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People From San Diego
This is a list of notable people who were born, spent a majority of their life, or currently live in San Diego, California. A * Anderson Lee Aldrich, convicted gunman of the 2022 Colorado Springs nightclub shooting * Marcus Allen, professional player and analyst, college and Pro Football Hall of Famer * Eric Allen, professional football player, coach, and analyst * Paul Arriola, professional soccer player * Brian Awadis, professional YouTuber B * Greg Bear, sci-fi novelist; won two Hugo awards; co-founder, San Diego Comic-Con * David Bailey, professional motocross racer * Dr. Charlotte Johnson Baker, San Diego's first practicing woman physician * Dr. Fred Baker, physician, founder of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography * Khalif Barnes, professional football player * Arlene Baxter, model and actress * Billy Beane, general manager of Oakland Athletics, portrayed by Brad Pitt in '' Moneyball'' * Brie Bella, professional wrestler, one-time WWE Divas Champion * Nikki Bell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth most populous city in the United States and the county seat, seat of San Diego County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, fifth most populous county in the United States, with 3,338,330 estimated residents as of 2019. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches and parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. San Diego is the List of municipalities in California, second largest city in the U.S. state, state of California, after Los Angeles. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego is frequently referred to as the "Birthplace of California", as it was the first site vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brie Bella
Brianna Monique Danielson (née Garcia-Colace; born November 21, 1983), known professionally as Brie Bella, is an American professional wrestler and TV personality. She is currently signed to WWE working as an ambassador. She and her twin Nikki were signed to WWE in 2007 on SmackDown (WWE brand), making their in-ring debut that year as The Bella Twins. Danielson is a one-time WWE Divas Champion and is also the first twin in WWE History to win the title. She is also a WWE Hall Of Famer with her sister Nicole (Nikki). Early life Brianna Monique Garcia-Colace was born in San Diego, California, and raised on a farm in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. She was born sixteen minutes after her twin sister, Nicole, to parents Jon Garcia and Kathy Colace. She is of Mexican and Italian descent. Keen soccer enthusiasts, she along with her sister played for the Scottsdale club in elementary school. She graduated from Chaparral High School in 2002. She then returned to San Dieg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhett Bernstein
Rhett Anthony Bernstein (born September 10, 1987) is an American former soccer player. In 2009, he won the Hermann Trophy. He played for Sevilla FC Puerto Rico, Mjøndalen, and Miami FC. Early and personal life Bernstein was born in San Diego, California, and is Jewish. As a teenager, he played soccer for the La Jolla Nomads. He attended University City High School in San Diego. Club career While playing soccer at Brown University, Bernstein was named to the 2008 '' Jewish Sports Review'' All-America First-Team, along with Zac MacMath and Daniel Steres. He was nominated twice for the Hermann Trophy, given to the best male college soccer player in America. In 2009, he won the Hermann Trophy. He played for Team USA at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel. The team finished fifth in the Games. After graduating from Brown in 2009, Bernstein spent time in Israel, training with Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Bernstein joined Sevilla FC Puerto Rico to participate in the SúperCopa DirecTV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Bernardo
Noah "Wuv" Bernardo Jr. (born February 24, 1974) is an American musician, most notably the guitarist and drummer for Christian nu metal band P.O.D.. According to a FAQ, Bernardo is Filipino, Italian, German, and Chamorro. He is the first cousin of the band's frontman Sonny Sandoval. His father, Noah Bernardo Sr. started Rescue Records, which was P.O.D.'s first label. It has been announced that Wuv will be handling drum duties for the band StillWell, a side project of Fieldy, the bassist of metal band Korn. Wuv has been playing drums most of his life. During acoustic sets, he normally plays the rhythm guitar. He also has a side project called Southtown Generals, with Rasta Tim Pacheco. In 2020, Bernardo formed a project called Belle and the Dragon, alongside members of Flyleaf. Bernardo was the co-owner of the Chula Vista skate shop "The Orphanage"; however, it is no longer in operation. Discography P.O.D. * ''Snuff the Punk'' (1994) * ''Brown'' (1996) * '' LIVE at Tomfest' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynton Bernard
Wynton Allen Bernard (born September 24, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies. Amateur career Bernard attended Rancho Bernardo High School in Poway, California. He received an athletic scholarship to attend Niagara University and play college baseball for the Niagara Purple Eagles. As a freshman, Bernard had a .293 batting average and led the team in stolen bases. He transferred to Riverside Community College after the season because his father had a stroke and he wanted to be closer to his family. Bernard's father died after his sophomore year, and he transferred back to Niagara for his junior year. For Niagara, Bernard compiled a .279 average and 72 stolen bases in 140 games from 2009 to 2012. Professional career San Diego Padres The San Diego Padres selected Bernard in the 35th round of the 2012 MLB draft. He played in the Padres' farm syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Berkos
Peter Berkos (born August 15, 1922) is an American former sound editor. He received the Special Achievement Academy Award during the 1975 Academy Awards for the film '' The Hindenburg''. This was for the Sound Editing of the film. In 1996 he received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Motion Picture Sound Editors awards. He also did the sound effects for the original '' Battlestar Galactica'', as well as the TV movies of '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''. Berkos retired from editing in 1987, but reinvented himself as a novelist, with books published in 2007 in 2013. He lives in Rancho Bernardo, California, and turned 100 on August 15, 2022. Selected filmography *'' The Four Seasons'' (1981) *''Gray Lady Down'' (1978) *'' Slap Shot'' (1977) *''Car Wash'' (1976) *''The Great Waldo Pepper'' (1975) *'' The Hindenburg'' (1975) *''Tammy and the Bachelor'' (1957) *''The Creature Walks Among Us'' (1957) *''Angels with Dirty Faces ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' is a 1938 Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Benson
