Ellen Goldsmith-Vein – producer of "
The Maze Runner" Trilogy among other notable motion pictures and television series, attended La Jolla High School.
Udo Keppler – American political cartoonist, publisher, Native American advocate, contributor to
Judge and
Leslie's Weekly magazines, and son of cartoonist
Joseph Keppler who founded
Puck magazine.
Tony Olmos – screenwriter, filmmaker and musician, resides in La Jolla
Betty Broderick – convicted of
second degree murder, lived in La Jolla, found guilty on December 11, 1991, and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda Kolkena
Hyrum Rex Lee – former
American Samoa Governor; lived with his wife,
First Lady Lillian Lee, in a $5 million high-rise condo in the Shore Towers until their deaths in 2001 and 2010, respectively.
Augustus Braun Kinzel - metallurgist, President and CEO of Salk Institute, Union Carbide VP, founding President of the National Academy of Engineering, and consultant to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, lived in La Jolla from 1957 - 1986 (death)
Roger Guillemin - winner of the
Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his work in establishing foundational discoveries in the field of endocrinology. Co-founder of the Salk Institute and long-time resident of La Jolla.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein – producer of "
The Maze Runner" Trilogy among other notable motion pictures and television series, attended La Jolla High School.
Udo Keppler – American political cartoonist, publisher, Native American advocate, contributor to
Judge and
Leslie's Weekly magazines, and son of cartoonist
Joseph Keppler who founded
Puck magazine.
Tony Olmos – screenwriter, filmmaker and musician, resides in La Jolla
Betty Broderick – convicted of
second degree murder, lived in La Jolla, found guilty on December 11, 1991, and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for the murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his second wife, Linda Kolkena
Hyrum Rex Lee – former
American Samoa Governor; lived with his wife,
First Lady Lillian Lee, in a $5 million high-rise condo in the Shore Towers until their deaths in 2001 and 2010, respectively.
Augustus Braun Kinzel - metallurgist, President and CEO of Salk Institute, Union Carbide VP, founding President of the National Academy of Engineering, and consultant to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, lived in La Jolla from 1957 - 1986 (death)
Roger Guillemin - winner of the
Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977 for his work in establishing foundational discoveries in the field of endocrinology. Co-founder of the Salk Institute and long-time resident of La Jolla.