- Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30,1890, Oak Park, Illinois - May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect who did most of his work in Southern California. He was fathered by, overshadowed by, and frequently confused with Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright came to Michigan as a landscape architect, trained by the Olmsted brothers and put to work at the San Diego World's Fair of 1915. - Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mitchell's singing, over several decades, began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Mitch Mustain
Mitchell Mustain (born February 27, 1988 in Springdale, Arkansas, USA) is an American college football quarterback at the University of Southern California (USC). Mustain played his freshman year of college at the University of Arkansas in 2006 before transferring to USC in 2007. Under NCAA transfer rules, he will sit out the 2007 season and will be eligible to begin playing in the 2008 season. - Mark Johnson
Mark "Beer Man" Johnson (born May 22, 1954) is an American professional golfer who plays on the Champions Tour. Johnson was born in Barstow, California. He decided to forgo college and turned pro directly out of high school in 1972; he played on mini-tours around Southern California for two years, a decision which he regrets. - Mary Bono
Mary Whitaker Bono (born Mary Whitaker on), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 45th District of California (map) which includes most of central and eastern Riverside County. The district was previously the 44th District before the 2000s round of redistricting. - Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly (born May 5 1946 in Paris, Kentucky) is an American athlete, actor and martial artist who came to prominence in the early 1970s. Kelly began his athletic career in high school, competing successfully in basketball, football, and track and field. He attended the University of Louisville and left during his freshman year to begin studying Shorin-ryu karate. After winning the 1971 International Middleweight Karate Championship, he opened his own martial arts school. - Ken Calvert
Kenneth Stanton (Ken) Calvert (born June 8 1953), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 44th congressional district. The district is part of the Inland Empire and south Orange County areas of Southern California. - Bill White
"Wild" Bill White was an American professional wrestler from 1964 until 1987. He began wrestling in Nashville, Tennessee under the tutelage of promoter Nick Gulas. After wrestling in Southern California from 1965 to 1967 with wrestlers like Pat Patterson, Ray Stevens, and Mr. Fuji, White began to wrestle for Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation where he faced opponents such as Johnny Rodz, Jimmy Valiant, and Don Muraco. - Excalibur
Excalibur is an American professional wrestler from Southern California. Along with wrestling, he and Disco Machine provide commentary on most all of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's DVDs, occasionally with retired wrestler TARO, and/or Disco Machine. - Terrelle Pryor
Terrelle Pryor is an American football and basketball player from Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He is entering his senior year at Jeannette Senior High School. Pryor is considered the most versatile athlete in Pennsylvania high school sports since Tom Clements. The 6 foot 6 inch Pryor is considered a top 25 basketball prospect by most recruiting analysts, but is also widely regarded as the nation's top football prospect, … - Howard Jones
Howard Harding Jones (August 23 1885 - July 27 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916-23), Duke (1924), and Southern California (1925-40). - Jill Stewart
Jill Stewart is a print, radio, Internet, and television political commentator. From 1984 through 1991, she was a metro reporter with the Los Angeles Times. From 1997 through 2003, she authored a weekly commentary column on Los Angeles, southern California, and Sacramento politics for the now-defunct alternative newspaper New Times LA. That "acerbic, iconoclastic" column propelled Stewart into the public conscious and made her a "must-read for many in town", … - Chris Bosh
"Photogenic" Chris Bosh is an American professional wrestler from Southern California who works for many independent promotions in California and beyond. He is known for his racist comedy style promos and would single out a fan he calls "Tard Boy". Despite his racist comments, Bosh became very popular with the fans, who chant "Let Bosh talk!" before his matches. He also released a popular DVD entitled "Lioncock", which sold very well. - John Cho
John Yohan Cho (born June 16, 1972) is a Korean American film/television actor, known for his roles in the "American Pie" films and "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" (2004). - 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. - William Hung
William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese Yale: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4, Pinyin: Kǒng Qìngxiáng) (born January 13, 1983) is an American college student who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the third season of the television series "American Idol". - Tony Robbins
Anthony J. Mahavorick, pen name Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins, (born on 29 February 1960 in North Hollywood, California, USA) is an American life coach, writer, and professional speaker. Some of his well known audio programs include "Personal Power II", "Get the Edge!" and "Lessons in Mastery." - Lois Capps
Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 23rd District of California (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. It includes the cities of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, … - Mike Clark
Mike Clark born August 22, 1954 in Wichita, Kansas is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Seattle Seahawks where he has been since 2004. Clark came to Seattle from Texas A&M, where he spent 14 seasons as the head strength and conditioning coach, adding the title of assistant athletic director in 2000. During his tenure with the Aggies, Clark helped develop current Seahawks defensive linemen Rocky Bernard and Seahawks’ linebackers coach Zerick Rollins. - Lee Hamilton
Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton (born Paul G. Mahan) is a play-by-play announcer and a well-known Southern Californian sports talk radio host. He has worked as a talk radio host for KLAC in Los Angeles since February 2005, when the station became all-sports in a three-way radio format swap with XTRA, KLAC, and KTLK. Before that, he served 17 years at XTRA. From 1986 to 2005, he hosted a daily four-hour talk show on those stations. - Warren Olney
