List of people from Pasadena, California

• Kelly Asbury, film director, writer, illustrator, voice actor
• Stacey Augmon, basketball player
• Jon B., Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter
• Meredith Baxter, actress
• Carlton Beals, journalist
• Hodgy Beats, rapper
• Walt Becker, film director
• G. Vernon Bennett, Los Angeles City Council member, 1935–49
• Susie Maxwell Berning, pro golfer
• Julie Berry, children's author
• Summer Bishil, actress
• Whitney Blake, actress, director and producer
• Alison Brie, actress
• Betty Brosmer, bodybuilder and model
• Owen Brown, abolitionist
• May Sutton Bundy, first American to win Wimbledon tennis singles title
• Frederick Russell Burnham, celebrated scout and inspiration for the Boy Scouts
• Howard Burnham, mining engineer and spy
• Sigrid Burton, artist and painter
• Sophia Bush, actress, TV series One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D., 82nd Rose Queen for 111th Tournament of Roses Parade
• Octavia Butler, award-winning science-fiction writer
• Stephen Cannell, author, television and film producer
• Christy Canyon, pornographic actress
• Cari Champion, former moderator, ESPN First Take
• Otis Chandler, publisher, Los Angeles Times
• Justin Chapman, journalist, author, actor
• Julia Child, celebrated author and television chef
• Jeff Cirillo, MLB player for six teams
• Michael Cooper, NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers, coach
• Steve Crocker, internet engineer, member of the Internet Hall of Fame
• Edward Cucuel, impressionistic painter
• Harriet Doerr, author, winner of the National Book Award
• Jimmy Dore, comedian
• Michael Dorn, actor
• Cullen Douglas, actor, director, playwright
• Arthur Duncan, tap dancer
• David Ebershoff, writer
• Rafa Esparza, performance artist
• Darrell Evans, MLB player
• Mary Beth Evans, actress
• Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, raconteur
• Sally Field, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
• W.C. Fields, comedian, actor, juggler and writer; died in Pasadena
• Missy Franklin, swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist
• Stan Freberg, comedian, satirist, recording artist
• Dâm-Funk, musician
• Paul Fussell, critic and historian
• Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech
• Elmer Grey, architect
• George Ellery Hale, astrophysicist, Caltech professor, founder Mt. Wilson Observatory
• Harry Hamlin, actor
• Kristy Hawkins, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Olive Hoskins, first woman promoted to warrant officer in U.S. Army
• Charles Frederick Holder, inventor of big-game fishing and a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses
• Gregory C. Horn, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
• Edwin Hubble, astronomer, namesake for the Hubble Telescope, Caltech professor

• Myron Hunt, architect of Rose Bowl
• Howard W. Hunter, 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Todd M. Hutton, American medical academic and psychiatrist
• Lance Ito, judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
• Bret Iwan, fourth voice of Mickey Mouse
• Joseph J. Jacobs,engineer and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
• Tom Jancar, contemporary art dealer Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery
• Pete Jolly, jazz pianist
• Lucy Jones, seismologist
• Tamala Jones, actress
• TJ Kirk Commentator and author
• Kathryn Le Veque, author
• Matthew Lillard, actor
• Kate Linder, actress
• Chris McAlister, professional football player
• James McAlister, professional football player
• Tyler MacDuff, actor
• Henry Markham, 18th governor of California
• Hugo Markl, artist, curator and creative director based in New York
• Mo Martin, LPGA golfer, 2014 British Open champion
• F.O. Matthiessen, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor
• Joel McCrea, actor
• Inger Miller, track and field sprint athlete
• Robert A. Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist
• Richard Moll, actor
• Jane Mulfinger, conceptual artist and educator
• George Murdoch, WWE wrestler
• Tracy Murray, NBA Player
• George Nader, actor
• George Olah, Nobel Prize chemist, professor University of Southern California
• Bill Paparian, attorney, veterans' advocate and Mayor of Pasadena
• Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and occultist
• George S. Patton , city attorney for City of Pasadena.
• George S. Patton, four-star general, led Allies during World War II
• Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, peace activist, Caltech
• Chris Pettit, MLB outfielder
• Drew Pinsky, doctor and radio/TV personality
• Chris Pontius, actor/TV personality
• Durell Price, UCLA fullback
• Karen Price, actress
• Kathleen Quinlan, actress
• Robert Reed, actor, best known as Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch television series
• George Reeves, actor, best known as star of television series Adventures of Superman; attended Pasadena Junior College
• George F. Regas, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church 1967–1995, noted critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam war as well as many other policy issues.
• Roger Revelle, founder of University of California, San Diego, father of concept of global warming
• Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico
• Jackie Robinson, iconic baseball player
• Mack Robinson, Olympic athlete, brother of Jackie Robinson
• James Roosevelt, U.S. Congressman, son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Don Ross, Major League Baseball player
• David Lee Roth, lead singer for Van Halen
• Stan Sakai, cartoonist best known as creator of Usagi Yojimbo series
• Ruwanga Samath, record producer, attended John Muir High School
• Ellen Browning Scripps, heiress, publisher, philanthropist
• Christian Serratos, actress
• Jamey Sheridan, actor
• William Shockley, Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, inventor of the transistor
• Alvin Simon, restaurateur who revitalized Old Pasadena
• John Singleton, film director
• Sirhan Sirhan, resident of Pasadena at the time of assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Alina Smith, musician
• Mark Smith, MLB player for five teams
• Stan Smith, professional tennis player, namesake of Stan Smith Tennis Shoe
• Phil Spector, music producer
• Brett Sterling, professional ice hockey player
• John Patten Story, US Army major general
• Kathleen Sullivan, television personality
• Brian Teacher, Australian Open tennis champion
• Teena Marie, singer-songwriter, music producer
• Kip Thorne, professor, Feynman theoretical physicist, Caltech
• Troop, R&B group
• Chase Utley, baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
• Peter Vagenas, soccer player
• John Van De Kamp, attorney general of California
• Alex Van Halen, drummer for Van Halen
• Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist for Van Halen
• Duong Van Minh, exiled president of South Vietnam
• Jacque Vaughn, professional basketball player
• Charles Walters, film director
• Wil Wheaton, actor, writer
• Jaleel White, actor, producer, and writer
• William Wrigley, Jr., founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum, former owner of Chicago Cubs
• Matt Young, MLB player for Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians
• Marc Yu, child music prodigy on piano and viola
• Jeff Yurak, MLB player for Milwaukee Brewers