Santa Ana High School
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| motto = Once a Saint, Always A Saint!
| established = 1889
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| type = Public
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| principal = Dr. Elizabeth Enloe
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| head_name = Second Master
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| teaching_staff = 135.18 {{FTE}}
| enrollment = 3,135 (2022–23){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0635310&SchoolPageNum=4&ID=063531006005|title=Santa Ana High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=March 17, 2024}}
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| grades = 9-12
| streetaddress = 520 W. Walnut St.
| city = Santa Ana
| state = California
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| district = Santa Ana Unified School District
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| colors = Red, White, and Columbia Blue {{colorsample|red}} {{colorsample|white}} {{colorsample|#B9D9EB}}
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| mascot = Sammy & Sally Saint
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| website = [http://www.sausd.us/sahs Santa Ana HS]
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Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States.{{cite web|title=Overview|publisher=Santa Ana High School|url=http://www.sausd.us/148420122132655403/site/default.asp|access-date=2008-06-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527005513/http://www.sausd.us/148420122132655403/site/default.asp|archive-date=2008-05-27}} The school was established in 1889.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sausd.us/Page/40310|title = About us / Overview}}
Notable alumni
- Daniel Antúnez, soccer player
- Barry Asher, professional bowler
- Tony Baxter former senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead designer of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, the Indiana Jones Adventure, Splash Mountain, and Journey Into Imagination.
- Billy Bean (1964-2024), played major league baseball from 1987 through 1995. He tied a major league record with 4 hits in his first major league game.{{cite web | url=https://www.nationalpastime.com/site/index.php?action=baseball_team_search&baseball_team=All+Teams&fact_Month=04&fact_Day=25 | title=All Teams History - April 25th - National Pastime - Baseball History }}
- Tony Bellamy, Guitarist, member of first Native American rock band Redbone, had number one hit in the 1970s "Come and Get Your Love"
- Beverly Bivens, singer with the 1960s band We Five
- Eddie Bravo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete
- John Brinkerhoff, USMA '50, Associate Director for National Preparedness FEMA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs DoD
- Gerald P. Carr, astronaut
- The Chantays, surf band, its original members: Bob Spickard, Brian Carman (co-writers of "Pipeline"), Bob Welch, Warren Waters and Rob Marshall
- Placida Gardner Chesley, bacteriologist
- Clifford "Gavvy" Cravath, six time National League baseball home run champion in the 1910s
- Jeff Cravath, college football coach
- Josephine Cruickshank, tennis player
- Isaac Curtis, football player, Cal Berkeley and NFL Cincinnati Bengals
- Don Davis, NFL player
- Clancy Edwards, sprinter
- Derek Fleming, featured Soul Train Dancer 1980-1993
- Delfín Jaranilla, Filipino magistrate
- James Kanno, first mayor of Fountain Valley, California
- Diane Keaton, actress
- Dana and Ginger Lamb, American travel writers
- Greg Louganis, Olympic Gold Medal Diver, LGBT Activist, called "The greatest American diver in Olympic history."{{by whom|date=August 2024}}{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}
- Larry Lutz, NFL player
- Patrick McMorris, NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins{{Cite news|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/08/standout-football-player-patrick-mcmorris-transfers-to-santa-ana-from-godinez/|newspaper=Orange County Register|url-access=subscription|title=Standout football player Patrick McMorris transfers to Santa Ana from Godinez |date=August 8, 2018|author=Albano, Dan}}
- Bill Medley, singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo
- Gilbert Melendez, 2-time California State All-American wrestler;{{cite web|title=Gilbert Melendez Santa Ana High School wrestler|website=Facebook|url=https://www.facebook.com/events/160201097344608/|access-date=2014-01-01}} professional Mixed Martial Artist; former WEC and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, current UFC Lightweight contender{{cite web|title=Gilbert Melendez UFC Bio|url=https://www.ufc.com/athlete/gilbert-melendez|access-date=2014-01-01}}
- Evylena Nunn Miller, painter
- Donn Moomaw, football player, minister{{College Football HoF|id=1777|name=Donn Moomaw}}
- Jim Musick, NFL player, Orange County Sheriff from 1947 to 1975
- Hal Pangle (1912–1968), NFL running backEddie West, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-register-west-winds-hal-pangle-laid/147908828/ "West Winds: Sports Whirligig,"] Santa Ana Register, Jan. 5, 1968, p. 35.
- Frostee Rucker, NFL player
- Robert A. Schuller, televangelist
- Chuck Smith, class of 1945, founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa{{Cite web|url=https://www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com/|title=Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa| website=www.calvarychapelcostamesa.com}}
- Milt Smith (1919–2010), football player, UCLA Bruins and Philadelphia Eagles{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3840883/football_tabs_smith_to_back_up_woody/|title=Football Tabs: Smith to Back Up Woody Strode|work=Klamath Falls Evening Herald|date=September 14, 1940|page=10|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=13 June 2016}}
- William Cameron Townsend, prominent twentieth-century American Christian missionary and founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International)
- Jose Vasquez, soccer player
- Marvalee Hendricks Wake, evolutionary biologist
- John Ward, football player
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.sausd.us/sahs}}
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