page_title: Los Angeles High School
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Los Angeles High School / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: New York Giants catcher Harry Danning.
context_page_description: Los Angeles High School is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are royal blue and white and the teams are called the Romans.
  Los Angeles High School is a public secondary high school, enrolling an estimated 2,000 students in grades 9–12. After operating on a year-round basis consisting of three tracks for ten years, it was restored to a traditional calendar in 2010. Los Angeles High School receives accreditation approval from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Concurrent enrollment programs, provided in large by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Community College District, are offered with West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles City College, or Santa Monica College.
  Los Angeles High School is a large, urban, inner-city school located in the Mid-Wilshire District of Los Angeles. The attendance boundary consists of a contrasting spectrum of economic diversity ranging from affluent Hancock Park and Lafayette Square to the low-income, densely populated immigrant community of Koreatown.
context_section_description: Margaret Q. Adams, first female deputy sheriff in United States
  Pauline Betz Addie, tennis champion
  Yda Hillis Addis, translator who mysteriously disappeared
  Mel Almada, first Mexican-American in Major League Baseball
  Jimmy Allen, NFL player, 1972–1973 UCLA, 1974–1977 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1978–1981 Detroit Lions
  Tod Andrews, actor
  Jack Banta, NFL player
  Anne Baxter, Oscar-winning actress
  Scotty Beckett, actor
  Fletcher Bowron, four-term mayor of Los Angeles 1938–1953
  Ray Bradbury, science-fiction author
  Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders cornerback, Super Bowl XXX MVP
  Charles Bukowski, writer, poet
  John Cage, composer
  John P. Cassidy, Los Angeles City Council member, 1962–67
  Richard Chew, film editor
  Johnnie Cochran, attorney who defended O.J. Simpson
  Lillian Copeland, Olympian (gold medalist in discus)
  Lynn "Buck" Compton, World War II veteran portrayed in Band of Brothers, Deputy DA of Los Angeles County who convicted Sirhan Sirhan
  Gary Conway, actor
  Harry Danning, 4x MLB All Star baseball player
  Vernon Dean, NFL player
  Aileen Eaton, boxing promoter
  Bruce Edwards, Hollywood actor
  Mike Evans, actor
  Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91
  Louise Fazenda, actress
  Lita Gaithers, Tony Award-nominee singer-songwriter
  Siedah Garrett, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
  Marjorie Gestring, Olympian (swimming and diving)
  John M. Goddard, led first explorations by kayak down Nile and Congo Rivers
  Carl Greenberg, newspaperman
  Dave Gold, founder of 99 Cents Only Stores
  Horace Hahn, actor
  Juanita Hansen, silent film actress
  Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, activist, did not graduate due to internment in Manzanar in senior year
  Dustin Hoffman, Oscar-winning actor
  Robert Horton, actor
  Christianne Meneses Jacobs, writer, editor and founder of Iguana Magazine (nation's only Spanish-language magazine for children)
  Cornelius Johnson, Olympic champion (1936, track and field)
  Willis Lamb, shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for discoveries related to superfine structure of hydrogen spectrum
  Milt Larsen, co-founder of Magic Castle
  Piper Laurie, 3-time Oscar-nominated actress
  Homer Lea, general in army of Sun Yat-sen, writer of several books of geopolitics
  Linda Levi, artist
  Bessie Love, actress
  Mike Marienthal, athlete, 1990 UCLA Sports Hall of Fame
  Sam Match (1923–2010), tennis player
  Ray May, NFL player, 1967–1969 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1970–1973 Baltimore Colts (Super Bowl), 1973–1975 Denver Broncos
  Marilyn McCoo, actress and singer
  Naida McCullough, pianist, teacher
  Bob Meusel, baseball player, New York Yankees teammate of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
  Josephine Miles, poet
  Marvin Mitchelson, palimony attorney
  Carmel Myers, actress
  Jerry Nemer (1912–1980), basketball player and attorney
  Anita Ortega, basketball player, LAPD
  Budge Patty, tennis champion
  Don Paul, NFL player
  Leonard Pennario, concert pianist
  Cal Peterson, NFL player
  Emily Brown Portwig, Los Angeles clubwoman and pharmacist
  Donald Prell, futurologist
  Madlyn Rhue, actress
  Charles Francis Richter, inventor of Richter Scale
  Frederick Madison Roberts, first African American elected to California State Legislature (1919–1933)
  Budd Schulberg, Oscar-winning screenwriter
  Leonard Slatkin, music director of National Symphony Orchestra
  Bowen Stassforth, Olympian (silver medalist in swimming)
  Art Stoefen, basketball player
  Lester Stoefen, tennis player
  Miiko Taka, actress
  George Takei, actor, known for Star Trek
  Harry Thompson, NFL player
  William Irwin Thompson, poet and cultural historian
  Mel Tormé, singer, songwriter and actor
  Dick Walsh, baseball and soccer executive
  Francis J. Weber, historian, author on California's mission period
  Matt Weinstock, newspaper columnist
  Tad Wieman, college football coach
  Rosalind Wiener Wyman, political figure
  Doodles Weaver, actor and comedian
  Anna May Wong, actress
caption: Harry Danning
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