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Links to this page includes biographies of men and women who have made significant contributions to the history of Southern California. For more background information see the essay on southern California's biography by Abraham Hoffman.

Arcadia Bandini Stearns Baker
E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin
Phineas Banning
Tom Bradley
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Dorothy Buffum Chandler
Antonio F. Coronel
Raymond Chandler
Walt Disney
Edward L. Doheny
Donald W. Douglas
Betty Hill
James Wong Howe
Minerva Hamilton Hoyt
Howard Hughes
Henry Edwards Huntington
Irish in L.A.
Italians in L.A.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Abbot Kinney
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Biddy Mason
Aimee Semple McPherson
William Mulholland
Harris Newmark
Richard J. Neutra
Richard M. Nixon
Harrison Gray Otis
Pio Pico
Fr. Junipero Serra
Caroline M. Severance
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Upton Sinclair
Jack Smith
Christine Sterling
Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene
Tiburcio Vasquez
Paul R. Williams

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