List of people from Santa Barbara, California

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The following is a list of notable people from Santa Barbara, California.

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Notable people from Santa Barbara

Douglas Adams, author
Elizabeth Laura Adams, writer
Dylan Axelrod, Major League Baseball player
Jeff Bridges, actor
Ashleigh Brilliant, cartoonist and writer
Princess Lilibet of Sussex, seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.
Spencer Barnitz, musician
Edwin Burr Babbitt, U.S. Army major general
Colleen Ballinger, YouTube personality
Red Barrett, Major League Baseball player
Bobby Beausoleil, former member of the Manson Family, currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of his friend Gary Hinman
Ryan Church, Major League Baseball player
Jimmy Connors, Tennis champion
Kami Craig, Olympic water polo player
Randall Cunningham, National Football League player
Shawn Dailey, musician
Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer
Marko DeSantis, musician
Dean Dinning, musician, music producer, bassist
Dishwalla, post-grunge alternative rock band
Anthony Edwards, actor
Cynthia Ettinger, actress
Chip Foose, actor
Tyler Fredrickson, National Football League player, TV personality
Keith Gledhill, tennis player
Phillip Gonyea, musician
Martin Gore, english songwriter, founding member of the British group Depeche Mode
Sue Grafton, author
Parry Gripp, musician
Brad Hall, actor
Mary C. F. Hall-Wood (d. 1899), poet, editor, author
Cole Hauser, actor
Marianna Hill, actress
Eric Christopher Houston, mass-murderer
Cady Huffman, actress
Kathy Ireland, supermodel
Jason Johnson, Major League Baseball player
William Lassiter, U.S. Army major general
Jan Lee, former Oregon State Representative
Chuck Liddell, mixed martial artist
Alex D. Linz, actor
The Little Heroes, indie rock band
Alex Mack, National Football League player
George K. McGunnegle, U.S. Army officer
Randy Mantooth, actor
Margaret Millar, writer
Kim Miyori, actress
Maika Monroe, professional kiteboarder, actress
Harriet Moody, architect
Thomas Moran, American landscape artist
Luke Mullen, actor, filmmaker, environmentalist
Todd Nichols, musician and member of Toad the Wet Sprocket
Floyd Norman, animator, writer, comic book artist
Monica I. Orozco, historian, archivist
Charles A. Ott, Jr., United States Army Major General, director of the Army National Guard
Katy Perry, singer-songwriter
Jeffrey Peterson, technology entrepreneur
Lakey Peterson, professional surfer
Glen Phillips, singer-songwriter
Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org
Michael Redmond, professional Go player
James Read, actor
Todd Rogers, professional beach volleyball player
Charles R. Schwab, financial executive, founder of Charles Schwab & Co (world's largest discount stockbroker), multi-billionaire
Edie Sedgwick, actress, model
Scott Sipprelle, 2010 Republican nominee for Congress (NJ-12)
Patricia Soltysik, aka Mizmoon, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
Donald Spence, musician
Ryan Spilborghs, Major League Baseball player
Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies and Pulitzer Prize winner
Jackson Stormo (born 1999), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Soul Majestic, reggae band
Sugarcult, rock band
James Arnold Taylor, voice actor
Mia Talerico, actress
Toad the Wet Sprocket, folk rock band
David Woodard, conductor
Felix Wormser, engineer and U.S. government official

Eddie Mathews (1931-2001) - Hall of Fame MLB 3rd Baseman for the Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves (1962-66) Houston Astros (1967-68) and Detroit Tigers (1968) grew up in Santa Barbara and was nicknamed "The Santa Barbara Bomber" for his home run prowess.

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Feb 01, Charles Donelan Tue; 2022 | 11:47am (2022-02-01). "Pano: Santa Barbara's Katy Perry Brings Down the House in Las Vegas". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 2022-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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