# List of people from San Bernardino, California

The following is a list of notable people from San Bernardino, California.

## Arts

* Twyla Tharp - choreographer and dancer
* Jerome Bixby – writer
* Gene Hackman – actor and novelist
* Kirk Harris – actor, writer
* Edith Head – costume designer
* Poison Ivy – producer and guitarist for the Cramps
* Brenden Jefferson – actor
* Roscoe Karns (1891–1970) – actor
* David Lauser – drummer
* Julie London – singer, actress
* Michael Reaves – screenwriter
* Fuerza Regida - music group
* Bob Spalding - guitarist/bassist for The Ventures, born in San Bernardino
* Lakeith Stanfield – actor
* Moses Sumney – singer-songwriter
* Philip Michael Thomas – actor
* Jason Thornberry - writer, musician
* Miranda Weese – dancer
* Jefferson Wood – illustrator
* Shailene Woodley – actress

## Journalism

* Ron Magers – reporter and news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago
* Wilbur H. Durborough (1882-1946) – photojournalist and film correspondent in World War I
* Henry L. Hooks (1921-2021)-first photojournalist in the IE to have African-American photos published in the San Bernardino Sun Telegram

## Politics

* Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd Treasurer of the United States
* Stephen W. Cunningham – first UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–41
* Merritt B. Curtis – Brigadier General in the Marine Corps and candidate for President of the United States in 1960
* Dirk Kempthorne – Idaho Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Interior; moved to San Bernardino at a young age, lived there through junior college
* Claude R. Kirk, Jr. – Governor of Florida

## Science

* Michael R. Clifford – astronaut
* Howard Georgi – professor of physics at Harvard University

## Sports

* Jayden Daniels – football player
* Tyler Ankrum – NASCAR driver
* Glenn Braggs – baseball player
* Branden Becker – baseball player
* Greg Bunch – basketball player
* Brandie Burton – golfer
* Chuck Carr – baseball player
* Layshia Clarendon – basketball player
* Kenny Clark – football player
* Mark Collins – football player
* Rich Dauer – baseball player
* Shawn Estes – baseball player
* Bobby Green – mixed martial artist
* Charles Johnson – football player
* Al Jury – football refereer
* Damontae Kazee – football player
* Bob Lemon – baseball player and manager
* Paul Lim – darts player
* Alberto Madril – wrestler
* Alexander Mattison – football player
* Jason Moore – football player
* Ryan Nece – football player
* Craig Newsome – football player
* Derek Parra – Olympic speed skater
* Stephanie Rehe – tennis player
* Ricky Romero – wrestler
* Bryon Russell – basketball player
* Swede Savage – race car driver
* Daryl Sconiers – baseball player
* Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942) – long distance runner
* Jeremy Stevenson – hockey player
* Dave Stockton – golfer
* Jalin Turner – mixed martial artist
* Lisa Marie Varon – wrestler
* Charlie Venegas – speedway rider

## Other

* Anthony Acevedo (1924–2018) – Mexican-American engineer and U.S. soldier incarcerated at the Berga concentration camp during World War II
* John Brown (1817–1889) – Mountain man, fur trapper and trader, prominent businessman in San Bernardino.
* Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's
* Anna Nieto-Gómez – Chicana feminist
* Rizwan Farook, terrorist
* Fredrick D. Scott – business consultant
* Walter Knott (1889–1981) – Founder of Knott's Berry Farm