He is the only person to have been twice named "Broadcast Journalist of the Year" - for his work in both radio and television - by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of Emmy Awards for reporting and anchoring, and Golden Mikes for investigative reporting. Olney was a television news reporter and anchor from 1966 to 1991, working in Washington, D.C., Sacramento and Los Angeles. - Tom Campbell
Tom Campbell, nicknamed Tall Tom Campbell, is an American radio announcer and commercial voiceover talent. His career began in Minneapolis, Minnesota and later took him to WONE in Dayton, Ohio. Upon his move to KYA 1260 AM San Francisco in the late 1960s, Campbell quickly rose to become one of the Bay Area's most popular late night radio hosts. He was extremely accessible to his listeners, perhaps too much so. He was known to loan his personal phonograph, … - Steve Garvey
Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, and current Southern California businessman. - 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. - Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis (born March 25, 1964 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California. He first gained national prominence when he won the 1986 Preakness Stakes with Snow Chief. In 2002, he was inducted in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame. - Cherokee
Cherokee D'Ass (February 11, 1976, Southern California) is an African-American porn star known and loved for her extremely large and soft buttocks. She has appeared on numerous sites across the internet on various large bottom websites, including Bang Bros. - Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001's "Donnie Darko". Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia where he attended Midlothian High School before getting a scholarship and moving to Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Before graduating from USC in 1997, he made two short films, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter. - Monica Sweetheart
Monica Sweetheart, is a Czech pornographic actress. She first got into porn in 2000 shortly after turning eighteen. She gained notoriety with her performance in "Buttman's Anal Show 2". Because she speaks fluent English, Monica does not project the image of the stereotypical speechless European porn star. Monica now divides her time between Prague, Spain, and Southern California. To date, Sweetheart has performed in almost 250 movies, … - Jorge Garcia
Jorge Garcia (born April 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the show "Becker", and currently stars as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the American television series "Lost". Garcia also performs as a stand-up comedian. Garcia was born in Omaha, Nebraska to a Chilean father and Cuban mother. He grew up in Southern California and went to San Clemente High School. - Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 - August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of "Ramona", a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California. - Giada de Laurentiis
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis (born August 22, 1970) is an Italian-American chef, writer and the current host of the Food Network programs "Everyday Italian", "Behind the Bash", "Giada's Weekend Getaways", and "Giada in Paradise". In addition to her regular shows, De Laurentiis has appeared on several Food Network specials and is the founder of a catering business called GDL Foods. She also appears regularly as a contributor on NBC's "Today". - Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh (born 11 February 1962) is a Los Angeles, California-based author, actress and radio commentator. Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father and a German mother who was raised in Southern California, as she frequently mentions in her performances. She graduated from Caltech with a BS in Physics, and returned in 2005 to deliver its commencement speech. She is also a graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. - Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956) is an American actress and producer. She is the wife of actor Tom Hanks. Wilson was born as Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California. Her father, a Pomak who worked at a racetrack, was born in Bulgaria. Before immigrating to the USA he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey; her mother, Dorothy, was born and raised in a Greek village on the Albanian border, with a Greek father and Albanian mother.. - Hal Lindsey
Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (born November 23 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer. A graduate of the Dallas Theological Seminary, a prominent Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author, he expresses this theology in his writings. He currently resides in the Palm Springs area of Southern California. - Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze (born October 19, 1982 in Seattle, Washington) is an American Champion jockey. Born into a racing family, both of his parents were jockeys as is his uncle, Gary Baze. His second cousin is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Russell Baze. Tyler Baze began riding in Southern California in 1999 and earned his first victory on October 31st of that year. In 2000, he rode 246 winners and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. - Witness Lee
Witness Lee (1905-June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher and church leader associated with the Local churches movement and Living Stream Ministry. He was born in Chefoo, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He converted to Christianity in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Wang, and almost immediately came under the influence of Watchman Nee. He became a full-time co-worker of Nee in 1933, … - Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold (b. September 6, 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a bestselling American writer. She has published two books, "Lucky" and "The Lovely Bones". A third book, "The Almost Moon," is due to be published in late 2007. - Nativo Lopez
Lawrence "Nativo" Lopez (born 1951) is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana (formerly the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional), a community service and advocacy organization for Mexican-American immigrants in California. - Dave Naz
Dave Naz was born in 1969 in Los Angeles, Ca. He worked as a musician touring and putting out records in the 80's and early 90's. In '95 he picked up the camera and started photographing people. DaveIs erotic images of women in various states of dress have been brought to the publicIs attention by two monograph books, Panties and Lust Circus. His work has also been featured in numerous magazines including and art exhibits around the world. He has no formal training.
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