The following is a list of notable people from

San Bernardino, California San Bernardino ( ) is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census, making it the List of ...

Arts

* Twyla Tharp - choreographer and dancer * Jerome Bixby – writer * Gene Hackman – actor and novelist * Kirk Harris – actor, writer *

Edith Head Edith Claire Head (née Posener, October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American film costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making he ...

– costume designer *

Poison Ivy Poison ivy is a type of allergenic plant in the genus '' Toxicodendron'' native to Asia and North America. Formerly considered a single species, '' Toxicodendron radicans'', poison ivies are now generally treated as a complex of three separate s ...

– producer and guitarist for the Cramps * Brenden Jefferson – actor *

Roscoe Karns Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many ...

(1891–1970) – actor * David Lauser – drummer *

Julie London Julie London (born Julie Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch song, torch singer noted for her contralto voice, London recorded over thirty album ...

– singer, actress *

Michael Reaves James Michael Reaves (September 14, 1950 – March 20, 2023) was an American writer, known for his contributions as a script writer and story editor to a number of 1980s and 1990s animated television series, including '' Gargoyles'' and '' Batma ...

– screenwriter * Fuerza Regida - music group * Bob Spalding - guitarist/bassist for The Ventures, born in San Bernardino * Lakeith Stanfield – actor * Moses Sumney – singer-songwriter * Philip Michael Thomas – actor * Jason Thornberry - writer, musician * Miranda Weese – dancer * Jefferson Wood – illustrator * Shailene Woodley – actress

Journalism

* Ron Magers –

reporter A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

news anchor A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on TV, radio or the Internet. ...

at WLS-TV in

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

* Wilbur H. Durborough (1882-1946) – photojournalist and film correspondent in World War I
Henry L. Hooks
(1921-2021)-''first photojournalist in the IE to have African-American photos published in the San Bernardino Sun Telegram''

Politics

* Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd

Treasurer of the United States The treasurer of the United States is an officer in the United States Department of the Treasury who serves as the custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage pr ...

* Stephen W. Cunningham – first

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

graduate manager and

Los Angeles City Council The Los Angeles City Council is the Legislature, lawmaking body for the Government of Los Angeles, city government of Los Angeles, California, the second largest city in the United States. It has 15 members who each represent the 15 city council ...

member, 1933–41 * Merritt B. Curtis – Brigadier General in the Marine Corps and candidate for

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...

in 1960 * Dirk Kempthorne – Idaho Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Interior; moved to San Bernardino at a young age, lived there through junior college * Claude R. Kirk, Jr. –

Governor of Florida The governor of Florida is the head of government of the U.S. state of Florida. The Governor (United States), governor is the head of the Government of Florida#Executive branch, executive branch of the government of Florida and is the comman ...

Science

* Michael R. Clifford –

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a List of human spaceflight programs, human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spa ...

* Howard Georgi – professor of physics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Sports

* Jayden Daniels – football player * Tyler Ankrum –

NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is considered to be one of the top ranked motorsports organizations in ...

driver * Glenn Braggs –

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

player * Branden Becker –

player * Greg Bunch –

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

player * Brandie Burton – golfer * Chuck Carr –

player * Layshia Clarendon –

player * Kenny Clark – football player * Mark Collins – football player * Rich Dauer –

player * Shawn Estes –

player * King Green – mixed martial artist * Charles Johnson – football player * Al Jury – football referee * Damontae Kazee – football player * Bob Lemon – baseball player and manager * Paul Lim –

darts Darts is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small projectile point, sharp-pointed projectile, projectiles known as dart (missile), darts at a round shooting target, target known as a #Dartboard, dartboard. Point ...

player * Alberto Madril –

wrestler Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves diffe ...

* Alexander Mattison – football player * Jason Moore – football player * Ryan Nece – football player * Craig Newsome – football player * Derek Parra – Olympic speed skater * Stephanie Rehe – tennis player * Ricky Romero – wrestler * Bryon Russell –

player * Swede Savage – race car driver * Daryl Sconiers – baseball player * Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942) – long distance runner * Jeremy Stevenson – hockey player * Dave Stockton – golfer * Jalin Turner – mixed martial artist * Lisa Marie Varon – wrestler * Charlie Venegas – speedway rider

Other

* Anthony Acevedo (1924–2018) –

Mexican-American Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United State ...

engineer and U.S. soldier incarcerated at the Berga concentration camp during World WarII * John Brown (1817–1889) –

Mountain man A mountain man is an Geographical exploration, explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting, fishing and trapping. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s ...

, fur trapper and trader, prominent businessman in San Bernardino. *

Richard and Maurice McDonald Richard McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) and Maurice “Mac" McDonald (1902 – December 11, 1971), collectively known as the McDonald brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's. The brother ...

– founders of

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation, doing business as McDonald's, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain. As of 2024, it is the second largest by number of locations in the world, behind only the Chinese ch ...

* Anna Nieto-Gómez – Chicana feminist * Rizwan Farook, terrorist * Fredrick D. Scott – business consultant * Walter Knott (1889–1981) – Founder of

Knott's Berry Farm Knott's Berry Farm is a amusement park in Buena Park, California, United States, owned and operated by Six Flags. In March 2015, it was ranked as the List of amusement park rankings#North America, twelfth-most-visited theme park in North Ameri ...

References

* {{Cite web , url=https://www.pe.com/2016/02/16/san-bernardino-photographer-captured-the-lives-of-city8217s-african-americans/ , title=SAN BERNARDINO: Photographer captured the lives of city's African Americans , date=16 February 2016

San Bernardino *