List of Los Angeles Unified School District people
This is a list of notable alumni, faculty and current students of the American Los Angeles Unified School District, located in Los Angeles, California.
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Notable alumni
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Ray Bradbury, Los Angeles High School alumnus
Walt Cunningham, Venice High School alumnus
Carol Burnett, Hollywood High School alumna
Nanette Fabray, Hollywood High School alumna
Academia, science and technology
- Vint Cerf, computer scientist, one of the "fathers of the Internet"[1]
- Walt Cunningham, astronaut[2]
- John McCarthy (1927–2011), computer technology, "father of artificial intelligence" [3]
- Glenn T. Seaborg, nuclear chemistry, Nobel Laureate[2][4]
Arts and literature
- Ray Bradbury, author[5]
- Helen Gurley Brown, author, publisher, and businesswoman who founded Cosmopolitan magazine[6]
- James Ellroy, writer[7]
- Craig Ellwood (1922–1992), architect[8]
- Murray Fromson, CBS News correspondent and USC professor
- Edith Head (1897–1981), Academy Award-winning costume designer
- Karl Hubenthal (1917–1998), cartoonist
- Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988), journalist, novelist, and screenwriter
- Jack Smith (1916–1996), columnist, journalist[9]
- Irving Stone, writer
Film, television, and theatre
- Byron Allen, talk show host[10]
- Carol Burnett, comedian
- Adam Carolla, comedian[11]
- Richard Crenna (1926–2003), actor[12]
- Leonardo DiCaprio, actor [13]
- Micky Dolenz, actor/musician/drummer of The Monkees[14]
- Nanette Fabray, actor
- Mike Frankovich (1909–1992), film producer[15]
- Joel Grey née Joel David Katz (1950), singer and actor[16]
- Rita Hayworth née Margarita Carmen Cansino, actress[17]
- Carole Lombard, actress[18]
- Quinn Martin, producer[19]
- Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), actor[2]
- David Nelson, actor
- Ricky Nelson, actor
- Anthony Quinn (1915–2001), actor
- Robert Redford, actor[2]
- Mort Sahl, humorist[12]
- Tom Selleck, actor[20]
- Coy Watson, Jr. (1912–2009), child actor, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family[15]
- Delmar Watson (1926–2008), actor, photo-journalist, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family[21]
- Harry R. Watson (1921–2001), actor, photo-journalist, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Watson Family[22][23]
- Jack Webb (1920–1982), producer, director, actor[12][24]
- Robert Young, actor[2]
Music
- Steven Adler, musician, drummer (Guns N' Roses)[25]
- Herb Alpert, musician, music industry executive[26]
- Michael "Flea" Balzary, musician, bassist, trumpet player (Red Hot Chili Peppers)[26]
- Odetta Holmes (1930–2008), folk singer, activist[27]
- Stan Kenton (1911–1979), pianist, composer, and arranger[28]
- Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (1933–2011), lyricist of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller[29]
- Phil Spector, record producer[30]
- Mike Stoller, music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller[29]
- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, pianist and composer
- Roger Wagner, choral musician, administrator and educator
Athletics
- Gilbert Arenas, professional basketball player, NBA All-Star with Washington Wizards[31]
- Ron Botchan, NFL official[32]
- Anthony Davis, USC star running back and later pro football player in the NFL and Canadian Football leagues
- Oscar De La Hoya, former world champion and gold medal-winning boxer and founder of Golden Boy Promotions[33]
- Don Drysdale, National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher[34]
- Jordan Farmar, NBA basketball player[35]
- Gail Goodrich, basketball player in the NBA, attended UCLA[36]
- Luis (Lou) Gomez, MLB player[15]
- Mike Haynes, NFL Hall of Famer
- Robert Lyles, NFL player[37]
- Gary Matthews, former Major League Baseball player[38]
- Dick Moje, National Football League [39]
- Jim E. Mora, football coach
- Bobby Riggs (1918–1995), tennis player
- Charles White, football player, Heisman Trophy winner[40]
- Mal Whitfield, athlete[41]
Medicine
- David Ho, AIDS researcher, physician and Time magazine's 1996 Man of the Year[42]
- Sammy Lee, MD, diver[2]
- Norman Topping (1908–1997), MD, president of the University of Southern California[2]
Business and law
Ralph Bunche, Jefferson High School alumnus
Carlos R. Moreno, Lincoln High School alumnus
Lee Baca, Franklin High School alumnus
- Lee Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County, 1998–present[43]
- Warren Christopher, U.S. Secretary of State