Douglas Steven Benson (born July 2, 1962) is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host and actor, best known for hosting the podcasts and TV series ''Doug Loves Movies'' (2006-present), ''The Benson Interruption'' (2010-2013), ''Getting Doug with High'' (2013-2019) and ''The High Court with Doug Benson'' (2017). As a comedian, he has released 10 comedy albums, starting with ''Professional Humoredian'' in 2008, and has regularly appeared on TV shows including ''Comedy Central Presents'', ''Best Week Ever'' and ''@midnight''. In 2007, he was a contestant on the Last Comic Standing (season 5), 5th season of the reality competition show ''Last Comic Standing''. In 2007, he starred in the film ''Super High Me'', a documentary about marijuana usage. He has also acted in small roles in numerous TV shows, including ''Trailer Park Boys'' and ''You're the Worst'', as well as several films, including serving as the voice of Bane (DC Comics), Bane in ''The Lego Batman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Benirschke
Rolf Joachim Benirschke (born February 7, 1955) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the San Diego Chargers from 1977 until 1986. He is probably most known for missing a potential 27-yard game-winning field goal in overtime of the playoff game known as the "Epic in Miami” but then getting a second chance and connecting from 29 yards with just 1:08 to go to win the game on January 2, 1982. In many ways that was almost like a metaphor for his life…having almost died from surgeries due to Crohn’s and then getting an unlikely second chance to live and play again. Following his retirement from football Benirschke was hired by Merv Griffin to replace Pat Sajak as host of the daytime game show ''Wheel of Fortune'' in 1989 after seeing him on a talk show. Early career Benirschke grew up in San Diego and attended La Jolla High School. His father Kurt Benirschke, a German immigrant, was a pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (May 26, 1924 – September 10, 2018) was a German-American pathologist, geneticist and expert on the placenta and reproduction in humans and myriad mammalian species. At the San Diego Zoo, he created the world's first frozen zoo for the cryopreservation of genetic material from endangered species. Early life and education Benirschke grew up in Glückstadt, a small town in northern Germany. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Hamburg in 1948. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. Career After an internship in New Jersey, he trained in pathology at university hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 1955, he became pathologist of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, now part of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and there developed his interest in the placenta and reproductive problems. From 1960 to 1970 he was the chairman of the department of pathology at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, and pursued his inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Bening
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a British Academy Film Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and four Academy Awards. Bening began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory Theater. She received nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in ''Coastal Disturbances'' and for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for '' All My Sons''. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in the films '' The Grifters'' (1990), '' American Beauty'' (1999), ''Being Julia'' (2004), and '' The Kids Are All Right'' (2010). In 2006, she received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her achievements in the film industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Benefiel
Charles Benefiel (born 1967) is a contemporary American outsider artist from California. As he has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, almost all of his work is done via stippling. He currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Overview Born in Venice Beach, California, Charles experienced a mental breakdown in 1997 and was urged by friends to go to a mental health center, where he was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. His work has since been featured in various psychiatry and art magazines. His art is generally done on a large scale, some pieces being up to 5 x 8 feet in size; he does most of his work through a neurotic method of stippling, without any preliminary designs. After the stippling is complete, the works are soaked in tea and treated with chemicals to give an old look. Style and method He renders his work through a process of stippling done with very precise rapidograph technical pens; his pieces are done without any preliminary drawings, and with no l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, housing 4000 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies on of Balboa Park leased from the City of San Diego. Its parent organization, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, is a private nonprofit conservation organization, and has one of the largest zoological membership associations in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child memberships, representing more than a half million people. The San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in the concept of open-air, cageless exhibits that recreate natural animal habitats. For decades, the zoo housed and successfully bred giant pandas, with the largest giant panda population outside China, before the pandas were repatriated to China in 2019. With more than 4 million visitors in 2018, San Diego Zoo is the most visited zoo in the United States. Travelers have also cited it as one of the best zoos in the world. The San Diego Zoo is an accredited member of the As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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