List of personalities from San Francisco
This list includes people who were born in the US city of San Francisco ( California ) and those who worked in San Francisco but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
19th century
1801-1870
- Henry Patrice Dillon (1850 / 1851–1909), painter and lithographer
- Clay M. Greene (1850-1933), writer
- Maggie Moore (1851-1926), actress
- David Belasco (1853–1931), playwright, director, theater producer and screenwriter
- John Hays Hammond (1855–1936), geologist, mining engineer and diplomat
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter
- Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), writer
- Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), archaeologist and anthropologist
- George Pardee (1857–1941), politician and the 21st Governor of California
- Julia Platt (1857–1935), vertebrate embryologist and politician
- Genevieve Stebbins (1857-1934), author
- George Fillmore Swain (1857-1931), civil engineer
- Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859–1927), American-French neurologist
- James Francis Smith (1859–1928), Brigadier General and Governor General of the Philippines
- John-Antoine Nau (1860-1918), French writer
- Edward Breck (1861–1929), author, diplomat, spy, fencer and golfer
- William Arms Fisher (1861–1948), composer, music historian and publisher
- Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942), astronomer
- James D. Phelan (1861–1930), politician and banker
- Theodore Roberts (1861-1928), actor
- George Henry Falkiner Nuttall (1862–1937), British biologist
- William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), publisher and media tsar
- Eugene Schmitz (1864–1928), politician
- James J. Corbett (1866-1933), boxer
- Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936), journalist and publisher
- Edgar Seligman (1867-1958), British fencer
- Henry Bergman (1868–1946), actor and assistant director
- Joe Choynski (1868-1943), heavyweight boxer
- Percy Gray (1869–1952), painter
- Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940), painter
- James Rolph (1869–1934), politician; California Governor and Mayor of San Francisco
1871-1880
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- David David-Weill (1871–1952), French banker, art collector and patron
- William Hammond Wright (1871-1959), astronomer
- John Van Denburgh (1872-1924), herpetologist
- Julia Morgan (1872–1957), architect
- William H. Clifford (1874–1938), screenwriter and director
- Joseph Erlanger (1874–1965), neurophysiologist
- Robert Frost (1874–1963), poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Frank Elmore Ross (1874–1960), astronomer and physicist
- Edward Cucuel (1875–1954), painter
- Georgia Caine (1876–1964), actress
- Jack London (1876-1916), writer
- George Butte (1877–1940), politician and legal scholar
- Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), dancer
- Josephine Lovett (1877-1958), screenwriter
- Judah Leon Magnes (1877–1948), rabbi of Reform Judaism
- Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), cookbook author
- Helen Ware (1877–1939), actress
- Harry Bernard (1878-1940), actor
- Jimmy Britt (1879–1940), lightweight boxer
- Francis Bruguière (1879–1945), photographer, director, painter and sculptor
- Laura Hope Crews (1879–1942), actress
- Jesse L. Lasky (1880-1958), film producer
- Kathleen Norris (1880–1966), writer
1881-1890
- James W. Horne (1881–1942), film director, screenwriter and actor
- Thomas E. Selfridge (1882–1908), first casualty from motorized aviation
- Martin Flavin (1883–1967), writer
- Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), cartoonist
- Frank Haller (1883-1939), boxer
- Francis Honeycutt (1883–1940), fencer and army officer
