Editing Oxnard, California (section)

===Political and cultural===
* [[Lucy Hicks Anderson]]: trans-woman, socialite, and chef, most notable for being tried in the Ventura County court for perjury for marrying a man while "masquerading" as a woman in 1945.<ref>{{Cite book|title=She caused a riot : 100 unknown women who built cities, sparked revolutions, and massively crushed it|last=Hannah|first=Jewell|isbn=9781492662921|location=Naperville, Illinois|oclc=1008768117|date = March 6, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Lupe Anguiano]]: former nun and civil rights activist known for her work on women's rights, the rights of the poor, and protecting the environment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rivers |first=Kimberly |date=2020-03-11 |title=“LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE” {{!}} Lupe Anguiano: Lifelong Activist |url=https://www.vcreporter.com/news/let-your-light-shine-lupe-anguiano-lifelong-activist/article_9e14b62b-fc39-5c5b-a05c-07cbf275411c.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=VC Reporter {{!}} Times Media Group - News, Culture, Arts and Opinion |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Leung |first=Wendy |date=March 16, 2019 |title=Meet Ventura County's 'she-ro,' a 90-year-old whose impact is felt from City Hall to D.C. |url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2019/03/14/still-fighting-oxnard-activist-lupe-anguiano/3056362002/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Ventura County Star |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[John Canley|John L. Canley]]: retired [[United States Marine]] and recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kisken |first=Tom |date=January 6, 2024 |title='Absolutely fearless:' USS John L. Canley honors Oxnard Marine who neither ducked nor ran |url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2024/01/05/uss-john-l-canley-honors-oxnard-marine-who-neither-ducked-nor-ran/72062808007/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Ventura County Star |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kisken |first=Tom |date=February 18, 2024 |title=Gunny lives forever: Warship commissioned in name of Marine hero from Oxnard |url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2024/02/18/oxnards-heroic-gunny-canley-lives-on-via-navy-warship-commissioning/72545337007/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Ventura County Star |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Lee Van Cleef]]: An American actor who appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of Italian Spaghetti Westerns, particularly the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He received a Golden Boot Award in 1983 for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ap |date=1989-12-18 |title=Lee Van Cleef, 64; Actor Was a Villian In Many Westerns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/18/obituaries/lee-van-cleef-64-actor-was-a-villian-in-many-westerns.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunn |first=Ashley |date=1989-12-17 |title=Cowboy Film Villain Lee Van Cleef Dies |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-17-mn-1417-story.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1989-12-17 |title=WESTERN ARCHVILLAIN LEE VAN CLEEF DIES |url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/12/17/18836989/western-archvillain-lee-van-cleef-dies/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref>
* [[César Chávez]]: farm worker, political activist, and union leader lived in the [[Colonia, Oxnard, California|Colonia]] area of Oxnard during his childhood. Several streets and schools in the Oxnard area and surrounding areas bear his name. A home on Wright Road in the El Rio neighborhood, northwest of Highway 101 and Rose Avenue, is where Chavez lived with his family in the late 1950s while advocating for local farm workers. Also, the office of the National Farm Workers Association – which later became [[United Farm Workers]] — was on Cooper Road, east of Garfield Avenue in the [[Colonia, Oxnard, California|Colonia neighborhood]]. The Oxnard office opened in 1966, the year of a historic march from Delano to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite news|first=Wenner |last=Gretchen |date=October 29, 2011|url=http://archive.vcstar.com/news/oxnard-sites-on-list-of-historic-places-linked-to-cesar-chavez-ep-364286789-352255051.html/ |title=Oxnard sites on list of historic places linked to Cesar Chavez|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|archive-date=March 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331203933/http://archive.vcstar.com/news/oxnard-sites-on-list-of-historic-places-linked-to-cesar-chavez-ep-364286789-352255051.html/}}</ref><ref name="LAT">{{cite news|last=Alvarez |first=Fred |date=May 28, 1993|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-28-me-40997-story.html |title=Chavez Home In Oxnard Was Razed Years Ago : La Colonia: Mourners mistakenly visited a dwelling next to the site where the late labor leader lived as a boy.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>
