Editing Escondido, California (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Anacani]]: featured singer with the [[Lawrence Welk]] orchestra
*[[Tom Anderson]]: co-founder of [[MySpace]]<ref>{{cite news| last=Angwin| first=Julia| author-link=Julia Angwin |title=Putting Your Best Faces Forward| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123819495915561237| newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]| date=March 29, 2009| access-date=February 14, 2010| quote=Born November 8, 1970, he grew up in Escondido, a sleepy farm town about a half hour's drive north of San Diego.| archive-date=May 25, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525123905/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123819495915561237| url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Corey Baird]]: soccer player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corey Baird |url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/corey-baird/ |access-date=January 3, 2025 |website=[[Major League Soccer]]}}</ref>
*[[Lester Bangs]]: rock music critic
*[[Rose Bascom|Texas Rose Bascom]]: movie actress, "World's Greatest Female Trick Roper," National Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductee<ref>{{cite web | title=Escondido Cowboy, Cowgirl Honored | website=Escondido Times-Advocate  | date=2021-08-19 | url=https://www.times-advocate.com/articles/escondido-cowboy-cowgirl-honored/ | access-date=2025-04-26}}</ref>
*[[Billy Bevan]]: silent and talkies movie actor, born Orange, New South Wales, Australia 1887; died Escondido, California 1957.
*[[Ken Block]]: rally car driver, and founder of [[DC Shoes]]
*[[Harold F. Blum]]: physiologist who first explored sunlight-induced skin cancer
*[[Sam Brannan]]: California's first millionaire
*[[E. H. Bronner]]: soapmaker
*[[Ray Conniff]]: [[bandleader]] and [[arranger]]
*[[Joe Coscarart]], former [[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]] infielder
*[[Pete Coscarart]]: former [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] infielder
*[[D. D. Crabb]], rancher and Arizona State Senator
*[[Gavvy Cravath]]: former right fielder for the [[Philadelphia Phillies]]
*[[Richard Denning]]: actor, ''[[An Affair to Remember]]'', ''[[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]''; died in Escondido
*[[Caitlin Glass]]: voice actress and ADR director
*[[Robert Klark Graham]]: eugenicist and inventor, founder of the [[Repository for Germinal Choice]] ("Nobel Prize Sperm Bank")
*[[Chapman Grant]] (1887–1983) herpetologist, historian
*[[Steve Hendrickson]]: former [[San Diego Chargers|Chargers]] football player
*[[George Horine]]: held world record in the high jump; won an Olympic bronze medal
*[[Randy Johnson (third baseman)|Randy Johnson]]: Major League infielder, special assistant to Oakland A's GM [[Billy Beane]]; graduate of [[Escondido High School]]
*[[Jacque Jones]]: former baseball player for the [[Minnesota Twins]]
*[[Jovan Kirovski]]: forward for the [[Los Angeles Galaxy|L.A. Galaxy]] MLS team
*[[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]]: founder and resident of the "[[Shanti Nilaya]]" (Home of Peace), retreat in Escondido in the late 1970s and early 1980s
*[[Korey Lee]]: Major League Baseball Player. Catcher for the [[Chicago White Sox]]
*[[Jim Londos]]: professional wrestler
*[[Shannon MacMillan]]: professional soccer player and graduate of San Pasqual High School
*[[Anthony Melchiorri|Anthony Menconi]]: marine engineer from [[California State University Maritime Academy|California Maritime Academy]]
*[[Haley Moore]]: amateur golfer
*[[Deborah Jeane Palfrey]]: the so-called [[D.C. Madam]]<ref>{{cite news| last=Eastman| first=Quinn| title=Escondido a quiet corner of 'D.C. Madam's' life| url=http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_4ae2dbd7-5bdd-5199-a4d9-511988044d59.html| newspaper=North County Times| date=May 9, 2007| access-date=February 14, 2010| quote=Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman recently accused by federal prosecutors of running a Washington, D.C., prostitution business by phone from California, owns a house in Escondido, but her neighbors said last week that it provided her a quiet refuge, rather than a remote command post.| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906150922/http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_4ae2dbd7-5bdd-5199-a4d9-511988044d59.html| archive-date=September 6, 2012| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Robbie Peralta]]: MMA UFC fighter
*[[Pamela Radcliff]]: historian and professor at the [[University of California, San Diego|University of California at San Diego]] and an authority on the history of modern [[History of Spain|Spain]].<ref>[[Pamela Radcliff|Radcliff, Pamela]]. [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.694.9542&rep=rep1&type=pdf ''Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019111645/http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.694.9542&rep=rep1&type=pdf |date=October 19, 2017 }}, [[The Great Courses]]. The Teaching Company, 2004. Accessed October 18, 2017. "Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of History; University of California, San Diego - Pamela Radcliff was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, and Escondido, California."</ref>
*[[Mark Redman]]: professional baseball player and graduate of [[Escondido High School]]
*[[Steve Reeves]]: bodybuilder, [[Universe Championships|Mr. Universe]], and actor, ''[[Hercules (1957 film)|Hercules]]''; died in Escondido <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/05/us/steve-reeves-74-whose-hercules-began-a-genre.html|title=Steve Reeves, 74, Whose 'Hercules' Began a Genre|last=Lyman|first=Rick|date=May 5, 2000|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=July 15, 2009|quote=After he stopped making films in 1969, the couple raised horses at their ranch near Escondido, northeast of San Diego.|archive-date=November 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119162435/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/05/us/steve-reeves-74-whose-hercules-began-a-genre.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Brett Salisbury]]: college football quarterback, member of Escondido's [[1981 Little League World Series]] team, and younger brother of Sean Salisbury.
*[[Sean Salisbury]]: former [[National Football League|NFL]] [[quarterback]] and [[ESPN]] anchorman, and graduate of [[Orange Glen High School]]; older brother of Brett Salisbury
*[[Brian Simnjanovski]]: punter for the [[Berlin Thunder]], [[New York Jets]], [[Arizona Cardinals]], and [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] NFL teams
*[[Riley Steele]]: pornographic actress
*[[Randy Vasquez]]: actor
*[[Hernán D. Vera]]: federal judge on the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California]]
*[[Eric Weddle]]: free safety for the [[NFL]] [[San Diego Chargers]]; resides in Escondido<ref>{{cite news| title=Weddle wants to get out of the house| first=Mike| last=Sullivan| url=http://www.nctimes.com/sports/football/professional/nfl/chargers/article_18a5f7f2-752c-51d5-a63a-3f0fc979f0e4.html| access-date=July 31, 2010| newspaper=North County Times| date=July 20, 2007| quote=Eric Weddle recently moved into a house in Escondido.| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904110548/http://www.nctimes.com/sports/football/professional/nfl/chargers/article_18a5f7f2-752c-51d5-a63a-3f0fc979f0e4.html| archive-date=September 4, 2012| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Royce Williams]]: ace Navy pilot during the Korean War
*[[Harold Bell Wright]]: author in the 1920s and 1930s
*[[Andrea Zittel]]: contemporary artist, graduate of San Pasqual High School
*[[Kevin Kiner]]: film and television composer
*[[Madison Cunningham]]: musician