The following people were born in, or lived in Visalia, California.Matt Black - documentary photographer Donald Blessing - gold medal-winning rower and former owner of Oakland Raiders football team Scott-Vincent Borba - CEO of e.l.f. Linda Gist Calvin - 41st president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution Tex Clevenger - professional baseball player Tonya Cooley - reality television performer Shane Costa - professional baseball player Kevin Costner - actor and Oscar-winning director Tom B. Coughran - banker, soldier, and public servant Christopher "Chris" Evans (1847–1917) - outlaw who lived in Visalia prior to his arrest for train robbery and confinement to Folsom Prison Larry French - baseball player Chris Garcia - Stand up Comedian Cody Gibson - professional mixed martial artist competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization Jerry Heard - professional golfer Aaron Hill - professional baseball player Tom Johnston - rock musician, singer, founding member of the Doobie Brothers Avi Kaplan - singer and songwriter, former and founding member of Pentatonix William Kettner - San Diego politician for whom Kettner Boulevard is named Ken Khachigian - chief speech writer for Ronald Reagan Mike LaCoss - professional baseball player Robert B. Laughlin - Nobel Prize-winning physicist DJ Lemahieu - professional baseball player Robert List - 24th governor of Nevada Jordan Luplow - baseball player Doug Marshall - mixed martial artist Monte Melkonian - Armenian military leader in the Nagorno-Karabakh War Beau Mills - professional baseball player Frank W. Mixter (1873–1947) - California state senator Don Mosebar - professional football player Rance Mulliniks - MLB player for the California Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Toronto Blue Jays Bob Ojeda - professional baseball player Marty Perez - professional baseball player Steve Perry - lead singer for the rock group Journey Shirley Shahan - retired NHRA Super Stock drag racer, nicknamed "Drag-On Lady" Jean Shepard - country music singer Liza Soberano - actress J. Curtis Struble - U.S. diplomat, ambassador to Peru Bob Talbot - baseball player Andrew Toti - inventor Stephen Vogt - manager of the Cleveland Guardians, former MLB catcher Marie Wilcox - Wukchumni dictionary creator Jim Wohlford - MLB player for the Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants, and the Montreal Expos Betsy Wolfe - actress, singer and Broadway performer Edmond Edward Wysinger - Visalia pioneer (1862) Tyler Zeller - NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets