- Jack Weiss
Jack Weiss, is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 5th district. Weiss was elected in 2001 and reelected in 2005. The 5th district includes parts of the Westside and the San Fernando Valley. Previously, Weiss was an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles, where he worked in the Public Corruption and Government Fraud Section. Prior to that, Weiss was an attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of Irell & Manella LLP. - William Mulholland
William Mulholland (September 11 1855 - July 22 1935) was a water-services engineer in Southern California, United States. He was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) and emigrated to New York City in the 1870s with his brother Hugh Mulholland and traveled to San Francisco in 1877. Mulholland worked as a miner in Arizona Territory before moving to the city that would build his reputation, Los Angeles. - Jesse James Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood aka Spanner (born January 28, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a drug dealer and fugitive. He allegedly kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz. His drugs trade allowed him to acquire a small fortune with which he bought a $200,000 property in the San Fernando Valley area of Southern California and numerous exotic sports cars. He is currently awaiting trial in California, starting after 2007. - John Lautner
John Lautner (16 July, 1911-24 October, 1994) was an influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair. - Harrison Gray Otis
Harrison Gray Otis (10 February 1837 - July 30, 1917) was the second publisher of the "Los Angeles Times". Born in Ohio, he was part of the Republican National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president. He volunteered for the Union army during the American Civil War and fought in William McKinley's regiment, the 23rd Ohio Infantry. After the war, he worked as a publisher before moving to California. - Richard Alarcón
Richard Alarcón is a California politician, who is currently a Los Angeles City Councilman after having served as a member of the California State Assembly for approximately 3 months. He is a Democrat. Alarcón first served as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley before gaining a seat on the Los Angeles City Council to represent the 7th Council District in 1993. One year into his second term as a City Councilman, … - Greg Graffin
Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D. (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is the vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion. In 1980, at the age of 15, Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. After making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles punk scene, releasing three EPs and two full-length albums, they disbanded in 1984. - Brett Gurewitz
Brett Gurewitz (born May 12, 1962, Los Angeles, CA), also known as Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and songwriter for Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the record label Epitaph Records. Brett is from the town of Woodland Hills, California, a suburb of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. Bad Religion was founded in Woodland Hills, CA in 1980 with Greg Graffin, Jay Ziskrout and Jay Bentley. All four attended El Camino Real High School. - Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature. His best-known work, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.", is the recipient of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, among others, and has been the subject of controversy when included on reading lists in California, Illinois, Michigan, … - Paul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian was elected in 2006 to serve California's 43rd Assembly District, which includes the cities of Glendale and Burbank and the Los Feliz, Silver Lake, North Hollywood, Valley Glen, Toluca Lake, Atwater Village and Valley Village communities of Los Angeles. He is a Democrat. In 1992, after Los Angeles was ravaged by riots, the special advisor to the Los Angeles Police Commission selected Krekorian to serve as counsel to the Webster Commission. - Moon Unit Zappa
Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28 1967, New York City) is the oldest child of American rock star Frank Zappa and Gail Sloatman; she goes by the name Moon Zappa. Apart from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention at the age of fourteen, in 1982, as a vocalist on her father's hit single "Valley Girl". The song featured Moon Unit Zappa delivering a monologue in 'val-speak', … - Jay Bentley
Jay Dee Bentley was born on June 6, 1964 in Wichita, Kansas. He is the bassist and co-founding member of the legendary punk rock group Bad Religion. Jay played in the band from 1980 to 1982, until quitting before the release of the band's 2nd album, "Into the Unknown", in 1983. Jay was also a onetime member of such notable L.A. groups as Wasted Youth, T.S.O.L, The Circle Jerks and Cathedral Of Tears. - Rick Dees
Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III (born March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley community of Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." Rick Dees does mornings at the new Movin' 93-9 FM in Los Angeles, along with Patti "Long Legs" Lopez, and Mark Wong - Jewel De'Nyle
Jewel De'Nyle (born Stephany Schwarz on August 5 1977) is an American pornographic actress and director. Her stage name is presumably a reference to the 1985 mainstream film "The Jewel of the Nile". Born in Wetmore, Colorado, USA, De'Nyle was discovered by actress Selena Steele during her tenure as an exotic dancer. After being featured in "Hustler" magazine, she began her career in pornography, … - Aaron Kamin
