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.
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- Film & TV
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Other
Barry Tompkins
Born 1940
Erik Benjaminsen
Born 1992
N. A. Diaman
Born 1936
Malaya Lewandowski
Born 1988
Patrick Johnston (American politician)
Born 1946
Bobby Shaw
Born 1975
Jeremiah Masoli
Born 1988
Mark Walen
Born 1963
Win Ng
1936 - 1991
Jot D. Carpenter
1938 - 2000
Beata Handra
Born 1977
Mary DeNeale Morgan
1868 - 1948
James Fuller McKinley
1880 - 1941
Jalal Leach
Born 1969
Howard J. Green
1893 - 1965
Jamal Fountaine
Born 1971
Walter L. Carpeneti
Born 1945
Eric Pele
Born 1969
Raymond C. Smith
Born 1944
Bert Cole
1896 - 1975
Robert W. Crown
1922 - 1973
Donald Strickland
Born 1980
Maud Younger
1870 - 1936
Lynne Willingham
Born 1951
Matt Toeaina
Born 1984
James Thomas O'Dowd
1907 - 1950
Brian Cooley
Born 1965
C. Sue Carter
-
Armen Minasian
Born 1959
Lou Rosenberg
1904 - 1991
George Hildebrand
1878 - 1960
Jon Baker (American football)
1923 - 1992
Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson
1918 - 2005
Kelvin Han Yee
-
Peter E. Haas
1918 - 2005
Ralph Cheli
1919 - 1944
Francisco Aragón
Born 1968
Blake Krikorian
1967 - 2016
Chris R. Hansen
Born 1968
Betty Shamieh
-
Martin Jenkins
Born 1954
Olga Wilhelmine Munding
Born 1976
Justice Howard
Born 1960
Phillip C. Katz
1889 - 1987
Robyn Smith
Born 1944
Alex Gong
1970 - 2003
Charles Breyer
Born 1941
Tom Power
1869 - 1898
Luke Stewart
-
Sam Hellman
1885 - 1950
Sharon Tomiko Santos
Born 1961
Lincoln Fitzell
1903 - 1958
Lurline Matson Roth
1890 - 1985
Rose Terlin
1908 - 1979
Michael Sprinkle
Born 1968
Mike Guingona
Born 1962
Chris Hartje
1915 - 1946
Charles A. Legge
Born 1930
Terry Lee (baseball)
Born 1962
Matthew K. Firpo
Born 1990
Hugh Cassidy
Born 1935
Jake Zemke
Born 1975
William Newsom
1934 - 2018
William H. Orrick Jr.
1915 - 2003
Alain Nu
Born 1965
Julia Platt
1857 - 1935
Bill Hubbell
1897 - 1980
Edward A. Kawānanakoa
1924 - 1997
Sennie "Skip" Martin
Born 1957
Maxine M. Chesney
Born 1942
Wendy Watriss
Born 1943
Peter J. Barnes III
Born 1956
Christina Zilber
-
Albert Henry Mowbray
1881 - 1949
John Cahill (baseball)
1865 - 1901
Bill Cunningham (outfielder)
1894 - 1953
John Tofi
Born 1984
Kim Shuck
-
Pat Kilroy
1944 - 1967
Anthony Washington (American football)
Born 1958
Jerry Kennealy
Born 1938
Corey Smith (artist)
Born 1977
Joan Baker
Born 1960
Annette A. Aguilar
Born 1957
Sharon Baker
1938 - 1991
Natu Tuatagaloa
Born 1966
Ralph Marcus
1900 - 1956
Liz Figueroa
Born 1951
Eric Sanders (American football coach)
