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La Jolla
This is a list of notable people who were born or who lived a significant amount of time in
La Jolla, San Diego, California .
Notable residents
Sports
Buzzie Bavasi –
Major League Baseball executive, lived in La Jolla from 1968 until death in 2008
Rolf Benirschke –
placekicker for
San Diego Chargers , graduated from
La Jolla High School
Dan Bilzerian – professional poker player, lives in La Jolla
Debbie Bramwell-Washington – IFBB professional bodybuilder
Chase Budinger – NBA player for
Minnesota Timberwolves , born in La Jolla
Conor Chinn – professional soccer player for
New York Red Bulls , born in La Jolla
Jonathan Compas – former center for
Tampa Bay Buccaneers , other
NFL teams, and member of the Boston Fitzgibbon family.
Gerry Driscoll – championship sailor, businessperson, lived in La Jolla until death in 2011
Dick Enberg –
sportscaster for
NBC and
CBS Sports , resided in La Jolla
Doug Flutie –
quarterback for
San Diego Chargers and other NFL teams
J. J. Isler – yachtswoman, two-time Olympic medalist and America's Cup competitor, born in La Jolla
Gene Littler – professional golfer,
1961 U.S. Open champion, graduated from La Jolla High School
John Michels – played for
Super Bowl XXXI champion
Green Bay Packers , born and raised in La Jolla
Rey Mysterio – World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) professional wrestler
Jo Anne Overleese , M.D. – one of few doctors to have played in
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League history, born in La Jolla
Gabrielle Reece – volleyball player, fashion model, and television celebrity, born in La Jolla
Xander Schauffele – professional golfer, 2017
Tour Championship winner, born in La Jolla
Junior Seau –
linebacker for
San Diego Chargers and other NFL teams, lived in La Jolla
Bob Skinner – Major League Baseball player, coach, manager, scout, born in La Jolla
[1]
Joel Skinner –
manager and
third base coach of
Major League Baseball 's
Cleveland Indians , born in La Jolla
Craig Stadler – professional golfer, graduated from La Jolla High School in 1971
Alexandra Stevenson – professional
tennis player and 1999 semi-finalist at
Wimbledon , born in La Jolla
Lou Thesz (1916–2002) – professional wrestler
Bradley Zimmer – outfielder for MLB's
Cleveland Indians , born in La Jolla
Arts and entertainment
Actors and actresses
Francesca Capaldi - actress
The Peanuts Movie
Gary Erwin – TV personality and member of
docu-series ,
Addicted to Beauty , which aired on the
Oxygen (TV channel)
Marcia Gay Harden – Oscar-winning and Tony-winning actress
Shane Harper – actor and musician
Charlotte Henry – actress
Izetta Jewel – stage actress, women's rights activist and local radio personality
[2]
James Maslow – actor, songwriter and singer
Danica McKellar – actress
Zoe McLellan – actress
Gregory Peck – actor, born in La Jolla
Autumn Reeser – actress (
The O.C. ), born in La Jolla and lived there until age 17
Cliff Robertson – actor, born in La Jolla, attended La Jolla High School
Raquel Welch – actress, attended La Jolla High School
Robin Wright – actress, attended La Jolla High School
Shay Rudolph - actress and social media personality
Film and television executives
Writers
Tucker Carlson – political commentator, journalist, writer, television talk show host, raised in La Jolla, attended La Jolla Country Day
Raymond Chandler –
noir novelist, moved to La Jolla and uttered the
aphorism about La Jolla, "A nice place — for old people and their parents"
Deepak Chopra – spiritual writer, ran his Center for Well Being in La Jolla until recently [
timeframe? ]
Peter Economy – author, editor, ghostwriter, and publishing consultant
Debbie Ford – self-help author of best-selling The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998)
[3]
Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel –
children's author , long-time resident of La Jolla,
[4] namesake of the
Geisel Library at the
University of California, San Diego
Audrey Geisel – Dr. Seuss'
widow
Udo Keppler – American political cartoonist, publisher, Native American advocate, contributor to
Judge and
Leslie's Weekly magazines, and son of cartoonist
Joseph Keppler who founded
Puck magazine.