- Frankie Neil (1883-1970), bantamweight boxer
- Robert John Armstrong (1884–1957), Roman Catholic Bishop of Sacramento
- Abe Attell (1884-1970), boxer
- Robert Alfred Theobald (1884–1957), admiral
- Ernie Adams (1885-1947), actor
- Monte Attell (1885–1958), bantamweight boxer
- Louise Bryant (1885–1936), journalist and author
- Catherine Gertrude Hoffman (1885–1966), dancer and choreographer
- Heinie Conklin (1886–1959), actor and comedian
- Al Ernest Garcia (1887–1938), actor, director and casting director
- Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986), science fiction illustrator
- Clarence Griffin (1888–1973), tennis player
- Percy Kilbride (1888–1964), actor
- Frances Marion (1888–1973), screenwriter and director
- Walter Catlett (1889–1960), actor
- Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), actress
- Daniel J. Callaghan (1890-1942), Admiral
- Chester M. Franklin (1890–1954), film director, silent film actor, film producer and author
- Jay McLean (1890–1957), physician and medical researcher, discoverer of heparin
- Roland Totheroh (1890–1967), cameraman
1891-1900
- Frederick Jacobi (1891–1952), composer
- George Paul Miller (1891–1982), politician
- Willie Ritchie (1891-1975), boxer
- Lindley Murray (1892-1970), tennis player
- Ruth Roland (1892–1937), actress
- James David Zellerbach (1892–1963), entrepreneur and diplomat
- Sidney Franklin (1893–1972), director and film producer
- Beatrice Wood (1893–1998), writer and object artist of Dadaism and Surrealism
- Phyllida Ashley (1894-1975), pianist
- David Butler (1894–1979), film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer
- Harry Heilmann (1894–1951), baseball player
- Bill Johnston (1894-1946), tennis player
- Lewis Martin (1894–1969), actor
- Hal Mohr (1894–1974), cameraman
- Jimmy Murphy (1894-1924), racing car driver
- Feg Murray (1894–1973), track and field athlete
- Elmer Robinson (1894–1982), lawyer and politician; Mayor of San Francisco
- LeRoy Stone (1894-1949), film editor
- Walter Wanger (1894–1968), film producer
- Will Wright (1894–1962), character actor
- Gracie Allen (1895–1964), actress
- Fay Babcock (1895–1970), production designer
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), photographer
- Aileen Pringle (1895-1989), actress
- Alfred Santell (1895–1981), film director
- Stanton A. Coblentz (1896–1982), writer
- Lenore J. Coffee (1896-1984), screenwriter
- Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979), director
- Earle Nelson (1897-1928), serial killer
- Alma Rubens (1897–1931), silent film actress
- Charlie Doe (1898-1995), rugby union player
- George Eldredge (1898–1977), actor
- Fred Guiol (1898–1964), screenwriter, cameraman, film director and film producer
- George O'Brien (1899–1985), actor
- Mervyn LeRoy (1900–1987), film director and producer
- Boris Pash (1900-1995), Colonel
- Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978), singer, composer and political activist
- Heaton Wrenn (1900-1978), rugby union player
20th century
1901-1910
- Hugo Friedhofer (1901–1981), film composer
- Ansel Adams (1902–1984), photographer
- Charles Barton (1902-1981), director
- John McCone (1902–1991), government official and director of the CIA
- Lloyd Nolan (1902–1985), actor
- Irving Asher (1903–1985), film producer
- Alfred Boeddeker (1903–1994), Franciscan, Catholic theologian
- Elisha Cook (1903-1995), actor
- Tony Lazzeri (1903-1946), baseball player
- Sterling Noel (1903-1984), writer
- Winthrop Sargeant (1903–1986), music critic
- Irving Stone (1903-1989), writer
- Raymond Bailey (1904–1980), actor
- Delmer Daves (1904–1977), screenwriter and director
- John Eldredge (1904–1961), actor
- Louise Lorraine (1904–1981), actress