Aaron Kamin (born Aaron Kamm Kamin, on 10 August, 1977, in Studio City, California) is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is a founding member of the band The Calling. Kamin, the son of an attorney and a teacher, attended high school in the San Fernando Valley. Kamin formed The Calling in his family's garage with Alex Band. - Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather (born Steven Lee Lukather on October 21, 1957 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA) is an American Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and guitar player, best known for his work with the rock band Toto. In addition to his work with Toto, Lukather has released several solo albums and, as a studio session guitarist, has arranged, composed, and recorded on over 800 number one albums. - Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke (born March 21 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a soul and country music pioneer and member of the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - Debi Diamond
Debi Diamond (born Deborah Lester on May 1 1962 in San Fernando Valley, California) is a well-known American adult actress and nude model. - Allysin Chaynes
Allysin Chaynes (born February 11, 1979 in Romania) is the pseudonym of a pornographic actress. She and her parents moved to the United States during her childhood, eventually settling in California's San Fernando Valley. She aspired to become a film actress, going as so far as to take acting classes. Instead, she, with her then-boyfriend, began working in pornography in 1997, answering a newspaper advertisement placed for "Up and Cummers 45", … - Mark Vallen
Mark Vallen is an American graphic artist, painter, and blogger. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and was strongly influenced by the Chicano Movement and the L.A. punk scene. Among his artistic influences he counts Francisco Goya and Honoré Daumier, as well as the German expressionists and the Mexican muralists. While still in his teens, he began publishing cartoons in the underground "Los Angeles Free Press", … - Tori Welles
Tori Welles (born June 17, 1967 in San Fernando Valley, California) is a former American porn star. She is sometimes credited as Brittania Paris, Torrie Welles, or Tory Welles. - Jacqueline Obradors
Jacqueline Obradors (b. October 6, 1966 in San Fernando Valley, California), is an American actress. She was born to immigrants from Argentina. She is best known for playing supporting roles in "Six Days Seven Nights" and "A Man Apart", and for her role as Detective Rita Ortiz on the ABC crime drama "NYPD Blue" (2001-2005). She appeared on the show, "Freddie", starring Freddie Prinze, Jr., as Sofia, Freddie's sister, … - Charles Maclay
Charles Maclay was a California State Senator. His heritage was from Ireland and Scotland. A former Methodist minister, he became a California State Assemblyman in the 7th District from Santa Clara County and California State Senator. Around 1874, he bought 56,000 acres (227 km²) of land in the northern part of the San Fernando Valley north of the city of Los Angeles. - Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi (October 29, 1911-January 4, 2006) was a politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the Los Angeles City Council from 1961 to 1993, a district that covered the east San Fernando Valley. Before his position as councilman, he had two other successful careers; as a musician and then as a contractor. He was a loving husband, father of four, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. He was born on October 29, 1911 in Standard, Ill., … - McKenzie Westmore
McKenzie Kate Westmore (born April 26, 1977 in San Fernando, California) is an American actress/singer who plays the role of Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald Boothe on the television soap opera "Passions". She is the daughter of famed makeup artist Michael Westmore. To fans of "Passions", Sheridan is well-known for her supercouple status with Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, portrayed by Galen Gering. - Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas (born November 12 1932) is an American television and film actor. For the last two decades, Jerry Douglas has reigned in fictional Genoa City as patriarch John Abbott on the daytime television serial "The Young and the Restless". Douglas was born as Gerald Rubenstein in Chelsea, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. - Moses Sherman
Moses Hazeltine Sherman (1853-1932) was a land developer who built a streetcar line and owned property in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, California, USA. He also served on the Los Angeles Water Board. The town of Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley is named after him. The street Sherman Way, running east-west from West Hills to Burbank in the San Fernando Valley is also named after Sherman, as is Hazeltine Avenue, … - Isis Nile
Isis Nile (born October 5, 1969 in Van Nuys, California, USA) is a dark-skinned American porn star of German and Egyptian ancestry. She is sometimes credited as Leila. Isis Nile grew up in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley and worked as a makeup artist. She also was a dancer on "Soul Train." In July 1993 she had her porn debut in Ed Power's "More Dirty Debutantes #28". - Brian Flemming
Brian Flemming (born 6 June 1966) is an American film director and playwright. Flemming was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley and studied English at the University of California, Irvine. - Noah Beery Jr.
