- David Ryan
David Ryan is a stock investor who won the U.S. Investing Championship three times between 1985 and 1990. He is the protégé of William O'Neil. In July 1998 he founded Ryan Capital Management in Santa Monica, California, which is an investment advisory firm specializing in asset management and offers stock market expertise and portfolio management experience to a limited number of investors. He is the investment strategist and portfolio manager. - Abbot Kinney
Abbot Kinney (b. 1850, New Brunswick, New Jersey - d. 1920, Santa Monica, California) was a developer and conservationist. Kinney was born into a family which, after moving to Washington, D.C., became known in the political scene. His aunt was married to Senator James Dixon of Connecticut. - Leo Carrillo
Leo Antonio Carrillo (August 6 1880 - September 10 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. - Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world. - Thom Mayne
Born in 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in '68. After founding Morphosis, he received his Master's degree in Architecture at Harvard in '78. Mayne has made his mark professionally, starting with the design of his first large projects such as the Kate Mantilini restaurant in Beverly Hills and 72 Market Street restaurant in Venice. - Henry Waxman
Henry Arnold Waxman, born to a Jewish family September 12, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, is an American politician. He has represented (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1975. Waxman, a Democrat, is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. He serves the cities of West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and parts of the city of Los Angeles. - Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon (born November 18, 1953 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American comedian and actor best known for the characters he played on "Saturday Night Live" from 1986 to 1995, and his role on the series Weeds. - Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega, 11 July 1959, Santa Monica, California) is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. - Tony Alva
Tony Alva (born September 2, 1957, in Santa Monica, California, United States) is one of the original Z-Boys and is considered to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. The level of aggression with which Alva skated was in stark contrast to the traditional style of the era which was still based around tricks formulated in the 1960s. Alva and the other Z-Boys were among the first to bring skating empty pools into the mainstream. - Nic Harcourt
Nic Harcourt (b. 1957) is the Music Director for Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW. He was born in Birmingham, England and lived in Australia for many years before coming to the United States. Before KCRW, for 8 years he worked as News Director and then Music Director at the very well respected WDST in Woodstock, New York, home to New York's youngest DJ "Jake the Kid". - Sara Gilbert
Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom "Roseanne" and as Paula Schaeffer in "24". - Bob Lefsetz
Bob Lefsetz is a controversial Santa Monica-based music industry figure, and the author of the e-mail screed, "The Lefsetz Letter". Lefsetz worked previously as an entertainment business attorney, majordomo of Sanctuary Music's American division and as a consultant to major record labels. - Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago. An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C. Morgan was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. - Scott Davis
Scott Davis (born August 27, 1962 in Santa Monica, California) is a former top-ranking professional tennis player. He reached a career high singles ranking of World No. 11 (in October, 1985) and doubles ranking of number two (in January 1991). A 6'2 right-handed serve and volleyer, Davis played 14 years on the tour, earning $2,287,611 in prize money. He won 3 singles titles - the 1983 Maui, 1985 Tokyo Outdoor, … - David Robertson
David Robertson (born 19 July 1958 in Santa Monica, California) is an American conductor, currently serving as the Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. - Robert Crais
Robert Crais (born 1953) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as "Hill Street Blues", "Cagney & Lacey", "Quincy", "Miami Vice" and "L.A. Law". He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais lives in California's Santa Monica mountains with his family. - Tanya Haden
Tanya Haden (born October 11, 1971) is an American artist, animator, cellist and singer. Born in New York City, she was a member of several bands, including Let's Go Sailing and Silversun Pickups, and is the creator of the Imaginary Bear puppet show. She has contributed to recordings of a number of Los Angeles musicians, including vocals and cello on Paul Avion's futuristic EP, "Pop Music United". - Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968 is a German composer, best known for composing film scores. Badelt started his musical career composing many very successful movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Klaus to come work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica, his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin. - Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is the author of the Barry Trotter series, million-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. More recently, he has written "Freshman", the first in a four book series which follows a student's progress through the mythical, Ivy/Oxbridge-inflected Stutts University. In writing these satirical novels, Gerber draws upon his experiences as a student at Yale University, … - Craig Perkins
Craig Perkins, Director of environmental and public works for the city of Santa Monica, California. In June, 2000, under Perkins's leadership, Santa Monica sued eighteen oil companies and MTBE manufacturers and distributors for the cleanup costs related to MTBE spills in Santa Monica. Several of the cases were settled in the city's favor in 2002; the remaining defendants agreed to a $1.5 million settlement in February, 2005. - Bobby Sherman
Bobby Sherman (born Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr., 22 July 1943, Santa Monica, California) is an American singer and actor, who became a very popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He first became famous as a house singer on the television series "Shindig!" from 1964 to 1966. For several years, he tried to record singles and break out into the music industry, but he did not have much luck until he earned a role as a bashful, … - Bob Biniak
Bob Biniak (b. 1958 in Chicago, USA) is a surfer, a Skater, and professional golfer. He was born in Chicago, but moved as a baby with his family to the beaches of Santa Monica. Since childhood, he hasn't lived a day more than six blocks from the ocean. At age 12, Biniak began surfing and skating, and joined the Zephyr Team shortly thereafter. Biniak's speedy skateboarding earned him the nickname "Bullet" from his teammates. - Jeff Madsen
