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
Philip Anglim
Born 1953
Gryffin
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Phillip Van Dyke
Born 1984
Bob Sweeney (actor and director)
1918 - 1992
Dylan Fergus
Born 1980
Robert W. McElroy
Born 1954
Foxhall P. Keene
1867 - 1941
Edna Wallace Hopper
1872 - 1959
Dave Toschi
1931 - 2018
Harley Flanagan
Born 1968
Gitane DeMone
Born 1958
Gerek Meinhardt
Born 1990
William Hammond Wright
1871 - 1959
Honey Gold
Born 1993
Peter Saul
Born 1934
Harvey Wiley Corbett
1873 - 1954
Feg Murray
1894 - 1973
Howie Dallmar
1922 - 1991
Alma Lavenson
1897 - 1989
Benny Brown
1953 - 1996
Keir Pearson
Born 1966
Phil Smith (basketball)
1952 - 2002
Tramaine Hawkins
Born 1951
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Born 1974
Irving Asher
1903 - 1985
Wilhelmina von Bremen
1909 - 1976
Mary Heilmann
Born 1940
Jeffrey Frankel
Born 1952
Percy Gray
1869 - 1952
Sharon Walsh
Born 1952
Fred Scolari
1922 - 2002
John F. Shelley
1905 - 1974
Concepción Argüello
1791 - 1857
Marc E. Bassy
Born 1987
Edu Manzano
Born 1955
Chris Remo
Born 1984
Cassandra Gava
Born 1959
Allan Alcorn
Born 1948
Lincoln Beachey
1887 - 1915
Jim Walsh (basketball)
1930 - 1976
Courtenay Taylor
Born 1969
Peanut Louie Harper
Born 1960
Robert W. Straub
1920 - 2002
Bob Schiller
1918 - 2017
William Gaxton
1893 - 1963
Steve Cruz (actor)
Born 1972
Desmond Bishop
Born 1984
Jess Oppenheimer
1913 - 1988
Lenore Coffee
1896 - 1984
Dave Guard
1934 - 1991
Mark Crear
Born 1968
LaToya London
Born 1978
Jim Fregosi
1942 - 2014
Linda Dangcil
1941 - 2009
Zenos Frudakis
Born 1951
Monica Barbaro
Born 1990
John Hays Hammond Jr.
1888 - 1965
Myron Tribus
1921 - 2016
Allison Moore
Born 1984
Lauren Flanigan
Born 1959
Janis Tanaka
Born 1963
Bob Rosburg
1926 - 2009
Leslie Hendrix
Born 1960
Earle Nelson
1897 - 1928
Reena Sky
Born 1983
Jonathan Raymond
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John Van Denburgh
1872 - 1924
Clay M. Greene
1850 - 1933
Don Daglow
Born 1953
Lawrence Gray
1898 - 1970
Yoko Zetterlund
Born 1969
Paul B. Fay
1918 - 2009
Aaron Taylor (American football, born 1972)
Born 1972
Robert McLachlan (cinematographer)
Born 1956
Peter Montgomery (mathematician)
1947 - 2020
Dick Berk
1939 - 2014
Jack Conte
Born 1984
Anton del Rosario
Born 1981
Charlotte Chandler
-
Matthew Roloff
Born 1961
George L. Harrison
1887 - 1958
Georgia Caine
1876 - 1964
Earl B. Hunt
1933 - 2016
Vincent Rodriguez III
Born 1982
Miranda Lee Richards
Born 1975
Keith A. Glascoe
1962 - 2001
Timothy Björklund
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Josh Gabriel
Born 1969
Eric White (basketball)
Born 1965
Jon Miller
Born 1951
Maud Cunard
1872 - 1948
Billy Mundi
1942 - 2014
Eddie Boland
1883 - 1935
Bill Raymond
Born 1938
Jerry Fairbanks
1904 - 1995
Willie Wise
Born 1947
