Kim Chambers
* Kevin Costner, actor and Oscar-winning director, graduate of California State University, Fullerton
* Suzanne Crough, actress
* Jeremy Gable, playwright
* Jenna Haze, actress
* Chris Hebert, actor
* Chuck Knipp
* Michael McDonald, actor and comedian
* John Raitt, Broadway, television, and film actor and singer
* Steven Seagal, actor
* Skip Stellrecht, actor

## Music

* The Adolescents (band)
* Agent Orange (band)
* Alfie Agnew, mathematician, songwriter and musician
* Frank Agnew, songwriter and musician
* Rikk Agnew, songwriter and musician
* Jackson Browne, folk music singer-songwriter, graduated from Sunny Hills High School
* Dennis Danell, musician
* Leo Fender, inventor, guitar manufacturer
* Lit (band)
* Mike Ness, musician
* Jory Prum, recording engineer
* Stacey Q, singer, songwriter and actress
* Social Distortion (band)
* Brian St. Clair, drummer for Local H, was raised in Fullerton, California
* Gwen Stefani, singer and television personality
* Tui St. George Tucker, composer, recorder player, instrument developer
* Überzone, electronic musician
* Yeat, rapper

## Politics

* Dick Ackerman, politician
* Sam L. Collins, politician
* William E. Dannemeyer, politician
* Viet D. Dinh, assistant U.S. Attorney General under president George W. Bush
* Lon Nol, marshal and former president of the Khmer Republic

## Other

* David Boies, attorney
* James Harder, engineer, professor
* Ethel Jacobson, poet
* Leon Leyson, believed to be the youngest member of the Schindlerjuden who were saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler
* Kelly Thomas, homeless man beaten to death by the Fullerton Police Department
* John Witt, baseball collector