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
Chrystos
Born 1946
Eddie Joost
1916 - 2011
Walter C. Alvarez
1884 - 1978
William Orrick III
Born 1953
William Bowers Bourn II
1857 - 1936
Calvin E. Simmons
1950 - 1982
Leonard Lake
1945 - 1985
Kathryn Hulme
1900 - 1981
Peter M. Bowers
1918 - 2003
Gypsy Boots
1914 - 2004
Charles Doe
1898 - 1995
Burton Jastram
1910 - 1995
Trevor Traina
Born 1968
David B. Kaplan
Born 1958
Julian Mack
1866 - 1943
Nicole Burdette
Born 1963
John P. McCarthy
1884 - 1962
London Breed
Born 1974
Salvador Santana
Born 1983
James Donlan
1888 - 1938
Jacob Hopkins
Born 2002
Patrick Thomas (actor)
Born 1961
Bernard R. Hubbard
1888 - 1962
Larry Lansburgh
1911 - 2001
Warren Hinckle
1938 - 2016
Walter Shenson
1919 - 2000
Donovan Morgan
Born 1976
Charles Belcher (actor)
1872 - 1943
Steffanie Borges
Born 1961
Mariko Takahashi (model and actress)
Born 1984
Gregg Tafralis
Born 1958
Newton B. Drury
1889 - 1978
Ned Lagin
Born 1949
A. D. Winans
Born 1936
Brenda Helser
1926 - 2001
Matthew Leutwyler
Born 1969
Kathleen Brown
Born 1945
James Gunn (screenwriter, born 1920)
1920 - 1966
Alicia Sixtos
Born 1988
Todd Cochran
Born 1951
Crispin Struthers
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Yvonne Gómez
Born 1966
Winthrop Sargeant
1903 - 1986
Danny Castillo
Born 1979
Kenneth Fisher
Born 1950
Roger Chickering
Born 1942
DJ Disk
Born 1970
Jules T. Allen
Born 1947
Townsend Bell
Born 1975
Jeffery Cohelan
1914 - 1999
John Roos
Born 1955
Mike Quin
1906 - 1947
John R. Deane
1896 - 1982
Mike Relm
Born 1978
Carmen Phillips
1895 - 1936
Henri LaBorde
1909 - 1993
Richard Ashcraft
1938 - 1995
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
1875 - 1935
Lisa Bielawa
Born 1968
Genevieve Stebbins
1857 - 1934
Amanda Lassiter
Born 1979
Jim Fritzell
1920 - 1979
Tod Brown
Born 1936
Laurence Guittard
Born 1939
Hari Dhillon
Born 1968
Herm Fuetsch
1918 - 2010
Keith Owens
Born 1969
Frank Haller
1883 - 1939
Grace Hartman (actress)
1907 - 1955
Hannah Cohen
Born 1986
Maggie Moore
1851 - 1926
MK Nobilette
Born 1993
Amédée Joullin
1862 - 1917
Clarence Griffin
1888 - 1973
James D. Houston
1933 - 2009
Jason Goldwatch
Born 1976
James P. Crutchfield
Born 1955
Alice Reinheart
1910 - 1993
J. Keirn Brennan
1873 - 1948
Ed Wheelan
1888 - 1966
Bernice Bing
1936 - 1998
Paul Brody
Born 1961
Dick Tidrow
Born 1947
Chick Strand
1931 - 2009
Hank Searls
1922 - 2017
Darrell Steinberg
Born 1959
Noe Venable
Born 1976
Carlotta Monterey
1888 - 1970
Carlos Menjívar
Born 1981
Jacqueline Toboni
Born 1992
Thomas Anthony Daly
Born 1960
Christopher Langan
Born 1952
Chris Agee
Born 1956
Duffy Lewis
1888 - 1979
Sebastian Bea
Born 1977
Jack Bee Garland
1869 - 1936
Barry Kernfeld
Born 1950
Sandra Church
Born 1933
Sean Halton
Born 1987
Rex Downing
Born 1925
Harry Watrous
