Notable Natives and Residents
- Anacani: featured singer with Lawrence Welk orchestra
- Tom Anderson: co-founder of MySpace
- Lester Bangs: rock music critic
- Ken Block: rally car driver, and founder of DC Shoes.
- Benjamin Britten: English composer, famous for his opera "Peter Grimes"
- E. H. Bronner: soapmaker
- Ray Conniff: bandleader and arranger
- Pete Coscarart: former Brooklyn Dodger
- Gavvy Cravath: right fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Richard Denning: actor
- Robert Klark Graham: eugenicist and inventor, founder of the Repository for Germinal Choice ("Nobel Prize Sperm Bank")
- Steve Hendrickson: former Chargers Player
- Brittany Hogan: former Miss California
- Randy Johnson: former Major League player with Atlanta Braves, current Special Asst to Oakland A's GM Billey Beane, Graduate of Escondido High School
- Jacque Jones: former baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
- Jovan Kirovski: forward for the L.A. Galaxy MLS team
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: founder and resident of the "Shanti Nilaya" (Home of Peace), retreat in Escondido in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Shannon MacMillan: professional soccer player and graduate of San Pasqual High School
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey: the so-called D.C. Madam
- Robbie Peralta MMA UFC Fighter
- Mark Redman: professional baseball player and graduate of Escondido High School
- Steve Reeves: bodybuilder
- Travis Ryan: lead vocalist of Cattle Decapitation
- Brett Salisbury: college football quarterback, author of The Transform Diet, and member of Escondido's 1981 Little League World Series team.
- Sean Salisbury: former ESPN anchorman and former NFL quarterback; graduate of Orange Glen High School
- Riley Steele: pornographic actress
- Randy Vasquez: actor
- Eric Weddle: #32 of San Diego Chargers resides in Escondido
- Harold Bell Wright: author in 1920s and 1930s
- Andrea Zittel: contemporary artist, graduate of San Pasqual High School
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