List of people from San Bernardino, California

The following is a list of notable people from San Bernardino, California.

Arts

• Jerome Bixby – writer
• Gene Hackman – actor and novelist
• Kirk Harris – actor, writer
• Edith Head – costume designer
• Poison Ivy – producer and guitarist for the Cramps
• Brenden Jefferson – actor
• Roscoe Karns (1891–1970) – actor
• David Lauser – drummer
• Julie London – singer, actress
• Michael Reaves – screenwriter
• Fuerza Regida – music group
• Bob Spalding – guitarist/bassist for The Ventures, born in San Bernardino
• Lakeith Stanfield – actor
• Moses Sumney – singer-songwriter
• Twyla Tharp – choreographer and dancer
• Philip Michael Thomas – actor
• Jason Thornberry – writer, musician
• Miranda Weese – dancer
• Jefferson Wood – illustrator
• Shailene Woodley – actress

Journalism

• Wilbur H. Durborough (1882-1946) – photojournalist and film correspondent in World War I
• Ron Magers – reporter and news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago

Politics

• Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd treasurer of the United States
• Stephen W. Cunningham – first UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–41
• Merritt B. Curtis – brigadier general in the Marine Corps and candidate for president of the United States in 1960
• Dirk Kempthorne – Idaho governor, U.S. senator, U.S. Secretary of the Interior; moved to San Bernardino at a young age, lived there through junior college
• Claude R. Kirk, Jr. – governor of Florida

Science

• Michael R. Clifford – astronaut
• Howard Georgi – professor of physics at Harvard University

Sports

• Tyler Ankrum – NASCAR driver
• Branden Becker – baseball player
• Glenn Braggs – baseball player
• Greg Bunch – basketball player
• Brandie Burton – golfer
• Chuck Carr – baseball player
• Layshia Clarendon – basketball player
• Kenny Clark – football player
• Mark Collins – football player
• Jayden Daniels – football player
• Rich Dauer – baseball player
• Shawn Estes – baseball player
• King Green – mixed martial artist
• Charles Johnson – football player
• Al Jury – football referee
• Damontae Kazee – football player
• Bob Lemon – baseball player and manager
• Paul Lim – darts player
• Alberto Madril – wrestler
• Alexander Mattison – football player
• Jason Moore – football player
• Ryan Nece – football player
• Craig Newsome – football player
• Derek Parra – Olympic speed skater
• Stephanie Rehe – tennis player
• Ricky Romero – wrestler
• Bryon Russell – basketball player
• Swede Savage – race car driver
• Daryl Sconiers – baseball player
• Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942) – long distance runner
• Jeremy Stevenson – hockey player
• Dave Stockton – golfer
• Jalin Turner – mixed martial artist
• Lisa Marie Varon – wrestler
• Charlie Venegas – speedway rider

Other

• Anthony Acevedo (1924–2018) – Mexican-American engineer and U.S. soldier incarcerated at the Berga concentration camp during World WarII
• John Brown (1817–1889) – mountain man, fur trapper and trader, prominent businessman in San Bernardino
• Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's
• Rizwan Farook – terrorist
• Walter Knott (1889–1981) – founder of Knott's Berry Farm
• Anna Nieto-Gómez – Chicana feminist
• Fredrick D. Scott – business consultant

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