List of people from Compton, California

This article lists notable people who are natives of Compton, California, or have been residents of the city.

Arts and entertainment

Anthony Anderson – actor, comedian
Daysha Broadway – director, editor^[1]
James Coburn – actor^[2]
Kevin Costner – actor
Guy Crowder – photographer
Ava DuVernay – film director, writer, and producer^[3]
Travon Free – comedian, actor and TV writer
Siedah Garrett – singer
Danielle Herrington – model
Anthony Johnson – actor, comedian
Steve Lacy – musician
Mark Christopher Lawrence – actor, comedian
Robin Coste Lewis – poet
Jacob Lusk – top five finalist on 2011 American Idol
Lynn Manning – playwright; co-founder of Watts Village Theater Company
Michel'le – R&B singer-songwriter
Keb Mo – blues singer, guitarist
Niecy Nash – actress, comedian, dancer, host of Clean House TV show on Style Network
Krist Novoselic – bassist of Nirvana
Paul Rodriguez – comedian
Mort Sahl – satirist, comedian
Leslie Sykes – television news anchor
Jackie Lynn Taylor – actress, TV personality
TQ – singer
James Wheaton – actor, writer, and educator
Lillian Yarbo – actress, dancer and singer^[4]^[5]
Elaine Devry – actress

Rappers

2nd II None – rap group
Arabian Prince – producer and original member of N.W.A
B.G. Knocc Out – rapper
Big Fase 100 - rapper, The Game’s older brother.
Boom Bam – Compton's Most Wanted
Tha Chill – rapper, member of Compton's Most Wanted
Compton's Most Wanted – rap group
Coolio – rapper and actor^[6]
CPO/Boss Hogg – rapper
DJ Mike T – Compton's Most Wanted
DJ Mustard – producer
DJ Quik – rapper and producer^[7]
DJ Slip – Compton's Most Wanted
DJ Yella – World Class Wreckin' Cru, N.W.A
Dr. Dre – rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, founder of Aftermath Entertainment and member of N.W.A.
Dresta – rapper
Eazy-E – rapper, executive producer, founder of Ruthless Records, member of N.W.A, often referred to as the "King of Compton"^[7]^[8]
The Game – rapper, actor.^[7]
Greydon Square – rapper
Guerilla Black – rapper
Hi-C – rapper
Hitta J3 – rapper
Kendrick Lamar – rapper, songwriter and producer
King Tee – rapper^[7]
Lil Eazy-E – rapper, son of rapper Eazy-E
MC Eiht – rapper, member of Compton's Most Wanted^[7]
MC Ren – rapper, member of N.W.A
Menajahtwa – rap group
N.W.A – rap group
Nationwide Rip Ridaz – rap group consisting of Compton Crip gang members
Problem – rapper
RJ – rapper
Roddy Ricch – rapper
Tweedy Bird Loc – rapper
Tyga – rapper
Westside Boogie – rapper
YG – rapper

Athletes

Jeff Trepagnier – NBA player
Arron Afflalo – NBA player
Larry Allen – Pro Football Hall of Fame player
Alex Acker – American professional basketball player
Jeanette Bolden – UCLA track coach^[9]
Earlene Brown – Olympic medalist
Kenny Brunner – streetball player
Cedric Ceballos – NBA player^[10]
Tyson Chandler – NBA player
Josh Childress – NBA player
Robin Cole – NFL player
Joey Davis – MMA fighter and folkstyle wrestler
Baron Davis – NBA player
DeMar DeRozan – NBA player, Olympic gold medalist
Jim Derrington – Major League Baseball pitcher
Charles Dumas – Olympic gold medalist
Henry Ellard – NFL player
Deon Figures – NFL player
Mike Garrett – NFL player and Heisman Trophy winner
Nesby Glasgow – NFL player
Danny Harris – Olympic medalist
Floyd Heard – NFL player
Brandon Jennings – NBA player
Dennis Johnson – NBA player and coach
Stafon Johnson – NFL player
Bobby Jones – NBA player; writer/director
Don Klosterman – Los Angeles Rams general manager
Lionel Larry – World Championship medalist, track and field
Lisa Leslie – WNBA player
Tiny Lister – actor, professional wrestler
James Lofton – Pro Football Hall of Fame player
Mike McKenzie – NFL player
Eddie Murray – Baseball Hall of Fame player
Syd O'Brien – Major League Baseball player
Troy O'Leary – Major League Baseball player
Violet Palmer – first female professional sports official in the United States, NBA, and WNBA
Tayshaun Prince – NBA player
Oracene Price – tennis coach/mother of Venus and Serena Williams
Mike C. Richardson – NFL player, member of 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears
Jerry Robinson – NFL player
Pete Rozelle – NFL commissioner
Woody Sauldsberry – NBA player, Harlem Globetrotter
Richard Sherman – NFL cornerback
Dennis Smith – NFL player
Lonnie Smith – Major League Baseball player
Reggie Smith – Major League Baseball player
Rico Smith Jr. – NFL player
Duke Snider – Major League Baseball outfielder
Dennis Thurman – NFL player
Greg Townsend – NFL player
Quincy Watts – Olympic track and field gold medalist
Bryant Westbrook – NFL player
Frank K. Wheaton – sports agent, personal manager and former official spokesperson of Compton
Leon Allen White – NFL player and professional wrestler^[11]
Roy White – Major League Baseball player
Marcellus Wiley – NFL player, ESPN football analyst and radio personality
Ulis Williams – Olympic gold medal in track and field and former Compton College president/superintendent
Richard Williams – tennis coach
Serena Williams – tennis player
Venus Williams – tennis player
Don Wilson – Major League Baseball player
Datone Jones – NFL Player
Keisean Nixon — NFL Player

