Editing Oxnard, California (section)

===Businesspeople===
* [[Martin V. ("Bud") Smith]]: developer and philanthropist, the most significant developer in the Oxnard area, built the Financial Plaza Towers and financed the construction of [[California State University, Channel Islands|CSUCI]]'s school of business and economics. His first real estate project was the [[Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California|Wagon Wheel Motel & Restaurant]] and Wagon Wheel Junction.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mitchell|first= John |title=Influential developer Martin 'Bud' Smith dies |work=[[Ventura County Star]] |date= November 20, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Shepherd|first=Dirk|url=http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=4168&IssueNum=106|title=Save the Wagon Wheel|newspaper=VC Reporter|date=January 11, 2007|access-date=March 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421072904/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=4168&IssueNum=106|archive-date=April 21, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Charles C. Lynch]] is the former owner of a city-sanctioned, awarded in 2006, a medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California. Lynch obtained a Medical marijuana dispensary Business License and a Medical Marijuana Nursery Permit and was a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. He was born in Oxnard.
* [[Stanley Clark Meston]]: An American architect, he is most famous for designing the original golden arches of McDonald's restaurants. He was born in Oxnard.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hess |first=Alan |date=1986 |title=The Origins of McDonald's Golden Arches |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/990129 |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=60–67 |doi=10.2307/990129 |issn=0037-9808}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 20, 2023 |title=Origins of Golden Arches |url=https://www.instagram.com/cityofoxnard/reel/C1GMQFSJfoq/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>
* [[Ben Rich (engineer)|Ben Rich]]: was director of Lockheed [[Skunk Works]] from 1975 to 1991 and retired to Oxnard.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituaries : Ben Rich; Guided Lockheed's 'Skunk Works' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-06-me-16987-story.html |access-date=August 24, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824041322/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-06-me-16987-story.html |archive-date=August 24, 2020 |date=January 6, 1995 |url-status=live}}</ref>