# List of people from Whittier, California

The following is a list of people who were born in or lived in the city of 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)
* 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
* 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)
* Chuck Prophet, musician (solo artist and founder of the band Green On Red)
* Dax Reynosa, hip hop and smooth jazz artist and producer, music manager, and film producer
* Zane Reynosa, hip hop artist and fashion accessory designer
* 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)
* 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
* 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

* Edson Alvarado, soccer player
* Deborah Babashoff, swimmer
* 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
* 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
* Art Sherman (born 1937), horse trainer and jockey
* Adam Snyder, football player, San Francisco 49ers
* Jenny Topping, Olympic gold medalist, softball
* Aaron Valdes (born 1993), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Al Young, drag racing World Champion & award winning high school teacher
* Jim Zorn, football quarterback, former coach Washington Redskins
* Eddie Zosky, baseball player
* Jared Jones, baseball player

## Miscellaneous

* Milo Burcham, aviator, test pilot
* Tricia Nixon Cox - daughter of President Nixon
* Francis A. and Hannah Nixon, parents of President Nixon
* John Quijada, linguist, constructed language expert
* Nadya Suleman, mother of the Suleman octuplets (born January 26, 2009)
* Kerry Thornley, founder of Discordianism