- Ethelmary Oakland
Ethelmary Oakland (30 July 1909-2 December 1999) was a silent film child star. She was featured in such Thanhouser Film Corporation's films as "The World and the Woman" with Jeanne Eagels; and "Always in the Way" with Mary Miles Minter and Charlotte Shelby. Oakland left the movie industry in the late 1910s. - Randy Moss
Randy Gene Moss (born February 13, 1977 in Rand, West Virginia) is an American football wide receiver for the New England Patriots. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 1998, and played the first stage of his career in Minnesota before a trade in 2005 brought him to the Oakland Raiders. On Sunday, April 29, 2007, Moss was traded to the New England Patriots for a fourth-round draft pick. - Vivien Oakland
Vivien Oakland (May 20, 1895 - August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920's and 1930's, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. She supported Laurel and Hardy on several occasions, and sometimes played the wife of Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol in their series of short films. She played mostly bit roles in feature films in the 1940s before making her last film (an Errol comedy) in 1951; she died seven years later. - Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland (28 August 1915 - 29 August 1983) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. - Paul Pierce
Paul Anthony Pierce (born October 13 1977 in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He has been a starter every season since he was selected by the Celtics in the 1998 NBA Draft, and in 2002 he helped lead Boston to an appearance in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. - Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), is the Attorney General for the state of California. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969-1971), as California Secretary of State (1971-1975), as Governor of California (1975-1983), as chair of the California Democratic Party (1989-1991), and as Mayor of Oakland (1998-2006). - Don Perata
Don Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who is the current President pro tempore of the California State Senate. He was elected to the post of President Pro Tempore in 2004. He will continue his Presidency until the end of the current 2007-2008 session. Perata has a daughter and a son. - Kelvim Escobar
Kelvim Jose Escobar Bolivar [ess-coe-BAR] (born April 11, 1976 in La Guaira, Venezuela) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004-present). He bats and throws right handed. Escobar throws a four-seam 97 MPH fastball, a two-seamer, and a deceptive changeup. He has good command of a wide variety of other pitches, including a split-finger, a curve, and a slider that is a mainstay of his repertoire. - Casual
John Owens, known by his stage name Casual, is an American rapper. Born in Oakland, California, Owens is a member of the influential alternative hip hop collective Hieroglyphics. In addition, he has released five full-length LPs over the span of his twelve year career. Although none of his solo releases have achieved significant commercial success, Owens has garnered a following amongst devoted hip hop fans, … - Barbara Lee
Barbara Jean Lee (born July 16 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing (map) and is the first woman to represent that district. Congresswoman Lee was born in El Paso, Texas. She moved from Texas to California in 1960 with her military family parents, and attended high school at San Fernando High School, San Fernando, California. - Kirk Morrison
Kirk Morrison (born February 19, 1982) is an American football player at the middle linebacker position. He grew up in the Oakland area and attended Bishop O'Dowd High School and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He attended college at San Diego State University (SDSU), and anchored an Aztec defense with current Green Bay Packers safety Marviel Underwood and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Matt McCoy. - Mc Hammer
MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune, his trademark Hammer pants, and for leaving a lasting influence on hip hop culture and music. He became a preacher in the 1990s and now has his own television program. He lives in Tracy, California with his wife Stephanie and six children, 3 boys and 3 girls. - Ron Wolf
Ron Wolf is the former American football general manager (GM) of the NFL's Green Bay Packers, and played a significant role in personel operations with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders from 1966-1975, and again from 1978-1990. He joined Green Bay's front office in November 1991 from a personnel director's job with the New York Jets. He was responsible for assembling the 1996 Green Bay Packers, … - Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American architect. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil engineering. At the urging of her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, whom she met in her final year in undergraduate school, … - Van Jones
Van Jones (1968-) is a civil rights and human rights advocate in Oakland, CA working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which now employs 24 staff members. Jones founded the Ella Baker Center in 1996. Named for the civil rights and human rights heroine Ella Baker, … - Tom Campbell
Tom Campbell, nicknamed Tall Tom Campbell, is an American radio announcer and commercial voiceover talent. His career began in Minneapolis, Minnesota and later took him to WONE in Dayton, Ohio. Upon his move to KYA 1260 AM San Francisco in the late 1960s, Campbell quickly rose to become one of the Bay Area's most popular late night radio hosts. He was extremely accessible to his listeners, perhaps too much so. He was known to loan his personal phonograph, … - Gary Payton
Gary Dwayne Payton (born July 23 1968, in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He is best known for his 12-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics. He has also played with the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Boston Celtics. Payton has played point guard for most of his career. - Loni Hancock
Loni Hancock is currently serving in her third term as the representative of California State Assembly District 14. The 14th Assembly District includes Albany, Berkeley, Canyon, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Kensington, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Pablo and parts of Martinez, Oakland, and Walnut Creek. She previously served as the mayor of Berkeley, California from 1986 to 1994. Hancock's party affiliation is with the Democratic Party. - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Del tha Funkee Homosapien, also known as Del the Funky Homosapien and Deltron Zero is an alternative hip hop artist. Del was born Teren Delvon Jones on August 12, 1972 in Oakland, California. - Samuel Merritt