1857 - 1940
Markos Kounalakis
Born 1957
Orlando Phillips
Born 1960
Edward J. Lakso
1932 - 2009
Fay Babcock
1895 - 1970
Anne Bremer
1868 - 1923
Joseph Richard Slevin
1881 - 1957
Oliver Jesse Carter
1911 - 1976
Matt Deakin
Born 1980
Richard Hyland (rugby)
1900 - 1981
George A. Bartlett
1869 - 1951
Paul Fortier
Born 1964
Cecilia Martinez
Born 1947
Ernest Born
1898 - 1992
Daria Martin
Born 1973
Mark Joseph Hurley
1919 - 2001
Yuji Ichioka
1936 - 2002
Esther Eng
1914 - 1970
Ellen Emmet Rand
1875 - 1941
Don McDougall (director)
1917 - 1991
Richard Beggs
Born 1942
Gina Miles
Born 1973
Mae Nolan
1886 - 1973
Gus Triandos
1930 - 2013
Sandy Poulsen
Born 1952
Steve Bulen
Born 1949
Dan W. Quinn
1859 - 1938
Shayne Skov
Born 1990
Mark Koenig
1904 - 1993
Lloyd J. Old
1933 - 2011
Sam Ruben
1913 - 1943
Barbara Scofield
Born 1926
Michaela Roessner
Born 1950
Ivan Elliott
Born 1986
Bob Portman
Born 1947
Patrick Argüello
1943 - 1970
Kent Harrington
Born 1952
Daniel F. Walsh
Born 1937
Heaton Wrenn
1900 - 1978
Aubrey Ankrum
Born 1972
Bryan Price
Born 1962
Peter Lyman
1940 - 2007
Sanford Alexander Moss
1872 - 1946
Victor S. K. Houston
1876 - 1959
William De Vaull
1870 - 1945
Rob Ickes
Born 1967
Timothy L. Pflueger
1892 - 1946
Haraden Pratt
1891 - 1969
Chris Pedersen (actor)
Born 1963
Allan Birnbaum
1923 - 1976
Dick Stanfel
1927 - 2015
Irwin Abrams
1914 - 2010
Monte Attell
1885 - 1960
Russ Westover
1886 - 1966
James E. Boasberg
Born 1963
Albert MacQuarrie
1882 - 1950
Steve Sewell
Born 1963
Mike Carroll (skateboarder)
Born 1975
Luis Saguar
1957 - 2009
Mike Diaz
Born 1960
George B. Purdy
1944 - 2017
Kate Courtney (cyclist)
Born 1995
Barry McGee
Born 1966
Donald Gutierrez
1932 - 2013
Bret Wolfe
Born 1975
Al Gallagher
1945 - 2018
Elbridge Durbrow
1903 - 1997
Paulo Baldi
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Jesse Thorn
Born 1981
Terry Miller (politician)
1942 - 1989
Richard Rodriguez
Born 1944
Gladys Buchanan Unger
1885 - 1940
Susan Brown (American actress)
1932 - 2018
Jerry Dexter
1938 - 2013
Jack Sullivan (film director)
1893 - 1946
Matt Stonie
Born 1992
Pamela Healy
Born 1963
Jules Eugene Pages
1867 - 1946
Arthur Tavares
1884 - 1954
Tauba Auerbach
Born 1981
Mark Farrell (politician)
Born 1974
Hugh Aloysius Donohoe
1905 - 1987
Mike Norris (baseball)
Born 1955
John Gesek
Born 1963
Brandy Reed
Born 1977
John A. Buehrens
Born 1947
Jené Morris
Born 1987
Kurt Chew-Een Lee
1926 - 2014
Del Martin
1921 - 2008
Chris Dunk
Born 1958
Matt Doyle (tennis)
Born 1958
Andy Ernst
Born 1955
Rachel Elkind-Tourre
Born 1939
Michael Patrick Cronan
1951 - 2013
Janette Sadik-Khan
Born 1960
Robert Murase
1938 - 2005
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
1947 - 2019
Andrea Smith (academic)
Born 1966
Trebor Healey
Born 1962
Beth Rodden
Born 1980
John R. Deane Jr.
