- Michael Jackson
Michael A. Jackson is a satellite project manager who ran as a Republican in the 2003 California recall, primarily getting votes due to sharing his name with that of pop singer Michael Jackson. Jackson garnered 746 votes, placing him 91st out of 135 candidates.
- Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. He graduated from UCLA in 1971 with a double major in History and Economics, and a Master's Degree in History in 1972. He was up for reelection in 2006, running against David Hernandez, …
- Steve Cooley
Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. He is also a former reserve Los Angeles Police officer.
- George Runner
George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. He is the Republican Caucus Chairman, making him the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2004. Previously, he served in the California State Assembly from 1996-2002, …
- Sheila Kuehl
Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American politician, and a former child actress. She is currently a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the highly urbanized 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County.
- Jonathan Fielding
Jonathan E. Fielding , M.D., M.P.H. is Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County responsible for all public health functions including surveillance and control of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and of health protection (including against bioterrorism) for the County=s 10 million residents. He directs a staff of 3,600 with an annual budget exceeding $650 million within the Department of Health Services.
- James Hahn
James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California (2001-2005). He did not win a second term in the 2005 mayoral election. He is the son of the late Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who was known as an ardent supporter of civil rights.
- Michael T. Sauer
Michael Thomas Sauer (born 1937) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. He is best known for sentencing socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating terms of her probation. He was previously a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, California and unsuccessfully argued the famous "Cohen v. California" case before the United States Supreme Court.
- Maria Elena Durazo
Maria Elena Durazo is the current executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. She was appointed the interim executive secretary-treasurer following the resignation of Martin Ludlow in February 2006, and was voted as the permanent replacement on May 15, 2006. She is the widow of Miguel Contreras, who preceded Ludlow as the executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
- Gil Garcetti
Gilbert "Gil" Garcetti (b. August 5, 1941) served as Los Angeles County's 39th District Attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000.
- Mike Carona
Michael S. Carona (born May 23 1955) is the Sheriff-Coroner of Orange County, California, the elected head of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, who gained national prominence began during the hunt for the killer of Samantha Runnion. After the quick capture of her murderer, Alejandro Avila, late night television host Larry King dubbed him "America's Sheriff" during an interview. Born in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, …
- Judy Chu
Judy May Chu, Ph.D. (趙美心; pinyin: Zhào Měixīn) is an American politician and educator. She is member of the Democratic Party. She is the current Vice Chair of the California Board of Equalization, representing the 4th District.
- John Chiang
John Chiang (born July 31, 1962 in New York City) is a Democratic politician and has been California State Controller since January 8 2007. He previously served as Chair of the California Board of Equalization and represented the Fourth District, primarily serving southern Los Angeles County. Chiang is the son of immigrants from Taiwan. He was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago.
- Diane Watson
Diane Edith Watson PhD (born November 12 1933), American politician, has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 33rd District of California (map). Her district is located entirely in Los Angeles County and includes some wealthy neighborhoods such as Los Feliz. She recently ran unopposed in the 2006 Congressional mid-term elections.
- Keith Richman
Dr. Keith S. Richman is a California, United States, Republican politician. From 2001 to 2007, he served in the California State Assembly representing the 38th Assembly District based in Northwest Los Angeles County. Elected to the post in November 2000 replacing Republican Tom McClintock he has handily won re-election in 2002 and 2004. Before his career in politics, he was a medical doctor and served as the Chairman of the Board of Lakeside HealthCare, Inc., …
- Martin V.
Martin V. Smith, also known as Bud Smith or simply Bud, born October 18, 1916 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was a prominent Oxnard, California developer and philantropist with properties from Los Angeles County to San Luis Obispo County. In 1941, he ventured into business when he traded a collection of jukeboxes for a failing hamburger drive-in on Oxnard Boulevard which he remodeled into the Colonial House Restaurant; he was 23 years old.
- Edith Rodriguez
Edith Isabel Rodriguez was a woman who died of gastrointestinal perforation at Los Angeles County's troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (King-Harbor) after being refused treatment by hospital staff, who did not believe she required urgent medical care.
- Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito.
- Michael Newman
Michael Newman (born 1957) was a Los Angeles County lifeguard for 20 years and a firefighter. Newman started his career as a lifeguard at the age of 10 when he joined the junior lifeguards. He excelled at swimming and water sports and attended Pacific Palisades High School. He later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he majored in advertising. Newman took the firefighter's exam while waiting to be hired as a lifeguard.
- Debra Wong Yang
Debra W. Yang was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney. The appointment was controversial as several older and more experienced candidates were not chosen. Yang was born in 1959 to Cantonese parents in Los Angeles. Her father was a successful CPA. The family later moved to Eagle Rock.
- Lawrence Mira
Lawrence Joseph Mira (b. August 9, 1942) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge whose courtroom is in Malibu, California. Known by some as "Judge to the Stars", Mira's name has been mentioned in numerous high-profile and celebrity arrests due to the region his courtroom serves. In July 1992 Mira was arrested by the California Highway Patrol for drunk driving after running his yellow Nissan 300 ZX into a dirt embankment.
- Christine Maggiore
Christine Maggiore is an HIV-positive activist who claims that HIV does not cause AIDS. She is the founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an organization which questions "most common assumptions about HIV and AIDS". She is the author of the book "What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong?" Maggiore has long been a controversial figure, particularly following the death of her 3-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane Scovill, on May 16 2005.
