List of people from Pasadena, California
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- Kelly Asbury, film director, writer, illustrator, voice actor[1]
- Stacey Augmon, basketball player
- Jon B., Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter
- Meredith Baxter, actress
- Carlton Beals (1893–1979), journalist
- Hodgy Beats, rapper
- Walt Becker, film director
- G. Vernon Bennett, Los Angeles City Council member, 1935–49
- Susie Maxwell Berning, pro golfer
- Julie Berry, children's author
- Summer Bishil, actress
- Whitney Blake, actress, director and producer
- Phoebe Bridgers, hot[2]
- Alison Brie, actress
- Betty Brosmer, bodybuilder, model
- Owen Brown, abolitionist
- May Sutton Bundy (1886–1975), first American to win Wimbledon tennis singles title
- Frederick Russell Burnham (1861–1947), celebrated scout and inspiration for the Boy Scouts[3]
- Howard Burnham (1870–1917), mining engineer and spy[4]
- Sigrid Burton, artist and painter[5]
- Sophia Bush, actress, TV series One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D., 82nd Rose Queen for 111th Tournament of Roses Parade (2000)
- Octavia Butler, award-winning science-fiction writer
- Stephen Cannell, author, television and film producer
- Christy Canyon, pornographic actress
- Cari Champion, former moderator, ESPN First Take
- Otis Chandler, publisher, Los Angeles Times
- Justin Chapman, journalist, author, actor
- Julia Child, celebrated author and television chef
- Jeff Cirillo, MLB player for six teams
- Michael Cooper, NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers, coach
- Andre Coleman, Award-winning journalist and screenwriter
- Steve Crocker, internet engineer, member of the Internet Hall of Fame
- Edward Cucuel, impressionistic painter
- Harriet Doerr, author, winner of the National Book Award
- Jimmy Dore, comedian
- Michael Dorn, actor
- Tyler Dorsey (born 1996), Greek–American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Cullen Douglas, actor, director, playwright
- Arthur Duncan, tap dancer
- David Ebershoff, writer
- Rafa Esparza, performance artist
- Darrell Evans, MLB player
- Mary Beth Evans, actress
- Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, raconteur
- Sally Field, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
- W.C. Fields, comedian, actor, juggler and writer; died in Pasadena
- Missy Franklin, swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist
- Stan Freberg, comedian, satirist, recording artist
- Dâm-Funk, musician
- Paul Fussell, critic and historian
- Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech
- Elmer Grey, architect
- George Ellery Hale, astrophysicist, Caltech professor, founder Mt. Wilson Observatory
- Harry Hamlin, actor
- Kristy Hawkins, IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Olive Hoskins, first woman promoted to warrant officer in U.S. Army
- Charles Frederick Holder, inventor of big-game fishing and a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses[6][7]
- Gregory C. Horn, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
- Edwin Hubble, astronomer, namesake for the Hubble Telescope, Caltech professor
- Myron Hunt, architect of Rose Bowl
- Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Todd M. Hutton, American medical academic and psychiatrist
- Lance Ito, judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
- Bret Iwan, fourth voice of Mickey Mouse
- Joseph J. Jacobs,engineer and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
- Tom Jancar, contemporary art dealer Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery
- Pete Jolly, jazz pianist
- Lucy Jones, seismologist
- Tamala Jones, actress[8]
- TJ Kirk Commentator and author
- Kathryn Le Veque, author
- Matthew Lillard, actor
- Kate Linder, actress
- Chris McAlister, professional football player
- James McAlister, professional football player
- Tyler MacDuff, actor
- Henry Markham, 18th governor of California
- Hugo Markl, artist, curator and creative director based in New York
- Mo Martin, LPGA golfer, 2014 British Open champion
- F.O. Matthiessen, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor
- Joel McCrea, actor
- Inger Miller, track and field sprint athlete
- Robert A. Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist
- Richard Moll, actor
- Mandy Moore, Actress, Musician
- Brian Stoltz, Professor of organic chemistry at Caltech
- Jane Mulfinger, conceptual artist and educator[9]
- George Murdoch, WWE wrestler
- Tracy Murray, NBA Player
- George Nader, actor
- George Olah, Nobel Prize chemist, professor University of Southern California
- Bill Paparian, attorney, veterans' advocate and Mayor of Pasadena[10]
- Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist
- George S. Patton (attorney) (1856–1927), city attorney (1877) for City of Pasadena.[11]
- George S. Patton, four-star general, led Allies during World War II
- Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, peace activist, Caltech
- Chris Pettit, MLB outfielder[12]
- Drew Pinsky, doctor and radio/TV personality
- Chris Pontius, actor/TV personality
- Durell Price, UCLA fullback[13]
- Karen Price, actress
- Kathleen Quinlan, actress
- Robert Reed, actor, best known as Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch television series
- George Reeves, actor, best known as star of television series Adventures of Superman; attended Pasadena Junior College
- George F. Regas, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church 1967–1995, noted critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam war as well as many other policy issues.
