- 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. - 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. - 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". - 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. - 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." - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Frank Chu
Frank Chu is one of San Francisco’s best-known eccentrics. His street protests against US Presidents, corporations, and a distinctive concept he calls the '12 Galaxies' have been held in San Francisco and nearby locales since at least 1995. Chu has been compared to Joshua A. Norton, an earlier famous San Francisco eccentric. - Ya Boy
William Joseph Crawford (born on January 28, 1984), better known by his stage name Ya Boy, is an American rapper from the Fillmore District of San Francisco, California. He graduated from El Camino High School in 2001. Shortly afer, he started rapping in the year 2002, with his song "16's With Me" being the first to hit it big locally. It was produced by South San Francisco producer Big D and sampled the Imperial March from "Star Wars". - Harry Heilmann
Harry Edwin Heilmann, nicknamed “Slug,” was a Major League Baseball player who played 17 season with the Detroit Tigers (1914, 1916-1929) and Cincinnati Reds (1930, 1932). Heilmann was a line-driver hitter who won four American League batting crowns in 1921, 1923, 1925, and 1927. He and Ted Williams are the last two American League players to hit .400, Heilmann having accomplished the feat in 1923 with a batting average of .403. - Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the "Peanuts" comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Lincoln High School, attended San Francisco State College, and served as an Army cook in the Korean War. In his first serious gig, he had to fill in for Art Tatum. His first recording was made in November of 1951 and came out early in 1953. - Johnny Mathis
John Royce Mathis (b. September 30 1935), known popularly as Johnny Mathis, is an American Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter of popular music. The last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the rock-dominated 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s. Starting his career with a standard flurry of singles, … - Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 - February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. - Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the thrash metal band Metallica. Hammett is one of the better-known students of guitarist and instructor Joe Satriani. In 2003, he was ranked 11th in the "Rolling Stone"s "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". - Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone, (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith and later starred in Hollywood films such as "Clueless" and "Batman & Robin". - Dan White
Daniel James "Dan" White was a former San Francisco City Supervisor who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978 at City Hall. In a controversial verdict, which led to the coining of the legal slang "the Twinkie defense," White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder. - Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century American painter. Diebenkorn was born in Portland, Oregon; his family moved to San Francisco, California when he was two. In 1940, Diebenkorn entered Stanford University. At first, he painted and drew in a representational style that was in a large part influenced by Edward Hopper. However, during the late 1940s and early 1950s he lived and worked in various places: New York City, Woodstock, New York, … - Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York), is best known as Danielle Steel, and is one of the best selling authors in the United States and around the world. Best known for her drama mainstream novels, Steel has sold more than 530 million copies of her books (as of 2005). Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and 22 have been adapted for television. - Pete Carroll
Peter C. Carroll (born September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California football team, having held that position since 2001. In his time at USC, the Trojans have made it to multiple national championship games (winning the National Championship in 2004 and splitting the National Championship in 2003) and have consistently emerged as Pac-10 conference champions. - Paul Kantner
Paul Kantner (born Paul Lorin Kantner, 17 March 1941, San Francisco) is an American rock musician, most noted for co-founding the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. - Eric Dane
Eric William Dane (born on November 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor. - Barry McGee
Barry McGee (aka Twist aka Ray Fong aka Robert Pimple; born 1966, San Francisco, California) is a painter and graffiti artist. McGee rose out of the Mission School art movement and graffiti boom in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early nineties. His work draws heavily from a pessimistic view of the urban experience, which he describes as, "urban ills, overstimulations, frustrations, …
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