- Carlos R. Moreno
Carlos R. Moreno (born November 4, 1948) is an American jurist. He is currently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Moreno received his B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1970 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1975. His first job was as a deputy attorney for the Los Angeles City Attorney's office. In 1979, he joined the firm of Mori & Ota (now known as Kelley, Drye & Warren), where he practiced commercial litigation.
- Kevin Norte
Groundbreaking as it was at the time, Kevin Norte was the City of West Hollywood's Rent Stabilization Commission's first openly gay chair. Then-City Council member Paul Koretz originally appointed Norte in 1992 as one of that city's Rent Stabilization Commissioners & Norte served as that commission's chair for two one-year terms.
- Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine began her career at the early age of 6 months, when she was featured as theJohnson & Johnson Baby. At age six, she appeared in a Max Factor campaign, alongwith Christina Ferrara . Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashionphotographer, Francesco Scavullo , who subsequently included her in his self-entitledbook ''Scavullo's Women.' ' At the age of 12, Yasmine was cast opposite Buddy Hackettin the feature film Hey Babe.
- Evelle J. Younger
Evelle Jansen Younger (June 19 1918-May 4 1989) was Attorney General of California from 1971 to 1979. Prior to that, he was District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971. In 1978, he ran for Governor of California, but lost to incumbent Jerry Brown. Younger was a member of the Republican Party. Younger served in the United States Army during World War II and then became an FBI agent.
- Buron Fitts
Buron Rogers Fitts was a California politician. He was lieutenant-governor of the state from 1927 to 1928 and Los Angeles County district attorney thereafter until 1940. He received his law degree in 1916 from the University of Southern California and while studying worked as clerk for Earl Rogers. According to "For the People — Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000," by Michael Parrish, …
- Jared Sidney Torrance
Jared Sidney Torrance (1852-1921) was an American real estate developer, best known as the founder of Torrance, California in southwest Los Angeles County. Torrance was born in New York and moved to southern California in approximately 1887, settling initially in Pasadena where he worked in real estate. Among other notable transactions, he briefly owned the Mount Lowe Railway at the turn of the century.
- Louis Caldera
Louis Caldera served as United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998 - January 20, 2001, the 17th man to hold that office. The son of Mexican immigrants (Soledad and Benjamin Caldera), Caldera was born in El Paso, Texas. His family left Texas for California when he was four, living briefly in public housing in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles before moving to the suburb of Whittier.
- Christina Smith
Christina Smith (born October 4, 1957 in Miami, Florida) is an American model and businesswoman. Christina was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for March, 1978, at the tender age of twenty, posing on a dare from a male friend. Christina's pictorial was shot mostly on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier in California, and also at a beach near Goleta, California, where Christina is seen both in and out of a bikini.
- Little Oral Annie
Little Oral Annie (born Andrea Parducci, January 13 1960 in Brooklyn, New York or Los Angeles County, USA) was an actress in adult films in the 1980s. She is sometimes credited as Annie Owens or Andrea Parducci. The busty 5'5" adult actress came to fame in the wake of legend Linda Lovelace at the end of the 1970s. Like Lovelace, she was known for her performance of oral sex, particularly deep throating.
- Mack Ray Edwards
Mack Ray Edwards (1918-1971) was an American serial killer. He murdered at least six children in Los Angeles County between 1953 and 1970.
- Benjamin Davis Wilson
Benjamin Davis Wilson, (December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878, San Gabriel, California; statesman and politician. He was known to the local natives as Don Benito due to his benevolent manner in his treatment of Indian affairs. Wilson was a fur trapper and trader by profession prior to coming to California. Being detained in Southern California while attempting to obtain passage to the Orient, …
- Mildred Lillie
Mildred Lillie was a California judge whom President Richard Nixon seriously considered for the Supreme Court of the United States in 1971. Lillie's potential candidacy for the high court was ended by an "unqualified" rating from the American Bar Association. Lille was born in Ida Grove, Iowa, but moved with her mother to California's San Joaquin Valley as a child following her parent's failed marriage.
- Deandre Brunston
Deandre Brunston was a 24 year old male residing in Compton, Los Angeles County, California, in the United States of America. On the 24th of August, 2003, an armed Brunston was involved in a standoff with police officers, leading to the death of both him and a police dog. Part of this incident was recorded on film, ending shortly after the death of the officer and suspect. In July, 2005, the Justice for Deandre Brunston Foundation was set up.
- Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland (November 25, 1904 - July 7, 1964) was an American athlete, who excelled in the throwing events. Copeland was born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrants. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried and they moved to Los Angeles.
- Huntz Hall
Henry "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer perhaps best known for his acting in the "Dead End Kids" movies such as "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938). Hall later played the increasingly buffoonish Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones in 48 inexpensive but profitable "Bowery Boys" entries, graduating to top billing when Leo Gorcey left the series in 1955. He died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
- Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol .
- Krystal Fernandez
Krystal Fernandez (Born November 11,1971) a Los Angeles County native, is a rising star in sports journalism. She joined Fox Sports Radio in March 2004 as the morning update anchor and also serves as a sports/feature reporter for KTTV/Fox 11 TV in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Fox, she was a sports reporter and anchor for a number of radio stations in Southern California. She is the sideline reporter for the Gender Bowl. See http://genderbowl.com/.
- Joyce Karlin
Joyce A. Karlin, now Joyce Karlin Fahey, was a federal prosecutor, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, and then a two-term mayor of Manhattan Beach, California. She now works as a private arbitrator and mediator. Karlin received her J.D. degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1974. From 1977 to 1991, Karlin was an assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles.