37.7775° N, 122.4165° W
SAN FRANCISCO
Most Famous People Born in San Francisco, United States
- Notable people
- 2,619
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1943
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.1×
A city of restless reinventions. San Francisco's notables are heavily literary and athletic in the 19th century, then heavily technological and countercultural in the 20th — the same town gave the world Jack London and Steve Jobs, Ansel Adams and Bruce Lee, the Beats and the venture capitalists. The dataset doesn't show the tech industry as a category, but you can see its silhouette in the unusually high share of entrepreneurs, engineers, and screenwriters with day jobs in software.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in San Francisco during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What San Francisco Is Known For
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Actor is San Francisco's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (385).
San Francisco over-indexes on baseball — 6.1× the global rate.
San Francisco under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of San Francisco's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Jack London
1876 - 1916
Isadora Duncan
1877 - 1927
Robert Frost
1874 - 1963
Alice B. Toklas
1877 - 1967
Julia Morgan
1872 - 1957
Joseph Erlanger
1874 - 1965
Laura Hope Crews
1879 - 1942
Liao Zhongkai
1877 - 1925
Harry Bernard
1878 - 1940
Frank Elmore Ross
1874 - 1960
Judah Leon Magnes
1877 - 1948
Murdock MacQuarrie
1878 - 1942
Holbrook Blinn
1872 - 1928
Francis Bruguière
1879 - 1945
Thomas Curtis
1873 - 1944
Frank Hall Crane
1873 - 1948
Helen Ware
1877 - 1939
Robert Ingersoll Aitken
1878 - 1949
Raymond Duncan
1874 - 1966
Aggie Herring
1876 - 1939
Frank Hayes (actor)
1871 - 1923
David David-Weill
1871 - 1952
Tad Dorgan
1877 - 1929
Herman George Scheffauer
1878 - 1927
Josephine Lovett
1877 - 1958
Edna Wallace Hopper
1872 - 1959
William Hammond Wright
1871 - 1959
Harvey Wiley Corbett
1873 - 1954
John Van Denburgh
1872 - 1924
Georgia Caine
1876 - 1964
Maud Cunard
1872 - 1948
George Beban
1873 - 1928
George Field (actor)
1877 - 1925
Rinaldo Cuneo
1877 - 1939
David Kirkland
1878 - 1964
Edward Cucuel
1875 - 1954
Leon Ray Livingston
1872 - 1944
George C. Butte
1877 - 1940
George Allan Hancock
1875 - 1965
Charles Belcher (actor)
1872 - 1943
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
1875 - 1935
J. Keirn Brennan
1873 - 1948
Ellen Emmet Rand
1875 - 1941
Sanford Alexander Moss
1872 - 1946
Victor S. K. Houston
1876 - 1959
William De Vaull
1870 - 1945
Beatrice M. Hinkle
1874 - 1953
John I. Nolan
1874 - 1922
Jimmy Britt
1879 - 1940
Bancroft Gherardi Jr.
1873 - 1941
Ashton Stevens
1872 - 1951
Albert Sonnichsen
1878 - 1931
Ivan Mortimer Linforth
1879 - 1976
Frank MacQuarrie
1875 - 1950
Gordon Grant (artist)
1875 - 1962
Katherine Griffith
1876 - 1921
William H. Clifford
1874 - 1938
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
1877 - 1948
Eric Pape
1870 - 1938
Edward Gallagher (actor)
1873 - 1929
Sarah Stein
1870 - 1953
William John Sinclair
1877 - 1935
Major Bowes
1874 - 1946
Thomas O'Shea (Archbishop of Wellington)
1870 - 1954
Bill Reid (American football)
1878 - 1976
Elizabeth Duncan
1871 - 1948
Harry Allen Overstreet
1875 - 1970
Georges Gobo
1876 - 1958
Mabelle Gilman Corey
Born 1874
Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr.
1872 - 1955
Bill Lange
1871 - 1950
Joe Corbett
1875 - 1945
Sam Mertes
1872 - 1945
George MacQuarrie
1873 - 1951
Minnie Tittell Brune
1875 - 1974
John J. Clausey
1875 - 1951
Cyrus Cuneo
1879 - 1916
William Denman (judge)
1872 - 1959
Marian Osgood Hooker
1875 - 1968
Frank Tolles Chamberlin
1873 - 1961
Lester Petrie
1878 - 1956
Maud Younger
1870 - 1936
George Hildebrand
1878 - 1960
Ednah Robinson Aiken
1872 - 1960
George Stanley
Born 1875
Julia Klumpke
1870 - 1961
Herbert Fleishhacker
1872 - 1957
Jules Mendel
1874 - 1938
Henry Krug
1876 - 1908
Ham Iburg
1873 - 1945
Dad Clark
1873 - 1956
Frank Shannon (baseball)
1873 - 1934
Katherine Grey (actress)
1873 - 1950
Jack Curley
1876 - 1937
Truck Eagan
1877 - 1949
Robert Volz
Born 1875
Youngy Johnson
1873 - 1936
Sidney Myer Ehrman
1873 - 1975
Peter H. Quinn
1873 - 1934
Douglas C. McDougal
1876 - 1964
Pop Swett
1870 - 1934
William Pierce Ennis
1878 - 1968
Warren Olney Jr.
1870 - 1939
Rosetta Baume
1871 - 1934
Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno
1878 - 1937
Eustace L. Furlong
1874 - 1950
Herbert Farjeon
1879 - 1972
William Greene (aviator)
1874 - 1952
George F. Whitney
1873 - 1935