1919 - 2013
Catherine Yronwode
Born 1947
Milton Wexler
1908 - 2007
Sarah Uriarte Berry
Born 1969
Charles P. Oman
Born 1948
Cromwell Dixon
1892 - 1911
Robert Nelson (filmmaker)
1930 - 2012
Harold Olmo
1909 - 2006
Nat Ross
1902 - 1941
Perham Wilhelm Nahl
1869 - 1935
Amy Balkin
Born 1967
Michael Ellsberg
Born 1977
Beatrice M. Hinkle
1874 - 1953
Douglas Campbell (aviator)
1896 - 1990
Allan Sproul
1896 - 1978
Micah Franklin (baseball)
Born 1972
Harry Crocker
1893 - 1958
Arielle Jacobs
Born 1984
Trina Nishimura
Born 1983
Michael Modest
Born 1971
Denise Michele
Born 1953
Swede Risberg
1894 - 1975
Eric Bjornson
Born 1971
Stanley Fafara
1949 - 2003
Randal Quarles
Born 1957
Darren Uyenoyama
Born 1979
Jay Hammer
Born 1944
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Born 1954
William Blaisdell
1865 - 1931
Robert Pierpont Blake
1886 - 1950
Richard Morton (basketball)
Born 1966
Rea Irvin
1881 - 1972
Sandy Stewart (musician)
Born 1958
Virginia Mayhew
Born 1959
Fred LaCour
1938 - 1972
Robert Ignatius Burns
1921 - 2008
Erica Lindsay
Born 1955
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
1881 - 1968
E. Pierce Marshall
1939 - 2006
Francis Honeycutt
1883 - 1940
James Hardy (rower)
1923 - 1986
Charles Lindsay (artist)
Born 1961
Peter Elkus
Born 1939
Danny Frisella
1946 - 1977
Caleigh Peters
Born 1988
Tavar Zawacki
Born 1981
Danielle Kang
Born 1992
John Boccabella
Born 1941
Dena Takruri
Born 1983
Nathalie Schneyder
Born 1968
Austin Strong
1881 - 1952
David Carpenter
Born 1930
John I. Nolan
1874 - 1922
William G. Sinkford
Born 1946
Agness Underwood
1902 - 1984
Jimmy Britt
1879 - 1940
Ray Barra
Born 1930
Judith Hooper
Born 1949
George Crone
1894 - 1966
Kim McLane Wardlaw
Born 1954
Sam Angel
1920 - 2007
Al Gordon
Born 1953
Carlos Arthur Sevilla
Born 1935
Arj Barker
Born 1974
Dick O'Keefe
1923 - 2006
Alexander Polinsky
Born 1974
Alfred Brousseau
1907 - 1988
George Nicholls Jr.
1897 - 1939
Bancroft Gherardi Jr.
1873 - 1941
William J. Wynn
1860 - 1935
Deke Sharon
Born 1967
Erica Johnson Debeljak
Born 1961
John Lessard
1920 - 2003
Leopold Lichtenberg
1861 - 1935
Julian Bashore
Born 1972
Harriet Lane Levy
1867 - 1950
Anton Peterlin (soccer)
Born 1987
Val Garay
Born 1942
Francis Jue
Born 1963
Carl Nicks (American football)
Born 1985
Krystine Kryttre
Born 1958
Irving Bibo
1889 - 1962
Florence Gould
1895 - 1983
Ashton Stevens
1872 - 1951
Friedrich Bendixen
1864 - 1920
Maureen Kaila Vergara
Born 1964
Trevor Davis
Born 1993
Marsden Wagner
1930 - 2014
Thomas Rolph
1885 - 1956
Chris Munk
Born 1967
Donald Abenheim
Born 1953
Julianne Malveaux
Born 1953
Lamarr Houston
Born 1987
Art Hirahara
Born 1971
Jon Martin
Born 1947
Charlee Minkin
Born 1981
Ted Sorel
1936 - 2010
Mary McConneloug
Born 1971
Albert Sonnichsen
1878 - 1931
David Rainey
Born 1968