- Pat Brown (1905–1996), politician and 32nd Governor of California
- Hugh Aloysius Donohoe (1905–1987), Roman Catholic bishop
- Charles Lane (1905-2007), actor
- Lionel Lindon (1905–1971), Oscar-winning cameraman
- John Shelley (1905–1974), politician
- Joe Cronin (1906-1984), baseball player
- Emerson Spencer (1906-1985), sprinter
- Kam Tong (1906–1969), actor
- Philip Fisher (1907-2004), securities analyst and asset manager
- Frankie Klick (1907-1982), boxer
- Lynn Townsend White (1907–1987), medievalist and historian of science
- Mel Blanc (1908–1989), radio play and voice actor
- Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909–1976), track and field athlete
- Henri LaBorde (1909-1993), track and field athlete
- Phillip Terry (1909-1993), actor
- Olin C. Wilson (1909-1994), astronomer
- Burton Jastram (1910-1995), rower
- Phyllis M. Kaberry (1910-1977), anthropologist
- Wini Shaw (1910–1982), actress and singer
1911-1920
- Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Larry Lansburgh (1911–2001), film producer, film director, screenwriter and cameraman
- Frederick Seitz (1911–2008), President of Rockefeller University
- Fred Apostoli (1913–1973), middleweight boxer
- Sam Ruben (1913-1943), chemist
- James Joseph Sweeney (1913–1968), Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
- Virginia Coffman (1914-2005), screenwriter
- Jack LaLanne (1914–2011), founder of the fitness movement
- Dorian Shainin (1914–2000), management consultant
- Pat Welsh (1915–1995), actress
- Victor Sen Yung (1915–1980), actor
- Carel B. Germain (1916–1995), social scientist
- Denham Harman (1916-2014), biogerontologist
- Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), writer
- Hank Luisetti (1916-2002), basketball player
- Robert McNamara (1916–2009), Ford executive, US Secretary of Defense, World Bank President
- Jack Vance (1916-2013), science fiction writer
- Jule Gregory Charney (1917-1981), meteorologist
- Michael S. Davison (1917-2006), General
- Andy Marefos (1917-1996), American football player
- Barry Nelson (1917-2007), actor; first cast member of the secret agent James Bond
- Caspar Weinberger (1917–2006), US Secretary of Defense
- Peter Bowers (1918–2003), aviation journalist and engineer
- John DeCuir (1918-1991), film architect
- Marjorie Lord (1918-2015), film and television actress
- Richard E. Lyng (1918–2003), US Secretary of Agriculture
- Jocelyn Brando (1919–2005), actress
- Bob Drake (1919–1990), racing car driver
- Joseph Hunt (1919–1945), tennis player
- Sam Angel (1920-2007), poker player
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Bob Feerick (1920-1976), basketball player
- Charles Ginsburg (1920–1992), pioneer of magnetic tape recording technology
- Hal March (1920–1970), comedian, actor, television presenter and screenwriter
- Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981), pianist
- Elmo R. Zumwalt (1920-2000), Admiral
1921-1930
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- Richard Egan (1921–1987), actor and stunt man
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012), Japanese-American photographer
- Del Martin (1921–2008), journalist, author and LGBT activist
- Miriam Solovieff (1921–2004), violinist and music teacher
- Patricia Todd (1922-2015), tennis player
- James Hardy (1923-1986), rower
- Paul Desmond (1924–1977), cool jazz saxophonist
- Victoria Draves (1924-2010), water diver
- Brenda Helser (1924-2001), swimmer
- Bill Perkins (1924-2003), jazz musician
- Paula Raymond (1924–2003), actress, singer, dancer and photo model
- Rex Downing (born 1925), actor
- Eddie Duran (1925-2019), jazz guitarist
- Victor Klee (1925–2007), mathematician
- Pierre Koenig (1925–2004), architect
