- Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, pressed the committee on Sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct. - Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003. He was sworn into office on January 8, 2004 by his father, the Honorable William Newsom . Mayor Gavin Newsom has made bold ideas the driving force of his administration. As Mayor, Gavin Newsom uses ideas, innovation and practical solutions to improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans. - Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist perhaps best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was viewed by the media as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. Performing with the Grateful Dead for its entire three decade career (which spanned from 1965 to 1995), Garcia participated in a variety of side projects, … - Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk, an American politician and gay rights activist, was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in 1978. His assassin, Dan White, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Outrage over the verdict led to widespread rioting in San Francisco by enraged homosexuals and others. Milk is seen by some to be a martyr to the LGBT community. - Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer and actress. Cho is known for her stage performances, recordings, and concert movies. Her shows are a mixture of her comedy stylings with strong political and cultural commentary. Apart from these shows she has also directed and appeared in music videos, and started her own clothing line. She has also frequently supported gay rights and identifies herself as bisexual, … - Violet Blue
Violet Blue (born on September 22) is an American sex writer, podcaster, blogger, editor, sex educator, and sex columnist. - Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is currently the senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a Senator since 1992. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Feinstein holds a number of "firsts"; she is San Francisco's first and only female mayor, the first woman to serve in the Senate from California, one of two first female Jewish senators, and the first woman to chair the Rules and Administration committee of that body. - Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray. - O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. - Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, … - Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. - Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez (born June 4, 1965) is an American politician, attorney, artist, and editorial writer, who was a prominent figure in San Francisco politics during the years 2000-2004. During those years, he was a member and president of the city's Board of Supervisors. Gonzalez was one of the first Green Party candidates elected to public office in the Bay Area. In 2003, he ran for mayor of San Francisco but lost in a close race to Democrat Gavin Newsom. - Joe Dimaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. (November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999) in Martinez, California, and moved to San Francisco at one year old. He was nicknamed Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper, was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career (1936-1951) for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio. - A.Wolf
A.WOLF (also known as Avatar Wolf; born "Anthony Cozzo" on July 4, 1979) is a San Francisco bay area rapper who has released two albums; Miseries Company in 2004, and a self-titled effort in 2006. He has also recorded with artists such as Yukmouth, San Quinn, Z-Man, and The Lean Years. He has received airplay on San Francisco-based KYLD and KMEL as a successful battle rapper. - Paris
Oscar Jackson, Jr. (born October 29, 1967), better known as Paris, is an American hip hop artist from San Francisco, California known for his militantly confrontational rapping, and especially the controversial track "Bush Killa." He was catapulted onto the national scene in 1990 with his hit single "The Devil Made Me Do It" and album of the same name, after earning a degree in economics from University of California-Davis. - Courtney Love
Courtney Love (born July 9 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. "Rolling Stone" has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock." - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauss was the German-born American creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His namesake firm, Levi Strauss & Company, was founded in 1853 in San Francisco. - Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, … - John McLaren
Dr John Hays McLaren (1846 - 1943) served as superintendent of the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA for 53 years. Born at Bannockburn, near Stirling in Scotland, he emigrated to the United States in 1870. He was friends with John Muir, and dedicated his life to vigorous advocacy and development Golden Gate Park, one of the largest public parks in the world, using considerable political skill in addition to his remarkable gardening skill. - Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having a sexual relationship while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, or "Monicagate". The scandal severely affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety. - Nancy Wilson
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. "Dreamboat Annie" came out on Mushroom Records in 1976, and their second single, "Crazy On You", was a hit. While Ann is the lead singer on most Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on the hits "These Dreams", "Stranded", … - Danny Lebern Glover
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some of which Glover also produced. - Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner." His collection of essays entitled "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" was published in 1949. - Leland Yee
Leland Yee (born 1948 in China) is a California State Senator in District 8. Yee's district includes the western half of San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County. Previously, Yee was the California State Assemblyman for the 12th Assembly District and the Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District. In 2004, Assemblymember Yee became the first Asian American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore, … - Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III on July 5, 1950) is an American musician and occasional actor. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis & The News, a rock group based in San Francisco, California that was the highest-selling American band of the 1980s by singles. The band is perhaps best remembered in American popular culture by their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film "Back to the Future", … - Sean Elsbernd
Sean Elsbernd is a San Francisco politician. Supervisor Elsbernd represents District 7, encompassing the single-family neighborhoods West of Twin Peaks, as well as the largest rental housing neighborhood west of the Mississippi – the Villas at Parkmerced. Lake Merced, Harding Park Golf Course, San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, … - Fiona Ma
Fiona Ma is a San Francisco politician, member of the California State Assembly and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing district four, the Sunset District from 2002-2006, when she took her seat in the Assembly. Prior to her election to this position, she was a part-time district representative to a state senator. Her campaign for this position focused on improving services for her constituents. She is a member of the Democratic Party. - Mike Holmgren
Mike Holmgren is the head coach of the NFL 's Seattle Seahawks and was a Super Bowl winner as head coach of the Green Bay Packers . Holgren is scheduled to step down as the Seahawks coach at the conclusion of the 2008 season. ... Mike Holmgren coached at the high school level at various high schools in the San Jose, California area. He then moved on from San Jose to coach the at San Francisco State University. - Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American harpist, pianist, harpsichordist, singer and songwriter from Nevada City, California. - Bob Weir
Robert Hall Weir (born October 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - David Miller
David Raymond Miller (born December 26, 1958) is a Canadian politician. He is the current Mayor of Toronto, having been elected to the position in 2003 and re-elected in 2006 for a four-year term. Miller is the 63<sup>rd</sup> mayor of Toronto, and the second of the merged megacity. He entered politics as a member of the New Democratic Party, but was elected mayor and has governed without any formal party affiliation. - Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. Barney has described himself as being primarily a sculptor. - Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is a political news pundit who formerly co-hosted "Crossfire" and currently hosts "Tucker", a national television news show, which is broadcast weekdays at 6 p.m. ET on MSNBC. He is the son of Richard W. Carlson, a former Los Angeles local news anchor, Ambassador to the Seychelles, Director of the U.S. Information Agency and President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - Rob Schneider
Robert Michael Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series "Saturday Night Live", Schneider went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedies "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" and "The Hot Chick". - Domino
Damian Siguenza, known by his stage name, Domino (born November 9, 1970), is an American record producer, manager, DJ, and one of the members of the Oakland, California-based underground hip hop collective, the Hieroglyphics.
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