George Seifert
Born 1940
Stephen Gilligan
Born 1954
Al Cowlings
Born 1947
Susan DeMattei
Born 1962
Taiwan Jones
Born 1988
Joan Brady (American-British writer)
Born 1939
Rob Rotten
Born 1981
Cassidy Klein
Born 1991
Arthur Dong
Born 1953
Sasha Knox
Born 1984
Roger Leir
1935 - 2014
Charis Wilson
1914 - 2009
Dolph Camilli
1907 - 1997
Ross Douthat
Born 1979
Phyllis Kaberry
1910 - 1977
Mike Minor (actor)
1940 - 2016
Bob Netolicky
Born 1942
Julia Wertz
Born 1982
Lidia Yuknavitch
Born 1963
Brian Oliver (producer)
Born 1971
Larry Harvey
1948 - 2018
Emory Johnson
1894 - 1960
Bob Elliott (baseball)
1916 - 1966
Ralph Alessi
Born 1963
Vance Colvig
1918 - 1991
Derek Loville
Born 1968
Patricia Canning Todd
1922 - 2015
Luis Antonio Argüello
1784 - 1830
Olin Chaddock Wilson
1909 - 1994
David Herlihy
1930 - 1991
Bartlett Sher
Born 1959
William Arms Fisher
1861 - 1948
Emerson Spencer
1906 - 1985
George Beban
1873 - 1928
Philip Wolfe (mathematician)
1927 - 2016
Stanley Hiller
1924 - 2006
Karla LaVey
Born 1952
Kori Rae
Born 1962
Ethel Percy Andrus
1884 - 1967
Richard B. Pelzer
Born 1965
Eddie Muller
Born 1958
Evan Strong
Born 1986
Jimmy Murphy (racing driver)
1894 - 1924
Eric Wright (cornerback, born 1985)
Born 1985
Erik Weiner
Born 1977
Laurie Walters
Born 1947
Samu (wrestler)
Born 1963
Michael Greene
1933 - 2020
Kevin O'Shea (basketball)
1925 - 2003
Tara McPherson
Born 1976
Martha Moxley
1960 - 1975
Jane Pratt
Born 1962
Robert McKim (actor)
1886 - 1927
Marcos Ferraez
Born 1966
LaMonica Garrett
Born 1975
David Alan Harvey
Born 1944
Sam Fatu
Born 1965
Dan Kurzman
1922 - 2010
Martin Cohan
1932 - 2010
mr. Pam
Born 1972
George Field (actor)
1877 - 1925
John Patrick Diggins
1935 - 2009
Lloyd French
1900 - 1950
Rachel Rotten
Born 1983
William Gorham (engineer)
1888 - 1949
Carolyn Schuler
Born 1943
Josephine Hill
1899 - 1989
Greg Shaw
1949 - 2004
June Gale
1911 - 1996
Chester Beach
1881 - 1956
Michael Blumlein
1948 - 2019
Flinder Boyd
Born 1980
Madison Cox
Born 1958
Chip Douglas
Born 1942
Jason Webster (author)
Born 1970
Paul Cayard
Born 1959
Chris Hart (musician)
Born 1984
Scott Capurro
Born 1962
Michael S. Davison
1917 - 2006
Axel Alonso
-
Winston Tong
Born 1951
Valerie Fleming
Born 1976
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Born 1946
Claude Coats
1913 - 1992
Feodor Chin
Born 1974
Robin Wagner (designer)
Born 1933
Jim Campilongo
Born 1958
Denison Clift
1885 - 1961
Jenna Lee
Born 1980
Rinaldo Cuneo
1877 - 1939
James David Zellerbach
1892 - 1963
Adolph Knopf
1882 - 1966
Olivia Rose Keegan
Born 1999
Pat Sheehan (model)
1931 - 2006
Charles Kenyon
1880 - 1961
Don Fernando
Born 1948
Amir Talai
Born 1977
James Francis Smith
1859 - 1928
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
1919 - 2017
David Oh (musician)
Born 1991
Russell Freedman
1929 - 2018
Carroll Borland
