# List of people from Santa Barbara, California

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

## Notable people from Santa Barbara

* Douglas Adams, author
* Elizabeth Laura Adams, writer
* Dylan Axelrod, Major League Baseball player
* Jeff Bridges, actor
* Ashleigh Brilliant, cartoonist and writer
* 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
* Red Barrett, Major League Baseball player
* Bobby Beausoleil, former member of the Manson Family, currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of his friend Gary Hinman
* Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player
* Jimmy Connors, Tennis champion
* Kami Craig, Olympic water polo player
* Randall Cunningham, National Football League player
* Shawn Dailey, musician
* Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer
* Marko DeSantis, musician
* Dean Dinning, musician, music producer, bassist
* Dishwalla, post-grunge alternative rock band
* 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
* Parry Gripp, musician
* Brad Hall, actor
* Mary C. F. Hall-Wood (d. 1899), poet, editor, author
* Cole Hauser, actor
* Marianna Hill, actress
* Eric Christopher Houston, mass-murderer
* Cady Huffman, actress
* Kathy Ireland, supermodel
* Jason Johnson, Major League Baseball player
* William Lassiter, U.S. Army major general
* Jan Lee, former Oregon State Representative
* Chuck Liddell, mixed martial artist
* Alex D. Linz, actor
* The Little Heroes, indie rock band
* Alex Mack, National Football League player
* George K. McGunnegle, U.S. Army officer
* Randy Mantooth, 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
* 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
* Jeffrey Peterson, technology entrepreneur
* Lakey Peterson, professional surfer
* 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
* David Woodard, conductor
* Felix Wormser, engineer and U.S. government official
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.