- John Francis
John Francis is an African-American environmentalist. Born in 1946 in Philadelphia, the son of a West Indian immigrant, he moved to Marin County, California as a young man. After witnessing the devastation caused by a 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, he stopped riding in motorized vehicles, a vow which lasted 22 years. During that time, he also spent 17 years in silence, without speaking a word. - William Kent
William Kent (March 29, 1864-March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument. Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois. His parents moved the family to Marin County in California in the year 1871. He graduated from Yale University in 1887, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. - Gino Robair
Gino Robair is an american composer, improvisor, drummer and percussionnist. He is also a music journalist for "Electronic Musician". Gino frequently tours North America and Europe as a soloist and often improvises in ad-hoc groups. He has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Fred Frith, … - Malcolm Margolin
Malcolm Margolin is an independent publisher (founder owner of Heyday Books) and an author with a special interest in memoirs and diaries, the Native-American ethnic groups of the U.S. state of California, and the geographical territory that California covers. Born in Boston on October 27, 1941, he graduated in literature from Harvard in 1964 and moved to New York. In 1967 he and his wife rented a car and drove across the plains, the badlands, and the desert to Yosemite. - Pedro Fages
Don Pedro Fages Beleta (Catalan: Pere Fages i Beleta) (1734-1794), nicknamed "El Oso", was a soldier, explorer, and the second Spanish military Governor of New California from 1770 to 1774, and Governor of the Californias from 1782 to 1791. Fages was born in Guissona, Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. In 1767, Lieutenant Fages left Spain with the Catalan volunteers for New Spain, to serve under Domingo Elizondo in Sonora. - Mimi Fariña
Mimi Baez Fariña was a singer, songwriter, and activist. She was the daughter of physicist Albert Baez and sister of folk singer Joan Baez. Fariña married novelist, musician and composer Richard Fariña in 1963 at the age of 17, and the two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably "Celebrations for a Grey Day" (1965) and "Reflections in a Crystal Wind" (1966). - Clarence Anglin
Clarence "Larry" Anglin was convicted of a number of bank robberies along with his brother John Anglin who escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 with Frank Morris. He is believed to have drowned in San Francisco Bay, but disappeared after his escape and is still wanted by the FBI. However postcards where later put forward as evidence from the family from south America signed by the brothers. He was played in the 1979 movie "Escape from Alcatraz" by Jack Thibeau. - Edwin Hawkins
Edwin Hawkins (born August 18, 1943 in Oakland, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (and the Edwin Hawkins Singers) are best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968-69), which was included on the Songs of the Century list. - Edith Frost
Edith Frost is an American singer-songwriter who describes her music as "pensive countrified psychedelia". Born in San Antonio, Texas on August 18, 1964, Frost moved to Brooklyn in 1990 where she played in the country bands the Holler Sisters, the Marfa Lights and Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos. In 1996 she moved to Chicago after signing to the city's Drag City label, which released her demo as a self-titled EP. Debut album "Calling Over Time" was released in 1997, … - Braxton Bilbrey
Braxton Bilbrey is the youngest person to ever swim across the San Francisco Bay, from Alcatraz to San Francisco's Aquatic Park in water that was in the mid fifties. Braxton successfully attempted the 1.4 mile swim at 08:28 PDT on Monday, May 222006, at the age of seven years old; he wore a wetsuit. It took him 47 minutes. He was accompanied on the swim by his coach and two other strong swimmers. When he arrived at the finish of the swim at Aquatic Park, … - Jack Clark
Jack Anthony Clark, also known as “Jack the Ripper”, is a former Major League Baseball player. From 1975 through 1992, Clark played for the San Francisco Giants (1975-84), St. Louis Cardinals (1985-87), New York Yankees (1988), San Diego Padres (1989-90) and Boston Red Sox (1991-92). He batted and threw right handed. A clutch hitter and consistent slugger, Clark was injury-prone for the first 13 years of his career. - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is currently assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. At The Post, he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. - Juan de Ayala
Juan Manuel de Ayala was a Spanish naval officer who played a significant role in the European exploration of California, since he and the crew of his ship the "San Carlos" are the first Europeans known to have entered the San Francisco Bay. Ayala was born in Osuna, Andalucía. He entered the Spanish navy on the 19 September, 1760, and rose to achieve the rank of Captain by 1782. He retired (on full pay on account of his achievements in California) on March 14, 1785. - Joshua A. Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton ("c." 1819 - January 8, 1880), also known as His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California who proclaimed himself "Emperor of these United States" and later "Protector of Mexico" in 1859. Born in London, Norton spent most of his early life in South Africa; he emigrated to San Francisco in 1849 after receiving a bequest of $40,000 from his father's estate. - Betty van Patter
Betty Van Patter (c.1932 - December 13, 1974) was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party and an aide to Panther leader Elaine Brown in 1974, after being introduced to the Party by David Horowitz. Later that year, after a dispute with Brown allegedly over financial irregularities, she went missing on December 13, 1974 and some weeks later her severely beaten corpse was found on a San Francisco Bay beach. - Bill Dan
Bill Dan is a sculptor and performance artist specializing in rock balancing. He creates seemingly impossible, temporary balanced sculptures from un-worked rock and stone in public spaces near his home in San Francisco. Dan was born in Indonesia, and worked as a warehouseman before discovering the artistic possibilities of rock along the San Francisco Bay shoreline and his emergent skill in manipulating them. - Darius Ogden Mills
Darius Ogden Mills (September 5, 1825 - January 3, 1910) was a prominent American banker and philanthropist. Once California's wealthiest citizen - José Francisco Ortega
