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Born in Los Angeles County: Prominently Known
Persons
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Name |
Famous for... |
Birthplace |
Birth Year |
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Anderson, Jack |
Newspaper columnist |
Long Beach |
1922 |
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Babbitt, Bruce |
Former Arizona Governor, US Interior Secretary |
Los Angeles |
1938 |
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Bower, Dr. Robert W. |
Inventor of
device which created the device that is the foundation of all modern
integrated circuits. |
Santa Monica |
1936 |
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Buscaglia, Leo |
Professor,
lecturer and writer who shook up the
University of Southern California in the 1970s with new classes on love,
including "Love 101," combining sociology and psychology. |
Los Angeles |
1924 |
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Cage, John Milton (died 1992) |
Composer |
Los Angeles |
1912 |
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Child, Julia |
Cooking writer/TV hostess |
Pasadena |
1912 |
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D’Aquino, Iva Toguri "Tokyo Rose" |
Infamous for being the seductive Japanese radio propagandist during
WWII |
Los Angeles |
1916 |
| De la Hoya,
Oscar |
World
Boxing Champion and Olympic Gold Medal winner |
East
Los Angeles |
1973 |
| Fratianne, Linda |
Figure
skater |
Los
Angeles |
1960 |
| Gardner, John William |
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in Lyndon Johnson
administration and founder of Common Cause |
Los
Angeles |
1912 |
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Goldwater, Barry M. Jr. |
U.S. Congressman |
Los Angeles |
1938 |
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Gonzales, Richard Alonzo "Pancho" (died 1995) |
Tennis player |
Los Angeles |
1928 |
| Head, Edith
(died 1981) |
Fashion
designer |
Los
Angeles |
1901 |
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Name |
Famous for... |
Birthplace |
Birth Year |
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Ito, Lance |
Judge in O.J. Simpson murder trial |
Los Angeles |
1950 |
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Kemp, Jack |
Former Congressman, Cabinet Secretary, Vice Presidential Candidate
alongside Bob Dole |
Los Angeles |
1935 |
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King, Billie Jean Moffit |
Tennis player |
Long Beach |
1943 |
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LeMond, Greg |
Bicycle racer (first American to win Tour de France) |
Lakewood |
1961 |
| Mackie, Bob |
Fashion
designer |
Monterey Park |
1940 |
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Mahony, Roger M. |
Roman Catholic Cardinal (first born in California) |
North Hollywood |
1936 |
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Maimon, Theodore Harold |
Physicist, inventor (constructed first operable Laser) |
Los Angeles |
1927 |
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Matthiessen, F.O. (died 1950) |
Literary critic & educator |
Pasadena |
1902 |
| McGwire, Mark |
Baseball player |
Pomona |
1963 |
| Myer, Eugene
(died 1959) |
Financier,
newspaper publisher (Washington Post) |
Los
Angeles |
1875 |
| Moceanu,
Dominique |
Gymnast (U.S.
Olympics gold-medalist) |
Hollywood |
1981 |
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Noguchi, Isamu (died 1988) |
Sculptor |
Los Angeles |
1904 |
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Ovitz, Michael |
Former Walt Disney President |
Encino |
1946 |
| Patton, General
George S. Jr. (died 1945) |
WWII
Army General - regarded as one of the most successful American field
commanders of any war |
San Gabriel |
1885 |
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Pico, Pio (died 1894) |
Last Mexican Governor of California |
Mission San Gabriel |
1801 |
|
Name |
Famous for... |
Birthplace |
Birth Year |
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Richardson, William B. |
U.S. Representative to the United Nations |
Pasadena |
1947 |
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Ride, Sally K. |
Space Shuttle astronaut |
Encino |
1951 |
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Riggs, Bobby (died 1995) |
Tennis player |
Los Angeles |
1918 |
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Rozelle, Pete |
Former NFL Commissioner |
South Gate |
1926 |
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Slatkin, Leonard |
Orchestra conductor, New Orleans Philharmonic, St. Louis Orchestra |
Los Angeles |
1944 |
| Smith, Jack
(died 1996) |
Famed
L.A. Times journalist, columnist & author |
Long
Beach |
1916 |
| Snider, Duke |
Baseball
Hall of Famer |
Los
Angeles |
1925 |
| St. Johns, Adela
Rogers (1988) |
Journalist
and author |
Los
Angeles |
1894 |
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Stevenson, Adlai E. II (died 1965) |
Ambassador, Presidential candidate, Governor of Illinois |
Los Angeles |
1900 |
| Strawberry,
Darryl |
Baseball
player |
Los
Angeles |
1962 |
| Temple-Black, Shirley |
Child
actress/U.S. Diplomat |
Santa Monica |
1928 |
| Thomas, Michael
Tilson |
Conductor |
Hollywood |
1944 |
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Warren, Earl (died 1974) |
14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
Los Angeles |
1891 |
| Watson, Martha
Rae |
Track
star |
Long
Beach |
1946 |
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Waxman, Henry A. |
U.S. Congressman |
Los Angeles |
1939 |
|
Name |
Famous for... |
Birthplace |
Birth Year |
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Williams, Paul Revere (died 1980) |
African American architect, designed LAX Theme Building |
Los Angeles |
1894 |
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Williams, Venus |
Tennis player |
Lynwood |
1980 |
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