List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Fresno
This is a list of public figures that American US in the town of Fresno ( California ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.
19th century
- Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), painter
- Frank Chance (1877-1924), baseball player
- Walt Kuhn (1887-1935), baseball player
- Bertrand W. Gearhart (1890–1955), politician
- Clyde Alexander (1892–1963), Brigadier General
- Harry Prieste (1896–2001), water diver, entertainer and actor
20th century
1901-1930
- Ernest K. Bramblett (1901–1966), politician
- Conrad Vernon Morton (1905–1972), botanist
- Nestor Paiva (1905–1966), actor
- DeWitt Bodeen (1908–1988), writer, playwright and screenwriter
- William Saroyan (1908–1981), writer
- William Webster Hansen (1909-1949), physicist
- Eve March (1910–1974), actress
- Spec O'Donnell (1911–1986), actor
- Duane Carter (1913–1993), racing car driver
- Armen Alchian (1914–2013), economist
- Amanda Duff (1914-2006), actress
- Jon Hall (1915–1979), film and television actor
- Richard Martin Stern (1915-2001), writer
- Lee Cronbach (1916-2001), psychologist
- Kirk Kerkorian (1917–2015), entrepreneur, multi-billionaire and chairman of the board (CEO)
- Charles Sibley (1917–1998), ornithologist and molecular biologist
- Bill Vukovich (1918–1955), racing driver
- Constance Webb (1918–2005), model, actress and author
- Ross Bagdasarian (1919–1972), singer and songwriter
- David Seville (1919–1972), singer and songwriter
- Samuel Lee (1920-2016), water diver
- Henry William Menard (1920–1986), geologist and oceanographer
- Andrew Gleason (1921-2008), mathematician
- Mike Connors (1925-2017), actor
- Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), director
- Warren Tufts (1925–1982), cartoonist, comic book artist and author
- Johnny Boyd (1926-2003), racing car driver
- Vern Mikkelsen (1928-2013), basketball player
- Warren O. Addicott (1930-2009), paleontologist and geologist
- Dick Contino (1930–2017), accordionist and singer
- Jerry Perenchio (1930–2017), entrepreneur, art collector and patron
- Les Richter (1930–2010), football player, motorsport official
- Phil Roman (* 1930), animator and director
1931-1950
- Glen Bredon (1932-2000), mathematician
- Tom Dahlgren (born 1933), actor
- Carole Ormaca (* 1936), figure skater
- Robert Riedenauer (1936–2007), test pilot
- Sid Haig (1939-2019), actor
- Stanley Mouse (born 1940), artist
- Daryle Lamonica (born 1941), football player
- Charles Pashayan (* 1941), politician
- John Alstrom (born 1942), volleyball player
- Chris Bunch (1943-2005), science fiction and fantasy writer
- Judy Irola (* 1943), camerawoman and university professor
- James van Hoften (* 1944), NASA astronaut
- Tom Seaver (born 1944), baseball player
- Charles Amirkhanian (* 1945), radio producer, composer, sound poet and representative of electroacoustic music
- David Harris (* 1946), journalist and author
- Jim Seymour (born 1949), hurdler
- Loren D. Calaway (* 1950), sculptor
1951-1980
- Barbara Morgan (* 1951), astronaut
- David E. Peckinpah (1951-2006), film director
- Jim Costa (* 1952), politician
- James Irvin Lichti (* 1953), historian
- Randy Williams (born 1953), athlete
- Steven Zaillian (* 1953), screenwriter, film producer, film director and film editor
- David Haney (* 1955), pianist and composer
- Denise Hoyt (* 1955), local politician
- Liz Miles (* 1955), rower
- Millard Hampton (born 1956), sprinter
- Kurt M. Campbell (* 1957), government official and political scientist
- Nick de Firmian (* 1957), chess player and writer
- Bruce Furniss (born 1957), swimmer
- Raffi Hovannisian (* 1959), Armenian politician
- Paula McLain (* 1965), writer
- Rob Shepherd (born 1965), rower
- Flex Wheeler (* 1965), bodybuilder, martial artist
- Carlena Gower (* 1967), actress
- Timothy Torres (* 1967), freestyle artist and musician
- Bison Dele (1969-2002), basketball player
- Matthew Parrish (* 1969), jazz musician
- Jon Cleveland (born 1970), Canadian swimmer
- Hannah Mancini (* 1973), singer
- Christopher Gorham (born 1974), actor
- Chynna Clugston (* 1975), comic book writer
- Planet Asia (born 1976), rapper
- Torraye Braggs (born 1976), basketball player
- Solon Bixler (* 1977), indie rock singer and guitarist
- Dave Callaham (born 1977), screenwriter
- Chad McCarty (born 1977), soccer player
- Kevin Federline (* 1978), dancer and rapper, ex-husband of Britney Spears
- Robert Kendrick (* 1979), tennis player
- Terrell Lyday (born 1979), basketball player
- Carson Palmer (born 1979), American football player
- Chris Jefferies (* 1980), basketball player
1981-2000
- Andy Finch (* 1981), snowboarder
- Farrah Franklin (* 1981), R&B singer, actress and model
- Jaime Hipp (* 1981), water polo player
- Dylan Ryder (born 1981), porn actress
- DeShawn Stevenson (born 1981), basketball player
- Raquel Atawo (* 1982), tennis player
- Rick Merlo (* 1982), water polo player
- Jason Donald (born 1984), baseball player
- Kyle Alcorn (born 1985), athlete
- Brianna Love (born 1985), porn actress
- Bruce Venture (born 1985), porn actor
- Meghan Camarena (* 1987), TV presenter
- Fashawn (born 1988), rapper
- Quincy Pondexter (born 1988), basketball player
- Michael J. Willett (born 1989), actor
- Miranda Rae Mayo (born 1990), actress
- Derek Carr (born 1991), American football player
- Anisa Guajardo (* 1991), American-Mexican soccer player
- Bee Vang (born 1991), actor
- Chloe Ferrari (* 1992), volleyball player
- Jenna Prandini (* 1992), sprinter and long jumper
- Amanda Leighton (born 1993), actress
- Lynn Williams (* 1993), soccer player
- McKenzie Jacobson (born 1995), volleyball player
Web links
Commons : Births in Fresno, California - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Dixon, (Lafayette) Maynard , oxfordartonline.com
- ↑ Walt Kuhn , baseball-reference.com
- ^ Eve March (1910–1974) , imdb.com
- ^ Spec O'Donnell (1911-1986) , imdb.com
- ^ Lee Cronbach, pioneer in education psychology, dead at 85 , news.stanford.edu
- ↑ Richard Joseph “Dick” Contino , findagrave.com
- ↑ Tom Dahlgren , imdb.com
- ↑ Carole Ormaca in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ John Alstrom in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Liz Miles in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Rob Shepherd in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Jon Cleveland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Torraye Braggs , basketball-reference.com
- ↑ Chad McCarty in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Chris Jefferies , basketball-reference.com
- ↑ Andy Finch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Jaime Hipp in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Dylan Ryder , imdb.com
- ↑ Rick Merlo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Jason Donald , baseball-reference.com
- ↑ Kyle Alcorn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ Meghan Camarena , imdb.com
- ↑ Quincy Pondexter , basketball-reference.com