- Roger Revelle, founder of University of California, San Diego, father of concept of global warming
- Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico[14]
- Jackie Robinson, iconic baseball player
- Mack Robinson, Olympic athlete, brother of Jackie Robinson
- James Roosevelt, U.S. Congressman, son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Don Ross, Major League Baseball player
- David Lee Roth, lead singer for Van Halen
- Stan Sakai, cartoonist best known as creator of Usagi Yojimbo series
- Ruwanga Samath, record producer, attended John Muir High School
- Ellen Browning Scripps, heiress, publisher, philanthropist
- Christian Serratos, actress
- Jamey Sheridan, actor
- William Shockley, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, inventor of the transistor
- Alvin Simon, restaurateur who revitalized Old Pasadena
- John Singleton, film director
- Sirhan Sirhan, resident of Pasadena at the time of assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
- Alina Smith, musician
- Mark Smith, MLB player for five teams
- Stan Smith, professional tennis player, namesake of Stan Smith Tennis Shoe
- Phil Spector, music producer
- Brett Sterling, professional ice hockey player
- John Patten Story, US Army major general[15]
- Kathleen Sullivan, television personality
- Brian Teacher, Australian Open tennis champion
- Teena Marie, singer-songwriter, music producer
- Kip Thorne, professor, Feynman theoretical physicist, Caltech
- Troop, R&B group
- Chase Utley, baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Peter Vagenas, soccer player
- John Van De Kamp, attorney general of California
- Alex Van Halen, drummer for Van Halen
- Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen
- Duong Van Minh, exiled president of South Vietnam
- Jacque Vaughn, professional basketball player
- Charles Walters, film director
- Wil Wheaton, actor, writer
- Jaleel White, actor, producer, and writer
- William Wrigley, Jr., founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum, former owner of Chicago Cubs[16]
- Matt Young, MLB player for Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians
- Marc Yu, child music prodigy on piano and viola
- Jeff Yurak, MLB player for Milwaukee Brewers
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- "Phoebe Bridgers on 'Punisher'". Nylon Magazine. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). Scouting on Two Continents. Doubleday, Page & company. OCLC 407686.
- Burnham, Frederick Russell (1944). Taking Chances. Haynes Corp. 217–232. ISBN 1-879356-32-5.
- Pasadena Outlook. "PCC Foundation Welcomes Local Artist," Pasadena Outlook, April 11, 2019.
- The History of The Tuna Club of Avalon Archived 2007-07-23 at Archive.today
- International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame Archived 2008-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tamala-jones/bio/176141
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Jane Mulfinger, Faculty. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/02/prweb5068414.htm
- "George S. Patton". joincalifornia.com. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- "Christopher Michael Pettit". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2012-09-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97050046.html
- Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy (1915). Annual Reunion Proceedings. 46. Saginaw, MI: Seemann & Peters. pp. 52–55 – via Google Books.
- Tournament House
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