List of people from La Jolla
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This is a list of notable people who were born or who lived a significant amount of time in La Jolla, San Diego, California.
Notable residents
Sports
- Buzzie Bavasi - Major League Baseball executive, lived in La Jolla from 1968 until his death in 2008
- Rolf Benirschke - placekicker for the San Diego Chargers, graduated from La Jolla High School
- Dan Bilzerian - professional poker player, lives in La Jolla
- Debbie Bramwell-Washington - IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Chase Budinger - NBA player for Minnesota Timberwolves, born in La Jolla
- Conor Chinn - professional soccer player for the New York Red Bulls
- Gerry Driscoll - championship sailor and businessperson, lived in La Jolla until his death in 2011
- Rob Deer - Major League Baseball - player (San Diego Padres) and coach. Family has lived in La Jolla since the early 1900s.
- Dick Enberg - sportscaster for NBC and CBS Sports, resided in La Jolla
- Doug Flutie - quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and other NFL teams
- J. J. Isler - yachtswoman, two-time Olympic medalist and America's Cup competitor
- Gene Littler - professional golfer, graduated from La Jolla High School
- John Michels - played for Super Bowl XXXI champion Green Bay Packers, born and raised in La Jolla
- Rey Mysterio - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) professional wrestler
- Bruce Robinson - Major League Baseball catcher, born and raised in La Jolla, graduated from La Jolla High School
- Dave Robinson - outfielder for the San Diego Padres, raised in La Jolla, graduated from La Jolla High School
- Bob Skinner - Major League Baseball player, coach, manager, scout, born in La Jolla[1]
- Joel Skinner - manager and third base coach of Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, born in La Jolla
- Craig Stadler - professional golfer, graduated from La Jolla High School in 1971
- Alexandra Stevenson - professional tennis player and 1999 semifinalist at Wimbledon, born in La Jolla
- Lou Thesz (1916-2002) - professional wrestler
Arts and entertainment
Actors and actresses
- Gary Erwin - member of the cast of reality show Addicted to Beauty
- Shane Harper - actor and musician
- Charlotte Henry - actress
- Izetta Jewel - stage actress, women's rights activist and local radio personality[2]
- James Maslow - actor, songwriter and singer
- Danica McKellar - actress
- Zoe McLellan - actress
- Gregory Peck - actor
- Robin Wright - actress, attended La Jolla High School
- Autumn Reeser - actress (The O.C.), born in La Jolla and lived there until age 17
- Cliff Robertson - actor
- Raquel Welch - actress
Film and television executives
- Donald De Line - studio executive and film producer (Pretty Woman) at Walt Disney Productions and its Touchstone Pictures division since 1985, native La Jollan
- Gore Verbinski - director of Pirates of the Caribbean
Writers
- Carlos Blanco Aguinaga - novelist and literary critic, founded the Spanish section of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego
- Raymond Chandler - noir novelist, moved to La Jolla and uttered the aphorism about La Jolla, "A nice place — for old people and their parents"
- Deepak Chopra - spiritual writer, ran his Center for Well Being in La Jolla until recently[timeframe?]
- Peter Economy - author, editor, ghostwriter, and publishing consultant
- Debbie Ford - self-help author of best-selling The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998)[3]
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel - children's author, long-time resident of La Jolla,[4] namesake of the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego
- Audrey Geisel - Seuss' widow
- Anne Rice - novelist and author of Interview with the Vampire, moved to La Jolla from New Orleans in March 2005[5]
- Alan Russell - bestselling mystery and crime novelist
Music
- Robin Crosby - rock musician who played electric guitar for the metal band Ratt, born and attended high school in La Jolla
- Warren DeMartini - rock musician who plays electric guitar for the metal band Ratt, attended high school in La Jolla
- Michael Franks - musician, born in La Jolla
- Amelita Galli-Curci - Italian operatic coloratura soprano
- Sam Hinton - folk singer and marine biologist
- Bruce Robinson - singer-songwriter and former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees, graduated from La Jolla High School in 1972
- Andy Skib - guitarist and keyboardist in David Cook's band
- Nathan Williams - lead singer for the pop and punk band Wavves, went to high school in La Jolla
Visual and performance art
- Armi Kuusela - winner of the first Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1952, lives in La Jolla with her husband, Albert Williams
Crime
- Ivan Boesky - financier convicted of insider trading, lived in La Jolla for several years
- Betty Broderick - convicted of second degree murder, lived in La Jolla, found guilty on December 11, 1991 and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda Kolkena
- Andrew Cunanan - infamous spree killer of Gianni Versace and three others, graduated from The Bishop's School in 1987
Government and politics
- David Hall - former Governor of Oklahoma, moved to La Jolla following his release from federal prison with his wife, former Oklahoma First Lady Jo Evans Hall;[6] died 2016
- Hyrum Rex Lee - former American Samoa Governor; lived with his wife, First Lady Lillian Lee, in a $5 million high-rise condo in the Shore Towers until their deaths in 2001 and 2010, respectively.
