List of Famous people born in Los Angeles, United States of America
Jamie Dantzscher
Jamie Annette Dantzscher is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the bronze-medal-winning American team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Kevin McCall
Kevin Lamar McCall Jr. is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. McCall is best known for his association with fellow American singer Chris Brown, with whom he formerly signed on to the CBE record label via RCA Records. He is currently an independent artist.
Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux is a retired American television and film actress. She was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards during her acting career.
Bryan Caplan
Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American economist and author. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and former contributor to the Freakonomics blog; he also publishes his own blog, EconLog. He is a self-described "economic libertarian". The bulk of Caplan's academic work is in behavioral economics and public economics, especially public choice theory.
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".
Scott Heineman
Scott Matthew Heineman is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and Cincinnati Reds.
Denise Crosby
Denise Michelle Crosby is an American actress and model, best known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles, and for starring in and producing the film Trekkies.
Michael Costello
Michael Costello is an American fashion designer and reality television personality. He appeared on the eighth season of Project Runway and the first season of Project Runway All Stars.
John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law was an American film actor.
Warren Miller
Warren A. Miller was an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker. He was the founder of Warren Miller Entertainment and produced, directed and narrated films until 1988. His published works include over 750 sports films, several books and hundreds of non-fiction articles. Miller was inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame (1978), the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame (1995), and was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Skiing History Association (2004) and the California Ski Industry Association (2008).