List of people associated with San Francisco

The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with San Francisco, California:

People by field

Artists

* Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer
* Larry Gonick (b. 1946), cartoonist
* Ester Hernandez (b. 1944), Chicana artist
* Richard Serra (b. 1939), minimalist sculptor and video artist
*William Ware TheissFact|date=September 2007 (1930-1992), costume designer
*Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), ceramicist

Athletes

Baseball players

The following Major League Baseball players were born in San Francisco:

*Ping Bodie (1887-1961)
*Barry Bonds (b. 1964), holds the all-time Major League home run record
*Bobby Bonds (1946-2003), right fielder
*Dolph Camilli (1907-1997)
*Gino Cimoli (b. 1929), outfieldercite book |editor=Reichler, Joseph L.| title=The Baseball Encyclopedia |origyear=1969 |edition= 4th edition |year= 1979|publisher= Macmillan Publishing |location= New York|language= |id= ISBN 0-02-578970-8]
*Joe Corbett (1875-1945)
*Joe Cronin (1906-1984), (Baseball Hall of Fame)
*Frankie Crosetti, (1910-2002), shortstop and coach
*Tim Cullen, (b. 1942), infielder
*Babe Dahlgren, (1912-1996), 1st baseman
*Joe DeMaestri (b. 1928)
*Dom DiMaggio (b. 1917)
*Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), (Baseball Hall of Fame)
*Bob Elliott (1916-1966),
*Jim Fregosi (b. 1942), player and manager
*Herb Gorman (1924-1953)
*Harry Heilmann (1894-1951), (Baseball Hall of Fame)
*Keith Hernandez (b. 1953),
*Jackie Jensen (1927-1982), (also in the College Football Hall of Fame)
*Eddie Joost (b. 1916)
*Willie Kamm (1900-1988)
*George Kelly (1895-1984), (Baseball Hall of Fame)
*Tony Lazzeri (1903-1946)
*Charlie Sweeney (1863-1902)
*((Mike Vail)) (b. 1951)

:"See San Francisco Giants#Baseball Hall of Famers for San Francisco Giants players in the Baseball Hall of Fame."

Basketball Players

*Phil Smith (1952-2002)
*Tom Meschery (b. 1938)

Boxers

*Abe Attell, (b. 1884), world Featherweight champion

Football players

* Mike Holmgren (b. 1948), former NFL head coach for the Green Bay Packers and the current head coach of the Seattle Seahawks
* O. J. Simpson (b. 1947)
* Tedy Bruschi (b. 1973)

Golf

* Johnny Miller (b. 1947), former professional golfer and a leading golf commentator for NBC Sports
* Ken Venturi (b. 1931), former professional golfer

Other fields of sport

* Laird Hamilton (b. 1964), surfer
*Jeremy McGrath (b. 1971), MX rider
* Brooks Orpik (b. 1980), Pro hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Business People

* Gurbaksh Chahal, (b. 1982), award winning entrepreneur, founder BlueLithium, ClickAgents, and gWallet
* Albert Abrams, (1863?-1924), inventor of medical equipment in the field of Electricity therapy
* Donald Fisher, (b. 1928), co-founder of the Gap clothing company.
* Gordon Getty (b. 1934), oil philanthropist and composer
* Jess Jackson (b. 1930), American wine entrepreneur and founder of Kendall-Jackson wine company
*Gordon E. Moore (b. 1929), co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's law
*Michael Moritz (b. 1954), venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital.
*Craig Newmark (b. 1951), founder of Craigslist.
* Theresa Sparks (b. 1949), CEO of multimillion-dollar sex toy company, Good Vibrations

Entertainers

Dance

*Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), "mother" of Modern dance

Directors/Filmmakers

* David Butler (1894-1979), film director, actor, writer and producer
* Clint Eastwood (b. 1930), director, actor, producer
*Mervyn LeRoy (1900-1987), director, producer, actor
*Andy Luckey (b. 1965), TV writer, producer, director
*Jay Ward (1920-1989), creator and producer of animated TV series