José Francisco Ortega was soldier and early settler of California. Ortega was born 1734 at Zelaya, Guanajuanto, Mexico, where he worked as a warehouse clerk. On October 1, 1755 he enlisted and served at the Presidio at Misión Nuestra Señora de Loreto. In 1759 Ortega married María Antonia Victoria Carrillo, who was born 1741. They eventually had ten children. Some time Ortega left the army to mine in Baja California, and became alcalde (mayor), … - Jerry Scheff
Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, perhaps best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the early 1970s as a member of his TCB Band. Scheff grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. After serving in the U.S. Navy he returned to California, ending up in Los Angeles as a session musician. His first big break was The Association's "Along Comes Mary" (1966), and that success led to numerous other record appearances: Bobby Sherman, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Rivers, … - Robert Brownlee
Robert Gregg Brownlee (1942-1991) was an American chemist. - Willard Dyson
Willard Dyson, is a drummer on the New York City and international music scenes. He came to New York City in 1986 from the San Francisco Bay area. A versatile musician, he is at home in a myriad of rhythmic genres including jazz, R&B, Latin and Brazilian music. Willard works regularly with a diverse group of musicians including Regina Belle, Grady Tate, Jimmy Scott, The New York Voices, Dakota Staton and Cassandra Wilson. - Frank Wolff
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 111928-December 121971) was a versatile American actor whose prolific movie career began with roles in five 1958-61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after scores of appearances in European-made films, most of which were lensed in Italy. A native of San Francisco, Frank Wolff was the son of a Bay area physician. The elder Wolff, a political and social maverick, encouraged young Frank to follow an unconventional path. - Jefferson Poland
John Jefferson Poland (b. July 12, 1942) is the founder of the Sexual Freedom League, and a sex offender. - Andrew Jackson Bryant
Andrew Jackson Bryant (October 30, 1823 - May 11, 1888) was the 17th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 6, 1875 to November 30, 1879. Bryant was born in Ettingham, New Hampshire. He was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1875 to replace James Otis. On May 11, 1888, Bryant, retired, was crossing the San Francisco Bay on a ferry. Bryant commited suicide by falling off a ferry into San Francisco Bay, and drowned. - Kavi Raz
Kavi Raz is an Indian-born British actor, writer, director and producer. Born in Punjab, Raz left India at a young age for the United Kingdom, where he grew up. He acquired national prominence as an exceptional hockey player in the Midlands. He attended university in the San Francisco Bay area. Raz was a founder and artistic director of The Wandering Players Theater Company. The Company staged several World and US premieres of plays from India. - William J. Biggy
William J. Biggy (died December 1, 1908 in the San Francisco Bay, near Alcatraz) was San Francisco Chief of Police 1907 - 08. He was appointed Chief of Police by Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor. During the San Francisco Graft Prosecutions, Biggy was appointed Elisor by the court to hold Abraham Ruef in custody, which lasted more than a year, first in the temporary "little" Saint Francis Hotel and later in a house at 2849 Fillmore Street, … - Edward Gould Buffum
Edward Gould Buffum (1820-1867) was born in Rhode Island to Arnold Buffum, a well known philanthropist in New England. His journalism career began with his work for the "New York Herald". However, when the Mexican-American War began in 1846, Buffum was forced to leave his post and move to California with his regiment. He arrived in San Francisco Bay as the Lieutenant of the 7th Regiment of New York Volunteers. After his discharge from the army in 1848, … - Albert E. Carter
Albert E. Carter (July 5, 1881 - August 8, 1964) was a United States Representative from California. He was born in Lemoncove, near Visalia, Tulare County, California. He attended the public schools was graduated from San Jose State Normal School in 1903. He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1913. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Oakland, California. - Susanna Blunt
Susanna Blunt is a Canadian portrait artist who designed the most recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the current Canadian coinage, which began in 2003. She was born in Harbin, China, the daughter of an English banker. Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager. After finishing high school she had a year of private lessons in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to London, England and did four years of art school, … - Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine
Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine (January 7, 1868 - April 23, 1959) was the owner of a successful piano business ("Heine Piano Company") in San Francisco, which was formerly his boss's ("Bruenn Piano Company"). He was born near Boizenburg (Ludwigslust district) in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on January 7th, 1868. He moved to Napa Valley, possibly in 1873, with his parents and seven siblings. By the time he was sixteen years old, … - San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay - United States Second Vice President - Wealth Management at Smith Barney - angela penny
i spend way too much time typing. - Bob Karr
30 years in business development; active angel investor - Myriam Rosiles
- Michael K. Lawson
Michael K. Lawson , Vice President of Investor Relations & Corp. Communications, joined the Company in 2007. Prior to joining AEC, Mr. Lawson was the principal of the MKL Group, a full service corporate communications and public affairs consulting firm that advises clients on a host of investor, media and government relations strategies and tactics. - Alvin
I cannot swim but I love the ocean. I sleep on my left side 90% of the time. I sometimes talk about myself on the third person. I prefer rainy days over sunny ones. Alvin is a kleptomaniac when it comes to pens. Coffee and B-movies are the only vices I have left. I love the spicy mustard you get at chinese restaurants. I am pro-choice, and pro-gay marriage. I have a fear of heights. My cooking skills range from the edible to the sublime. I want to live in Japan someday. - Lindsay
goal-oriented-gender-queer-trans-geek, who doesnt hate men, and who is happy being non-op. - Frankie
Dj, Engineer, and Real Estate Junkie... - Martha Patricia
I'm an independent, educated, family oriented girl who just returned from 4 years of seeing the world! I've traveled and lived in Italy, Norway, Mexico, California, Great Lakes and even saw a little bit of Canada :) - Mark Crawford
For those of you who knew me or know me but are a little out of touch, or if you're just getting to know me, here's a short autobiography.
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