List of people from Fullerton, California

Here follows a list of people from Fullerton, California; that is, of persons born in or who have spent a significant portion of their life in Fullerton, California.

Arts

 * Philip K. Dick, author, science fiction
 * C.S. Forester, novelist
 * Dave Halili, album cover illustrator and designer
 * Jeff Soto, contemporary artist

Athletics

 * Paul Abbott, baseball pitcher
 * Ed Amelung, baseball player
 * Shaun Butler, BMX rider
 * Al Campanis, baseball player and executive
 * Gary Carter, baseball player, member of MLB Hall of Fame, attended Sunny Hills High School
 * C. J. Cron, professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
 * Hector Dyer, Olympic swimmer
 * Jim Edmonds, baseball player
 * Kay Hansen, mixed martial artist
 * Lynn Hill, competitive rock climber
 * D. J. Houlton, baseball player who currently plays for Yomiuri Giants in Japan
 * Randy Jones, baseball pitcher
 * Dan Kennedy, soccer player
 * Kourtney Kunichika, professional ice hockey player for the Buffalo Beauts of the NWHL
 * Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame baseball manager and Dodgers executive, lived in Fullerton
 * Phil Nevin, baseball player
 * David Newhan, baseball player
 * Shawn Ray, bodybuilder
 * Jack Salveson, baseball player
 * Karlie Samuelson, basketball player
 * Katie Lou Samuelson, basketball player
 * John Sullivan, football player
 * Jeff Tam, baseball player
 * Keith Van Horn, basketball player
 * Arky Vaughan, Hall of Fame baseball player
 * Mike Witt, baseball pitcher
 * Eric Wynalda, soccer player
 * Gary Zimmerman, football player

Film, television and theatre

 * James Cameron, Oscar-winning film director
 * Kim Chambers
 * Kevin Costner, actor and Oscar-winning director, graduate of California State University, Fullerton
 * Suzanne Crough, actress
 * Jeremy Gable, playwright
 * Jenna Haze, actress
 * Chris Hebert, actor
 * Chuck Knipp
 * Michael McDonald, actor and comedian
 * John Raitt, Broadway, television, and film actor and singer
 * Steven Seagal, actor
 * Skip Stellrecht, actor

Music

 * The Adolescents (band)
 * Agent Orange (band)
 * Alfie Agnew, mathematician, songwriter and musician
 * Frank Agnew, songwriter and musician
 * Rikk Agnew, songwriter and musician
 * Jackson Browne, folk music singer-songwriter, graduated from Sunny Hills High School
 * Dennis Danell, musician
 * Leo Fender, inventor, guitar manufacturer
 * Lit (band)
 * Mike Ness, musician
 * Jory Prum, recording engineer
 * Stacey Q, singer, songwriter and actress
 * Social Distortion (band)
 * Brian St. Clair, drummer for Local H, was raised in Fullerton, California
 * Gwen Stefani, singer and television personality
 * Tui St. George Tucker, composer, recorder player, instrument developer
 * Überzone, electronic musician
 * Yeat, rapper

Politics

 * Dick Ackerman, politician
 * Sam L. Collins, politician
 * William E. Dannemeyer, politician
 * Viet D. Dinh, assistant U.S. Attorney General under president George W. Bush
 * Lon Nol, marshal and former president of the Khmer Republic

Other

 * David Boies, attorney
 * James Harder, engineer, professor
 * Ethel Jacobson, poet
 * Leon Leyson, believed to be the youngest member of the Schindlerjuden who were saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler
 * Kelly Thomas, homeless man beaten to death by the Fullerton Police Department
 * John Witt, baseball collector