Actors

* Gracie Allen (1895-1964), comedian
* Bill Bixby (1934-1993), actor
* Joan Blackman (b. 1938), actress
* Mel Blanc (1908-1989), voiceover actor
* Lisa Bonet (b. 1967), actress
* Benjamin Bratt (b. 1963) actor
* Margaret Cho (b. 1968), comedian
* Barbara Eden (b. 1934), actress
* Danny Glover (b. 1946), actor
* Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
* Leslie Mann (b. 1972), actress
* Melissa Ng (b. 1972), actress
* Rob Schneider (b. 1963), actor
* Liev Schreiber (b. 1967), actor
* Alicia Silverstone (b. 1976), actress
* David Strathairn (b. 1949), actor
* Phillip Terry (1909-1993), actor
* Aisha Tyler (b. 1970), actress
* Stuart Whitman (b. 1928), actor
* B.D. Wong (b. 1960), actor
* Natalie Wood (1938-1981), actress
* Kari Byron (b. 1974), television personality

Musicians

* Paul Bostaph (b. 1964) heavy metal drummer
* Craig Chaquico (b. 1954) rock, jazz and new age guitarist
* Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) psychedelic and folk-rock guitarist and singer
* Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976), Jazz musician and pianist
* Cindy Herron (b. 1961), R&B singer
* Gary Holt (b. 1964), thrash metal guitarist
* Kirk Hammett (b. 1962), lead guitarist for rock band Metallica
* Cliff Burton (1962-1986), bass guitarist for rock band Metallica
* Paul Kantner (b. 1941), rock musician and co-founder of the band "Jefferson Airplane"
* Huey Lewis (b. 1950), rock singer, raised in Marin County.
* Courtney Love (b. 1964), singer and actress
* Johnny Mathis (b. 1935), pop singer
* Kristina Olsen (b. 1957), folk singer-songwriter
* Tim Pagnotta (b. 1977), guitarist for the punk band Sugarcult
* Carlos Santana (b. 1947), rock, blues, and salsa guitarist and singer
* Ross Valory (b. 1949), bass player for many bands but most notably for "Journey"

Writers

* Greg Downs (b. 1971), short-story writer
* Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
* Daniel Handler (b. 1970), better known as Lemony Snicket
* Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
* Gus Lee (b. 1946), Asian-American author
* Jack London (1876-1916), American writer
* Armistead Maupin (b. 1944), American writer
* Gary Snyder (b. 1930), poet
* Walter Tevis (1928-1994), author
* Robert Alfred Theobald (1884-1957), US Navy Rear Admiral and author of "The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Background of the Pearl Harbor Attack"
* Naomi Wolf (b. 1962), writer
* Helen Zia (b. 1952), writer, journalist, and activist
* Laurence Yep (b. 1948), Asian-American writer

News/Commentary

*Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913), journalist
* Tucker Carlson (b. 1969), television political commentator and host
* William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), newspaper magnate & publisher
* Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's
*Kent Ninomiya, journalist
*Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), journalist

Political figures

See also List of mayors of San Francisco, California

* Luis Antonio Argüello (1784-1830), first governor of Alta Californiacite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | date = 1963]
* Stephen Breyer (b. 1938), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice
* Jerry Brown (b. 1938), former Governor of California, former Mayor of Oakland, California Attorney General
* Pat Brown (1905-1996), former Governor of California
* Christopher Augustine Buckley ("Blind Boss" Buckley, 1845-1922), Democratic Party boss
* Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933), San Francisco's first female mayor (1978-1988) and U.S. Senator since 1992
*Robert McNamara (b. 1916), former Secretary of Defense
*Nancy Pelosi (b. 1940) Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
*Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006), former Secretary of Defense

Other

* Abigail Folger, (1943-1969), Folgers coffee heiress
* Clifford Geertz (1926-2006), anthropologist
*William T. Shorey (1859-1919), First Black SF Sea Captain
*John W. Young (b. 1930), astronaut
*Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. (1920-2000), US Navy Admiral
*The Zodiac Killer, unidentified serial killer active in the 1960s
*Jim Jones (1931-1978), Cult leader
*Melrose Bickerstaff, runner-up of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 7, signed with Storm Model Management