- Robert Linn (1925–1999), composer and music teacher
- Jerry Paris (1925–1986), actor and director
- Pierre Salinger (1925–2004), journalist and press officer
- Jerry Wunderlich (1925–1999), production designer
- Ann Curtis (1926–2012), swimmer
- Clifford Geertz (1926-2006), ethnologist and anthropologist
- Earl Bernard Murray (1926–2002), trumpeter and conductor
- Francis Thomas Hurley (1927-2016), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Anchorage
- José de Jesús Madera Uribe (1927–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Fresno
- Allen Newell (1927–1992), computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, Turing Prize winner
- Gregg Palmer (1927-2015), film actor
- Sam Spence (1927–2016), film composer and conductor
- Dick Stanfel (1927-2015), American football player
- Philip Wolfe (1927–2016), mathematician
- Victor Wong (1927-2001), actor
- Donald G. Fisher (1928-2009), entrepreneur
- Leon Fleisher (1928-2020), pianist
- Vince Guaraldi (1928–1976), jazz musician
- Walter Tevis (1928–1984), writer
- Stuart Whitman (1928-2020), actor
- Frank Wolff (1928–1971), actor
- Gordon Moore (* 1929), co-founder of Intel
- George Moscone (1929–1978), politician and mayor of the city of San Francisco
- Bradford Dillman (1930-2018), film actor
- Clint Eastwood (born 1930), actor and film director
- Jim Loscutoff (1930-2015), basketball player
- Gary Snyder (born 1930), writer and environmental activist
- Jim Walsh (1930-1976), basketball player
- Joan Weldon (born 1930), actress and singer
- John Watts Young (1930-2018), astronaut
1931-1940
- Paul Mantee (1931–2013), actor and novelist
- Mala Powers (1931–2007), actress
- Bob St. Clair (1931-2015), American football player
- Robert Bechtle (* 1932), painter and graphic artist
- Susan Brown (1932-2018), actress
- Dian Fossey (1932-1985), zoologist
- Patricia Bosworth (1933-2020), journalist, actress and author
- Dianne Feinstein (* 1933), politician
- Lloyd J. Old (1933-2011), immunologist
- Talus Taylor (1933–2015), children's author and illustrator
- Bill Bixby (1934-1993), actor
- John Heilbron (* 1934), science historian
- Charles Nuetzel (* 1934), author and publisher
- Barre Phillips (* 1934), jazz musician
- Yvonne Rainer (* 1934), choreographer and filmmaker
- Don Friedman (1935-2016), jazz pianist
- Johnny Mathis (* 1935), singer and entertainer
- Burny Mattinson (born 1935), animator and screenwriter
- Pete Gross (1936–1992), sports commentator
- Cliff Bole (1937-2014), director
- Bruce Brown (1937-2017), documentary filmmaker
- Joseph S. Nelson (1937-2011), Canadian zoologist
- Dale Russell (1937-2019), Canadian paleontologist
- James J. Sheehan (born 1937), historian
- Daniel Francis Walsh (* 1937), former Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa in California
- Joan Blackman (born 1938), actress
- Stephen Breyer (born 1938), lawyer and US Supreme Court Justice
- Jerry Brown (born 1938), politician and governor of California
- Timothy Gallwey (* 1938), non-fiction author
- Natalie Wood (1938–1981), actress
- George Archer (1939-2005), golfer
- Craig R. Barrett (* 1939), engineer, manager, former board member and CEO of Intel
- Dick Berk (1939–2014), jazz drummer
- Peter K. Elkus (* 1939), singing teacher
- Jack N. Green (born 1939), cameraman
- Jake Holmes (* 1939), folk singer and songwriter
- Richard Serra (* 1939), sculptor
- Charles Webb (1939-2020), writer
- Mary Heilmann (* 1940), abstract painter
- Bruce Lee (1940–1973), actor and martial artist
- Peter Lyman (1940–2007), information scientist
- Brent McCall (1940-2019), composer
- Eddie Moore (1940–1990), jazz musician
- Robert Primes (* 1940), cameraman
- George Seifert (born 1940), American football coach
