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
Chris Darkins
Born 1974
Hank Patterson (baseball)
1907 - 1970
Neil Barlow
Born 1988
MOMO (artist)
-
Roy Graham (baseball)
1895 - 1933
Tim Evans (rowing)
Born 1970
Charlie Dorman
1898 - 1928
Daniel Van Meter
1913 - 2000
Gus Peterson
1893 - 1969
Iosia Iosia
Born 1991
Aaron Pollock
Born 1967
Rey Osburn
-
Fred Miller (American football, born 1931)
Born 1931
Rafael Mandelman
-
Frankie Kelleher
1916 - 1979
Richard O. Culver Jr.
1936 - 2014
Richard Hall (politician)
1855 - 1918
Harry Ashland Greene
1852 - 1933
Nina O'Brien
Born 1997
Pop Swett
1870 - 1934
Nancy Sloss
Died 2018
James S. Hutchinson
1867 - 1959
Mr. SOS
Born 1979
Philip R. Goode
Born 1943
Barbara Perkins Gamow
1905 - 1975
Ernie Sulik
1910 - 1963
KING SOL
Born 1998
David L. Hewitt
Born 1939
Earl Fuller (athlete)
1904 - 1956
Sophie Maxwell
-
Claudio Saunt
-
Clarence Fieber
1913 - 1985
Irene Chan
Born 1965
Joe Chamberlain (baseball)
1910 - 1983
Madeline von Foerster
Born 1973
Jim Roxburgh
1858 - 1934
Jim McDonald (third baseman)
1860 - 1914
Paige Kelton
-
Juddy Ash
1900 - 1965
Jeff Cosgriff
Born 1987
John Wesson Ashford
Born 1948
William J. Hirsch
1909 - 1997
William Pierce Ennis
1878 - 1968
Mike Donohoe
Born 1945
Tony Van Vliet (American politician)
Born 1930
Ivan L. Slavich Jr.
1927 - 2012
Amory Kane
Born 1946
LaRoy Doss
1936 - 2004
Warren Olney Jr.
1870 - 1939
Ted Scherman
Born 1966
Adele Stimmel Chase
1917 - 2000
Eugene A. Valencia Jr.
1921 - 1972
James J. Kenney
1869 - 1916
Dick Nold
Born 1943
Ron Robinson (Canadian football)
Born 1956
Mary Claire Hannan
-
Jesse Krieger
Born 1981
Phil Amato
-
Gordon Smedt
Born 1961
Dan Salvemini
Born 1957
Michele Pred
-
Thomas A. Maloney
1889 - 1986
Njema Frazier
-
Fatgums
Born 1980
Bob Marshall (California politician)
1934 - 2012
Dave Darling
Born 1961
James Lanman (musician)
Born 1983
John R. Beckett
1918 - 2010
Robert Rigsby
Born 1960
Bud Connolly
1901 - 1964
David Bohigian
-
Raymond L. Sullivan
1907 - 1999
Barbara DeWolfe
1970 - 2008
Thomas H. Carroll
1914 - 1964
Tara Flanagan
Born 1964
Eliza D. Keith
1854 - 1939
Sabrina Sabbagh
Born 1985
Jack Lilja
1930 - 2016
Isaac Wardell
Born 1980
Tallant Tubbs
1897 - 1969
Alexander Scordelis
1923 - 2007
José de los Santos Berreyesa
1817 - 1864
Rich Cellini
-
Dick Gyselman
1908 - 1990
Nannette Miranda
-
Morey Leonard Sear
1929 - 2004
C. J. Goodell
1885 - 1967
Anani Mohamed
Born 1992
Albert Charles Wollenberg
1900 - 1981
J. Eugene McAteer
1916 - 1967
Matt Sherman
Born 1978
Arthur Breed
1865 - 1953
P. David Miller
Born 1963
Robert W. Brown
1917 - 2009
Manny Diaz (California politician)
Born 1953
Pat Patterson (American football)
1889 - 1987
Bob Cline
1933 - 2020
Isaku Kageyama
Born 1982
Robert Dickow
Born 1949
Víctor Castro (landowner)
1820 - 1900
John C. Houlihan
1910 - 1986
Mario Balistreri
1901 - 1979
Don Burness
1919 - 1987
Dan Gitlin
Born 1983
George Nonomura
Born 1958
Georg Wolf (Bildhauer)
1858 - 1930
Frank E. Speizer
Born 1934
Skeeter McKitterick
Born 1946
Mike Gotch
1947 - 2008
Dion Aroner
