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* [[Lupe Anguiano]]: former nun and civil rights activist known for her work on women's rights, the rights of the poor, and the protection of the environment.
* [[John Canley|John L. Canley]]: retired [[United States Marine]] and recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]].
* [[Lee Van Cleef]]: An American actor who appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of Italian Spaghetti Westerns, particularly the Sergio Leone-directed Dollars Trilogy films For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He received a Golden Boot Awards in 1983 for his contribution to the Western film and television genre.
* [[César Chávez]]: farm worker, political activist and union leader, lived in the [[Colonia, Oxnard, California|Colonia]] area of Oxnard during his childhood. Several streets and schools in the Oxnard area and surrounding areas bear his name. A home he lived in is on Wright Road in the El Rio neighborhood, northwest of Highway 101 and Rose Avenue, where Chavez lived with his family in the late 1950s while working as an advocate for local farmworkers. Also the office of the National Farm Workers Association – which later became [[United Farm Workers]] — on Cooper Road, east of Garfield Avenue in the [[Colonia, Oxnard, California|Colonia neighborhood]]. The Oxnard office opened in 1966, the year of a historic march from Delano to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite news|first=Wenner |last=Gretchen |date=October 29, 2011|url=http://archive.vcstar.com/news/oxnard-sites-on-list-of-historic-places-linked-to-cesar-chavez-ep-364286789-352255051.html/ |title=Oxnard sites on list of historic places linked to Cesar Chavez|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|archive-date=March 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331203933/http://archive.vcstar.com/news/oxnard-sites-on-list-of-historic-places-linked-to-cesar-chavez-ep-364286789-352255051.html/}}</ref><ref name="LAT">{{cite news|last=Alvarez |first=Fred |date=May 28, 1993|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-28/local/me-40997_1_la-colonia |title=Chavez Home In Oxnard Was Razed Years Ago : La Colonia: Mourners mistakenly visited a dwelling next to the site where the late labor leader lived as a boy.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>
* [[William P. Clark]]: politician, served under President [[Ronald Reagan]] as the [[Deputy Secretary of State]] from 1981 to 1982, United States [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] from 1982 to 1983, and the [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] from 1983 until 1985.
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