Notable Alumni
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- Pauline Betz Addie, tennis champion
- Mel Almada, first Mexican-American in Major League Baseball
- Anne Baxter, actress
- Scotty Beckett, actor
- Fletcher Bowron, four term mayor of Los Angeles 1938 - 1953
- Ray Bradbury, author
- Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders cornerback, Super Bowl XXX MVP
- Charles Bukowski, writer, poet
- John Cage, composer
- John P. Cassidy, Los Angeles City Council member, 1962–67
- Richard Chew, film editor
- Johnnie Cochran, attorney who defended O.J. Simpson
- Lillian Copeland, Olympian (discus, gold)
- Lynn "Buck" Compton, War Hero (Band of Brothers), Convicted Sirhan Sirhan as DA of LA County
- Gary Conway, actor
- Harry Danning, baseball player
- Aileen Eaton, boxing promoter
- Mike Evans, actor
- Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91
- Siedah Garrett, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
- Marjorie Gestring, Olympian (swimming and diving)
- Calvin Gilmer, musician
- Carl Greenberg, newspaperman
- Horace Hahn, actor
- Dustin Hoffman, actor
- Christianne Meneses Jacobs, writer, editor and founder of Iguana Magazine (the nations only Spanish-language magazine for children.)
- Cornelius Johnson, Olympian (track and field)
- Willis Lamb, shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for discoveries related to the superfine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
- Piper Laurie, actress
- Homer Lea, general in the army of Sun Yat-sen and a writer of several books of geopolitics
- Linda Levi, artist
- Marilyn McCoo, actress and singer
- Bob Meusel, baseball player
- Josephine Miles, poet
- Budge Patty, tennis champion
- Leonard Pennario, concert pianist
- Donald Prell, futurologist
- Madlyn Rhue, actress
- Charles Francis Richter, inventor of the Richter Scale
- Frederick Madison Roberts, first African American to be elected to the California State Legislature (1919–1933)
- Budd Schulberg, Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra
- Miiko Taka, actress
- George Takei, actor, known for Star Trek
- William Irwin Thompson, Poet and cultural Historian
- Mel Tormé, singer
- Vernon Dean, Washington Redskins, (cornerback) Super Bowl, Pasadena California
- Francis J. Weber, historian, noted author on California's mission period
- Matt Weinstock, newspaper columnist
- Elton Wieman, college football coach
- Rosalind Wiener Wyman, political figure
- Milt Larsen, co-founder of the Magic Castle
- Anna May Wong, actress
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