Jeff Madsen (born June 7, 1985 in Santa Monica, California) is the second youngest winner of a World Series of Poker event and the 2006 World Series of Poker player of the year. Madsen was raised in Los Angeles and lived in the same house until going to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara to study film theory. Madsen began playing poker at college and won a no limit Texas hold 'em event at the 2006 World Series of Poker. - Karla Bonoff
Karla Bonoff (born 27 December 1951) in Santa Monica, California, is an American singer-songwriter but primarily known for her great songwriting compositions. As a songwriter, Bonoff's songs have been interpreted by other artists such as "Home" by Bonnie Raitt, "Tell Me Why" by Wynonna Judd. Linda Ronstadt has successfully recorded a number of her song, including, … - Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Stanton MacDonald-Wright, was a U.S. abstract painter. One of his significant achievements was co-founding the Synchromist movement in 1913. MacDonald-Wright was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and moved to Santa Monica, California at age ten. He soon moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, Académie Julian, École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi. While there he and Morgan Russell developed synchromism, … - Brad Warner
Brad Warner is a Zen Buddhist priest, ordained in the Sōtō school by Gudo Wafu Nishijima. He is also a published author, musician, film maker, and blogger. He began practicing Zen under Ohio-based teacher Tim McCarthy in the early 1980s while also playing bass guitar for the hardcore punk band 0DFx (also known as Zero Defex), and by the time he moved to Tokyo in 1994 to work for Tsuburaya Productions, … - Dennis Smith
Dennis Smith (born February 3, 1959 in Santa Monica) is a retired American football safety who wore number 49 for the National Football League Denver Broncos between 1981 and 1994. - Dennis Tito
Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is a United States multimillionaire who gained celebrity status by becoming the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket, although he himself opposes being called "tourist" and asks to be called an "independent researcher" since he performed several scientific experiments in orbit. Tito has a Bachelor of Science in Astronautics and Aeronautics from New York University, … - Griffith J. Griffith
Griffith Jenkins Griffith was an American immigrant from Wales who made millions in a mining syndicate in the 1880s. He donated 3,015 acres to the city of Los Angeles which became Griffith Park, and he donated the money to build the park’s Greek Theater and Griffith Observatory. On September 3, 1903, Griffith shot his wife Christina Griffith in a Santa Monica hotel, but she jerked her head to one side and was able to save her life. - Carolyn Beug
Carolyn Ann Mayer-Beug (1953-September 11 2001) was a filmmaker and video producer from Santa Monica, California. She was killed at age 48 on September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11. She won an award for the Van Halen music video to their song "Right Now," which she produced. At the time of her death, Carolyn Beug was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark which was to be told from Noah's wife's point of view. - Pete Smith
Pete Smith (born Peter Schmidt September 4, 1892, New York City - January 12, 1979, Santa Monica, California) was a film producer and narrator of "short subject" films from 1931 to 1955. Smith was a publicist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who was recruited to overdub the actions of trained dogs in the studio's "Dogville" comedies. Smith's speaking voice was distinctively nasal, and he would go on to narrate the studio's sports reels. - Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson (born Sander L Nelson, 1 December 1938, in Santa Monica, California) is a famous drummer. His track "Teen Beat" rose to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hits, "Let There Be Drums", which went to #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and "Drums Are My Beat". All three were instrumentals (a feat rarely repeated). - 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, … - Mark Loretta
Mark David Loretta (born August 14, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is a second baseman in Major League Baseball who plays for the Houston Astros. Previously, Loretta played with the Milwaukee Brewers (1995-2002), Houston Astros (2002), San Diego Padres (2003-2005) and Boston Red Sox (2006). He bats and throws right handed. Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the seventh round of the 1993 amateur draft out of Northwestern University, … - Jennifer Nicholson
Jennifer Nicholson (born on September 13, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is American fashion designer and actress. She is the daughter of Jack Nicholson from his first wife, Sandra Knight. She was educated in Hawaii and graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. And enrolled in the University of Southern California. She is now divorced from her first husband, Mark Norfleet in 2003. And had two sons, Sean and Duke. - Jonathan Bennett
Jonathan D. Bennett (born June 10, 1981) is an American actor. Bennett was born in Toledo, Ohio. His first try at acting was in a play in the seventh grade while living in North Carolina. Shortly after that, he moved to Rossford, Ohio, where he attended Rossford High School. He graduated in 1999 and went to Otterbein College, where he was a student of the theatre program. After dropping out of college he moved to New York to pursue acting. - Ralna English
Ralna Eve English American born singer (born June 191942) was born in Haskell, the seat of Haskell County, north of Abilene, Texas. She was famous as part of the husband & wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis both whom were featured performers on "The Lawrence Welk Show". English was reared in Lubbock, where as a teenager, won a local battle of the bands competition with her group "Ralna and the Ad-Libs". - Jason Hirsh
Jason Michael Hirsh (born February 20, 1982, in Santa Monica, California) is a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies in Major League Baseball. Hirsh has a very large but athletic frame, standing at 6' 8" and weighing 250 lbs. - Neriah Davis
Neriah Davis (born 12 October 1972 in Van Nuys, California) is an American model and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's playmate of the month for its March 1994 issue. Neriah grew up in a commune with no electricity in Northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains. She had two sisters and a brother; she described her parents as well-meaning hippies. She graduated from Bret Harte High School in Angels Camp, where she was an accomplished runner. - Andrew Bennett
Andrew Bennett is a music video and commercial director living in Santa Monica, California. He has worked with a number of artists including Deftones, Van Halen, and Elisa. Bennett began his career at 21, directing a documentary on the Deftones' 2000 White Pony Tour, prior to that working as an assistant to feature film directors and producers Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins. Bennett is currently represented by Justin Cronkite and Ish Muniz at Highway 114 Pictures.
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