Bakersfield High School

Bakersfield High School (BHS) is a public four-year high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School serves grades ninth through twelfth within the Kern High School District.

Notable alumni

 * Larry Barnes – former MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers).
 * Theo Bell – former NFL football player
 * Jeff Buckey – former NFL football player
 * Pete Cross – former NBA player.
 * Marion Osborn Cunningham – artist.
 * Ric Drasin – actor, author, designer of the Gold's Gym and World Gym logos, and retired professional wrestler
 * Robert Duncan – poet, was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance
 * Frank Gifford – Pro Football Hall of Fame and Monday Night Football commentator
 * Merle Haggard – singer-songwriter.
 * Jerry Marion – former NFL player
 * Kevin McCarthy – Congressman, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
 * Matthew Todd Miller, American citizen held by North Korea
 * Spain Musgrove – former NFL defensive lineman
 * Doug Loman – former MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers)
 * Ruth B. Love (Class of 1950) – Educator, former education administrator, school superintendent and author. Love is noted as the first African–American and woman to serve as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third largest school district.
 * Steve Ontiveros – former MLB player (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs)
 * Dennis Ralston – Davis Cup winner
 * Don Robesky – former Stanford football player
 * Rick Sawyer – former MLB player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres)
 * Jeff Siemon – former NFL football player
 * Jeremy Staat – former NFL player
 * Michael Stewart – former NFL football player
 * Robert Swift – former NBA player
 * Jerry Tarr – former professional football player
 * Phillip Thomas – former NFL football player
 * Jake Varner – four time All-American and two time national champion wrestler at Iowa State University and winner of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at 26
 * Tyrone Wallace (Class of 2012) – Paris basketball player, NBA player, former California Golden Bears basketball player
 * Earl Warren – California Attorney General, three-term Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States, and chairman of the Warren Commission
 * Larry Welz – noteworthy early contributor to underground comics movement