Big Van Vader - WWF Wrestler

Entrepreneurs

John Hope Bryant – founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, Inc. and the Promise Homes Company
Suge Knight – founder and former CEO of Death Row Records

Civic leaders

Isadore Hall III – former state senator, state Assemblymember, City Council member and School Board member
Aja Brown – former mayor of Compton and youngest mayor in history of Compton^[12]^[13]
Omar Bradley – former mayor of Compton^[14]
Former president George H. W. Bush, former first lady Barbara Bush and former president George W. Bush lived in Compton in 1949.^[15] George and Barbara's second child Robin was born there.^[16]^[17]
Lionel Cade – former mayor of Compton^[18]
Del M. Clawson – US Congressman and former mayor of Compton^[19]
Doris A. Davis – first African-American female mayor of a metropolitan city, Compton^[20]
Douglas Dollarhide – California's first African-American mayor of a metropolitan city, Compton^[21]
Roger Hedgecock – 30th mayor of San Diego, radio talk show host
Rizza Islam (born 1990), member of the Nation of Islam and social media influencer^[22]
Eric J. Perrodin – mayor of Compton^[23]
Walter R. Tucker, Jr. – former mayor of Compton
Walter R. Tucker III – former U.S. Congressman, mayor of Compton; son of Walter R. Tucker Jr.^[24]

Other

Kimberly Anyadike – youngest African-American woman to pilot a plane solo across the United States^[25]
Albert Camarillo – historian^[26]
Norman Flowers, rapist and serial killer
Roger Hedgecock – conservative radio talk show host and former mayor of San Diego
Pauline Robinson Bush – George H. W. Bush’s daughter

References

^ "Daysha Broadway". IMDb.
^ Worth, Robert F. (November 20, 2002). "James Coburn, 74, Is Dead; A Sly Presence in 80 Films". The New York Times. p. B8. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
^ Faughnder, Ryan (October 1, 2019). "Ava DuVernay's Array is a place for women and filmmakers of color in L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^
- Kendrick Lamar – singer-songwriter
Los Angeles City Directory 1937, page 2154
^ 5535 South Central Ave at Google Map.
^ Willman, Chris (December 29, 1995). "1995: The Entertainers". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Rapmusic.com". Board.rapmusic.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
^ And Also Kelly Park Compton Crip. [1] Archived March 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Barnes, Evan (July 24, 2008). "For Bolden, success is more than a journey". Los Angeles Sentinel. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
^ Hoffer, Richard (January 23, 1995). "Lake Show". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
^ Nicholson, Devon (January 12, 2017). "Interview: Big Van Vader". Great North Wrestling. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Brown, Aja (February 16, 2014). "City of Compton, Mayor". City of Compton Website. Compton. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
^ Fitzpatrick, Kyle (August 7, 2015). "15 Other Things Straight Outta Compton". Los Angeles Magazine.
^ Gumbel, Andrew (February 16, 2002). "Guns, death threats and fraud in the battle for Compton". The Independent. London. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
^ Jimmy Kimmel's FULL INTERVIEW with President George W. Bush. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.
^ Bush, George W. (2014). 41: A Portrait of My Father. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 9780553447781. OCLC 883645289. In Compton, we lived in an apartment in the Santa Fe Gardens complex.
^ Adams, Emily (August 3, 1992). "Bush's Compton Roots Raise Thorny Issue : Tribute: Some criticize landmark quest for apartment where President lived in 1949. Complex is now plagued by drugs". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
^ "Compton : Former Councilman and Mayor Lionel Cade Dies". Los Angeles Times. April 12, 1990.
^ "Del M. Clawson". JoinCalifornia. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
^ "This Week In Black History". Jet. June 11, 2001. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
^ Bermudez, Esmeralda (July 9, 2008). "Douglas Dollarhide, 85; community leader was first black mayor of Compton". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
^ "Rizza Islam". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
^ De Gruy, Leiloni (April 22, 2009). "Voters Return Perrodin to City Hall". Los Angeles Wave. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
^ "Ex-Rep. Tucker Draws Prison For Extortion". The New York Times. April 19, 1996. p. A18. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
^ "15-yr.-old becomes youngest black pilot to fly cross-country". NY Daily News. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
^ "Albert Camarillo: Reflections on a Career in Chicana/o Studies". 2022.

