List of people from Laguna Beach, California
The following is a partial list of notable people who have been full-time or significant part-time residents of Laguna Beach, California, United States.
Actors
Artists
- Paul Blaine Henrie, painter [14]
- Anna Althea Hills, painter and founder of Laguna Art Museum [15]
- George Hurrell, photographer [16]
- Frank Interlandi, editorial cartoonist [17]
- Joseph Kleitsch, painter [18]
- William Mortensen, photographer [19]
- Edgar Alwin Payne, muralist and founder of Laguna Beach Art Association [20]
- William Grant Sherry, painter [6]
- George Gardner Symons, painter [20]
- William Wendt, "Dean of Southern California artists" [21]
- Robert Wyland, muralist [22]
Sports Figures
- Hobie Alter, surfboard and sailboat designer [23]
- Damon Berryhill, baseball player [24]
- Dain Blanton, volleyball player [25]
- Colt Brennan, football player [26]
- Gavvy Cravath, baseball player [27]
- Lindsay Davenport. tennis player [28]
- Dusty Dvorak, volleyball player [29]
- Scott Fortune, volleyball player [30]
- Tom Harmon, football player and sportscaster [31]
- Rick Leach, tennis player [32]
- Tom Morey, inventor of the "Boogie Board" [33]
- John H. Outland, namesake of college football Outland Trophy [34]
- John Pitts, football player [35]
- Rachel Wacholder, volleyball player [36]
- Lefty Williams, baseball player [37]
Writers
Other
- Buzz Aldrin, astronaut [44]
- Florence "Pancho" Barnes, pioneer aviator [10]
- Warren Buffet, business magnate [6]
- William S. Darling, art director [45]
- Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild [46]
- Richard Halliburton, adventurer [47]
- Taylor Hawkins, drummer [48]
- John Mills Houston, United States Congressman [49]
- Christine Jorgensen, transsexual pioneer [50]
- Eiler Larsen, town greeter [51]
- Timothy Leary, psychologist and LSD advocate [52]
- Ricky Nelson, singer [6]
- Jack Norworth, songwriter (wrote "Take Me Out to the Ballgame") [53]
- Robert A. Schuller, televangelist [54]
- Walter Terence Stace, philosopher [55]
- Peter Ueberroth, sports commissioner [56]
- ^ Obituary Variety, September 20, 1972.
- ^ a b c d e f g Belson, Eve (November 1991). "...Laguna Beach struggles to maintain its Local Color". Orange Coast Magazine: 74–93.
- ^ "Laguna Beach : A Salute for Former Resident Bette Davis". Los Angeles Times. October 11, 1989. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-11/local/me-299_1_laguna-beach.
- ^ "Robert Englund". Authors Biography. Simon & Shuster. http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Robert-Englund/62959454/biography. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ Folkart, Burt (November 24, 1992). "Sterling Holloway, Voice of Disney Characters, Dies". Los Angeles Times: p. B1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wride, Nancy; McClellan, Dennis (October 29, 1993). "Laguna Beach Has Been Many Things to Many People". Los Angeles Times: p. A9.
- ^ Higham, Charles (October 27, 2004). Murder in Hollywood: solving a silent screen mystery. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 204.
- ^ Anderson, Nancy (November 5, 1972). "Ozzie, Harriet aren't Thinking of Retiring". Wilmington Morning Star. Copley News Service: p. D7.
- ^ "Memories of Life With Ozzie". Nashua Telegraph. Los Angeles Times News Service: p. 29. September 1, 1981.
- ^ a b Jones, Roger W. (2003). Laguna Beach California: An Illustrated Narrative History. Rockledge Enterprises. ISBN 0-9676989-2-8.
- ^ Honan, William H. (September 11, 1999). "Ruth Roman, 75, Glamorous and Wholesome Star, Dies". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/11/movies/ruth-roman-75-glamorous-and-wholesome-star-dies.html.
- ^ a b "Daughter Sues Mrs. Shelby". Los Angeles Times: p. B14. October 18, 1936.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. (1999). Obituaries in the performing arts. McFarland & Co. p. 228.
- ^ Berkman, Leslie (September 10, 1975). "Laguna Beach Art -- It Aims to Please". Los Angeles Times: p. C1.
- ^ Trenton, Patricia; D'Emilio, Sandra (November 27, 1995). Independent spirits: women painters of the American West, 1890-1945 (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 66–71.
- ^ Postrel, Virginia: "Starlight and Shadow", The Atlantic July/August 2009, P148.
- ^ Dennis McLellan, "Frank Interlandi dies at 85; former L.A. Times editorial cartoonist," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2010
- ^ Domonik, Janet S. (1986). Early Artists in Laguna Beach: The Impressionists. Laguna Beach Art Museum. pp. 73â90. ISBN 0-940872-06-4.
- ^ Vogel, Claire Marie (2009). Images of Laguna Beach. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-0-7385-6997-0.
- ^ a b Hills, Anna A. (November 1918). "Laguna Beach Art Association". The American Magazine of Art 10 (1): 459–463.
- ^ South, Will (November 28, 2008). "William Wendt: Plein Air Painter of California". Laguna Art Museum:In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt. Resource Library. http://tfaoi.org/aa/8aa/8aa224c.htm.
