List of people from Palo Alto
This is a list of notable people from the Palo Alto, California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in Palo Alto, or for whom Palo Alto is a significant part of their identity.
Actors
- Zach Appelman, actor known for the television series Sleepy Hollow, born and raised in Palo Alto and Palo Alto High alumnus[1]
- Dave Franco, actor, born in Palo Alto[2]
- James Franco, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, author, was born in Palo Alto.[3]
- Neva Gerber, silent screen actress, moved to Palo Alto after she married San Francisco oil geologist Edward F. Nolan.[4]
- Charles Haid, actor and director, Hill Street Blues, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1961[5][6]
- Teri Hatcher, actress known for Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, was born in Palo Alto.[7]
- Amy Irving, actress known for Crossing Delancey and Yentl, was born in Palo Alto[8]
- Željko Ivanek, actor known for 24, Damages, Madam Secretary, and Ellwood P. Cubberley High School alumnus[9]
- Ellen K, radio personality and television host, born in Palo Alto
- Brandis Kemp, actress known for television series Fridays.
- Shemar Moore, actor and model, Gunn High School alumnus
- Rick Rossovich, actor known for Top Gun, Roxanne, The Terminator
- Alessandra Torresani, actress known for Caprica, born and raised in Palo Alto[10]
- Bree Turner, actress known for the television series Grimm, born in Palo Alto
Artists and designers
- Margo Davis, photographer.[11]
- Helen Katharine Forbes, muralist and painter, grew up in Palo Alto.[12]
- Ollie Johnston, Academy Award–winning Disney animator, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia[13]
- Yvonne Rainer, modern dancer and filmmaker[14]
- Michael H. Riley, Emmy Award-nominated motion graphics designer and art director, grew up in Palo Alto
Business leaders and entrepreneurs
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc.
- Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
- David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! Inc.
- Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow
- William Hewlett, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
- Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos
- Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle Corporation, past chairman, chief executive officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard
- Steve Jobs, deceased co-founder of Apple Inc.; lived in Palo Alto 1980–2011; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
- Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
- Marissa Mayer, CEO and president of Yahoo!, former vice president of search products & user experience at Google
- Elon Musk,[15] CEO of TESLA Motors, SpaceX, chairman of SolarCity, former PayPal chairman, dropped out of the Ph.D program at Stanford University
- Merrill Newman, retired tech CEO, 85-year-old Channing House resident, Korean War veteran
- David Packard, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
- Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, was a graduate student at Stanford
- Vishal Sikka, CEO of Infosys
- Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook, CEO of Myspace, COO of Zynga
- Romesh Wadhwani, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
- Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
- Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook.
Musicians
- William Ackerman, acoustic guitarist, founded influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.[16]
- Joan Baez, folk singer went to school in Palo Alto[17] and now resides in Woodside, California.[18]
- Lindsey Buckingham, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac, born and raised in Palo Alto[19][20]
- Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Palo Alto native.[21]
- The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band; early incarnations of band were based in Palo Alto.[22]
- The Donnas, rock group, met while growing up in Palo Alto, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1997.[23][24]
- Stephan Jenkins, rock musician with Third Eye Blind and Gunn High School alumnus class of 1983.[25]
- Ugly Kid Joe, rock band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt grew up in Palo Alto,[26] as did producer Eric Valentine
- The Kingston Trio,[27] a folk group formed in Palo Alto while its members were enrolled at Stanford University and nearby Menlo College
- Grace Slick, singer with the rock group Jefferson Airplane, later known as Jefferson Starship[28]
Politicians and civil servants
- Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and political pundit
- Jerry Daniels, CIA officer in Laos during the Vietnam War[29]
- Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States
- Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S Ambassador to China
- Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
- Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
- Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary[30]
- Ron Wyden, US Senator
Writers
- David M. Alexander, science-fiction and crime novelist, attorney
- Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist, creator of Perry Mason[31]
- Marty Klein, (born 1950) is an American sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst.
- Michael Lederer, author
- Julia Flynn Siler, journalist and nonfiction author[32]
- Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator
- Tad Williams, New York Times best-selling author
- Yvor Winters, poet, known as the "Sage of Palo Alto"[33]
Scientists
- Richard R. Ernst, Nobel laureate in chemistry, worked at Varian Associates in Palo Alto[34]
- Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, author, college professor. Attended Cubberly High School and while there built an atom smasher in his parents' garage.[35]
- Brian Kobilka, Nobel laureate in chemistry, lives in Palo ALto
- Pamela Melroy, astronaut, second woman to command a space shuttle mission
- Perley Ason Ross, physicist who worked on essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays
- Robert Spinrad (1932–2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.[36]
- William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist[37]
- Gene F. Franklin, control engineer and NASA scientist.
Athletes
- Matt Biondi, swimmer, won a total of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto
- Jim Harbaugh, football player, head coach of Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers and Michigan[38]
- Charles Wright, professional wrestler, formerly working for WWE as Papa Shango and The Godfather
- Tony Hargain, NFL player
- Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player, regarded as one of the best holds a record of 14 WSOP bracelets with total earnings of more than 20 million to date
- Katie Hoff, Olympic swimmer, Palo Alto native
- Adam Juratovac, Professional Football player, Arena Bowl XXIII Champion, Alumnus of Gunn High School
- Dana Kirk, Olympic swimmer, coaches for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics
- Tara Kirk, swam with Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, Olympic swimmer, American record holder in 100 and 200-yard (180 m) breaststroke
- Francie Larrieu-Smith, long-distance runner, first female athlete to make five Olympic teams, born in Palo Alto
- Jeremy Lin, basketball player for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, alumnus of Palo Alto High School
- Jim Loscutoff, basketball player who won seven NBA championships with Boston Celtics[39][40]
- Don MacLean, UCLA and NBA basketball player[41]
- Joc Pederson, baseball player for Los Angeles Dodgers
- Dan Petry, pitcher for 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Palo Alto
- Tim Rossovich, professional football player
- Dave Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
- Mark Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
- Pop Warner (early football player & coach) head coach 8 colleges including Stanford University (1924–1932), lived and died Palo Alto died (83) September 7, 1954 resided 251 Madrono Ave.
- Steve Young, former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers and NFL Hall of Famer.[42]
See also
- List of people from Oakland, California
- List of people from San Francisco
- List of people from San Jose, California
- List of people from Santa Cruz, California
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- ↑ "Around Town". Palo Alto Online. 1996-02-14. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
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- ↑ Kazak, Don (November 3, 2004). "Looking into the lens". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ↑ Hailey, Gene (January 1, 1937). California Art Research, Volume 16 (Abstract) (PDF). W.P.A. Project 2874. p. 78.
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