- Jeff Miller
Jefferson B. "Jeff" Miller (born June 27 1959), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing. His district includes all of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, and Washington Counties. - Pat Wiggins
Pat Wiggins (born April 19, Pasadena, California) has been a State Senator since 2006. She represents the 2nd district that was previously held by Wesley Chesbro. She previously represented the 7th Assembly district from 1998 until 2004. Prior to that, she served on the Santa Rosa city council. She is a Democrat. - Juan Santamaría
Juan Santamaría, is officially recognized as the national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica. A national holiday in Costa Rica, Juan Santamaría Day, is held every April 11 to commemorate his death. Santamaría was born in the city of Alajuela. When U.S. filibuster William Walker overthrew the government of Nicaragua and attempted to conquer the other nations in Central America, including Costa Rica, in order to form a private slave-holding empire, … - Guy Fieri
Mr. Fieri has been a director since 2004 and is an entrepreneur and restaurateur, having founded and operated three restaurants in the North Bay Area of San Francisco over the past seven years. In 2006, Mr. Fieri reached national TV stardom with his own cooking show called called Guy's Big Bite on The Food Network Channel. The program was part of a national competition in which Mr. Fieri was selected as The Next Food Network Star from more than 10,000 entrants. - Debbie Drechsler
Debbie Drechsler (born 1953) is an American illustrator and comic book creator. Her semi-autobiographical graphic novel about incest, "Daddy's Girl" (1996), was nominated for an Ignatz Award. Drechsler was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1953. She knew early in life that she wanted to make art of some kind. She studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the 1970s, she discovered the feminist movement as well as alternative comics. - Xuxa
Xuxa is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcasted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Xuxa is of German, Austrian, Italian, and Polish descent. She was a famous idol to Latin American children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among her achievements include the best-selling album in the history of Brazil, … - Jason Lane
Jason Dean Lane (born December 22, 1976 in Santa Rosa, California) is a player in Major League Baseball. He is a member of the Houston Astros. He was drafted out of the sixth round in 1999. Lane graduated from El Molino High School in Forestville, California in 1995. - Jonah Raskin
Jonah Raskin, an American writer who left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a free-lance journalist, returned to the academy in California in the 1980s to write probing studies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, and reviews of northern California writers whom he styled as “natives, newcomers, exiles and fugitives.” Beginning as a lecturer in English at Sonoma State University in 1981, … - Ernie Nevers
Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1902, Willow River, Minnesota - May 3, 1976) was an American football fullback who played for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. Nevers attended Santa Rosa High School, in Santa Rosa, California, where he excelled in football. In 1920, as a senior, he led the team to the NCS Championships. In 1925 the football field at Santa Rosa High School was renamed Nevers Field in his honor. - Felipe Soares
Felipe Soares, or simply, Felipe (born July 22 1985 in Santa Rosa, Brazil), is a Brazilian left-wingback. He currently plays for Standard on loan from Internacional from January 2, 2006 until June 30, 2006. There is also an option for loan to be extended for 2 more years from July 1, 2006. - Tony Trujillo
Tony Trujillo (born August 23, 1982 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American skateboarder. He is noted for his anti-corporate attitude and love for rock and roll, as well as his aggressive skating style. Trujillo grew up on a farm with 10 acres of land and started skating at the age of 7. A neighbor had ramps in his barn and often invited Tony to skate there. Trujillo started competing in skate contests when he was 12 in the California Amateur Skateboard League, … - Roberto Sosa
Roberto Carlos Sosa (born 24 January, 1975 in Santa Rosa, La Pampa) is an Argentine footballer, currently playing for Serie B side S.S.C. Napoli as a striker - Ralph Garcia
Ralph Garcia (September 18, 1956 - August 31, 1999) was a US prison guard, at a New Mexico prison owned and operated by the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, who was murdered during a prison riot in Santa Rosa. His death led to increased criticism of Wackenhut. Garcia was a former rancher, who had become impoverished following a drought. Wackenhut paid him $7.95 per hour. - Heather Vandeven
Heather Vandeven (born September 6, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American nude model and pornographic actor. Vandeven attended high school in Santa Rosa, California. She was very athletic then, stating that she was able to ten pull-ups and run the mile in seven minutes, and was always skateboarding. She was a late bloomer who did not start to develop until age 15; she has confessed to stuffing her bra prior to then. - Judah Nagler
Judah Nagler is the singer for The Velvet Teen, an Indie/Baroque Pop band from Santa Rosa in Northern California. He was born on June 19, 1980. - Pete Rugolo
