Bakersfield High School

Bakersfield High School (BHS) is a public four-year high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School serves grades ninth through twelfth within the Kern High School District.

Notable alumni

• Larry Barnes – former MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Theo Bell – former NFL football player
• Richard Blick - 1960 Rome Olympic 4x200 freestyle relay gold medalist, 200-meter freestyle world record-holder, teacher, principal, and swim coach.
• Jeff Buckey – former NFL football player
• Pete Cross – former NBA player.
• Marion Osborn Cunningham – artist.
• Ric Drasin – actor, author, designer of the Gold's Gym and World Gym logos, and retired professional wrestler
• Robert Duncan – poet, was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance
• Frank Gifford – Pro Football Hall of Fame and Monday Night Football commentator
• Merle Haggard – singer-songwriter.
• Carl Jones Jr. – NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears
• Jerry Marion – former NFL player
• Kevin McCarthy – Congressman, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Matthew Todd Miller, American citizen held by North Korea
• Spain Musgrove – former NFL defensive lineman
• Doug Loman – former MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers)
• Ruth B. Love (Class of 1950) – Educator, former education administrator, school superintendent and author. Love is noted as the first African–American and woman to serve as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third largest school district.
• Steve Ontiveros – former MLB player (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs)
• Dennis Ralston – Davis Cup winner
• Don Robesky – former Stanford football player
• Rick Sawyer – former MLB player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres)
• Jeff Siemon – former NFL football player
• Jeremy Staat – former NFL player
• Michael Stewart – former NFL football player
• Robert Swift – former NBA player
• Jerry Tarr – former professional football player
• Phillip Thomas – former NFL football player
• Jake Varner – four time All-American and two time national champion wrestler at Iowa State University and winner of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at 26
• Tyrone Wallace (Class of 2012) – Paris basketball player, NBA player, former California Golden Bears basketball player
• Earl Warren – California Attorney General, three-term Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States, and chairman of the Warren Commission
• Larry Welz – noteworthy early contributor to underground comics movement

References

Further reading

External links

• Wallace, J. S. Recollections of a high school district, 1893–1968 : an informal history of the Kern County Union High School and junior college district. Published circa 1980.
• Bakersfield High School
• Driller Marching Band
• Bakersfield Haunted History