- William Yeager (born 1940), engineer
1941-1950
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1941-1945
- Stephen A. Benton (1941-2003), physics professor
- Sam Farr (born 1941), politician
- Robert Hass (* 1941), poet
- Paul Kantner (1941–2016), rock musician
- Orley Ashenfelter (* 1942), economist
- Richard Beggs (* 1942), sound designer and sound engineer
- Rick Boyle (1942–2016), photojournalist and screenwriter
- Andraé Crouch (1942–2015), gospel singer and pianist
- Barry Diller (* 1942), manager and entrepreneur
- Jerry Garcia (1942–1995), musician
- Mark Berger (* 1943), sound engineer
- Abigail Folger (1943–1969), murder victim
- Jim Poynter (born 1943), production designer
- Carolyn Schuler (* 1943), swimmer
- JT Walsh (1943-1998), actor
- Jim Gray (1944–2012; lost 2007), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Laurence Owen (1944–1961), figure skater
- Chris von Saltza (* 1944), swimmer
- Jeffrey Tambor (born 1944), actor
- Victoria Vetri (born 1944), actress
- Leonard Adleman (* 1945), computer scientist, molecular biologist, Turing Prize winner
- Pete Christlieb (* 1945), saxophonist
- Peter Donald (* 1945), jazz drummer
- David Dukes (1945-2000), actor
- Jay Hammer (born 1945), actor
- Leonard Lake (1945–1985), serial killer
- Greil Marcus (* 1945), author and music journalist
- Vonetta McGee (1945-2010), actress
- Duncan Suttles (* 1945), Canadian chess player
- Susan Tyrrell (1945–2012), actress
1946-1950
- Danny Glover (born 1946), actor
- Christina Maslach (* 1946), psychologist
- Skeeter McKitterick (born 1946), racing car driver
- Joe Spano (born 1946), actor
- Darius Brubeck (* 1947), jazz musician
- John Celona (* 1947), composer, saxophonist, conductor and music teacher
- Richard John Garcia (1947–2018), Roman Catholic Bishop of Monterey, California
- Linda Gottfredson (* 1947), psychologist
- Peter Montgomery (1947-2020), mathematician
- John Powell (born 1947), discus thrower
- OJ Simpson (born 1947), football star and actor
- Bob Weir (born 1947), guitarist
- Allan Alcorn (* 1948), electrical engineer; Developer of the video game Pong
- Michael Blumlein (1948–2019), writer
- Robert Boyd (* 1948), anthropologist
- Rosie Casals (born 1948), tennis player
- Robert Christian (1948–2019), Roman Catholic religious, auxiliary bishop in San Francisco
- Daria Halprin (* 1948), actress and art therapist
- Mike Holmgren (* 1948), American football coach, official and player
- David Cay Johnston (born 1948), investigative journalist
- Dennis Ross (* 1948), diplomat
- Nancy Stanton (* 1948), mathematician
- Robert Dickow (* 1949), composer, horn player and music teacher
- Dave Frey (1949-2015), jazz musician
- Bruce Grant (1949–2009), jazz musician
- Ned Lagin (* 1949), electronica and avant-garde keyboardist
- David Levinthal (* 1949), photo artist
- Irene Mecchi (* 1949), writer and screenwriter
- Michael Shrieve (* 1949), drummer, producer and composer
- David Strathairn (born 1949), actor
- Joe Louis Walker (* 1949), blues guitarist
- Terry Bozzio (born 1950), drummer
- David Eyges (* 1950), jazz musician and music producer
- Paul Otellini (1950–2017), Manager, Chief Executive Officer of Intel
- Jackie Speier (* 1950), politician
- John Charles Wester (* 1950), Roman Catholic clergyman and archbishop
1951-1960
- Pete Carroll (born 1951), American football player and coach
- Todd Cochran (* 1951), jazz and fusion pianist and keyboardist
- Barry Finnerty (* 1951), fusion musician
- Dan Fouts (born 1951), American football player
- Goa Gil (* 1951), Goa and psytrance DJ, producer and organizer of festivals and open-air parties
- Steven G. Krantz (* 1951), mathematician
- Mary Cleere Haran (1952-2011), jazz singer
- Jeffrey Frankel (* 1952), economist