- Jimmy Doolittle, aviation pioneer
- Daryl F. Gates, Los Angeles Police Chief, 1978 to 1992[44]
- Carlos R. Moreno, California Supreme Court Justice (Cl. of 1966)[45]
- Dorothy Wright Nelson, United States federal judge[2]
- Harry Pregerson, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[2]
- Manuel Lawrence Real, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California[2]
- Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom[46]
Politics
Jack Kemp, Fairfax High School alumnus
Augustus Hawkins, Jefferson High School alumnus
- Howard Berman, Congressman[47]
- Tom Bradley (1917–1998), Mayor of Los Angeles[48]
- Ralph Bunche, educator, UN mediator on Palestine and Nobel Peace Prize Winner[49]
- James Charles Corman (1920–2000), Congressman[50]
- Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997), member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
- Jane L. Harman, U.S. House of Representatives[51]
- Augustus F. Hawkins, U.S. House of Representatives from California's 21st and 29th district from 1963–1991; California assembly from 1935–1963[52]
- Jack Kemp, politician and professional football player[53]
- Glenard P. Lipscomb (1915–1970), Congressman[15]
- Howard McKeon, U.S. House of Representatives[54]
- Louis R. Nowell (1915–2000), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–77[55]
- Edward R. Roybal, member of the U.S. House of Representatives[56]
- Vincent Thomas (1907–1980), California Assemblyman
- Antonio Villaraigosa, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles[57]
Miscellaneous
- Patrick Argüello (1943–1970), US-Nicaraguan national killed in the attempted hijack of an El Al flight, as carried out by the PFLP[58]
Notable faculty
- Salvador B. Castro (1933–2013), Mexican-American educator and activist[59]
- Jaime Escalante, educator[60]
- Jim Tunney, principal and NFL official[61]
See also
References
- ↑ Hafner, Katie; Lyon, Matthew (1996). Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. ISBN 0684812010.
Steve Crocker and Vint Cerf had been best friends since attending Van Nuys High School in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.... While Cerf and Crocker were academic stars, Postel, who was twenty-five, had had a more checkered academic career. He had grown up in nearby Glendale and Sherman Oaks, and he too had attended Van Nuys High School, where his grades were mediocre.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bicentennial Pageant-Los Angeles City Schools program, LAUSD, May 29, 1976, LA Memorial Coliseum, page 11, Fifty Distinguished Alumni
- ↑ Woo, Elaine (October 27, 2011). "John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence". Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Glenn T. Seaborg – Biographical, Nobel Prizes
- ↑ "Bradbury Library at Los Angeles High". School Library. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
- ↑ Scanlon, Jennifer (2009). Toff, Nancy, ed. Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown. Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-19-534205-5.
- ↑ Haldane, David (October 4, 1987). "Mother's Murder Unsolved, Too". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ Jackson, Neil (2002). California Modern, the Architecture of Craig Ellwood. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568983035
- ↑ "Jack Smith" obituary. Los Angeles Times. January 10, 1996
- ↑ Noriyuki, Duane (November 9, 1995). "Class Clowns". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ Adam Carolla podcast, November 13, 2011
- 1 2 3 Ramos, Lydia. "Melting Pot of Belmont High Brims With Hopes and Plans Series: OUR SCHOOLS: A Closeup View; One of an occasional series." Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1991. Nuestro Tiempo, Metro Desk. p. 4. – via ProQuest.
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- ↑ "Never Enough..." The Official Micky Dolenz Website
- 1 2 3 4 "The Baseball Cube Belmont alumni". The Baseball Cube.
- ↑ Katz, Mickey (1977). Papa, play for me. Hannibal Coons, foreword by Joel Grey, introduction by Josh Kun. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-8195-6433-8. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ↑ "Education for Rita Hayworth". TCMdb. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Carole Lombard Bio". Carole Lombard .org. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (September 7, 1987). "Quinn Martin Is Dead at 65; Produced Popular TV Series". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ "CNN Transcript – Larry King Live: Tom Selleck Discusses 'Running Mates'. CNN.com. July 21, 2000.