- John McCain - United States Senator from Arizona, 2008 Presidential nominee of the Republican Party, owns a home in La Jolla with his wife, Cindy McCain[7]
- Geoffrey R. Pyatt - United States Ambassador to Ukraine, born in La Jolla in 1963[8][9]
- Mitt Romney - former Governor of Massachusetts and the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election, and his wife, former Massachusetts First Lady Ann Romney, have a $12 million vacation home there[10]
Business and finance
- Warren Buffett - billionaire, lead shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, has a second house in La Jolla
- David C. Copley - former owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune and member of the Forbes 400 until his death in 2012
- Benjamin Graham - economist and value investor, lived in La Jolla at the end of his life
- Trip Hawkins - 64th employee at Apple Computer and founder of Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate, graduated from Muirlands Junior High and La Jolla High School
- Irwin Mark Jacobs - electrical engineer, co-founder and chairman of the board of Qualcomm
- Daniel Lawrence, founder of clothing retailer Charlotte Russe
- William Lerach - securities lawyer whose cases include Enron
- Ted Waitt - founder of Gateway, Inc.
Science and technology
- Geoffrey Burbidge and Margaret Burbidge - astronomers holding positions at UCSD after many years, reside near La Jolla Shores
- Francis Crick - Nobel Prize in medicine winner for his work to identify the essential structure of DNA, long-time resident of La Jolla
- Hillman Curtis - web designer[11]
- Lawrence J. Fogel - inventor of active noise cancellation, studied artificial intelligence, long-time resident of La Jolla
- Robert Galambos - researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation[12]
- Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics winner; long-time resident of La Jolla
- Kary Mullis - Nobel Prize in Chemistry-winning biochemist and surfer from La Jolla, invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method of DNA analysis
- Walter Munk - oceanographer, lives in La Jolla
- Leslie Orgel - research chemist, lived in La Jolla from 1964 to 2007
- Sally Ride - astronaut
- Carl Rogers - psychologist and researcher of psychotherapy
- Jonas Salk - virologist and founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine
- Ellen Browning Scripps - philanthropist, founder of Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Scripps College, member of the Forbes 400
- K. Barry Sharpless - Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, lives in La Jolla
- Benjamin Elazari Volcani - microbiologist
References
- ^ The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. Sterling Publishing. 2007. p. 908. ISBN 1-4027-4771-3.
- ^ Izetta Jewel Papers – Harvard University accessed August 30, 2012
- ^ "Bestselling Self-Help Author and La Jollan Debbie Ford Dies at 57". La Jolla Patch. February 19, 2013.
- ^ La Jolla Blue Book Community Directory
- ^ "Anne Rice's rebirth", San Diego Union-Tribune, November 3, 2005.
- ^ Cole-Frowe, Carol (2012-02-07). "Telling his side". Oklahoma Gazette. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
- ^ "Mrs. McCain, San Diego County Would Like a Word".
- ^ Yanukovych accepts credentials from new US ambassador, discusses with him Ukrainian-US relations, Interfax-Ukraine (15 August 2013)
- ^ Welcome, Mr. Pyatt!, Den (5 August 2013)
- ^ Sabloff, Nick (2008-06-11). "Mitt Romney's New $12 Million California House". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- ^ "Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51". New York Times. April 20, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Robert Galambos, Neuroscientist Who Showed How Bats Navigate, Dies at 96", The New York Times, July 15, 2010. Accessed July 16, 2010.