title: List of people from Whittier, California
text: # List of people from Whittier, California
  
  The following is a list of people who were born in or lived in the city of Whittier, California
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Gary Allan (born Gary Allan Herzberg), country music artist, graduated La Serna High School
  * Antagonist, metal band signed to Prosthetic Records
  * Andrea Barber, actress (Full House)
  * Caprice Bourret, supermodel
  * Cold War Kids, indie rock band
  * Pete Dee Davison, musician (The Adicts)
  * Joy Enriquez, singer, actress (7th Heaven)
  * Funeral Party, punk/rock band
  * William Garwood, actor and director of early silent films in the 1910s
  * David Hidalgo, musician (Los Lobos)
  * Kathy Hilton, actress, socialite, mother of Paris and Nicky Hilton
  * Gabriel Iglesias, comedian and actor
  * Vic "the Brick" Jacobs, radio personality
  * Adrienne Janic, co-host of Overhaulin', model, and Fanta Girl
  * Mark Kostabi, composer and artist
  * Paul Kostabi, artist, musician, and producer
  * John Alan Lasseter, Academy Award–winning animator and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
  * Roger Lodge, actor (host of Blind Date)
  * Long Gone John, founder of Sympathy for the Record Industry
  * Martika, singer
  * Tim Minear, screenwriter, director
  * Roger Mobley, child actor, moved to Whittier in 1957
  * Lorna Patterson, actress
  * Merle Pertile, Playboy Playmate, January 1962
  * Vaneza Leza Pitynski, actress (The Brothers Garcia)
  * Chuck Prophet, musician (solo artist and founder of the band Green On Red)
  * Dax Reynosa, hip hop and smooth jazz artist and producer, music manager, and film producer
  * Zane Reynosa, hip hop artist and fashion accessory designer
  * Ron Shelton, director, screenwriter (Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Tin Cup)
  * Eric Stoltz, actor (Memphis Belle, Jerry Maguire, Pulp Fiction)
  * Geoff Stults, actor (7th Heaven)
  * Lauren Tewes, actress (The Love Boat)
  * Tom Waits, actor, singer-songwriter
  * Tina Yothers, actress (Family Ties)
  * Michael Sweet musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)
  * Robert Sweet musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)
  * Oz Fox musician, Christian rock band (Stryper)
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * Horace Bristol, photographer, Life Magazine
  * Firoozeh Dumas, author
  * Christine Dzidrums, author
  * M.F.K. Fisher, author
  * Dave Freeman, author
  * Mark Kostabi, painter, left Whittier to be discovered in New York
  * Paul Kostabi, artist, musician, and producer
  * Carol Lay, artist
  * Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect
  * Craig McCracken, animator
  * Tim Miller, performance artist (member of the NEA Four)
  * Cherríe Moraga, poet, essayist, playwright
  * Joe Ranft - animator, storyboard artist
  * Nicole Stansbury, author
  * Diane Wakoski, poet
  * X-8, artist, publisher
  
  ## Government
  
  * George Allen, United States Senator (Virginia)
  * Louis Caldera, United States Secretary of the Army
  * Ronald B. Cameron, Congressman
  * Raymond F. Chandler, Sergeant Major of the Army, first enlisted commandant of United States Army Sergeants Major Academy
  * James Ferguson, Air Force General
  * Jacob F. Gerkens - first chief of the LAPD
  * Gabriel Green, write-in presidential candidate
  * Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States
  * Gary Miller, Republican U.S. Representative for California's 31st congressional district. Miller grew up in Whittier.
  * Pat Nixon, First Lady, wife of President Richard Nixon
  * Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, played football at Whittier High School and Whittier College
  * Pío Pico, last Mexican governor of Alta California
  * Anthony Rendon, assemblyman representing California's 63rd State Assembly district
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Deborah Babashoff, Swimmer
  * Shirley Babashoff, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
  * Chet Brewer, Negro league baseball player
  * George Buehler, football player
  * Mitchell Callahan, hockey player
  * Chuck Cary, baseball player
  * Bob Chandler, football player
  * Dave Dalby, football player, center, Oakland Raiders
  * Oscar De La Hoya, Olympic and professional boxing champion
  * Andy Etchebarren, baseball player (last man to bat against Sandy Koufax)
  * Vince Evans, football quarterback
  * Arturo Frias, boxing champion
  * Michael Garciaparra, baseball player
  * Nomar Garciaparra, baseball player
  * Greg Hancock, speedway champion
  * Payton Jordan, coach of 1968 U.S. Olympic track and field
  * Mark Kotsay, baseball player
  * Dan Owens, football player
  * Jamie Quirk, baseball player
  * Ante Razov, soccer player
  * Anthony Reyes, baseball player
  * Kim Rhode, Olympic gold medalist, (double trap and skeet shooter)
  * Mark Sanchez, football quarterback, Philadelphia Eagles
  * Art Sherman (born 1937), horse trainer and jockey
  * Adam Snyder, football player, San Francisco 49ers
  * Jenny Topping, Olympic gold medalist, softball
  * Aaron Valdes (born 1993), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  * Al Young, drag racing World Champion & award winning high school teacher
  * Jim Zorn, football quarterback, former coach Washington Redskins
  * Eddie Zosky, baseball player
  
  ## Miscellaneous
  
  * Milo Burcham, aviator, test pilot
  * Tricia Nixon Cox - daughter of President Nixon
  * Francis A. and Hannah Nixon, parents of President Nixon
  * John Quijada, linguist, constructed language expert
  * Nadya Suleman, mother of the Suleman octuplets (born January 26, 2009)
  * Kerry Thornley, founder of Discordianism
  