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The following people were born in, or lived in
Visalia, California.
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Donald Blessing - gold medal-winning rower and former owner of Oakland Raiders football team
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Tex Clevenger - professional baseball player
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Tonya Cooley - reality television performer
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Shane Costa - professional baseball player
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Kevin Costner - actor and Oscar-winning director
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Tom B. Coughran - banker, soldier, and public servant
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Christopher "Chris" Evans (1847-1917) - outlaw who lived in Visalia prior to his arrest for train robbery and confinement to
Folsom Prison
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Larry French - baseball player
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Cody Gibson - professional
mixed martial artist competing in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship organization
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Jerry Heard - professional golfer
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Aaron Hill - professional baseball player
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Tom Johnston - rock musician, singer, founding member of the
Doobie Brothers
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Avi Kaplan - singer and songwriter, former and founding member of
Pentatonix
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William Kettner -
San Diego politician for whom Kettner Boulevard is named
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Mike LaCoss - professional baseball player
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Robert B. Laughlin - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
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DJ Lemahieu - professional baseball player
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Robert List - 24th Governor of Nevada
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Doug Marshall -
mixed martial artist
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Monte Melkonian -
Armenian military leader in the
Nagorno-Karabakh War
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Beau Mills - professional baseball player
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Frank W. Mixter (1873-1947) - California State Senator
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Don Mosebar - professional football player
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Rance Mulliniks -
MLB player for the
California Angels,
Kansas City Royals, and
Toronto Blue Jays
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Bob Ojeda - professional baseball player
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Marty Perez - professional baseball player
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Steve Perry - lead singer for the rock group
Journey
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Shirley Shahan - retired
NHRA
Super Stock
drag racer, nicknamed "Drag-On Lady"
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Jean Shepard - country music singer
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J. Curtis Struble - U.S. diplomat, ambassador to Peru
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Bob Talbot - Baseball player
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Andrew Toti - inventor
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Stephen Vogt -
MLB player for the
San Francisco Giants
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Jim Wohlford -
MLB player for the
Kansas City Royals,
Milwaukee Brewers,
San Francisco Giants, and the
Montreal Expos
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Betsy Wolfe - actress, singer and Broadway performer
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Edmond Edward Wysinger - Visalia pioneer (1862)
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Tyler Zeller -
NBA player for the
Brooklyn Nets
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Liza Soberano - actress
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Scott-Vincent Borba - CEO of
e.l.f. (cosmetics)