- ^ Burkins, Glenn (December 9, 1984). "Artist Wants to Give City a 'Whaling Wall'". Los Angeles Times: p. OC_A4. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/675003972.html?dids=675003972:675003972&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+09%2C+1984&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Artist+Wants+to+Give+City+a+%27Whaling+Wall%27&pqatl=google.
- ^ Roberts, Rich (August 26, 1987). Los Angeles Times: p. 8.
- ^ "Damon Berryhill Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/berryda01.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ^ Garcia, Irene (July 25, 1997). "Blanton Moves From the Waves to the Beach". Los Angeles Times: p. C3.
- ^ Chris Dufresne, Cult of Colt, Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2007.
- ^ William Swank. Gavy Cravath. In Society for American Baseball Research, Deadball Era Committee; Simon, Tom (Ed.) (2004). Deadball Stars of the National League, pp. 221–224. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-860-9.
- ^ Peterson, Lauren (Aug 4, 2002). "Davenport Has the Home-Court Edge; Tennis: The Laguna Beach resident, coming off knee surgery, aims for her fourth Manhattan Beach title". os Angeles Times: p. 12.
- ^ "Dusty Dvorak". Honorees. Volleyball Hall of Fame. 2005. http://www.volleyhall.org/dvorak.html.
- ^ "Scott Fortune". 1996 Roster. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/vball/men/fortune.htm.
- ^ The Michigan Alumnus. 85-86. University of Michigan Alumni Association. 1978.
- ^ Dominguez, Fernanco (February 5, 1992). "Class of '83 : Rick Leach, Tennis Champion : Despite Basketball's Lure, He Stars on Another Court". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-02-05/sports/sp-1375_1_rick-leach.
- ^ Robbins, Gary (July 17, 1995). "Dreams Guide the Boogie Man". The Vindicator (from The Orange County Register). http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NbZjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S4EMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3042,1541398&dq=tom-morey+laguna+beach&hl=en.
- ^ "John Outland". Hall of Famers. College Football Hall of Fame. http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php?id=90032. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ Birschbach, Tom (Mar 27, 1992). "John Pitts Is Still Practicing What He Preaches Football: Former Laguna Beach star athlete". Los Angeles Times: p. C8.
- ^ "Rachel Wacholder". USA Volleyball. United States Olympic Committee. http://usavolleyball.org/athletes/rachel-wacholder. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ Warner, Gary A. (September 18, 2006). "Between the Seams: Trying to outrun a Black mark". The Orange County Register.
- ^ Zimmerman, Anne (2011). An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher. Counterpoint. ISBN 1582435464.
- ^ Earnest, Leslie (July 6, 1993). "Laguna Beach: Recalling Glory Days of Treasure Island". Los Angeles Times: p. 2.
- ^ Barr, Norah Kennedy (1993), Foreword to Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: journals and stories, 1933–1941, M. F. K. Fisher. New York: Pantheon Books p.XI
- ^ Berg, Henry (September year=2002). John Steinbeck. Chelsea House Publications. p. 24.
- ^ Adam Bernstein (Monday, October 30, 2006). "Obituary: Theodore Taylor, 85; Author of 'The Cay'". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900826.html. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
- ^ "John Weld, 98; Newspaperman, Author, Screenwriter". Los Angeles Times: p. B10. July 22, 2003.
- ^ "Catching up with Apollo alumni". McLean, Va.: USA TODAY. July 20, 1994. p. 6A.
- ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (July 16, 2001). Silent film necrology (2 ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 120. ISBN 978-0786410590.
- ^ Hoffman, Claire (2006-08-06). "'Baby, Give Me a Kiss'". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,1,4548814.story?page=1. Retrieved 2006-08-15.
- ^ Vogel, Claire Marie (2009). Images of Laguna Beach. Arcadia Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-7385-6997-0.
- ^ "Whose Coattails". Daily News of Los Angeles. March 24, 2006.
- ^ John Houston, New York Times, April 30, 1975.
- ^ Brich, George (November 30, 1977). "Christine Jorgensen". Associated Press. http://www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&id=45381&showact=results&sort=date&cfas=person_featured_name&sh=10&kwstyle=and&dbm=PY2000&adte=1263443898&ish=x&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&person_featured_name=%22christine%20jorgensen%22&rids=e8f83788de6844028ebaa0342a57bb8b&page=1&xslt=1&mediatype=Photo.
- ^ Rasmussen, Cecilia (January 6, 2008). "Laguna Beach Greeter Left Indelible Mark". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/06/local/me-then6. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ^ Diamond, Barbara (September 23, 2005). "Timothy Leary in Laguna". Huntington Beach Independent. http://articles.hbindependent.com/2005-09-23/news/export158_1_timothy-leary-laguna-beach-brotherhood.
- ^ Anton, Mike (2010-07-12). "They're still belting out his 102-year-old hit". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-0712-ballgame-20100712,0,1568121.story. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ Berkman, Leslie (Aug 1, 1987). "Schuller keeps his distance from PTL scandal". St. Petersburg Times: p. 12E.
- ^ "Dr. Walter Stace, Philosopher, Dies". New York Times. August 5, 1967. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20616F6355E137A93C7A91783D85F438685F9.
- ^ "Ex-baseball commissioner gets USOC post". ESPN. June 15, 2004. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=1821769.