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10 Famous People from Los Angeles

Los Angeles is internationally known as the entertainment capital of the world being; city of the rich and famous, Hollywood, the main home of major entertainment companies, and the second-largest city in America.

Throughout history, people with exceptional levels of ambition have called Los Angeles home at one point in their lives. Below is a list of 10 famous people from Los Angeles;

1. Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe – Wikipedia

Norma Jeane Mortenson popularly known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. She was an American actress, model and singer who famously played comedic “blonde bombshell” characters.

She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s with her breathy voice and hourglass figure. Monroe was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution, mesmerizing audiences with her laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent to wearing hot pink gowns that look as good today as they did then.

On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a probable suicide.

2. Dara Torres

Dara Torres – Flickr

Dara Grace Torres was born on April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, California. She is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events.

Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. She has won 12 Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), one of three women with the most Olympic women’s swimming medals. In 2004, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

3. Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio – Flickr

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California. He is an American actor and film producer best known for the star-crossed romances in Romeo + Juliet (1996), an abridged modernization of William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy of the same name and Titanic (1997) as Jack Dawson a member of the lower social class who fall in love aboard RMS Titanic during its ill-fated maiden voyage.

He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards and eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning one from each of these and three Golden Globe Awards from thirteen nominations.

4. Jack Chick

Jack Chick Ministries, Party Girl – Flickr

Jack Thomas Chick was born on April 13, 1924, in Los Angeles, California. He was a controversial American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian “Chick tracts” which were designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective.

After converting to Christianity, Chick wanted to evangelize others, but he was too shy to talk to people directly about religion he got the idea of creating witnessing tracts, which could be given to people directly or indirectly. Many have accused him of having used his platform to promote hate speech, many people (artists and collectors alike) found his work oddly compelling.

He died on October 23, 2016.

5. Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks – Flickr

Tyra Lynne Banks was born on December 4, 1973, in Inglewood, California. She is an American television personality, model, businesswoman, producer, actress, and writer known for being the first African-American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

In 2003, Banks created the long-running reality television series America’s Next Top Model, which she was executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons. In 2010, she published a young adult novel titled Modelland, based on her life as a model, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011.

6. Earl Warren

Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles, California. He was an American politician and jurist who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. He is considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States.

The “Warren Court” presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, which has been recognized by many as a “Constitutional Revolution” in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark. He also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

He died on July 9, 1974, due to cardiac arrest at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

7. Sally Ride

Sally Ride – Wikipedia

Sally Kristen Ride was born on May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. She was an American astronaut and physicist who in 1983 became the first American woman and youngest American astronaut at the time to have traveled to space.

She flew twice on the Orbiter Challenger, before leaving NASA in 1987. Sally served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012.

8. Adlai Stevenson

Earl Warren – Flickr

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born on February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California, in a neighborhood now designated as the North University Park Historic District. He was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN. Stevenson was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Two major events he dealt with during his time as UN ambassador were the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

He served as UN ambassador from January 1961 until his death during a visit to London on July 14, 1965.

9. Beck

Beck – Wikipedia

Bek David Campbell also known as Beck David Hansen was born on July 8, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. He is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who is often credited with giving Generation X an anthem with 1994鈥檚 鈥淟oser.鈥�

Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has won several awards including; Morning Phase won Album of the Year at the 57th Grammy Awards and his 2017 album, Colors, won awards for Best Alternative Album and Best Engineered Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

10. Theodore Maiman

Theodore Maiman, 1964 – Wikimedia Commons

Theodore Harold Maiman was born on July 11, 1927, in Los Angeles, California. He was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser, for which he has received numerous prizes, awards, and accolades over the years.

The laser created by Maiman was successfully fired on May 16, 1960. In a July 7, 1960, Maiman and his employer, Hughes Aircraft Company, announced the laser to the world. His laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers.

Maiman died from systemic mastocytosis on May 5, 2007.