- Mary Ellen Trainor (1952-2015), actress
- Sharon Walsh-Pete (born 1952), tennis player
- Alex Webb (* 1952), photographer
- Darol Anger (* 1953), musician
- Philip Anglim (born 1953), actor
- Benny Brown (1953-1996), sprinter
- Colleen Camp (* 1953), actress and film producer
- Arthur Dong (* 1953), film producer, film director, screenwriter and film editor
- Kurt Fuller (born 1953), actor
- Joanna Kerns (* 1953), actress and director
- Martha Wash (* 1953), singer
- Patty Hearst (* 1954), millionaire heiress and actress
- Anne Lamott (* 1954), writer
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954-2006), mezzo-soprano
- Gerald Posner (* 1954), journalist and author
- Nancy Wilson (* 1954), songwriter, guitarist, singer
- Scott Bradfield (born 1955), writer
- Charles H. Ferguson (* 1955), film director and film producer
- Mark Galvin (* 1955), Irish racing driver
- Warren Jeffs (* 1955), leader of the FLDS
- Steve Jobs (1955-2011), co-founder of Apple
- Hoyt Yeatman (* 1955), film director
- Rick DeMont (born 1956), swimmer
- Marco Evoniuk (* 1957), walker
- Tama Janowitz (* 1957), writer
- Michael Lehmann (* 1957), director
- Kevin Pollak (* 1957), actor and comedian
- Mitchell Amundsen (* 1958), cameraman
- Michael Formanek (* 1958), jazz bassist and composer
- David Miller (* 1958), Mayor of Toronto
- Sharon Robinson (* 1958), singer, composer and music producer
- Paul Cayard (born 1959), sailor
- Fred Dekker (* 1959), film director and screenwriter
- Lauren Flanigan (born 1959), opera singer
- Peanut Harper (born 1960), tennis player
- Leslie Hendrix (born 1960), actress
- James Isaac (1960–2012), film director
- Shanna McCullough (* 1960), porn actress
- Leland Orser (born 1960), actor
- Audrey Wells (1960–2018), screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Bradley Darryl Wong (born 1960), actor and voice actor
1961-1970
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- John Baez (* 1961), mathematical physicist
- Julie Caitlin Brown (* 1961), musician and actress
- Ingrid Einfeldt (* 1961), actress
- Caroline Kraabel (* 1961), musician
- David Warshofsky (born 1961), actor
- Sonia Wieder-Atherton (* 1961), cellist
- William Baylis (born 1962), sailor
- Mike Bordin (born 1962), musician
- Scott Capurro (born 1962), comedian, writer and actor
- Susan DeMattei (born 1962), cyclist
- Kirk Hammett (born 1962), guitarist
- Erika Stucky (* 1962), singer, accordionist and music cabaret artist
- Diana Thater (* 1962), artist, curator, writer and educator
- Naomi Wolf (* 1962), writer and political activist
- Benjamin Bratt (born 1963), actor
- Pamela Healy (* 1963), sailor
- Rob Schneider (* 1963), actor and screenwriter
- Marc Benioff (* 1964), entrepreneur
- Paul Bostaph (* 1964), drummer
- Laird Hamilton (born 1964), surfer
- Estelle Lau (* 1964), actress and film producer
- Courtney Love (* 1964), musician and actress
- Erin Cressida Wilson (born 1964), screenwriter
- Todd Bridges (* 1965), actor and filmmaker
- Solofa Fatu (* 1965), wrestler
- Alec Mapa (* 1965), actor and comedian
- Rodney Anoa'i (1966-2000), wrestler
- Scooter Barry (born 1966), basketball player
- Jared Goss (* 1966), art historian
- Larry Grenadier (* 1966), jazz bassist
- Tommy Guerrero (* 1966), songwriter and guitarist
- Derek Lam (* 1966), fashion designer
- Keir Pearson (born 1966), screenwriter and rower
- Gina Ravera (* 1966), actress
- Matthew Barney (* 1967), media artist
- Lisa Bonet (* 1967), actress
- Jay Gordon (born 1967), singer
- Gavin Newsom (* 1967), politician
- Liev Schreiber (* 1967), actor
- Courtney Thorne-Smith (born 1967), actress
- Margaret Cho (* 1968), stand-up comedian
- Mark Crear (* 1968), hurdle sprinter
- Dimitri Diatchenko (1968–2020), actor and musician
