- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Joe Simitian
Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004 to represent the 11th State Senate District, which includes portions of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. His public service over the years includes stints as a State Assemblymember, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mayor of Palo Alto and President of the Palo Alto School Board. - Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 4,000 customers and served as CEO from 2002-2007. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures, Intel Capital and Omidyar Network and prominent Silicon Valley angels. - 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. - Paul Watzlawick
Paul Watzlawick PhD (July 25, 1921 - March 31, 2007) was a theoretician in Communication Theory and Radical Constructivism and has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He lived and worked in California until his death in 2007 in Palo Alto. - Liz Kniss
Liz Kniss (born October 11, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is currently the chair of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in San Jose, CA. Kniss received a BS degree in Nursing from Simmons College in Boston and a MPA in Public and Health Care Policy from California State University. She has also completed graduate work in Health Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. - Larry Magid
Larry Magid A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid is an on-air technology analyst for CBS News and frequent contributor to the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News , and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Little PC Book . He is coauthor of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely . You can read his blog and columns at www.pcanswer.com. - Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. - Zoe Lofgren
Zoe Lofgren (born Sue Lofgren on December 21 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California (map), based in San Jose. A lifelong Bay Area resident, Lofgren attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, earned her B.A. at Stanford University and a J.D. at Santa Clara University. She left the San Jose area for a few years after graduation from Stanford, … - Robert Hunter
Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer songwriter, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California. An early friend of Jerry Garcia, they played together in bluegrass bands (such as the Tub Thumpers) in the early sixties, with Hunter on mandolin and upright bass. They hung out in coffee shops, read poetry, learned about the Beat Movement, … - Adele Goldberg
Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. She is currently working for Neometron, Inc., of Palo Alto, California. Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. - Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than 25 million people. Dustin currently serves as the VP of Engineering of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office. - Bill Kreutzmann
Bill Kreutzmann (born May 7, 1946 in Palo Alto, California) was the drummer for legendary rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire 30-year career. Kreutzmann started playing drums at the age of 13, despite having been told by his sixth grade music teacher that he couldn't keep a beat. As a teenager, he met Aldous Huxley at his high school, who encouraged him in his drumming. At the end of 1964 he co-founded the band The Warlocks, along with Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, … - Sean T
Sean T (born Sean Miguel Thompson) was born in Palo Alto, CA at the Stanford Hospital. - Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born December 1 1941) is a venetian-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the 4004 (MCS-4) project to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing. He also designed/led the design and was the vital force during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. He continued to play a pacesetting role as founder and CEO of Zilog, … - Mariano Arista
Mariano Arista was president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853, as well as a noted veteran of many of Mexico's nineteenth century wars. Originally an officer in the Spanish Army, Arista later joined the revolutionary army of Agustín de Iturbide. Later, Arista served under Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexico's on-again off-again dictator during the attempt to put down the 1836 Texas Revolution. - Joseph Eichler
Joseph Eichler (1900 - 1974) was a California-based, post-war residential real estate developer known for building homes in the Modernist style. Between 1950 and 1974, his company, Eichler Homes, built over 11,000 homes in Northern California and three communities in Southern California, along with 3 homes in Chestnut Ridge NY, which came to be known as Eichlers and changed the California lifestyle. - Birge Clark
Birge Malcolm Clark was an American architect, called “Palo Alto's best-loved architect” by the Palo Alto Weekly; he worked largely in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. He was the son of Arthur B. Clark, a professor of art and architecture at Stanford and the first mayor of Mayfield, California, later part of Palo Alto. - Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is Founder and President of the Board of College Track, an after-school program that prepares under resourced high school students for higher education. College Track continues to work with students through college graduation. Through its three centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, College Track provides a comprehensive program of academic support, leadership training, community service and extra-curricular involvement. - Ron Unz
education system's failures, especially as they affect its 1.4 million limited-English students. He has decided to put his time, energy, and money into an initiative -- "English for the Children" -- meant to give all California voters a say on the language of public education. - Michael Hedges
Michael Hedges (December 31,1953 - December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist born in Enid, Oklahoma. - Patrick Suppes
Patrick Colonel Suppes (b. 1922, Tulsa, OK) is an American philosopher who has made significant contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology. Suppes initially graduated in meteorology from the University of Chicago, and was stationed at the Solomon Islands during WWII. After the war, he received a PhD degree from Columbia University, … - Robert Freitas
Robert A. Freitas Jr. is a Senior Research Fellow, one of four researchers at the nonprofit foundation Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM) in Palo Alto, California. He holds a 1974 Bachelor's degree majoring in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and a 1978 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University. He has written more than 150 technical papers, book chapters, or popular articles on a diverse set of scientific, engineering, … - Kelly Gray