Born 1983
Frederick E. Olmsted
1911 - 1990
Christopher Brady
Born 1967
Joe Petrali
1904 - 1973
Heinie Sand
1897 - 1958
Michael T. Ullman
Born 1962
Peter D. Ashlock
1929 - 1989
Ednah Robinson Aiken
1872 - 1960
Blake Colburn Wilbur
1901 - 1974
Robert Carlson (sailor)
1905 - 1965
Mike Baxes
Born 1930
Ken Mayer
1918 - 1985
Mike Taylor (offensive tackle)
Born 1945
Marion E. Wong
1895 - 1970
Robin Budd
Born 1967
Bill Woodcock
Born 1971
Francis James Carmody
1907 - 1982
Virginia Coffman
1914 - 2005
Toni Hewitt
Born 1951
Tom Alberg
Born 1940
Andrew Downey Orrick
1917 - 2008
Art Garibaldi
1907 - 1967
Ed Berry
Born 1963
Al Raffo
Born 1941
Anthony Ferrari
Born 1978
Mary Fettig
Born 1953
Nick Carter (tennis)
1918 - 1989
Mark Galvin
Born 1955
Ray Gallagher
1885 - 1953
Sam Bohne
1896 - 1977
Rubén Carbajal
Born 1993
Stephen Sohn
Born 1986
Andrew Halcro
Born 1964
Mike Springer
Born 1965
Joan Buchanan
Born 1952
Noel Lee (executive)
Born 1948
Will Swan (musician)
Born 1985
Carel B. Germain
1916 - 1995
Rick Estrin
Born 1949
Norm Angelini
1947 - 2019
Tony Fucile
Born 1964
James L. Underhill
1891 - 1991
Dan Logue
-
Henry Villierme
1928 - 2013
George Stanley
Born 1875
Jennifer Jajeh
-
Rykarda Parasol
Born 1970
Brock Hekking
Born 1991
Leslie Denniston
Born 1950
Chris Tsakalakis
Born 1967
Susan Rita Schrepfer
1941 - 2014
Harold W. Roberts
1895 - 1918
Robert Primes
Born 1940
Wally Judnich
1917 - 1971
Devorah Major
Born 1950
Jonah Hodges
Born 1993
Joan Bodger
1923 - 2002
Barbara Dulinsky
1928 - 1995
Ken Choy
-
Jason Tucker
Born 1976
Larry Baer
-
Henry Viccellio Jr.
Born 1940
Clark Gruening
Born 1943
Alexander Alvina Chamberland
Born 1986
Mavis Leno
Born 1946
Kyrill (Dmitrieff)
Born 1954
Tony Serra
Born 1934
Miriam Solovieff
1921 - 2004
Frank Happersberger
1859 - 1932
Toni Graham
Born 1945
Edith Motridge
1913 - 2007
Shirley Leon Quimby
1893 - 1986
Larry Rhine
1910 - 2000
Laura Lau
Born 1963
Roger Dobkowitz
Born 1945
Ira La Rivers
1915 - 1977
William Paul Morehouse
1929 - 1993
Fritz Holt
1941 - 1987
Eddie Forrest (American football)
1921 - 2001
Jeffrey Steefel
Born 1961
Joe Remiro
Born 1947
James G. McCargar
1920 - 2007
Birgit Cunningham
Born 1963
Alberto Torrico
Born 1969
Dino Natali
Born 1931
Al Burleson
Born 1954
Laurel van der Wal
1924 - 2009
Joe Gonzales (baseball)
1915 - 1996
Mitchell Waite
Born 1946
William Brown (baseball)
1866 - 1897
Scott Dyleski
Born 1988
Bhikkhu Cintita
Born 1949
Joel Blum
Born 1952
Martin Baccaglio
Born 1944
Lawrence V. Castner
1902 - 1949
John Schiechl
1917 - 1964
Marion Feducha
1911 - 1976
Roxy Walters
1892 - 1956
Donald McNeil Jr.
