List of people from Alhambra, California
This article lists people from Alhambra, California.
- Hank Aguirre, baseball player
- Duane Allen, football player[1]
- Atlas, graffiti artist
- Jairo Avila Jr., NASCAR driver
- Andrew E. Bellisario, Roman Catholic bishop
- Ron Cey, baseball player
- Jack Chick Christian evangelist and cartoonist
- Roberta Collins, actress
- Dean Cundey, cinematographer and film director
- Clive Cussler, novelist
- Alexander Fost, dancer, So You Think You Can Dance contestant
- Amy Kim Ganter, author
- Bob Givens, animator
- Sam Hanks, race car driver, won 1957 Indianapolis 500
- Rico Harris, former Harlem Globetrotter missing since 2014
- James Jannard, fashion designer
- Frank Tenney Johnson, western artist
- Kazu Kibuishi, graphic novel illustrator
- Ralph Kiner, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player, broadcaster
- Kenny Loggins, musician
- Danny Lopez, world champion boxer[2]
- Lance Mountain, professional skateboarder
- Jacqueline Nguyen, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Frank Pastore, baseball player
- Albie Pearson, baseball player
- Ke Huy Quan, actor, stunt coordinator
- Noé Ramirez, baseball player[3]
- Jim Rathmann, race car driver, won 1960 Indianapolis 500
- Norman Rockwell, artist, lived in Alhambra in the early 1930s[4]
- Dorothy Howell Rodham (1919 – 2011), homemaker, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Tex Schramm, president of NFL's Dallas Cowboys
- Dean Scofield, actor
- Peter Seidler, Founder and managing partner of Seidler Equity Partners. Chairman and owner of the San Diego Padres
- Phil Spector, music producer
- Mickey Thompson (1928-1988), race car driver. Born in Alhambra
- Cheryl Tiegs, model
- Melissa Villaseñor, comedian and impressionist, Saturday Night Live
- Mitch Vogel, actor
- Ron Warner, Third Base Coach for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
- James D. Watkins, admiral[5]
- Betty White, actress[6][7]
- Verne Winchell, businessman
- Xasthur, black metal band
- Rolly Crump, Animator and designer
References
[edit]- ^ "Duane Allen, 65; NFL player for Rams in '60s". Los Angeles Times. May 9, 2003. p. B13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rock 'n' Roll: Danny "Little Red" Lopez - Boxing.com". www.boxing.com.
- ^ Ardaya, Fabian (May 3, 2019). "'That's the motherland, man:' Noé Ramirez, a proud Mexican, gets to pitch in his parents' homeland". The Athletic. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
- ^ "City of Alhambra: A personal recollection". Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ "Navy Admiral James D. Watkins, an Alhambra native, dies at 85". Archived from the original on August 9, 2012.
- ^ Richmond, Ray (2021). Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life. becker&mayer! books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7603-7321-7.
- ^ Stange, Mary Zeiss; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (2013). The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE Publications. p. 1064. ISBN 978-1-4522-7068-5.