Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States.[2] The school was established in 1889.[3]
Notable alumni
- Original members of the surf band The Chantays
- Barry Asher, professional bowler
- Tony Baxter former senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, the Indiana Jones Adventure, Splash Mountain, and Journey Into Imagination.
- Billy Bean, played major league baseball from 1987 through 1995. He tied a major league record with 4 hits in his first major league game.[4]
- Tony Bellamy Guitarist, member of first Native American rock band Redbone, had number one hit in the 1970s "Come and Get Your Love"
- Beverly Bivens, singer with the 1960s band We Five
- Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete
- John Brinkerhoff, USMA '50, Associate Director for National Preparedness FEMA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs DoD
- Gerald P. Carr, astronaut
- Clifford "Gavvy" Cravath, six time National League baseball home run champion in the 1910s
- Isaac Curtis, football player, Cal Berkeley and NFL Cincinnati Bengals
- Clancy Edwards sprinter
- Derek Fleming, featured Soul Train Dancer 1980-1993
- James Kanno, first mayor of Fountain Valley, California
- Diane Keaton, actress
- Greg Louganis Olympic Gold Medal Diver, LGBT Activist, called "The greatest American diver in olympic history."
- Bill Medley, singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo
- Gilbert Melendez, 2-time California State All-American wrestler;[5] professional Mixed Martial Artist; former WEC and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, current UFC Lightweight contender[6]
- Donn Moomaw, football player, minister[7]
- Chuck Smith class of 1945 founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa[8][9]
- Milt Smith (1919–2010), football player, UCLA Bruins and Philadelphia Eagles[10]
- William Cameron Townsend, prominent twentieth-century American Christian missionary and founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International)
- Marvalee Hendricks Wake, evolutionary biologist.
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Santa Ana High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ^ "Overview". Santa Ana High School. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "About us / Overview".
- ^ "All Teams History - April 25th - National Pastime - Baseball History".
- ^ "Gilbert Melendez Santa Ana High School wrestler". Facebook. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
- ^ "Gilbert Melendez UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014-01-01.
- ^ Donn Moomaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
- ^ https://www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com/
- ^ Chuck Smith (pastor)#Early life and career[circular reference]
- ^ "Football Tabs: Smith to Back Up Woody Strode". Klamath Falls Evening Herald. September 14, 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 13 June 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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