Robert B. Laughlin
born 1950 American physicist
Monte Melkonian
1957–1993 National Hero of Armenia
Kevin Downes
born 1972 American actor, writer, producer and director
Tyler Zeller
born 1990 American basketball player
Tom Johnston
born 1948 American musician and recording artist
Avi Kaplan
born 1989 American singer and songwriter, former member of Pentatonix
Robert List
born 1936 American attorney and politician
Anna Jean Ayres
1920–1988 American Occupational Therapist with M.A. in Occupational Therapy and PhD in Educational Psychologist
DJ LeMahieu
born 1988 American baseball player
Stephen H. Burum
born 1939 American cinematographer (b.1939)
Lyndsay Wall
born 1985 American ice hockey player
Marion Reneau
born 1977 American mixed martial arts fighter
Brooke Crain
born 1993 American racing cyclist
Doug Marshall
born 1975 American martial artist
Brian Sites
born 1983 American actor
Markar Melkonian
American writer
Patrick Gorman
born 1934 American actor
Ruben Rodriguez
1965–2026 American football player
Arizona Charlie
1859–1932 American showman
Brian Turner
born 1967 American poet
Craig Caskey
born 1949 American baseball player
Danielle Dutton
born 1975 American writer
Jerry Heard
born 1947 Professional golfer
Lisa Ryan
born 1960 American model
Ralph Moore
1907–2009 American rose breeder
Rich Amaral
born 1962 American baseball player
Ron Allen
born 1964 American skateboarder
Tonya Cooley
born 1980 American actress
Beau Mills
born 1986 American professional baseball player
Lauren Billys
born 1988 Puerto Rican Olympic athlete
Michelle Avanti
born 1980 American pornographic actress
Ron Roberts
born 1967 American football player and coach
Bobby Downes
born 1967 American film producer
Joe Koontz
born 1945 Former American football wide receiver
John Bynum
born 1978 American basketball player
Malik Gaines
born 1973 Writer, performance artist, and teacher
Matt Curtis
born 1974 Baseball coach
Scott Mendes
born 1969 American bull rider
Walt McCormick
1926–2005 American football player
Abraham Gomez
born 1993 American investor
Billy Glover
born 1941 American photographer
Claire Hopping Talbot
1893–1978 Namesake of Little Claire Lake
Eliza Jane Ellis
1863–1959 Namesake of Jennie Lake in Tulare County, California
Foster Kinn
American author
Robert C. Bechtel
1924–2017 American entomologist, scientific and botanical collector
Samuel Marvin Ellis
1886–1963 California farmer and courthouse superintendent
Warren Newton Beath
born 1951 Writer
Also called Visalia home
JS Jochen Schropp
born 1978 German actor and television presenter
Allen Jeffrey Atwell
1836–1890 American attorney and sawmill owner in Visalia, California
Andrew D. Ferguson
1855–1920 California fish and game official
Austin Isaac Weston
1846–1917 California stockman associated with Weston Meadow
George Stewart
1857–1931 1857-1931, the "Father of Sequoia Park"
Hyman Mitchell
1814–1859 White River settler; father of Susman Mitchell; namesake of Mitchell Meadow
Jasper Harrell
1830–1901 American cattle rancher in California and Nevada
Joseph William Homer
1825–1879 English-born Mexican–American War veteran and Three Rivers, California pioneer
Susman Mitchell
1859–1934 Visalia-area settler (1859-1934); namesake of Mitchell Peak (Sierra Nevada, California)
William B. Wallace
1849–1926 American judge and mountaineer