- ↑ Andres, Holly J. "Famed news photographer Delmar Watson dies". Daily News. October 28, 2008.
- ↑ Pool, Bob. "Star Shines Brightly for Hollywood's First Family; Movies: The Watson clan of former child actors finally receives recognition for its pioneering contribution to films". The Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1999. Metro Part B Metro Desk Page 1 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ Campanile 1938, Belmont High School, 1938
- ↑ Daniel Moyer and Eugene Alvarez (2001). Just the Facts, Ma'am; The Authorized Biography of Jack Webb, Creator of Dragnet, Adam-12, and Emergency. Seven Locks Press. ISBN 978-0929765297
- ↑ "Fairfax High School Notable Alumni". Fairfaxclassof61.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- 1 2 "City of West Hollywood to Honor Award-Winning Fairfax High School Marching Band and". Reuters. December 11, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- ↑ Lewis, Randy; Boehm, Mike (December 3, 2008). "Odetta Holmes dies at 77; folk singer championed black history, civil rights". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
We lived within walking distance of Marshall High School," Odetta told The Times some years ago, "but they didn't let colored people go there, so we had to get on the bus and go to Belmont High School.
- ↑ "Stanley Kenton, 1930 BHS Graduate". Bell High School
- 1 2 Barker, Andrew (August 22, 2011). "'Hound Dog' lyricist Leiber dies at 78". Variety. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- ↑ Mikulan, Steven (July 20, 2009). "First Phil Spector Wife Vanishes". Blogs.laweekly.com. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- ↑ "SoCalHoops – Grant HS Retires Jersey Of Alum Gilbert Arenas". November 20, 2001. Southern California Hoops.
- ↑ "Ron Botchan: 'I'm Just Coachable'", Referee, 2000
- ↑ "Oscar De La Hoya set to fight Steve Forbes, battle for hometown crowd – New York Daily News". Daily News. May 2, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ↑ "Don Drysdale Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Jordan Farmar". New York Daily News.
- ↑ "Gail Goodrich bio". NBA.com.
- ↑ "Robert Lyles". Databasefootball.com.
- ↑ "Broadcasters". phillies.com. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
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- ↑ L. Jon Wertheim (November 3, 1997). "USC Running Back Charles White". CNN. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
- ↑ "'Marvelous' Mal Whitfield Biography". Whitfield Foundation. p. 2.
- ↑ Time Magazine Cover: Dr. David Ho, Man of the Year - Dec. 30, 1996
- ↑ "LASD Executive Photos & Bios". Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
- ↑ Woo, Elaine; Eric Malnic (April 16, 2010). "Daryl F. Gates dies at 83; innovative but controversial chief of the LAPD". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "California Courts: Courts: Supreme Court: Justices: Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno". Judicial Council of California. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
- ↑ Conway, Ann (April 13, 1999). "Technically, Samueli Is Leaving Mark Backing Arts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ "BERMAN, Howard Lawrence". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ↑ Jean Merl and Bill Boyarsky (September 30, 1998). "Mayor Who Reshaped L.A. Dies". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "Ralph Bunche". Nobel Prize Biography.
- ↑ "CORMAN, James Charles, (1920–2000)", Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ↑ "Jane L. Harman", Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ↑ "Black Americans in Congress". U.S. House of Representatives.
- ↑ Thurber, Jon; Bloomekatz, Ari B. (May 3, 2009). "Jack Kemp, an original pillar in Republican 'big tent,' dies at 73". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ↑ "Jane L. Harman", Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ↑ "Louis R. Nowell bio". Los Angeles Public Library.
- ↑ "Edward R. Roybal". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ↑ Robin Abcarian (July 2, 2005). "Spotlight on a longtime Villaraigosa supporter". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
- ↑ "American Experience: Hijacked". PBS.org, February 24, 2006
- ↑ Woo, Elaine (April 15, 2013). "Sal Castro dies at 79; L.A. teacher played role in 1968 protests", Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Woo, Elaine (March 31, 2010). "Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
- ↑ "About Jim Tunney", JimTunney.Com
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