[1] "Daysha Broadway". IMDb.

[2] Worth, Robert F. (November 20, 2002). "James Coburn, 74, Is Dead; A Sly Presence in 80 Films". The New York Times. p. B8. Retrieved April 26, 2009.

[3] Faughnder, Ryan (October 1, 2019). "Ava DuVernay's Array is a place for women and filmmakers of color in L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[4] 
Kendrick Lamar – singer-songwriter
Los Angeles City Directory 1937, page 2154

[5] Kendrick Lamar – singer-songwriter

[5] 5535 South Central Ave at Google Map.

[6] Willman, Chris (December 29, 1995). "1995: The Entertainers". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2009.

[Top10-7] "Rapmusic.com". Board.rapmusic.com. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2014.

[Compton-8] And Also Kelly Park Compton Crip. [1] Archived March 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[9] Barnes, Evan (July 24, 2008). "For Bolden, success is more than a journey". Los Angeles Sentinel. Retrieved April 26, 2009.

[10] Hoffer, Richard (January 23, 1995). "Lake Show". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2009.

[GNW1-11] Nicholson, Devon (January 12, 2017). "Interview: Big Van Vader". Great North Wrestling. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[12] Brown, Aja (February 16, 2014). "City of Compton, Mayor". City of Compton Website. Compton. Retrieved September 21, 2015.

[LAMag-13] Fitzpatrick, Kyle (August 7, 2015). "15 Other Things Straight Outta Compton". Los Angeles Magazine.

[14] Gumbel, Andrew (February 16, 2002). "Guns, death threats and fraud in the battle for Compton". The Independent. London. Retrieved April 25, 2009.

[15] Jimmy Kimmel's FULL INTERVIEW with President George W. Bush. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.

[bush41aportrait45-16] Bush, George W. (2014). 41: A Portrait of My Father. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 9780553447781. OCLC 883645289. In Compton, we lived in an apartment in the Santa Fe Gardens complex.

[bushscomptonrootsraise-17] Adams, Emily (August 3, 1992). "Bush's Compton Roots Raise Thorny Issue : Tribute: Some criticize landmark quest for apartment where President lived in 1949. Complex is now plagued by drugs". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2016.

[18] "Compton : Former Councilman and Mayor Lionel Cade Dies". Los Angeles Times. April 12, 1990.

[19] "Del M. Clawson". JoinCalifornia. Retrieved February 4, 2014.

[20] "This Week In Black History". Jet. June 11, 2001. Retrieved April 25, 2009.

[21] Bermudez, Esmeralda (July 9, 2008). "Douglas Dollarhide, 85; community leader was first black mayor of Compton". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2009.

[22] "Rizza Islam". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 31, 2021.

[23] De Gruy, Leiloni (April 22, 2009). "Voters Return Perrodin to City Hall". Los Angeles Wave. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2009.

[24] "Ex-Rep. Tucker Draws Prison For Extortion". The New York Times. April 19, 1996. p. A18. Retrieved April 25, 2009.

[25] "15-yr.-old becomes youngest black pilot to fly cross-country". NY Daily News. Retrieved July 15, 2017.

[26] "Albert Camarillo: Reflections on a Career in Chicana/o Studies". 2022.

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