Pete Rugolo (born December 25, 1915) is a Sicilian-born jazz composer and arranger. He was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California. He started his musical career playing the baritone, like his father, but he quickly branched out into other instruments, notably the French horn and the piano. He received a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State College, … - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio was President of Guatemala from 1 July 1970 to 1 July 1974. Carlos Arana was born in Barberena, in the department of Santa Rosa. A colonel in the Army, he was elected in an electoral process generally considered "non-transparent" on a platform promising a crackdown on law-and-order issues; his vice president was Eduardo Cáceres. The December following his election he declared a state of emergency and conducted a ruthless, albeit effective, … - Eric Kronberg
Eric Kronberg (born June 7, 1983 in Santa Rosa, California) is an American soccer player who currently plays goalkeeper for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. Kronberg began his college career at Fresno State where he played for two seasons and set the all time single season save record with 106 saves in 2003. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley for two seasons and holds the record for career and single season(2005)goals against average. - Hansel Mieth
Hansel Mieth (1909-1998), born Johanna Mieth in Oppelsbohm, Germany, was a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She worked on the staff of LIFE magazine from 1937-1940, and was known for recording the lives of the working class. She died in Santa Rosa, California. Mieth was born to a strict religious family, which she escaped at age 15 by running away. She later emigrated to the USA in 1930, there joining her lover and fellow photographer Otto Hagel, (1909-1973). - Verónica Páez
Verónica Natalia Páez is a female marathon runner from Argentina, who is a two-time winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon in her native country (2003 and 2004). She twice won the Argentine title in the women's marathon, both in Santa Rosa (2003 and 2005). - Robert Quarry
Robert Walter Quarry (born November 3, 1925) is an American actor. He is known for his horror film roles. His films include "Count Yorga, Vampire" (1970), its sequel "The Return of Count Yorga" (1971), and "Dr. Phibes Rises Again" (1972), in which he was pitted against Vincent Price in a race to find the mythical elixir of eternal life. Price did not care for his co-star - once, … - George Hugh Niederauer
George Hugh Niederauer, DD, PhD STB (born June 14, 1936) is an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of San Francisco. By virtue of his office as ordinary of the San Francisco archdiocese, Niederauer is also metropolitan archbishop of the ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, which includes the suffragan dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Stockton. - Spencer Hughes
Spencer Hughes is an American radio talk show host. Hughes' program - "Fox Across America" - is heard on the Fox News Talk channel, which airs nationwide on satellite radio networks in the United States. Hughes is a conservative host who calls himself "a Generation X'er with old-fashioned values". Before his current position at Fox News Talk, Hughes hosted programs on radio stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Santa Rosa, California, … - Argelico Fucks
Argelico 'Argel' Fuks (born 4 September 1974 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian professional footballer. Fucks plied his trade in his homeland as well as Japan, Portugal and Spain. He won the Rio Grande do Sul State league, the Brazilian cup, the Brazilian champions cup, the Conmebol Cup plus the Portuguese league, cup and Supercup. - Baron Wolman
Baron Wolman was the first chief photographer of "Rolling Stone". Wolman grew up in Columbus, Ohio, studied philosophy at Northwestern University in Chicago, learned German at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and then did a tour with military intelligence in West Berlin. In Berlin, Wolman sold his first photo essay for publication, a story about life behind the then-new Berlin Wall. - Francis Boggs
Francis W. Boggs (1870-October 27, 1911) was a stage actor and important pioneer silent film director and one of the first to work in Hollywood. Probably born in Santa Rosa, California, while in his teens he began acting with the Alcazar stock company in San Francisco and toured the American southwest. In 1900, he moved to Los Angeles but in 1902 went to Chicago where he continued to work in theatre. - Edward Coletti
Edward Coletti is an American poet living in the Sonoma County, California area. Born in New York, Edward moved to Santa Rosa when he returned from the Vietnam War. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed a Masters in Creative Writing at California State University, San Francisco or San Francisco State University. He has been published in two editions of "Light Year" (Bits Press), "divide (Univ. - Chet Powers
Chester William Powers, Jr., better known as Dino Valenti (or Valente), and credited sometimes as Jesse Oris (or Orris) Farrow, was an American singer/songwriter. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut and died in Santa Rosa, California. In the early 1960s, while a member of the Greenwich Village folk scene, he wrote "Get Together," a quintessential 1960s love-and-peace anthem, later recorded by Jefferson Airplane, … - Steve Bitker
Steve grew up in Woodside and was influenced toward a career in radio by spending countless hours as a kid listening to the Giants, 49ers, Raiders, and Warriors on the radio." That meant listening to Russ Hodges , Lon Simmons , Bob Fouts , Bill King , Hang Greenwald and Roy Storey . How could I not be influenced by these guys?" Steve began his career at the age of 16, when he worked part-time as a sportswriter at the Redwood City Tribune. - Jose Catindig Jr.
