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This is a list of famous San Franciscans; people associated with San Francisco, California, USA: Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ...


Notable non-native San Francisco residents: Albert Abrams (1863–1924) was a quack and a fraud, posing as a doctor in San Francisco, whose tool for gaining profit from the gullible was a variety of electricity therapy he called ERA, or Electronic Reactions of Abrams. ... The Tetons - Snake River (1942) by Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, known for his black and white photographs of the Californias Yosemite Valley. ... Gracie Allen, wife of comic legend George Burns, who started show business in vaudeville, became famous when teamed with him. ... Abraham Washington Attell (born February 22, 1884 in San Francisco, California, United States – died February 6, 1970 in New Paltz, New York), better known in the boxing world as Abe Attell, was a boxer who became known for his involvement in scandals as well as for his long period as... Bill Bixby with Lou Ferrigno in a promotional photo for The Incredible Hulk. ... Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989), was a famous American voice actor for both classic American radio programs and many animation studios, primarily the Warner Bros. ... Barry Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for Major League Baseballs San Francisco Giants. ... Bobby Lee Bonds (March 15, 1946 – August 23, 2003) was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1968 to 1981. ... Lisa Bonet Lisa Michelle Boney (born November 16, 1967), who is known in the entertainment world as Lisa Bonet, is an American actress who is a native of San Francisco, California. ... Benjamin Bratt as Detective Reynaldo Curtis on Law & Order. ... Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American attorney, political figure, and jurist. ... Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown, Jr. ... Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. ... Adolph Louis Camilli (April 23, 1907 - October 21, 1997) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers. ... Tucker Carlson Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969 in San Francisco, California) is a conservative pundit who currently hosts The Situation with Tucker Carlson on cable news network MSNBC, and is a contributor to two magazines, Esquire and the conservative Weekly Standard. ... Margaret Cho, with Prairie Dawn of Sesame Street Margaret Cho (born Moran Cho on December 5, 1968 in San Francisco, California) is a Korean-American comedian and actress. ... Joe Cronin Joseph Edward Cronin (October 12, 1906 – September 7, 1984) was a Major League Baseball player from 1926 to 1945 and manager from 1933 to 1947. ... Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio , born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. ... Portrait photograph by Arnold Genthe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from California, a position she has held since 1992. ... Abigail Anne Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite and member of the prominent United States Folger family. ... Portrait of Frost c. ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was famous as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. ... Son of business titan J. Paul Getty (d. ... Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. ... Danny Glover at World Social Forum 2003. ... Vince Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 - February 6, 1976) was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. ... Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962 in El Sobrante, California, USA) is the lead guitarist in heavy metal group Metallica. ... William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. ... Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 [1]– August 8, 1965) was an American author who wrote short stories and novels. ... Lewis H. Lapham (born January 8, 1935) is the editor of the American monthly Harpers Magazine. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly magazine of politics and culture. ... Anthony Michael Lazzeri (December 6, 1903 in San Francisco, California- August 6, 1946 in San Francisco, California), better known as Tony Lazzeri, was a Major League Baseball player during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees. ... Bruce Lee in the film Enter the Dragon. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. ... Huey Lewis, sporting a Tape a record, go to prison sleeveless T-shirt. ... Huey Lewis & the News, formerly known as Huey Lewis & the American Express, are a popular U.S. rock band based in San Francisco, California whose greatest success was in the 1980s, when they were one of the most popular music acts of the decade. ... Photograph of Jack London. ... Courtney Michelle Love[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole. ... Robert McNamara in 1964 Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916) is an American business executive and a former United States Secretary of Defense. ... Jeremy McGrath was born November 19, 1971 in San Francisco, California. ... Gordon Moore Gordon Earl Moore (born January 3, 1929) is co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moores law. ... The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. ... Growth of transistor counts for Intel processors (dots) and Moores Law (upper line=18 months; lower line=24 months) Moores Law is the 1965 prediction by Gordon Moore (co-founder of Intel) that the transistor density of semiconductor chips would double roughly every 18 months. ... San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, California. ... Kristina Olsen is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter from San Francisco, known for her sometimes humorous and ribald songs. ... Sean Penn at Cannes, 2000 Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Rob Schneider Martin Robert Schneider (born October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for his lowbrow films. ... Liev Schreiber Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American Tony Award-winning actor. ... Alicia Silverstone Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. ... Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California), publicly known by the initials O.J., and nicknamed The Juice, was a Hall of Fame college and professional football player and film actor. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. ... Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866–August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. ... David Russell Strathairn (born on January 26, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. ... Phillip Terry (March 7, 1909 - February 23, 1993) was an American actor. ... Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 - August 8, 1984) was an American author. ... William Ware Theiss (November 20, 1930 - December 15, 1992), also called Bill Theiss, was a costume designer for television and film. ... Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was the lover of writer Gertrude Stein. ... Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... J. Troplong Jay Ward (September 20, 1920–October 12, 1989) was a creator and producer of animated television cartoons. ... The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (also known as Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show) was a television animated series created and produced in the USA by Jay Ward. ... Caspar Weinberger in his official Department of Defence publicity photo circa 1983. ... Stuart Whitman Stuart Whitman (born February 1, 1926 or, according to other sources 1928 or 1929) is an American actor arguably best known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967, co-starring with John Wayne in the western movie The Comancheros in 1961... Naomi Wolf is a bestselling American writer. ... B.D. Wong in L&O:SVU B.D. Wong (Chinese: 黃榮亮; Hanyu Pinyin: ; born October 24, 1962) is an openly gay American actor who has had roles in All American Girl, Oz, Jurassic Park and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. ... Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and ceramist, who late in life was dubbed the Mama of Dada, and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Camerons 1997 film, Titanic. ... Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko) (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981), was an American film actress. ... John W. Young in 1986 John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972. ... Elmo R. Zumwalt Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. ...


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San Francisco (8053 words)
San Francisco is renowned for its months-long episodes of fog, steep rolling hills, an eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, its peninsular location (surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay), and its liberal cultural and political identity.
San Francisco is located on the west coast of the U.S. at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries.
The estimated 2006 population of San Francisco is 798,680, surpassing the dot-com boom peak of 776,733 in 2000.
Top20SanFrancisco.com - Your Top20Guide to San Francisco, CA. (6574 words)
Insular San Francisco includes several islands in the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Strait, notably Alcatraz, Treasure Island, and the Farallon Islands 27 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
San Francisco's charisteristic foggy weather and geography led early European explorers, including Juan Cabrillo and Sir Francis Drake (who would instead land a few miles north in Point Reyes), to pass by the Golden Gate and miss the San Francisco Bay.
The above-ground Columbarium of San Francisco was allowed to remain, as well as the historic cemetery at the Mission Dolores Church and The San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco.
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