List of people from Santa Barbara
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The following is a list of notable people connected with the city of Santa Barbara, California.
[edit] People Born in Santa Barbara
- Anthony Edwards, American actor
- Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player, outfielder for the Washington Nationals
- Jeffrey Peterson, famous technology entrepreneur
- Randall Cunningham, former National Football League player
- Kathy Ireland, supermodel
- Chuck Liddell, Ultimate Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion
- RKL, punk rock band
- Patricia Soltysik, aka Mizmoon, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Toad The Wet Sprocket, folk rock band
- Sugarcult, rock band
- Dishwalla, post-grunge alternative rock band
- Jim Rome, sport-talk radio and TV personality
- Jack Johnson, singer
[edit] People who grew up in Santa Barbara
- Karch Kiraly, volleyball player
[edit] Celebrities who own or owned homes in the Santa Barbara area
- Steven Spielberg, director
- Douglas Adams, author
- Dame Judith Anderson, actress
- Jennifer Aniston, actress
- Marc Anthony, singer
- Rona Barrett, columnist
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, writer
- Henry Brant, composer
- Jeff Bridges, actor
- Mary Brunner, Manson Family member
- Ashleigh Brilliant, writer, cartoonist, columnist
- Charles Champlin, columnist
- Charlie Chaplin, actor, film-maker
- Julia Child, chef, television personality
- Thor Nis Christiansen, serial killer
- Warren Christopher, statesman
- John Cleese, actor
- Gary Collins, actor
- Kevin Costner, Actor
- Fred Couples, golfer
- David Crosby, musician
- Tom Cruise, actor
- Tom DeLonge, musician
- Doug Davidson, actor
- Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host
- Bo Derek, actress
- Kirk Douglas, actor
- Danny Elfman, musician
- Jane Fonda, actress (1977 to 1991) [1]
- John Forsythe, actor
- Anne Francis, actress
- Dennis Franz, actor
- Peter Racine Fricker, composer
- Lynette Fromme, attempted assassin, Manson Family member
- Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne, actress
- Andy Granatelli, race car owner
- Martha Graham, dancer
- Martin Gore, musician Depeche Mode
- Maggie Grace, actress
- Sue Grafton, novelist (whose Kinsey Millhone "alphabet series" books are set in a fictionalised version of Santa Barbara)
- Lena Horne, actress, singer
- Jack Johnson, surfer, musician, film-maker
- Bruce Johnston, musician
- Carole King, musician
- Lora Knight, heiress, believed to be the wealthiest woman in the United States in the 1930s
- Cheryl Ladd, actress
- Avril Lavigne, singer
- Charles Lloyd, jazz saxophonist
- Christopher Lloyd, actor, producer
- Kenny Loggins, musician
- Jennifer Lopez, singer, actress
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
- Mike Love, musician, The Beach Boys
- Rob Lowe, actor
- Ross Macdonald, author
- Karl Malden, actor
- Charles Manson, leader of murder cult
- Steve Martin, actor
- George Michael, Musician, Wham
- Dennis Miller, comedian
- Robert Mitchum, actor
- Mary Ann Mobley, actress
- Peter Noone, singer (Herman's Hermits)
- Jack Palance, actor
- Brad Pitt, actor
- Ronald Reagan, actor, politician
- Ivan Reitman, director
- Jason Reitman, director
- Jane Russell, actress
- Laura Schlessinger, radio talk show host, author
- Charles R. Schwab
- Elizabeth Short, posthumously well-known as the Black Dahlia
- Edie Sedgwick, model, actress, and companion to Andy Warhol
- Joshua Seth, voice actor and comedy hypnotist
- Kelly Slater, surfer
- George Washington Smith, architect (renowned for his Spanish Colonial Revival masterpieces throughout Southern California)
- Alan Thicke, actor
- Cheryl Tiegs, model
- John Travolta, actor
- Eddie Vedder, musician
- Paul Walker, actor
- Joe Walsh, musician, singer, song writer, member of the Eagles
- Ty Warner, entrepreneur, real estate tycoon
- Stuart Whitman, actor
- Brian Wilson, member of the Beach Boys
- Oprah Winfrey, TV host
- Jonathan Winters, comedian
- Dick Wolf, producer
- Robert Zemeckis, director