1914 - 1994
Francis Thomas Hurley
1927 - 2016
Jack McDonald (actor)
1880 - 1962
Xian Lim
Born 1989
Fiona Godlee
Born 1961
Edgar Seligman
1867 - 1958
Claire Kelly
1934 - 1998
Abe Ruef
1864 - 1936
Bennett Davison
Born 1975
Mitchell Amundsen
Born 1958
Elmer Robinson
1894 - 1982
Alonzo Powell
Born 1964
Vicki Randle
Born 1954
Henry F. Grady
1882 - 1957
Mark D. Steinberg
Born 1953
Ayla Aksu
Born 1996
Ernest Peixotto
1869 - 1940
David Kirkland
1878 - 1964
William M. Roth
1916 - 2014
Edward Cucuel
1875 - 1954
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Born 1946
Jessica Steffens
Born 1987
Stephen Benton
1941 - 2003
Ori Sivan
Born 1964
Ray Frank
1861 - 1948
Barney Glaser
Born 1930
Frank Kudelka
1925 - 1993
Mike McCoy (American football coach)
Born 1972
Allan Graham
Born 1943
McLeod Bethel-Thompson
Born 1988
Frank Jordan
Born 1935
Holt Ashley
1923 - 2006
Maxine Doyle
1915 - 1973
Ron Lagomarsino
-
Lou Cameron
1924 - 2010
Bill Calhoun (basketball)
Born 1927
Erik Aadahl
Born 1976
LeRoy Stone
1894 - 1949
Leon Ray Livingston
1872 - 1944
Carson Smith
1931 - 1997
George Fillmore Swain
1857 - 1931
Nicole Morier
Born 1982
Matt Chessé
Born 1965
Mark Berger (sound engineer)
Born 1943
Bonnie Hellman
Born 1950
Michael Marcus (musician)
Born 1952
Sidney Robertson Cowell
1903 - 1995
Jim Gentile
Born 1934
Boris Pash
1900 - 1995
Robert Mailer Anderson
Born 1968
Richard John Garcia
1947 - 2018
George C. Butte
1877 - 1940
Sean Wilsey
Born 1970
Walter A. Haas
1889 - 1979
Gary Beban
Born 1946
Rasta Thomas
Born 1981
Stevie Johnson
Born 1986
Charlotte Anita Whitney
1867 - 1955
Henri Patrice Dillon
1850 - 1909
Harold S. Sawyer
1920 - 2003
Robert Lindley Murray
1892 - 1970
O'Koyea Dickson
Born 1990
Davis Doi
Born 1957
Kevin Restani
1951 - 2010
Aurora Guerrero
-
Patty Chang
Born 1972
Joe McNamee
1926 - 2011
Terri J. Vaughn
Born 1969
Paul Parker (singer)
-
Peter Cornell
Born 1976
Linda Carroll
Born 1944
Noel Van Horn
Born 1968
David Derek Stacton
1923 - 1968
BJ Flores
Born 1979
Jean Gale
1912 - 1974
Walter Woolf King
1899 - 1984
Thomas Arthur Connolly
1899 - 1991
Theodore H. Geballe
Born 1920
Constantine Orbelian
Born 1956
Scott Bradfield
Born 1955
Lloyd (Bud) Winter
1909 - 1985
Jack Curtis (actor)
1880 - 1956
John Charles Wester
Born 1950
Lisa Kristine
Born 1965
George Allan Hancock
1875 - 1965
Steven Scarborough
Born 1954
Verne Grant
1917 - 2007
Ana Julaton
Born 1980
Tim Hawkinson
Born 1960
Denny Martin Flinn
1947 - 2007
Lawrence H. Cohn
1937 - 2016
Angela Daigle
Born 1976
David Warfield
1866 - 1951
George P. Miller
1891 - 1982
Jerry Granelli
Born 1940
Gino Cimoli
1929 - 2011
Willie Ritchie
1891 - 1975
John Broderick (producer)
1942 - 2001
Charles Palache
1869 - 1954
Aaron Young (artist)
Born 1972
Jamize Olawale
Born 1989
Robert G. Fowler
1884 - 1966
Raul Rekow
1954 - 2015