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Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States. The school was established in 1889.

Notable alumni

• Daniel Antúnez, soccer player
• Barry Asher, professional bowler
• Tony Baxter former senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, the Indiana Jones Adventure, Splash Mountain, and Journey Into Imagination.
• Billy Bean (1964-2024), played major league baseball from 1987 through 1995. He tied a major league record with 4 hits in his first major league game.
• Tony Bellamy, Guitarist, member of first Native American rock band Redbone, had number one hit in the 1970s "Come and Get Your Love"
• Beverly Bivens, singer with the 1960s band We Five
• Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete
• John Brinkerhoff, USMA '50, Associate Director for National Preparedness FEMA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs DoD
• Gerald P. Carr, astronaut
• The Chantays, surf band, its original members: Bob Spickard, Brian Carman (co-writers of "Pipeline"), Bob Welch, Warren Waters and Rob Marshall
• Placida Gardner Chesley, bacteriologist
• Clifford "Gavvy" Cravath, six time National League baseball home run champion in the 1910s
• Jeff Cravath, college football coach
• Josephine Cruickshank, tennis player
• Isaac Curtis, football player, Cal Berkeley and NFL Cincinnati Bengals
• Don Davis, NFL player
• Clancy Edwards, sprinter
• Derek Fleming, featured Soul Train Dancer 1980-1993
• Delfín Jaranilla, Filipino magistrate
• James Kanno, first mayor of Fountain Valley, California
• Diane Keaton, actress
• Dana and Ginger Lamb, American travel writers
• Greg Louganis, Olympic Gold Medal Diver, LGBT Activist, called "The greatest American diver in Olympic history."
• Larry Lutz, NFL player
• Patrick McMorris, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins
• Bill Medley, singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo
• Gilbert Melendez, 2-time California State All-American wrestler; professional Mixed Martial Artist; former WEC and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, current UFC Lightweight contender
• Evylena Nunn Miller, painter
• Donn Moomaw, football player, minister
• Jim Musick, NFL player, Orange County Sheriff from 1947 to 1975
• Hal Pangle (1912–1968), NFL running back
• Frostee Rucker, NFL player
• Robert A. Schuller, televangelist
• Chuck Smith, class of 1945, founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa
• Milt Smith (1919–2010), football player, UCLA Bruins and Philadelphia Eagles
• William Cameron Townsend, prominent twentieth-century American Christian missionary and founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International)
• Jose Vasquez, soccer player
• Marvalee Hendricks Wake, evolutionary biologist
• John Ward, football player

References

1. ^ "Santa Ana High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
2. "Overview". Santa Ana High School. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
3. "About us / Overview".
4. "All Teams History - April 25th - National Pastime - Baseball History".
5. Albano, Dan (August 8, 2018). "Standout football player Patrick McMorris transfers to Santa Ana from Godinez". Orange County Register.
6. "Gilbert Melendez Santa Ana High School wrestler". Facebook. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
7. "Gilbert Melendez UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014-01-01.
8. Donn Moomaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
9. Eddie West, "West Winds: Sports Whirligig," Santa Ana Register, Jan. 5, 1968, p. 35.
10. "Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa". www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com.
11. "Football Tabs: Smith to Back Up Woody Strode". Klamath Falls Evening Herald. September 14, 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 13 June 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Official website

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