Noah Beery was an American actor. Born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, he and his younger brothers William Beery and the legendary Wallace Beery all became Hollywood actors. The three Beery brothers were the children of Frances Margaret Fitzgerald and Noah Webster Beery, which made them full brothers (contrary to many sources). Noah Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by 1905 was performing on Broadway. - Tim Curran
Tim Curran (b. August 14, 1977), is a musician, retired professional surfer and a spokesperson for the Surfrider Foundation. During his successful surfing career, he was one of the best surfers on the World Championship Tour, and was consistently in contention for the world championship. Despite his success and popularity, he remained one of the most affable and well-regarded surfers on the tour, a trait he attributed to his "Christian faith and belief in God". - Howard McNear
Howard T. McNear (January 27, 1905 - January 3, 1969) was an American film, television and radio character actor. McNear was born in Los Angeles, California to Luzetta M. Spencer and Franklin E. McNear. He died in the San Fernando Valley from the effects of a stroke. He was best known for his performance as Floyd Lawson on "The Andy Griffith Show". The role was played through the years to adapt to his initial stroke. - Alex Solowitz
Alexzander Joshua Solowitz (born December 15, 1979) is an American actor, composer and producer. Solowitz was born in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California to a large Jewish family. He was in fictional boy band 2ge+her portrayed in an MTV movie, as well as on the TV series of the same name itself. Later, he appeared on a number of television shows, including "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Just Shoot Me!", … - Ted Greene
Theodore ("Ted") Greene (September 26, 1946 - July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California. - Don Friedman
Don Friedman is a jazz pianist who was born on May 4 1935 in San Francisco. His parents loved classical music and they owned a piano. Don started playing piano at age four and took lessons from age five from a private teacher named Katherine Swint. Though he had no exposure to jazz at this time Don taught himself to improvise. At age 15 his family moved to the San Fernando Valley. At age 17 Don remembered going to the Hollywood Palladium to hear the bands of Les Brown, … - David Kopay
David Marquette Kopay (born June 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football running back in the National Football League who in 1975 became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gay. Kopay attended Notre Dame High... - Ruthann Friedman
Ruthann Friedman (born July 6, 1944) is an American folk singer. Born in the Bronx, New York, Friedman spent her formative years in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles. She started playing guitar at the age of eight while listening to Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White. Her first song gained her a spot on the television talent show "Rocket to Stardom" at age twelve. - Mae Busch
Mae Busch (June 18, 1891 - April 19, 1946) was an Australian film actress, born in Melbourne, Australia, who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. Mae was a member of a musical family. She first appeared on stage and then in vaudeville. She worked at Keystone Studios and, most memorably, with Laurel and Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios. At the pinnacle of her film career Mae was known as the "versatile vamp". - Charles Nordhoff
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887 - 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler. He often collaborated with James Norman Hall. He was the author with Hall of the "Bounty" trilogy, "The Mutiny on the Bounty", Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, among others. The Nordhoff-Hall book was the source for the 1935 movie of the same name as well as two later versions. - Charles E. Sebastian
Charles Edward Sebastian (March 30, 1873 - April 17, 1929) was the 36th mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving from 1915 to 1916. He was born in Farmington, Missouri on March 30, 1873. Originally a patrolman in the LAPD, Sebastian climbed the ranks to Chief of Police and served in that office from January 3, 1911 to July 16, 1915. He was the first L.A. police chief to be elected mayor, due in no small part to his crusade against vice.
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