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Notable alumni of Santa Barbara high schools
Santa Barbara’s high schools have sent a long list of musicians, actors, athletes, and writers out into the world. Below are the notable alumni on record for each campus — pop singer Katy Perry and actor Josh Brolin among the Santa Barbara High graduates, model Kathy Ireland from San Marcos, and many more.
- Josh Brolin — Academy Award-nominated actor
- Karch Kiraly — 3x Olympic gold medalist, volleyball
- Eddie Mathews — Baseball Hall of Famer
- Jamaal Wilkes — 4x NBA champion
- Randall Cunningham — NFL Pro Bowl quarterback
- Sam Cunningham — USC All-American, College Football Hall of Fame
- Tom Curren — 3x world champion surfer
- Martha Graham — modern dance pioneer
- Alonzo King — dancer and choreographer, LINES Ballet
- Taylor Hackford — Academy Award-winning filmmaker
- Ron Shelton — writer-director, 'Bull Durham', 'White Men Can't Jump'
- Charles Schwab — founder, Charles Schwab Corp.
- Leon Litwack — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Ward Kimball — Disney animator, Academy Award winner
- Floyd Norman — Disney/Pixar animator and writer
- Chris Shiflett — lead guitarist, Foo Fighters
- Jordan Maron 'CaptainSparklez' — YouTuber
- Tanya Atwater — geophysicist, plate tectonics pioneer
- Stephen Benton — inventor of the rainbow hologram
- Al Geiberger — PGA Tour golfer, first to shoot 59
- Kami Craig — Olympic gold & silver medalist, water polo
- John Northrop — aviation pioneer, founder of Northrop Corporation
- Timothy Bottoms — actor, 'The Last Picture Show'
- Eric Stoltz — actor
- Anthony Edwards — actor, 'ER', 'Top Gun'
- Randolph Mantooth — actor, 'Emergency!'
- Cady Huffman — Tony Award-winning actress
- Kathy Ireland — model and entrepreneur
- Chuck Liddell — former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, UFC Hall of Fame
- Colleen Ballinger — comedian, 'Miranda Sings'
- Glen Phillips — lead singer, Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Dean Dinning — bassist, Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Todd Nichols — guitarist, Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Tim Lopez — guitarist, Plain White T's
- Eric Anzalone — singer, Village People
- Alex Mack — NFL offensive lineman, 3x Pro Bowl
- Todd Rogers — Olympic gold medalist, beach volleyball
- Paige Hauschild — Olympic medalist, water polo
- Mark Warkentin — Olympic open-water swimmer
- Adam Duvendeck — Olympic cyclist
- Terry Schroeder — US men's water polo head coach, Olympic medalist
- Robert C. Orr — UN Assistant Secretary-General
- Katy Perry — Grammy-nominated pop singer
- Alex Filippenko — astrophysicist, UC Berkeley
- Chip Foose — automotive designer, 'Overhaulin'
- Ben Rattray — founder and CEO of Change.org
- Meg Gardiner — Edgar Award-winning thriller novelist
- James McCann — MLB All-Star catcher
- Howard McGillin — Tony-nominated stage actor, record Broadway Phantom
- Ben Howland — former UCLA men's basketball head coach
- Samantha Hill — Olympic gold medalist, water polo
- Kiley Neushul — Olympic gold medalist, water polo
- Douglas Partie — Olympic gold medalist, volleyball
- Ryan Mendez — guitarist, Yellowcard
- Kim Wilson — blues singer/harmonica, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
- Julyan Stone — former NBA player
- Lewis Nixon — WWII Army officer, Easy Company 'Band of Brothers'
- Conrad Hall — Academy Award-winning cinematographer
- David Crosby — musician, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Stephen Malkmus — musician, frontman of Pavement
- Billy Steinberg — Grammy-winning songwriter, 'Like a Virgin'
- Chris Strachwitz — founder of Arhoolie Records, music preservationist
- Larry Niven — science fiction author, 'Ringworld'
- George Ledyard Stebbins — leading evolutionary biologist
- James S. Ackerman — architectural historian, Harvard professor
- Antony Garrett Lisi — theoretical physicist, 'An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything'
- Warren C. Breidenbach — surgeon, first long-term successful hand transplant
- Burton Smith — computer architect, Microsoft technical fellow
- Otis Chandler — former publisher of the Los Angeles Times
- Sir John Bond — former chairman and CEO of HSBC
- Malcolm Wallop — U.S. Senator from Wyoming
- Barnaby Conrad — author, artist, and bullfighter
- Dayton Hyde — author and conservationist
- Joshua Yaro — professional soccer player, Philadelphia Union
- Ema Boateng — professional soccer player, New England Revolution
- Geoffrey Acheampong — professional soccer player, LA Galaxy II
- Tracye Lawyer-Thomas — American heptathlete