Grant High School (Los Angeles) - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Davie Allan, instrumental rock guitarist
  • Gilbert Arenas, professional basketball player, NBA All-Star with Orlando Magic
  • Rod Beck, Professional Baseball Player 1991-2003, 3 time all star.
  • Barry Carl, former Rockapella Band Member
  • Mike Curb, Record Producer, California Lieutenant Governor from 1979-83.
  • Bobby Diamond, 1964, Los Angeles lawyer and former film and television actor
  • Micky Dolenz, Actor/Musician/Drummer of The Monkees.
  • John Dolmayan Rock Drummer(System Of A Down)
  • Moosie Drier, Actor and occasional director.
  • Ike Eisenmann, Actor/Producer/Sound Effects specialist
  • Ruthann Friedman, Folk Musician
  • Lonn Friend, vice president of A and R for Arista Records.
  • Mitch Gaylord, 1984 U.S. Olympic gold medal winning gymnast
  • Jim Gordon, popular session drummer
  • Jeff Green, former Editor-in-Chief of Games for Windows: The Official Magazine
  • Tom Griffin, Professional Baseball player, 1969–82, Sporting News National League Rookie Pitcher of the Year in 1969.
  • Cheryl Holdridge, actress, married to Lance Reventlow.
  • Craig Hundley, musician and former child actor, now known as Craig Huxley.
  • Gary Knell, NPR, President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Michael Landau, session guitarist
  • Kay Lenz, Emmy Award winning actress, first wife of David Cassidy.
  • Steve Lukather, Musician, member of the rock group Toto
  • Larry Magid, Technology journalist
  • Bruce Manson, former professional tennis player
  • Megan Marshack, Journalist
  • Johnette Napolitano, Musician/Concrete Blonde
  • Jessie Nelson, filmmaker (Corinna, Corinna, I Am Sam, The Story of Us, Fred Claus)
  • Paul Neubauer, violist of the New York Philharmonic and instructor at Juilliard and Mannes College of Music.
  • Danny Nucci, Professional film actor
  • David Paich, Keyboardist/singer, composer and co-founder of the rock group Toto
  • Jeff Porcaro, Drummer, co-founder of the rock group Toto (d. 1992)
  • Steve Porcaro, Professional musician/composer, co-founder of the rock group Toto
  • Mike Porcaro, Member of the rock group Toto.
  • Mike Post, composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas
  • Brian Robbins, actor in "Head of the Class, director of "Norbit"
  • Tom Scott, professional musician and writer of themes to “Starsky & Hutch”, “The Streets of San Francisco”, and “Family Ties”.
  • Tom Selleck, Professional film actor
  • Drew Silvern, (d. 1997) reporter; San Diego Press Club's Drew Silvern Award for Courage in Journalism
  • Michael Simpson, Grammy award winning record producer and composer, one of the "Dust Brothers"
  • Jim Umbarger, Professional baseball player 1975-78
  • Joseph Williams, Film/TV composer and former lead singer in the rock group Toto

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