page_title: Venice High School (Los Angeles)
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Venice High School (Los Angeles) / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: Doug Slaten
context_page_description: Venice High School is located in the westside Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California within the Local District West area of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
  VHS has four Small Learning Communities:
  Academy of Law and Public Service
  Media, Arts & Technology Academy
  School for Advanced Studies and GATE
  Sports Medicine
  VHS also has two magnet programs
  World Language and Global Studies Magnet and
  STEMM Magnet
  Venice High is greatly supported by numerous community partnerships, parent groups, Booster, and Alumni associations. Venice is known for offering many Advanced Placement classes and having an excellent athletics program. The school also added an instrumental music teacher, marching band, and Mandarin teacher.
  During the 2011-2012 school year, 69% of Venice High students were Hispanic/Latino, with 12% white/European Americans, 10% African Americans and 8% Asian Americans. According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project as well as zip code maps, because the school is just east of Walgrove Avenue it is not located in Venice, but the adjacent neighborhood of Mar Vista.
context_section_description: Larry Atkins, NFL linebacker, Kansas City, Oakland 1999–2004
  David Bluthenthal (now "Blu"; born 1980), led Israeli team to 2004 Euroleague basketball championship
  Cliff Bourland, 1948 Summer Olympics 4X400 gold medal; US 400m champion
  Craig Breedlove, land-speed world record holder 
  Beau Bridges, film actor
  John Bromfield, actor, television star
  Les Clark, legendary Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men
  Leon Clarke, NFL end 1956–63, twice in Pro Bowl
  John Clayton, jazz and classical double bassist
  Gary Collins, actor and TV personality
  Walter Cunningham, NASA astronaut, (Apollo 7 pilot)
  Marceline Day, actress
  Karen Fukuhara, actress
  Crispin Glover, actor
  Gogi Grant (Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg), singer
  Skip Guinn, Major League Baseball pitcher
  Irene Hervey, actress
  Shin Hye-sung,  South Korean singer and lead vocalist of six-member boy band Shinhwa
  Donna Loren, singer and actress; "Dr Pepper girl"
  J. P. Losman, NFL quarterback, Buffalo, Oakland 2004–09, Miami 2011
  Myrna Loy, (Myrna Williams), film actress, voted "Queen of Hollywood" in 1938
  Teena Marie (Mary Christine Brockert), singer, songwriter, producer
  Dana McLemore, NFL defensive back, New Orleans, San Francisco, 1982–87
  Jonas Mouton, NFL linebacker, San Diego, 2011–2014
  Andrea Murez (born 1992), Israeli-American Olympic swimmer
  Steven Okazaki, filmmaker
  Peggy Oki, surfer, skateboarder, artist, environmental activist
  Stacy Peralta, skateboarder, surfer, documentary film director
  Don Perry, 6-time AAU and NCAA champion in gymnastic rope climb, world record holder
  Doug Slaten (1980–2016), MLB pitcher for Washington Nationals
  Harry Snyder, founder of In-N-Out Burger chain
  Joanie Sommers (Joan Drost), singer, "Pepsi Girl"
  Larry Stevenson, skateboard pioneer, designer
  Esther Takei Nishio, selected as a "test case" as the first World War II internee of Japanese descent to return from camp and enroll in a California university
  Jerry Turner, MLB player 1974–83 for San Diego, Detroit, Chicago White Sox
caption: Doug Slaten
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