Bakersfield High School

• Name — Bakersfield High School • Gender — Coed • Schooltype — * Public • Secondary • Address — 1241 G Street • City — Bakersfield • State — California • Zipcode — 93301 • Country — United States • Established — 1893 • District — Kern High School District • Principal — Ryan Geivet • Teaching Staff — 120.91 (FTE) • Grades — 9–12 • Enrollment — 3,024 (2023-2024) • Ratio — 25.01 • Colors — Navy, white, and gray navy white gray • Athletic Conference — South Yosemite Valley League CIF Central Section • Nickname — Drillers • Rivals — Garces Memorial High School, Liberty High School, Centennial High School • Newspaper — Blue and White • Yearbook — Oracle • Website — http: bakersfield.kernhigh.org/

• Larry Barnes – former MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers). • Theo Bell – former NFL football player • Richard Blick - 1960 Rome Olympic 4x200 freestyle relay gold medalist, 200-meter freestyle world record-holder, teacher, principal, and swim coach. • Jeff Buckey – former NFL football player • Pete Cross – former NBA player. • Marion Osborn Cunningham – artist. • Ric Drasin – actor, author, designer of the Gold's Gym and World Gym logos, and retired professional wrestler • Robert Duncan – poet, was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance • Frank Gifford – Pro Football Hall of Fame and Monday Night Football commentator • Merle Haggard – singer-songwriter. • Carl Jones Jr. – NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears • Jerry Marion – former NFL player • Kevin McCarthy – Congressman, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives • Matthew Todd Miller, American citizen held by North Korea • Spain Musgrove – former NFL defensive lineman • Doug Loman – former MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers) • Ruth B. Love (Class of 1950) – Educator, former education administrator, school superintendent and author. Love is noted as the first African–American and woman to serve as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third largest school district. • Steve Ontiveros – former MLB player (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs) • Dennis Ralston – Davis Cup winner • Don Robesky – former Stanford football player • Rick Sawyer – former MLB player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres) • Jeff Siemon – former NFL football player • Jeremy Staat – former NFL player • Michael Stewart – former NFL football player • Robert Swift (Class of 2004) – former NBA player • Jerry Tarr – former professional football player • Phillip Thomas – former NFL football player • Jake Varner – four time All-American and two time national champion wrestler at Iowa State University and winner of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at 26 • Tyrone Wallace (Class of 2012) – Paris basketball player, NBA player, former California Golden Bears basketball player • Earl Warren – California Attorney General, three-term Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States, and chairman of the Warren Commission • Larry Welz – noteworthy early contributor to underground comics movement