Non-native residents

*Melissa Anderson, pro wrestler
*Maya Angelou, poet
*Ambrose Bierce, journalist and author
*Clark Blaise, Canadian author
*Marian and Vivian Brown, (b. 1927), socialites
*Willie Brown, former San Francisco Mayor
*Victor Burgin, artist
*Vanessa Carlton, singer
*Herb Caen, newspaper columnist
*Carol Channing, actress and comedian
*Chris Columbus, film director
*Francis Ford Coppola, film director
*Andrew Smith Hallidie, promoter of the first cable car line
*George Hearst, politician
*Phoebe Hearst, first woman Regent of the University of California
*Sargent Johnson, African-American sculptor
*Philip Kaufman, film director
*Jason Kidd, NBA player
*CoCo Lee, CantoPop singer and actress
*James Lick, real estate investor
*Cheech Marin, actor
*Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, activists, first same-sex couple to get a marriage license in San Francisco
*Kirke Mechem, composer
*Midori, author and (kinky) sex educator
*Harvey Milk, former city supervisor of San Francisco
*The Mitchell brothers, Jim and Artie, adult industry pioneers
*Joe Montana, football player
*Matt Nathanson, singer/musician
*Emperor Norton, notable local eccentric
*Gary Payton, NBA player
*Linda Perry, lead singer of 4 Non Blondes
*William Chapman Ralston, founder of the Bank of California
*The Residents, Avant-Garde music and visual arts group
*Anne Rice, author
*Tina Root, ex-vocalist of the now defunct darkwave band Switchblade Symphony
*Kevin Rose, founder, digg.com
*Michael Savage, conservative radio personality
*Charlotte Smith Mailliard Swig Shultz (born ca. 1934), heiress, socialite
*Danielle Steel, author
*Robert Louis Stevenson, (from 1879-1880)
*Sharon Stone, actress
*Amy Tan, author
*Mark Twain, author
*Wayne Wang, film director
*Robert Wartenberg, neurologist
*Oscar Wilde, spent 1882 there
*Cecil Williams, pastor
*Robin Williams, actor
*Martin Yan, television chef

Alphabetical index

* Abrams, Albert (1863?-1924), inventor
* Allen, Gracie (1895-1964), comedian
* Argüello, Luis Antonio (1784-1830)
* Attell, Abe (1884-1970), boxer
* Bixby, Bill (1934-1993), actor
* Blanc, Mel (1908-1989), voiceover actor
* Bonds, Barry (b. 1964), baseball player
* Bonds, Bobby (1946-2003), baseball player
* Bonet, Lisa (b. 1967), actress
* Bodie, Ping
* Bratt, Benjamin (b. 1963), actor
* Breyer, Stephen (b. 1938), jurist
* Brown, Jerry (b. 1938), politician
* Brown, Pat (1905-1996), politician
* Camilli, Dolph
* Carlson, Tucker (b. 1969), political commentator
* Chaquico, Craig (b. 1954)
* Cho, Margaret (b. 1968)
* Cimoli, Gino (b. 1929)
* Corbett, Joe
* Cronin, Joe
* Crosetti, Frankie (1910-2002)
* Cullen, Tim (b. 1942)
* Dahlgren (1912-1996)
* DeMaestri, Joe
* DiMaggio, Dom
* Downs, Greg (b. 1971), writer
* Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927), dancer
* Elliott, Bob
* Ben Fee, activist
* Folger, Abigail, (1943-1969), heiress
* Fregosi, Jim
* Garcia, Jerry (1942-1995), musician
* Getty, Gordon (b. 1934), philanthropist and composer
* Guaraldi, Vince (1928-1976)
* Heilmann, Harry
* Hernandez, Keith
* Herron, Cindy (b. 1961)
* Holt, Gary
* Jensen, Jackie
* Joost, Eddie
* Kamm, Willie
* Kantner, Paul (b. 1941)
* Kelly, George
* Lee, Gus (b. 1946)
* Lewis, Huey (b. 1950)
* Mann, Leslie (b. 1972)
* Prior, Mark (b. 1975)
* Mathis, Johnny (b. 1935)
* Ng, Melissa (b. 1972)
* Perry, Linda (b. 1965)
* Santana, Carlos (b. 1947)
* Sparks, Theresa
* Sweeney, Charlie
* Tan, Amy (b. 1952)
* Williams, Robin (1951-1952)

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