Kelly Lawrence Kirmil Gray (born April 7, 1981 in Palo Alto, California) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for Los Angeles of Major League Soccer. Gray played forward and midfielder at the University of Portland from 1999 to 2001. He scored a total of 32 goals and 12 assists in his three years for the Pilots and was voted a second-team All-American and first-team All-WCC as a junior. After his junior season, Gray signed a Project-40 contract with MLS, … - Alejandro Zaffaroni
Alejandro Zaffaroni is the founder of a number of companies, including ALZA, Affymax, Affymetrix, Alexza, DNAX, Maxygen and Symyx. He is widely considered a pioneer in drug delivery and the field of biotechnology and has had a significant impact on the development of Silicon Valley through the many companies built by him and those he mentored. - Timi Wusu
Timilehin Oluwaseun Wusu (born June 10, 1983, is an American football linebacker for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders. He joined the Raiders as an undrafted free agent in 2006, and subsequently was signed after impressing head coach Art Shell; however, he was placed on injured reserve, effectively ending his season. - John Forester
John Forester (born 1929) is a cycling transportation engineer and a noted cycling activist who coined the term Effective Cycling and the vehicular cycling principle: "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles". In one case, Forester got into litigation against the city of Palo Alto, after he was cited for riding his bicycle on the roadway, rather than the sidewalk, which was where the bike lane was diverted at that point on the roadway. - Matt Biondi
Matthew "Matt" Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965 in Palo Alto, California) is a three-time U.S. Olympic swimmer in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a total of 11 medals. In the 1988 Summer Olympics, Biondi equalled Mark Spitz as the second swimmer to win seven medals in one Games. Michael Phelps would win eight medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Biondi left Seoul with five golds, setting world records in four of those events. - Carl Brown
Carl Brown (b. February 11 1970, Albion, Michigan) is a discus thrower. He currently lives in Americus, Georgia, United States. His current coach is Michael Judge. He attended Albion High School where he played football and basketball as well as athletics. He then spent two years at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac before attending Siena Heights University in Adrian in 1993. - Brian Tucker
Brian E. Tucker is a a disaster prevention specialist and seismologist. He is the founder (1991) and president of Palo Alto-based GeoHazards International (GHI), the only not-for-profit, non-governmental agency dedicated to preventing structural failures in developing countries. In 2001 he was awarded the Gorakha Dakshin Bahu Award for service to Nepal by the King of Nepal and he was a 2002 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". - Matthias Rath
Matthias Rath, M.D. (born 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a controversial German physician, health activist and vitamin entrepreneur. Dr. Rath studied medicine in Germany and subsequently worked as a scientist at the university hospital in Hamburg and the German Cardiac Center in Berlin. He was the head of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, USA. Currently, he advocates the use of herbs and vitamins, which he sells, … - Joseph King
Joseph King is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman for the band "Canvas". A native of San Antonio, Texas, King moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to major in religious studies at Stanford University. In 1995 King met fellow musician Ben Rada at a coffee shop in Palo Alto and the two began jamming together. King and Rada, along with various friends, toured the west coast club circuit for two years. - Jamie Luner
Jamie M. Luner (born May 12, 1971 in Palo Alto, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as Lexi Sterling in "Melrose Place". - Leslie Berlin
Leslie Berlin is the Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. Her research interests include the history of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley and the role of leadership in high-tech business. She received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford in 2001 and also holds a B.A. from Yale. She attended Holland Hall School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she grew up. Berlin's first book, … - Frank Wu
Frank Wu is a science fiction and fantasy artist living in Palo Alto. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004 and 2006; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2002. He works in many media, including acrylic and digital painting. He created a portrait of a Klingon girl for the documentary about the Klingon language, "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water". - George Pólya
George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician. - Bree Turner
Bree Turner (born March 10, 1977) is an American film actress/theater actress, commercial model and dancer. She has appeared as a dancer in films including My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), She's All That (1999) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Turner was born in Palo Alto, California. She attended Monte Vista High School (Danville, California) in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has starred in ads for companies such as Gap, Dr. - Lambert Meertens
Lambert Meertens is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. In the 1960s, Meertens applied affix grammars to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 IFIP Congress in Edinburgh for his computer-generated string quartet, "Quartet No. 1 in C Major for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello" based on the first non-context-free affix grammar. - William Ackerman
William Ackerman is a Grammy winning guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential new age record label Windham Hill Records. Born in West Germany but adopted by a couple who lived in Palo Alto, California. A self-professed poet and musician who briefly studied guitar with Robbie Basho, William Ackerman grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. - William Woo
William Franklin Woo was the first Chinese American to become editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper. Woo was born in Shanghai to Kyatang Woo and American Elizabeth Hart, who met in the early '30s as graduate students at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His parents divorced after World War II, and Woo and his mother moved to the United States in 1946 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri with her adoptive father.
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