- Carré Otis (* 1968), photo model and actress
- Rappin '4-Tay (born 1968), rapper
- Nathalie Schneyder (* 1968), synchronized swimmer
- Trevor Traina (* 1968), entrepreneur, designated Ambassador of the United States to Austria
- Noel Van Horn (* 1968), comic artist
- Divine Brown (* 1969), prostitute and porn actress
- Tucker Carlson (* 1969), journalist and talk show host
- Aunjanue Ellis (born 1969), actress
- Kimberly Guilfoyle (* 1969), journalist and former prosecutor
- Greg Rucka (* 1969), author of crime novels and comics
- Yoko Zetterlund (* 1969), volleyball player
- MacKenzie Bezos (* 1970), writer
- Golden Brooks (born 1970), actress
- Alison Elliott (born 1970), actress
- Melissa Hill (* 1970), porn actress
- Aisha Tyler (born 1970), actress
1971-1980
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- China Kantner (* 1971), actress
- Koko (1971-2018), lowland gorilla
- Mary McConneloug (* 1971), cyclist
- Brian Oliver (born 1971), producer
- Sunrise Coigney (born 1972), French-American actress
- Eric Dane (born 1972), actor
- Leslie Mann (born 1972), actress
- Todd Nicholson (* 1972), jazz musician
- Brigid Walsh (born 1972), actress
- Tedy Bruschi (born 1973), American football player
- Edward Umar Fatu (1973-2009), professional wrestler
- MC Frontalot (* 1973), rapper
- Tim Kang (born 1973), actor
- Jason Kidd (born 1973), basketball player
- Monica Lewinsky (* 1973), psychologist
- London Breed (* 1974), Mayor of San Francisco since 2018
- Jocelyn Enriquez (* 1974), pop singer
- Simon Rex (* 1974), actor
- Jennifer Siebel (* 1974), actress and producer
- Jason Thompson (* 1974), editor, journalist and cartoonist
- Justin Whalin (* 1974), actor and film producer
- Daniel Wu (* 1974), actor
- Townsend Bell (* 1975), racing car driver
- LaMonica Garrett (* 1975), actor and producer
- Rawson Marshall Thurber (* 1975), director and screenwriter
- Valerie Fleming (* 1976), bobsleigh athlete
- Jacob Garchik (* 1976), jazz musician
- Erinn Hayes (born 1976), actress
- Tara McPherson (* 1976), painter and illustrator
- Alicia Silverstone (born 1976), actress
- Colin Trevorrow (* 1976), film director, screenwriter and producer
- Sebastian Bea (* 1977), rower
- Adrianna Nicole (* 1977), porn actress
- Crispin Struthers (* around 1978), film editor
- Rider Strong (born 1979), actor
- Flinder Boyd (born 1980), basketball player
- Claire Coffee (born 1980), actress
- Matt Deakin (born 1980), rower
- Lena Hall (* 1980), singer and actress
- Brooks Orpik (born 1980), ice hockey player
- Marla Sokoloff (* 1980), actress and musician
1981-1990
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- Kibwe Johnson (* 1981), hammer thrower
- Hanni El Khatib (* 1981), singer-songwriter
- Ben Kweller (* 1981), musician
- Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), actress
- Alex Partridge (* 1981), British rower
- Aya Cash (born 1982), actress
- Ali Wong (* 1982), actress and stand-up comedian
- Jamie Chung (born 1983), actress
- Elizabeth Ho (born 1983), actress
- Trina Michaels (* 1983), porn actress and wrestling show manager
- Salvador Santana (* 1983), musician and singer
- Reena Sky (* 1983), porn star and actress
- Alexander Wang (* 1983), fashion designer
- Matthew Moy (born 1984), actor
- Aubrey O'Day (* 1984), singer and actress
- Shannon Rowbury (* 1984), middle distance runner
- Matt Seeberger (* 1984), tennis player
- Taran Noah Smith (born 1984), actor
- Phillip Van Dyke (* 1984), actor and voice actor
- Andre Ward (born 1984), boxer
- Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner (* 1984), swimmer
- Ya Boy (born 1984), rapper
- Timothy West (born 1985), poker player
- Guy Wilson (born 1985), actor
- Hannah Cohen (* 1986), singer-songwriter and photographer
