Notable Current and Past Residents
- Ethel Percy Andrus, founder of AARP
- Sergio Aragonés, cartoonist
- Paul Bergmann, football player
- Max Bemis, lead singer of the band Say Anything
- Elmer Bernstein, film and television composer
- Ingrid Boulting, artist, actress
- Eileen Brennan, actress
- Mario Calire, Grammy award winning drummer
- Julie Christensen, singer
- Julie Christie, Oscar-winning actress
- Cory Coffey, BMX rider
- Dave England, Jackass star
- Glenn Corbett, actor
- Anthony de Mello, Spiritual leader
- Byron Katie, Spiritual leader
- John Diehl, director, actor in Stargate and The Shield
- Vernon Dvorak, meteorologist, Dvorak Technique for tropical cyclone analysis
- Maynard Ferguson, jazz musician, composer
- Joe Flanigan, actor
- Robben Ford, blues/jazz guitarist and vocalist
- Larry Hagman, actor in I Dream of Jeannie and Dallas
- Toby Hemingway, actor in The Covenant and Feast of Love moved to Ojai with his mother when he was 13, and resides there today
- Otto and Vivika Heino, ceramic artists, "The Pottery"
- Richard Jefferson, Australia-based molecular biologist, open source science advocate, founder of CAMBIA
- Mikael Jorgensen, keyboardist for Wilco
- Cody Kasch, actor and SAG award winner for Desperate Housewives
- Linda Kelsey, actress in Lou Grant
- Roger Kellaway, jazz pianist and composer.
- Ed Kowalczyk, lead singer for Live
- Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosopher
- Diane Ladd, actress, writer, director nominated three times each for Emmys and Oscars
- John Langley, creator of COPS
- Harry Lauter, character actor in film and television
- James Kyson Lee, Korean American film actor, was educated at Villanova Preparatory School
- Zachary Levi, actor in Chuck and Less Than Perfect
- Ted Levine, actor in The Silence of the Lambs and TV's Monk
- Larry Linville, actor in M*A*S*H
- Jackie Lomax, musician, first artist signed to Apple Records, a label started by The Beatles
- S.A. Martinez, singer/rapper of the group 311
- Dave Mason, English musician, singer and songwriter
- Elisabeth Maurus (aka Lissie), folk-rock musician
- Malcolm McDowell, actor
- Charles Millard Pratt, oil industrialist and philanthropist
- Devin Oatway, artist, actor in Camp Nowhere
- Bill Paxton, actor in Aliens and Apollo 13
- Betsy Randle, actress, Boy Meets World
- Rick Rossovich, actor in Top Gun and Roxanne
- Peter Scolari, actor in Newhart and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
- Jan Smithers, actress in WKRP in Cincinnati
- Mary Steenburgen, Oscar-winning actress, who lived and raised her children in Ojai
- Izzy Stradlin, guitarist, formerly in rock group "Guns N' Roses"
- Donna Steichen, Roman Catholic journalist and critic of feminism
- Peter Strauss, actor in The Jericho Mile and Rich Man, Poor Man
- Chuck Testa, taxidermist and subject of an internet meme
- Caroline Thompson, screenwriter and director
- Christopher Trumbo, screenwriter
- Reese Witherspoon, Oscar-winning actress and producer.
- Beatrice Wood, artist, teacher at the Happy Valley School
- David Zucker, director of Airplane!, Top Secret!, and The Naked Gun
- Colman Andrews, writer and editor
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