Born 1944
Rosetta Baume
1871 - 1934
Geoffrey F. Brown
Born 1943
Nancy Shepherd
Born 1954
Thierry Thys
1931 - 2009
Averell Smith
Born 1958
Robert Howard Schnacke
1913 - 1994
Eugene A. Brown
1937 - 2020
Charlie Krank
Born 1957
George Bernard Harris
1901 - 1983
Aaron Kirsch
Born 1983
Otey Cannon
Born 1950
Louise Todd Lambert
1905 - 1991
William J. Biggy
Died 1908
Bob Roselli
1931 - 2009
Crystal Jang
Born 1946
Jim Mangan
1929 - 2007
Michael Raoul Duval
Died 2001
Vincent Barrisa
Born 1903
Mike Buskey
Born 1949
Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno
1878 - 1937
Charles K. Bockelman
1922 - 2002
Kelly McFarlane
Born 1992
J. N. A. Hawkins
1907 - 1966
Keith Varon
-
Tess Uriza Holthe
-
Bill Cowden
1920 - 2007
Phil Knell
1865 - 1944
Andrew Ziemer
Born 1967
Scott Newhall
1914 - 1992
William S. Gillies
1911 - 2000
Ed Montague (shortstop)
1905 - 1988
Kevin Sullivan (artist)
Born 1964
Carlene M. Walker
Born 1947
Lucy Ward Stebbins
1880 - 1955
Georgie Ratterman
1898 - 1961
Matt O'Sullivan
Born 1955
Shavon Kirksey
Born 1989
William A. Enemark
1913 - 2016
Dwight Garner (American football)
Born 1964
Elizabeth Zaragoza
Born 1968
Joe Connolly (1920s outfielder)
1894 - 1960
Eustace L. Furlong
1874 - 1950
Joe Gantenbein
1915 - 1993
Kathleen Lynn de Brown
Born 1945
Julián Muñoz (alpine skier)
Born 1946
Harry J. Aleo
1919 - 2008
Bob Kirkwood
Born 1939
Mark Stahl (soccer)
Born 1953
Chip Turner
Born 1960
Jim Begley
1902 - 1957
Eddie Kearse
1916 - 1968
Dirk Terrell
Born 1965
Scott Sibley
Born 1973
Peter H. Fisher
-
Herbert Wilson Erskine
1888 - 1951
Johnnie Bamont
Born 1951
Robert M. Stein
Born 1961
Beau Almodobar
Born 1962
B. J. Feigenbaum
1900 - 1984
Gino Baldi
1922 - 2010
Robert Delbos
Born 1943
Raquel Miller
Born 1985
Chayah Miranda
Born 1981
Casey Lockwood
Born 1985
Lanette Scheeline
1910 - 2001
Herbert Farjeon
1879 - 1972
Melvyn I. Cronin
1898 - 1977
John J. Batbie Jr.
Born 1946
Nicholas Ingolia
Born 1979
Ross Johnson (lacrosse)
Born 1980
Stu Clarke
1906 - 1985
William Greene (aviator)
1874 - 1952
Dan Ferrigno
Born 1953
Charles Drain (politician)
1913 - 1991
Wong Chung
1880 - 1963
Albert Baciocco
1931 - 2015
Paul V. Priolo
1927 - 2018
George Archibald (jockey)
1890 - 1927
George F. Whitney
1873 - 1935
Herb McQuaid
1899 - 1966
John W. Holmdahl
1924 - 2017
Phyllida Ashley
1894 - 1975
Joseph F. Burns
-
Ray Williamson
-
Robert Lincoln Patterson
-
Leland Richard Jacobson
-
Charlie Meyers
-
Robert I. McCarthy
1920 - 2007
Luigi Giuntoli
1896 - 1971
Barbara Leonard
1908 - 1971
Edwin Grant
-
Peter Bratt
Born 1962
Joe Drake (American football)
1963 - 1994
Vince Tringali
1928 - 2010
Benjamin Bowditch Thayer
1862 - 1933
Richard Harnett
-
Agnes Regan
1869 - 1943
Frances Wasserlein
1946 - 2015
Pierre N. Charbonnet Jr.
1922 - 2005
Andy Yttri
1958 - 1993
Taylor Johns
Born 1994
Bruce Grant (Saxophonist)
1949 - 2009
Shawn Spikes
Born 1996
James L. Quigley
-
Mary Estill Buchanan
Born 1934
Verdi Boyer
1911 - 2003
Phyllis Theroux
Born 1939
Carl-Henrik Sölvinger
Born 1980
Alexander J. Dessler
Born 1928