- Ashlie Brillault (* 1987), model and film actress
- Darren Criss (* 1987), singer, songwriter and actor
- Sam Querrey (born 1987), tennis player
- Jessica Steffens (* 1987), water polo player
- Francisca Valenzuela (* 1987), singer and actress
- Charlie Carver (born 1988), actor
- Max Carver (* 1988), actor
- Remy LaCroix (* 1988), porn actress
- Jessica Jung (* 1989), singer of the group Girls' Generation
- Kreayshawn (* 1989), rapper
- Isis Taylor (* 1989), porn actress and model
- Tiffany (* 1989), singer
- ZHU (* 1989), DJ
- Monica Barbaro (* 1990), actress
- Tara Lynn Foxx (* 1990), porn actress
- Venus Lux (* 1990), transsexual porn actress
- Gerek Meinhardt (* 1990), foil fencer
- Anna Maria Perez de Taglé (* 1990), actress, model and singer
- Marcus Semien (* 1990), baseball player
1991-2000
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- Hannah Hodson (born 1991), actress
- Kira Kazantsev (* 1991), model and Miss America 2015
- Sebastian Lletget (* 1992), football player
- Sage the Gemini (* 1992), rapper
- Jacqueline Toboni (* 1992), actress
- Maya DiRado (* 1993), swimmer
- Honey Gold (* 1993), porn actress
- Shady Ahdy Iskandar (born 1993), football player
- Celeste Boureille (* 1994), soccer player
- Krystal Jung (* 1994), singer
- Lauv (* 1994), musician
- Alexander Massialas (* 1994), foil fencer
- Tati Gabrielle (* 1996), actress
- Thomas Horn (* 1997), film actor
- Nina O'Brien (* 1997), ski racer
- Sasha Berliner (* 1998), jazz musician
- Catherine Bellis (* 1999), tennis player
Year of birth unknown
- Timothy Björklund (* before 1986), director, producer and animator
- James Laxton (* 20th century), cameraman
- Theodora Skipitares (* 20th century), performance artist
21st century
- Eileen Gu (* 2003), freestyle skier
Personalities related to the city
- James Lick (1796–1876), piano maker
- Joshua Norton (1819–1880), self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States and patron of Mexico
- Theophilus Paschkovsky (1874–1950), Primate of the North American Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Edward Van Sloan (1882–1964), actor
- Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), baseball player
- Harvey Milk (1930–1978), city council politician, activist and civil rights activist
- Wilfried Sätty (1939–1982), German graphic artist
- Chris Gardner (* 1954), broker, self-made millionaire
- Hillman Curtis (1961–2012), media designer
- Cliff Burton (1962-1986), bassist
- Rivers Cuomo (* 1970), front singer of the band "Weezer"
- Lemony Snicket (* 1970), writer and screenwriter
- Maggie Nelson (* 1973), writer
- Jennifer Siebel (* 1974), actress and producer
Web links
Commons : People of San Francisco - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Haller in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Heaton Wrenn in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Brenda Helser in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Jim Walsh in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Susan DeMattei in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Pamela Healy in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Nathalie Schneyder in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Yoko Zetterlund in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Mary McConneloug in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ^ Office of the Mayor, San Francisco , sfmayor.org
- ↑ Sebastian Bea in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ^ Lena Hall , imdb.com
- ↑ Aubrey O'Day , imdb.com
- ↑ Jessica Steffens in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Kira Kazantsev , imdb.com
- ↑ Maya DiRado in the database of Sports-Reference (English)