Jose Biojon Catindig, Jr. (born January 13, 1962) also known as Joey is the former mayor of Santa Rosa City from 2005 to 2007. He was the vice mayor of Santa Rosa, Laguna from 2001 to 2005 under Leon Arcillas and 1995 to 1998 under Romeo Gonzalez. - Paul Gilger
Paul Gilger (born October 13, 1954 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American architect, set designer, and playwright. He conceived the off-Broadway Jerry Herman musical revue "Showtune". A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Gilger designed the Industrial Light and Magic Film Studios in San Rafael, California for filmmaker George Lucas ("Star Wars", "Indiana Jones") in 1991. He assisted in the conceptual designs for the Disney/MGM Film Studios in Tokyo, … - Arden Wilken
Arden Wilken (born April 18, 1950) is an American musician and music therapist. Born in Santa Rosa, California, she married Jack Wilken in 1978, and they have three children. Arden graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a bachelor's degree in music theory. Arden and her husband began researching the effects of sound and music on humans in 1978. Through their research, they have developed "Inner Sound", … - Pete Magrini
Pete (Peter) Magrini was born June 8, 1942 in San Francisco, California. He attended Santa Clara University, where he struck out Willie Mays during an exhibition game against the San Francisco Giants. He was signed as an amateur by the Twins in 1964. He made his MLB debut pitching for the Boston Red Sox on April 13, 1966 against Baltimore, going 2 innings and giving up 2 hits, 2 walks and 3 earned runs. His major league career consisted of three games for the Red Sox. - Warren B. English
Warren Barkley English (May 1, 1840 - January 9, 1913) was a United States Representative from California. Born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), he attended the public schools and Charles Town Academy until June 1861. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and after the war moved to Oakland, California where he attended the California Military Academy. - Agustín Moreto Y Cavana
Agustín Moreto y Cavana, was a Spanish dramatist and playwright. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized at Madrid on April 9 1618. He graduated at Alcalá in December 1639, and lived in Madrid till 1654, when he moved to Toledo, took orders, and became chaplain to the primate Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval. He died at Toledo, while engaged on "Santa Rosa", a play which was completed by Pedro Francisco Lanini. - Jussie Smollett
Jussie Smollet (born 21 June, 1983 -) is an American actor and photographer who did "On Our Own" with his brothers Jojo, Jake, and Jocqui and his sisters Jazz and Jurnee Smollett. Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and had a number of roles in the early 1990s. He has not acted since "Own" ended in March 1995. - Dave Campos
Dave Campos (born Santa Rosa, New Mexico 1942) is a top-fuel drag motorcycle racer and was the holder of the Motorcycle World Land Speed record. Howewver the record was broken on September, 5, 2006 by Chris Carr. - Steven Kistler
Samuel Stephens Kistler was an American scientist and chemical engineer, best known as the inventor of aerogels, the lightest known solid materials. Born in the small town of Cedarville in the far Northeastern corner of California, son of a shop keeper, the family moved to the larger Santa Rosa when Kistler was 12, where he first became interested in chemistry. When he entered the College of the Pacific in 1917 however, his plan was to learn to play the cello, … - Jacqueline Denise Lawrence
Jacqueline Denise Lawrence (born on October 24 1961) is an American non-fiction writer currently residing in Santa Rosa, California. - Santa Rosa
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