List of people from Pasadena, California


 * Nahshon Dion Anderson, writer and screenwriter
 * Kelly Asbury, film director, writer, illustrator, voice actor
 * Stacey Augmon, basketball player
 * Jon B., Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter
 * Meredith Baxter, actress
 * Carlton Beals (1893–1979), journalist
 * Hodgy Beats, Rapper
 * Walt Becker, film director
 * G. Vernon Bennett, Los Angeles City Council member, 1935–49
 * Susie Maxwell Berning, pro golfer
 * Julie Berry (author), children's author
 * Summer Bishil, actress
 * Whitney Blake, actress, director and producer
 * J. P. Blecksmith, United States Marine officer, killed in Iraq
 * Alison Brie, actress
 * Betty Brosmer, bodybuilder and model
 * Owen Brown, abolitionist
 * May Sutton Bundy (1886–1975), first American to win Wimbledon tennis singles title
 * Frederick Russell Burnham (1861–1947), celebrated scout and inspiration for the Boy Scouts
 * Howard Burnham (1870–1917), mining engineer and spy
 * Sigrid Burton, artist and painter]]
 * Sophia Bush, actress, TV series One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D., 82nd Rose Queen for 111th Tournament of Roses Parade (2000)
 * Octavia Butler, award-winning science-fiction writer
 * Stephen Cannell, author, television and film producer
 * Christy Canyon, pornographic actress
 * Cari Champion, former moderator, ESPN First Take
 * Otis Chandler, publisher, Los Angeles Times
 * Justin Chapman, journalist, author, actor
 * Julia Child, celebrated author and television chef
 * Jeff Cirillo, MLB player for six teams
 * Michael Cooper, NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers, coach
 * Steve Crocker, internet engineer, member of the Internet Hall of Fame
 * Edward Cucuel, impressionistic painter
 * Harriet Doerr, author, winner of the National Book Award
 * Jimmy Dore, comedian
 * Michael Dorn, actor
 * Cullen Douglas, actor, director, playwriter
 * Arthur Duncan, tap dancer
 * David Ebershoff, writer
 * Darrell Evans, Major League Baseball player
 * Mary Beth Evans, actress
 * Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, raconteur
 * Sally Field, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
 * W.C. Fields, comedian, actor, juggler and writer; died in Pasadena
 * Missy Franklin, swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist
 * Stan Freberg, comedian, satirist, recording artist
 * Dâm-Funk, musician
 * Paul Fussell, critic and historian
 * Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech
 * Elmer Grey, architect
 * George Ellery Hale, astrophysicist, Caltech professor, founder Mt. Wilson Observatory
 * Harry Hamlin, actor
 * Kristy Hawkins, IFBB professional bodybuilder
 * Olive Hoskins, first woman promoted to warrant officer in U.S. Army
 * Charles Frederick Holder, inventor of big-game fishing and a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses
 * Gregory C. Horn, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
 * Edwin Hubble, astronomer, namesake for the Hubble Telescope, Caltech professor
 * Myron Hunt, architect of Rose Bowl
 * Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Todd M. Hutton, American medical academic and psychiatrist
 * Lance Ito, judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
 * Bret Iwan, fourth voice of Mickey Mouse
 * Joseph J. Jacobs,engineer and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
 * Tom Jancar, contemporary art dealer Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery
 * Pete Jolly, jazz pianist
 * Lucy Jones, seismologist
 * Tamala Jones, actress
 * TJ Kirk Commentator and author
 * Kathryn Le Veque, author
 * Matthew Lillard, actor
 * Kate Linder, actress
 * Chris McAlister, professional football player
 * James McAlister, professional football player
 * Dana MacDuff, film producer
 * Tyler MacDuff, actor
 * Henry Markham, 18th governor of California
 * Hugo Markl, artist, curator and creative director based in New York
 * Mo Martin, LPGA golfer, 2014 British Open champion
 * F. O. Matthiessen, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor
 * Joel McCrea, actor
 * Inger Miller, track and field sprint athlete
 * Robert A. Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist
 * Richard Moll, actor
 * Jane Mulfinger, conceptual artist and educator
 * George Murdoch, WWE wrestler
 * Tracy Murray, NBA Player
 * George Nader, actor
 * George Olah, Nobel Prize chemist, professor University of Southern California
 * Bill Paparian, attorney, veterans' advocate and Mayor of Pasadena
 * Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist
 * George S. Patton (attorney) (1856-1927) - City attorney (1877) for City of Pasadena.
 * George S. Patton, four-star general, led Allies during World War II
 * Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, peace activist, Caltech
 * Chris Pettit, Major League Baseball outfielder
 * Drew Pinsky, doctor and radio/TV personality
 * Chris Pontius, actor/TV personality
 * Durell Price, UCLA fullback
 * Kathleen Quinlan, actress
 * Robert Reed, actor, best known as Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch television series
 * George Reeves, actor, best known as star of television series Adventures of Superman; attended Pasadena Junior College
 * George F. Regas, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church 1967-1995, noted critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam war as well as many other policy issues.
 * Roger Revelle, founder of University of California, San Diego, father of concept of global warming
 * Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico
 * Jackie Robinson, iconic baseball player
 * Mack Robinson, Olympic athlete, brother of Jackie Robinson
 * James Roosevelt, U.S. Congressman, son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 * Don Ross, Major League Baseball player
 * David Lee Roth, lead singer for Van Halen
 * Stan Sakai, cartoonist best known as creator of Usagi Yojimbo series
 * Ruwanga Samath, record producer, attended John Muir High School
 * Ellen Browning Scripps, heiress, publisher, philanthropist
 * Christian Serratos, actress
 * Jamey Sheridan, actor
 * William Shockley, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, inventor of the transistor
 * Alvin Simon, restaurateur who revitalized Old Pasadena
 * John Singleton, film director
 * Sirhan Sirhan, resident of Pasadena at the time of assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
 * Alina Smith, musician
 * Mark Smith, MLB player for five teams
 * Stan Smith, professional tennis player, namesake of Stan Smith Tennis Shoe
 * Phil Spector, music producer
 * Brett Sterling, professional ice hockey player
 * Kathleen Sullivan, television personality
 * Brian Teacher, Australian Open tennis champion
 * Teena Marie, singer-songwriter, music producer
 * Kip Thorne, professor, Feynman theoretical physicist, Caltech
 * Troop, R&B group
 * Chase Utley, baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Peter Vagenas, soccer player
 * John Van De Kamp, attorney general of California
 * Alex Van Halen, drummer for Van Halen
 * Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen
 * Duong Van Minh, exiled president of South Vietnam
 * Jacque Vaughn, professional basketball player
 * Charles Walters, film director
 * Wil Wheaton, actor, writer
 * Jaleel White, actor, producer, and writer
 * William Wrigley, Jr., founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum, former owner of Chicago Cubs
 * Matt Young, MLB player for Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians
 * Marc Yu, child music prodigy on piano and viola
 * Jeff Yurak, MLB player for Milwaukee Brewers


 * Karen Price, Actress