- Lee Baca, current Sheriff of Los Angeles County
- Andrew D. Bernstein, Senior Director, NBA Photos
- John Bryson, President of Edison International and United States Secretary of Commerce
- Henry Bumstead, production designer, winner of two Academy Awards : To Kill a Mockingbird
- Drucilla Cornell, author, Chairman in jurisprudence at the University of Cape Town; S.M.H.S. graduate
- Christine Craft, attorney, KGO radio personality and former television news anchor.
- Mark Cronin, television producer
- Delon, rapper and record producer
- Tom Demeester, physician and originator of the field of noninvasive foregut ambulatory monitoring and former surgery Chair, University of Southern California
- Peter B. Dervan, awarded the National Medal of Science in Chemistry, professor at Caltech
- Darren Dreifort, former MLB pitcher: Los Angeles Dodgers
- James G. Ellis, Dean of the Marshall School of Business at USC
- Jim Gott, MLB pitcher: Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants
- Pat Haden, Athletic Director of USC and former Pro quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams.
- John Hart, actor, the Masked Man in The Lone Ranger from 1952 to 1954
- Stephen Hillenburg, animator, writer and television producer, creator of Spongebob Squarepants
- Edwin Hubble, astronomer, changed view of universe per galaxy redshift leading to Big Bang cosmology
- Henry E. Huntington, railroad executive, founder of The Huntington Library
- Jaime Jarrín, Spanish-language broadcaster: Los Angeles Dodgers, sportscaster award Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress, Saturday Night Live, Pleasantville, Malcolm in the Middle
- Howard Kazanjian, film producer: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; former V.P. at Lucasfilm
- Herman Leonard, jazz photographer, photo collection is in the permanent archives in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
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- Elliot Meyerowitz, Chairman, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology
- Robert A. Millikan, experimental physicist, awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for the electron charge
- Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-born American painter, noted for portraits of Popes and Presidents
- C. L. Max Nikias, president of the University of Southern California
- Nancy O'Dell, television personality, Access Hollywood
- Stephan Pastis, comic artist, Pearls Before Swine
- George S. Patton, Army General, World War II
- Michael W. Perry, former chairman and CEO of IndyMac Bank, now OneWest Bank
- Steven B. Sample, former President of the University of Southern California
- Rob Schneider, actor, comedian. Saturday Night Live, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick and Grown Ups.
- Donald Segretti, political operative, involved in Watergate
- Joachim Splichal, Chef and founder of the Patina Restaurant Group
- George Stoneman, 15th Governor of California, Civil War Union Army General
- Bradley Whitford, actor, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Billy Madison
- Yanis C. Yortsos, Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC
- Joseph Wambaugh, novelist, including The New Centurions, and nonfiction The Onion Field
- Ahmed H. Zewail, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, femtochemistry, Caltech Chair of Chemistry
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