* [[William P. Clark]]: politician, served under President [[Ronald Reagan]] as the [[Deputy Secretary of State]] from 1981 to 1982, United States [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] from 1982 to 1983, and the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] from 1983 until 1985.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Langer |first=Emily |date=2013-08-13 |title=William P. Clark, top aide to President Reagan, dies at 81 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/william-p-clark-top-aide-to-president-reagan-dies-at-81/2013/08/12/2556f0a0-020c-11e3-96a8-d3b921c0924a_story.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Strickland |first=Tonya |date=2021-01-04 |title=Former Reagan cabinet member William Clark Jr. laid to rest {{!}} San Luis Obispo Tribune |url=https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article39452439.html |url-status=live |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=web.archive.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104172308/https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article39452439.html |archive-date=2021-01-04}}</ref>
* [[Alicia Cuarón]]: Mexican-American educator, human rights activist, and Franciscan nun
* [[Jean Harris (environmentalist)|Jean Harris]]: credited with protecting Ormond Beach Wetlands and [['olołkoy Beach Park|'olołkoy State Beach]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCARTNEY |first=PATRICK |date=1992-07-10 |title=OXNARD : School Board Head Will Step Down |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-10-me-1698-story.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelley |first=Daryl |date=2001-04-29 |title=Illness Forces Environmental Crusader to Sidelines |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-29-me-57192-story.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Shooting of Meagan Hockaday|Meagan Hockaday]]: killed by police<ref name="VC Star - initial report">{{cite news|last1=Leung|first1=Wendy|title=Oxnard woman killed by police after domestic dispute call|url=http://www.vcstar.com/news/local-news/oxnard/oxnard-woman-killed-by-police-after-domestic-dispute-call_34372240|newspaper=Ventura County Star|date=March 28, 2015}}</ref>
*[[Maria Gulovich Liu]]: Ventura County real estate agent, [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] agent in WWII<ref name=liuobit>{{cite news|author=Dennis McLellan|title=Maria Gulovich Liu, 1921 – 2009; Teacher helped U.S. agents escape Nazis|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-maria-gulovich-liu1-2009oct01-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 1, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Armando Xavier Ochoa]]: was the Bishop of Fresno and was formerly the Bishop of El Paso.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McDermott |first=Jim |date=2015-05-29 |title=Caring for the Flock in the Breadbasket of the Nation: An Interview with Bishop Armando Ochoa |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/caring-flock-breadbasket-nation-interview-bishop-armando-ochoa |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=America Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bishop Emeritus Armando X. Ochoa D.D. |url=https://dioceseoffresno.org/bishop-emeritus-armando-x-ochoa-dd |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Diocese of Fresno |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Carmen Perez]] is an activist on issues of civil rights, including mass incarceration, women's rights and gender equity, violence prevention, racial healing, and community policing.<ref name="VCS 2019-02-22">{{Cite news|url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2019/02/22/womens-march-leader-carmen-perez-activism-anti-semitism/2906745002/|title=The girl from Oxnard grew up to lead the Women's March|last=Kisken|first=Tom|date=February 22, 2019|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|language=en|access-date=February 22, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Alfred V. Rascon]]: awarded the Medal of Honor—the United States' highest military decoration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Stuart |title=The Inspiring Story Of Immigrant Medal Of Honor Recipient Alfred Rascon |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/05/08/the-life-of-immigrant-medal-of-honor-recipient-alfred-rascon/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sisk |first=Richard |date=2020-11-11 |title=This Immigrant Soldier Earned the Medal of Honor a Year Before He Became an American |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/11/immigrant-soldier-earned-medal-of-honor-year-he-became-american.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Military.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[James Sumner (Medal of Honor)|James Sumner]]: After military service, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration. He resided in Oxnard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chawkins |first=Steve |date=2024-09-14 |title=Just Another Park (but Only on the Surface) - Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-10-me-outther10-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=web.archive.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914085707/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-10-me-outther10-story.html |archive-date=2024-09-14}}</ref>
* [[Nao Takasugi]]: [[California State Assembly]] and mayor of Oxnard.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Web |first=Nichi Bei |date=2009-12-04 |title=OBITUARY: Nao Takasugi {{!}} Nichi Bei News |url=https://www.nichibei.org/2009/12/obituary-former-assemblyman-and-oxnard-mayor-takasugi-dies/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241004061640/https://www.nichibei.org/2009/12/obituary-former-assemblyman-and-oxnard-mayor-takasugi-dies/ |archive-date=2024-10-04 |access-date=2025-03-30 |work=Nichi Bei News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=2009-11-22 |title=PASSINGS: Nao Takasugi |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-22-la-me-passings22-2009nov22-story.html |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>