List of San Franciscans
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This is a list of famous San Franciscans; people associated with San Francisco, California, USA:
- Albert Abrams, medical equipment inventor
- Ansel Adams, photographer
- Gracie Allen, comedian
- Abe Attell, boxer
- Bill Bixby, actor
- Mel Blanc, voiceover actor
- Barry Bonds, baseball player
- Bobby Bonds, baseball player
- Lisa Bonet, actress
- Benjamin Bratt, actor
- Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Associate Justice
- Jerry Brown, former Governor of California
- Pat Brown, former Governor of California
- Dolph Camilli, baseball player
- Tucker Carlson, television host
- Margaret Cho, comedian and actress
- Joe Cronin, baseball player
- Joe DiMaggio, baseball player
- Greg Downs, author
- Isadora Duncan, "mother" of Modern Dance
- Clint Eastwood, actor and movie director
- Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator
- Abigail Folger, Charles Manson murder victim
- Robert Frost, poet
- Jerry Garcia, singer
- Gordon Getty oil philanthropist
- Clifford Geertz, anthropologist
- Danny Glover, actor
- Vince Guaraldi, composer of music for Peanuts animated cartoons
- Kirk Hammett, musician
- William Randolph Hearst, publisher
- Shirley Jackson, author
- Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's
- Tony Lazzeri was born in San Francisco on Dec 6, 1903
- Bruce Lee, Actor and Martial Artist.
- Mervyn LeRoy, film director and producer
- Huey Lewis (of Huey Lewis & the News), Singer and actor
- Jack London, author
- Courtney Love, musician
- Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense
- Jeremy McGrath, MX rider
- Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's law
- Gavin Newsom mayor
- Kristina Olsen, musician
- Sean Penn, actor
- Rob Schneider, actor
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- William T. Shorey, First Black SF Sea Captain
- Alicia Silverstone, actress
- O.J. Simpson, football player
- Gary Snyder, poet
- Lincoln Steffens, journalist, communist
- David Strathairn, Academy Award-nominated actor
- Phillip Terry, actor
- Walter Tevis, author
- William Ware Theiss, costume designer
- Robert Alfred Theobald, US Navy Rear Admiral and author
- Alice B. Toklas, lover of writer Gertrude Stein, Toklas' memoirs and autobiography after the death of Stein
- Jay Ward, creator and producer of animated TV series (E.G. Rocky & Bullwinkle)
- Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense
- Stuart Whitman, actor
- Naomi Wolf, writer
- B.D. Wong, actor
- Beatrice Wood, artist
- Natalie Wood, actress
- John W. Young, astronaut
- Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., US Navy Admiral
[edit] Notable non-native San Francisco residents
- Maya Angelou, poet
- Ambrose Bierce, journalist and author
- Clark Blaise, Canadian author
- Victor Burgin, artist
- Vanessa Carlton, singer
- Herb Caen, newspaper columnist
- Carol Channing, actress and comedian
- Chris Columbus, film director
- Francis Ford Coppola, film director
- Andrew Smith Hallidie, promoter of the first cable car line
- George Hearst, politician
- Phoebe Hearst, first woman Regent of the University of California
- Philip Kaufman, film director
- Jason Kidd, NBA player
- James Lick, real estate investor
- Cheech Marin, actor
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, activists, first same-sex couple to get a marriage license in San Francisco
- Kirke Mechem, composer
- Midori, author and (kinky) sex educator
- Harvey Milk, former city supervisor of San Francisco
- The Mitchell brothers, Jim and Artie, adult industry pioneers
- Joe Montana, football player
- Emperor Norton, notable local eccentric
- Gary Payton, NBA player
- William Chapman Ralston, founder of the Bank of California
- Anne Rice, author
- Tina Root, ex-vocalist of the now defunct darkwave band Switchblade Symphony
- Michael Savage, conservative radio personality
- Danielle Steel, author
- Robert Louis Stevenson, from 1879 to 1880
- Sharon Stone, actress
- Amy Tan, author
- Mark Twain, author
- Wayne Wang, film director
- Robert Wartenberg, neurologist
- Oscar Wilde, spent 1882 there
- Cecil Williams, pastor
- Robin Williams, actor
- Martin Yan, television chef
