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• Famous Persons Born in Los Angeles County
• Some Notable Women in Los Angeles History


• Los Angeles Man
• La Brea Woman
• Toypurina - California's Joan of Arc
• Pio Pico - Last Governor of Mexican California
• Two Most Famous Brothers in Early Los Angeles History
• Agustín Olvera - L.A.'s First County Judge
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason
• Mayor José Cristóbal Aguilar - Saw to it that L.A. Didn't Remain a Small Town
• Dr. Elizabeth Follansbee
• LAPD's Alice Stebbins Wells - Nation's First Woman Police Officer
• African American Heritage in Science, Engineering and Medicine in Los Angeles
• Margaret Adams - Nation's First Female Deputy Sheriff
• William Mulholland and "White Gold"
• LAPD's Georgia Ann Robinson - One of the First African American Woman Police Officers
• Who Was Clara Shortridge Foltz?
• William J. Powell - Black Aviation Pioneer
• Frank Shaw - Only Los Angeles Mayor to be Recalled From Office
• Amelia Earhart
• Katherine Cheung - America's First Asian American Women Aviator
• Aimee Semple McPherson - Los Angeles's First Star Evangelist
• Paul Revere Williams - Famed Los Angeles Architect
• Ralph Lazo - A True Friend
• Susan Ahn Cuddy, Navy's First Asian American Female Naval Officer
• Rosalind Wiener Wyman - Thank Her for the Los Angeles Dodgers
• U.S. Presidents Who Lived Among Us
• Henry J. Lewis - First African American Conductor of a Major Symphony Orchestra
• Chris Montez, the Beach Boys and the Beatles
• Ruth Handler and Barbie
• Historic LGBTQ in STEM - Los Angeles County
• The Moonwalkers Among Us
• Historic Women Behind the Badge and the Bench
• Nation's First Female Law Enforcement Helicopter Pilot
• California's First Female Officer Shot in Line of Duty
• First Person of Chinese Descent in Space


• José Cristóbal Aguilar - 10th Mayor of Los Angeles (1866-1872)
• Richard Riordan - 39th Mayor of Los Angeles (1993-2001)
• James Hahn - 40th Mayor of Los Angeles (2001-2005)
• Antonio Villaraigosa - 41st Mayor of Los Angeles (2005-2013)
• Eric Garcetti - 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles (2013-present)
• Alex Villanueva - 33rd Sheriff of Los Angeles County

L.A. Video

• L.A. Video: Anna May Wong: First Chinese American Film Star
• L.A. Video: Lynsi Snyder: The woman behind In-N-Out