Long Beach, California

Famous residents of Long Beach

• Greta Andersen: Olympic swimming gold medalist, and long distance swimmer, orginally from Denmark
• Fatty Arbuckle: actor
• Richard Bach: author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Theda Bara: actress
• Frank Black (aka Black Francis): leader of the Pixies rock group
• Milton Bradley: baseball player, played for Long Beach Poly High School
• Jan Burke: Mystery author, 2000 Edgar Award for Best Novel (for "Bones")
• George Chakiris: Academy Award-winning actor
• Dorothy Buffum Chandler: Los Angeles philanthropist, wife of Norman Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and namesake for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
• Nat King Cole: singer and jazz piano player
• Jonathan Davis: lead singer for Ko?n
• George Deukmejian: Governor of California
• Cameron Diaz: actress
• Melissa Etheridge: rock singer
• Bobby Grich: baseball player, played for Wilson High School
• Chris Gwynn: baseball player, played for Long Beach Poly High School
• Tony Gwynn: baseball player, played for Long Beach Poly High School
• John Lee Hooker: Blues singer
• Marilyn Horne: opera singer
• Thelma Houston: R&B singer
• Paula Jones
• DeForest Kelley: Star Trek actor
• Vicki Lawrence: comedian
• Bob Lemon: baseball player and baseball manager, baseball Hall of Fame inductee
• Camryn Manheim: actress
• Misty May: professional beach volleyball player
• Willie McGinest: football player, played for Long Beach Poly High School
• Mike McCready: Pearl Jam's guitarist
• Robert Mitchum: actor
• Bradley Nowell: singer songwriter of Sublime
• Elizabeth Short (aka "The Black Dahlia"): famous murder victim
• Upton Sinclair: author
• Chase Utley: baseball player, played for Long Beach Poly High School
• Carl Weathers: actor NFL player Attended and played for Long Beach Poly High School