Born 1954
Albert Toeaina
Born 1984
Tobit Raphael
-
Nick Montana
Born 1992
Jack Howell (swimmer)
1899 - 1967
Neal Horgan
Born 1979
Jeremy Barlow
Born 1985
Richard Melo
Born 1968
Norm Thompson (American football)
Born 1945
Jim Zylker
Born 1951
Greg Sims
Born 1946
Jaclyn Ngan
Born 1986
Herb Gorman
1924 - 1953
Alicia de Bielefeld
Born 1952
William Poy Lee
Born 1951
Kim Taylor Bennett
-
Tamarat Makonnen
Born 1972
Leo Righetti
1925 - 1998
Hap Myers
1887 - 1967
Steve Clark Hall
Born 1953
Keith Marshall (baseball)
Born 1951
John Livermore
1918 - 2013
Bob Lunn
Born 1945
Dov Seidman
Born 1964
Lester Smith (swimmer)
1902 - 1957
Ed Burns (baseball)
1887 - 1942
Darrol Ray
Born 1958
Julia Klumpke
1870 - 1961
Liam Quinn
Born 1949
Herbert Fleishhacker
1872 - 1957
Gerri Lawlor
Died 2019
Charles Draper Faulkner
1890 - 1979
Peter S. Brunstetter
Born 1956
Theo Adams (American football)
Born 1966
Arlen F. Gregorio
Born 1931
Mark Robert Halper
Born 1965
Shaun Evaristo
-
Anatole Boris Volkov
1924 - 2000
Dario Lodigiani
1916 - 2008
Edsel Ford Fong
1927 - 1984
Rahn Coleman
Born 1949
Bill Duggan
Born 1974
Walter Morosco
1899 - 1948
Jonathan Moscone
Born 1964
Cuckoo Christensen
1899 - 1984
Phil Ford (comedian)
1919 - 2005
Derrick C. Brown
Born 1973
Scott Breckinridge
1882 - 1941
Ken Myer
1921 - 1992
Fred H. Swan
1902 - 1993
William Hickox
1942 - 1961
Pete Magrini
Born 1942
Billy Naylor
1916 - 2011
Victor Jih
Born 1973
Gabriel Stricker
Born 1972
Matt LaBounty
Born 1969
Brian Pariani
Born 1965
Max Gruenberg
1943 - 2016
Haley Mellin
Born 1983
Rimo Carlo Felice Bacigalupi
1901 - 1996
Bob DiPietro
1927 - 2012
Jules Mendel
1874 - 1938
Paul Thormodsgard
Born 1953
Andrew Getty
1967 - 2015
J. Roderick MacArthur
1920 - 1984
John Kerr (baseball)
1898 - 1993
John Paul Chase
1901 - 1973
Mathew Tobriner
1904 - 1982
Patrick Hunter
Born 1964
Rob Leary
Born 1963
Dean Goss
Born 1951
Joseph Tartakovsky
Born 1981
Joe Robert Cole
-
Hillary Butler
Born 1971
Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr.
1930 - 2011
Harry L. Wolf
1908 - 1993
Barbara Ochs Adler
1903 - 1971
Royal Nebeker
1945 - 2014
Charles Dorety
1898 - 1957
Timothy Sands
Born 1958
Olivia Somerlyn
Born 1994
Rob Sperring
Born 1949
Henry Krug
1876 - 1908
Raymond V. Moore
1915 - 2003
George Burt (Komponist)
1929 - 2015
Armand del Rosario
Born 1978
Richard R. Lee
Born 1966
Don Potts
Born 1936
Only Won
Born 1974
Cody Jones
Born 1951
David Korty
Born 1971
Anne Saporetti
1914 - 1984
Kevin Anderson (athletic director)
Born 1955
George Puccinelli
1907 - 1956
Sean Elsbernd
Born 1976
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II
1858 - 1923
Fred Mossler
Born 1966
Bob Haas
Born 1942
Roger Niello
Born 1948
Gator Hoskins
Born 1991
Henry M. Leicester
1906 - 1991
Nancy Ling Perry
1947 - 1974
Danny Grossman
Born 1942
Kevin Andrew Collins
Born 1974
Keith Jensen
Born 1988
Robert Leahy Fair
1923 - 1983
Jill Costello
1987 - 2010
Ham Iburg
1873 - 1945
Gus Suhr
1906 - 2004
Jack Leonard
1913 - 1954
Robert Jenkins (American football)
Born 1963
Ren Kelly
1899 - 1963
Lindsay C. Howard
1904 - 1971
Fred Martin (artist)
Born 1927