Tony Olmos – screenwriter, filmmaker and musician, resides in La Jolla
Anne Rice – novelist and author of
Interview with the Vampire , moved to La Jolla from
New Orleans in March 2005
[5]
Alan Russell – best-selling mystery and crime novelist, attended La Jolla High School
Music
Visual and performance art
Crime
Government and politics
Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. – former
United States Ambassador to Spain , chairman of
Miami Herald and vice chairman of
Knight Ridder , a longtime resident of La Jolla.
[9]
David Hall – former
Governor of Oklahoma , moved to La Jolla following his release from federal prison with his wife, former
Oklahoma First Lady Jo Evans Hall;
[10] died 2016
Hyrum Rex Lee – former
American Samoa Governor ; lived with his wife,
First Lady Lillian Lee, in a $5 million high-rise condo in the Shore Towers until their deaths in 2001 and 2010, respectively.
John McCain –
United States Senator from
Arizona ,
2008 Presidential nominee of the
Republican Party , owned a home in La Jolla with his wife,
Cindy McCain
[11]
Geoffrey R. Pyatt –
United States Ambassador to Ukraine , born in La Jolla in 1963
[12]
[13]
Mitt Romney – former
Governor of Massachusetts and the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election, and his wife, former
Massachusetts First Lady
Ann Romney , purchased a $12 million vacation home in La Jolla in 2008
[14]
Business and finance
Science and technology
Geoffrey Burbidge and
Margaret Burbidge –
astronomers holding positions at
UCSD after many years, reside near
La Jolla Shores
Francis Crick –
Nobel Prize in medicine winner for his work to identify the essential structure of
DNA , long-time resident of La Jolla
Hillman Curtis – web designer
[15]
Lawrence J. Fogel – inventor of active noise cancellation, studied artificial intelligence, long-time resident of La Jolla
Robert Galambos – researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation
[16]
Ronald Lewis Graham –
mathematician , lived and died in La Jolla
Clive Granger – 2003
Nobel Prize in Economics winner; long-time resident of La Jolla
Augustus Braun Kinzel - metallurgist, President and CEO of Salk Institute, Union Carbide VP, founding President of the National Academy of Engineering, and consultant to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, lived in La Jolla from 1957 - 1986 (death)
Kary Mullis –
Nobel Prize in Chemistry -winning
biochemist and
surfer from La Jolla, invented the
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method of
DNA analysis
Walter Munk –
oceanographer , lived in La Jolla
Leslie Orgel – research
chemist , lived in La Jolla from 1964 to 2007
Jeffrey B. Remmel – mathematician, worked at UC San Diego and died in La Jolla
Sally Ride – astronaut, lived and died in La Jolla
Carl Rogers –
psychologist and researcher of
psychotherapy
Jonas Salk –
virologist and founder of
Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla who developed the first successful inactivated
polio vaccine
Ellen Browning Scripps – philanthropist, founder of
Scripps Institute of Oceanography and
Scripps College , member of the
Forbes 400
K. Barry Sharpless –
Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, lives in La Jolla
Benjamin Elazari Volcani – microbiologist
Roger Guillemin - winner of the
Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his work in establishing foundational discoveries in the field of endocrinology. Co-founder of the Salk Institute and long-time resident of La Jolla.
Erving Polster - Psychologist and pioneer of
Gestalt Therapy
[17]
Miram Polster - Psychologist, wife of Erving Polster, advocate of Gestalt Therapy
[18]
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Izetta Jewel Papers – Harvard University
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"Bestselling Self-Help Author and La Jollan Debbie Ford Dies at 57" . La Jolla Patch. February 19, 2013. Archived from
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^
La Jolla Blue Book Community Directory
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"Mrs. McCain, San Diego County Would Like a Word" .
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Interfax-Ukraine (August 15, 2013)
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"Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51" . The New York Times . April 20, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2013 .
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"Robert Galambos, Neuroscientist Who Showed How Bats Navigate, Dies at 96" ,
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