Giancarlo Stanton (born 1989), Major League Baseball player Ryan Starr, rock singer and finalist on the first season of ''American Idol The Smothers Brothers, television actors Patrick Swayze (1952–2009), American actor Maja Trochimczyk (born 1957), poet Paul Walker (1973–2013), actor Verdugo Hills High School students Randy Bobb (1948–1982), Major League Baseball catcher Jan Brewer (born 1944), 22nd governor of Arizona (2009–2015) Bob James (born 1958), Major League Baseball pitcher Howard McKeon (born 1938), member of the House of Representatives Jaye P. Morgan (born 1931), singer John Purdell (1959–2003), musician and record producer See also Nearby communities, cities or areas Burbank, California Crescenta Valley Glendale, California La Crescenta, California Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles San Fernando Valley Tujunga Wash Verdugo Mountains Other articles California State Route 118, formerly the Sunland Freeway Floods, 1978 Andrew Glassell, who purchased Rancho Tujunga in 1875 Picture-winged fly named Tujunga Sunland Boulevard The Station wildfire of 2009 near Sunland-Tujunga Tongva language Verdugo Hills Cemetery landslide, 1978 Won't Back Down (film), a 2012 motion picture loosely based on Sunland-Tujunga's experience with the "parent trigger law." References Further reading History of the area, from a Verdugo Hills High School site Denyse Selesnick, "Progress of NIMBYism in Sunland Tujunga? I Say Let's Make a Deal," CityWatch, February 4, 2016 (200 homes to be built on a golf course) External links Organizations Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Shadow Hills Property Owners Association Other Foothill Corridor Specific Plan, 1995 Foothill Blvd. Corridor Specific Plan Design Guidelines Scenic Corridor Specific Plan Motion pictures filmed in Sunland, from the Internet Movie Database Motion pictures filmed in Tujunga, from the Internet Movie Database Communities in the San Fernando Valley Crescenta Valley Neighborhoods in Los Angeles Populated places established in 1907 1907 establishments in California