List of Famous people born in Ventura, United States of America
Miguel Angel Garcia
Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez, best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including the lineal junior welterweight title from 2018 to 2020; previously he held the WBO and Ring magazine featherweight titles in 2013, the WBO junior lightweight title from 2013 to 2014, the WBC and IBF lightweight titles between 2017 and 2019, and the IBF junior welterweight title in 2018. He has also challenged once for the IBF welterweight title in 2019.
Candye Kane
Candice Caleb, known professionally as Candye Kane, was an American adult film star, and later a blues singer and entertainer. She entered a successful music career after working in the adult entertainment industry briefly in the early to mid 1980s during porn's golden age. Candye was recognized as an award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer in the blues and jazz genres. She was included in the books Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwood's Blues by Dan Aykroyd, The Blueshound Guide to Blues, AllMusic, and other blues books and periodicals.
Troy Dumais
Troy Matthew Dumais is an American competitive diver from California. Dumais has competed for the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2012 Summer Olympics, the last which he won a bronze team medal in the synchronized 3m. He attended the University of Texas at Austin.
James Ennis
James Alfred Ennis III is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played two years of Division 1 college basketball for Long Beach State, where he became a standout as a senior, earning Big West Player of the Year honors. After being selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the second round of the 2013 NBA draft, Ennis moved to Australia and joined the Perth Wildcats. There he won an NBL championship and became a Perth favorite. He returned to the United States in 2014 in pursuit of an NBA contract, and subsequently joined the Miami Heat. He went on to spend time with the Memphis Grizzlies and the New Orleans Pelicans during the 2015–16 season, as well as in the NBA Development League with the Iowa Energy. He re-joined the Grizzlies in July 2016, and was traded to the Pistons in February 2018. He then split the 2018–19 season with the Houston Rockets and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Krista Allen
Krista Allen is an American actress and model. She is best known for her work in the television series Days of Our Lives, Baywatch Hawaii and the erotic TV series Emmanuelle in Space. Allen is also known for starring in Hollywood films Liar Liar with Jim Carrey and The Final Destination. She has guest starred in popular TV shows including Two and a Half Men, The X-Files, Charmed, and Married... with Children. She also portrayed the eponymous character on The CW series Significant Mother, and co-starred in Anger Management with Adam Sandler and in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Sam Rockwell.
Matt Shakman
Matt Shakman is an American film, television, and theatre director, and former child actor. He has directed episodes of The Great, WandaVision, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Fargo and Game of Thrones. He is the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, California.
Edward Winter
Edward Dean Winter was an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role, Colonel Samuel Flagg, in the iconic television series M*A*S*H from 1973 to 1979.
Jerry Finn
Jermone Gregory Finn, sometimes credited as "Huckle" Jerry Finn, was an American record producer, mix engineer, and musician. He worked with numerous punk rock and pop-punk artists, such as Blink-182, AFI, Sum 41, Alkaline Trio, Green Day, Morrissey, MxPx, and Rancid. Finn was known for the warm guitar tone present on albums he produced, as well as the "punchy" sound of his mixes. He was instrumental in developing the polished sound of pop-punk in its second wave of popularity between the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
Joanne Brackeen
Joanne Brackeen is an American jazz pianist and music educator.
Holly Gagnier
Holly Gagnier is an American actress.