Dr. Samuel Merritt was a successful San Francisco physician and also mayor of Oakland, California from 1867-69. Dr. Merritt was originally from Maine, but moved to California. He bought land in what is now Oakland in 1854 and moved there in 1863. In 1867, he donated 155 acres (627,000 m²) of dammed tidal water from the headwaters of Indian Slough, it became known as "Merritt's Lake" and later Lake Merritt. - Joel Makower
Joel Makower (b. 19 February 1952 in Oakland, California) is an entrepreneur, writer, and strategist on sustainable business, clean technology, and green marketing. For more than twenty years, he has been a respected voice on these topics, through books, websites, blogs, articles, and speeches. - Wilma Chan
Wilma Chan is a politician in California, United States. Chan served as the California Assembly Majority Leader from 2002-2004, the first woman and the first Asian American to hold the position. She also served as Assembly Majority Whip from 2001-2002. Chan is a Democrat. She represented the 16th district that includes Oakland, Alameda, and Piedmont from 2000 to 2006 before being termed out. - Spice 1
Spice 1 (born Robert L. Green, Jr. in Corsicana, Texas), is a West Coast rapper raised in Hayward, California. He was first discovered by rapper Too $hort. His first album, Let It Be Known, was not well-known or widely released, and included seven old-school style tracks. His second album, widely considered as his debut, was a very vivid and fatalistic Gangsta rap album, and his angry, edgy, … - Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll is a columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle", beginning in 1982. He is featured on the backpage of the Datebook (the newspaper's entertainment section) on weekdays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his cat columns. On the internet, he is known for starting the Unitarian Jihad movement. Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended (but did not finish) UC Berkeley. - E-40
Earl Stevens (born November 15, 1967 Vallejo, California) best known by his stage name E-40 is a Bay Area rapper. His nicknames include Charlie Hustle, E-Bonics, 40 Fonzarelli, The Ambassador of the Bay, The Ballatician, 40 Belafonte, E-Pheezy, Fortywater, E-4-0, and Earl Poppin' His Collar. - Trader Vic
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 - October 11, 1984) was the founder of a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, Trader Vic, and one of two people who claimed to have invented the Maitai. The other was his amicable competitor for many years, Don the Beachcomber. Bergeron attended Heald College in San Francisco, California. - Chris Roberson
Christopher William "Chris" Roberson (b. August 23, 1979 in Oakland, CA) is a center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. Roberson graduated from El Cerrito High School in Oakland in 1997, and attended both Contra Costa College and Feather River College. After graduating, Roberson played on the Clearwater Threshers, a Phillies farm team, and had twenty-three game hit streak. - David Murray
David Murray (born February 19, 1955 in Oakland, California, United States) is a notable jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s. One critic dubbed Murray the Joyce Carol Oates of jazz, comparing Murray's prolific and consistently highly-regarded work to the noted novelist's. - Tony Martin
Tony Martin (born December 25 1912) is an American actor and traditional pop singer. Martin was born Alvin Morris in Oakland, California to Jewish immigrants from Poland. He received a soprano saxophone as a gift from his grandmother at ten. In his grammar school glee club, he became an instrumentalist and a boy soprano singer. He formed his first band, named "The Red Peppers," when he was at Oakland Technical High School, … - Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California) is best known as the lead vocalist, main lyricist, and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. Billie Joe is also a secret character in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. - Rudy Jaramillo
Rudy Jaramillo is in his 13th season with the Rangers, having started on Oct. 26, 1994. He has the longest tenure with one team of any hitting coach in the majors. During his time with Texas, his hitters have won 16 Silver Slugger awards, three home run titles, two RBI championships and a batting title. - Rick Honeycutt
Frederick Wayne Honeycutt (June 29 1954 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is the current pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Honeycutt was a left-handed pitcher for 21 years from 1977 to 1997. He played with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals. He pitched in 30 post-season games, including 20 league championship series games, and 7 World Series games and never lost a game. - Brian Shaw
Brian K. Shaw (born March 22, 1966 in Oakland, California) is a former professional basketball player. The 6' 6" Shaw could play both guard spots, but was used primarily at point guard over the course of his 14 seasons in the league. He grew up in Oakland with other future basketball stars, such as Antonio Davis, Jason Kidd, and Gary Payton. In fact, on NBA All-Star Weekend in 2000, held in Oakland, Shaw, Kidd, and Payton each received a key to the City of Oakland. - Faun Fables
Faun Fables is a band from Oakland, California. Faun Fables is a concept and vehicle for Dawn McCarthy, who was inspired to write the original material while traveling after leaving the New York City music scene in 1997. Faun Fables also covers both 20th century compositions by other song writers and traditional folk songs. The music on the first album is entirely by McCarthy, as are all lyrics and most of the music on "Mother Twilight". - Mike Bishop
Michael D. Bishop (born March 18, 1967) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He is the current Majority Leader of the Michigan State Senate as of January 2007. Bishop of Rochester, Michigan was elected as a Republican to the State Senate after two terms in the Michigan State House of Representatives. He was sworn into office in January of 2003, to represent Michigan's 12th District in State Senate, which includes the communities of Auburn Hills, Keego Harbor, … - Shemar Moore
Shemar Franklin Moore (born April 20, 1970 in Oakland, California) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor and former male fashion model with Irene Marie Models, best known for his role as Malcolm Winters on "The Young and the Restless", which he originally played from 1994 to 2002, and is the fourth permanent host of the long-running "Soul Train" series, from 1999 to 2003. Currently, he plays FBI Special Agent Derek Morgan on CBS's hit drama, … - Craig Street
Craig Street, born in Oakland, California, is a noted record producer. Craig moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 11, but returned to the Bay Area for his high school years. He began playing guitar at age 14, playing in a number of Berkeley bands. In 1981 he interviewed Alan Douglas for NPR, and began producing shortly thereafter. He has worked with artists such as Norah Jones, k. d. lang, Cassandra Wilson, Charlie Sexton, Meshell Ndegeocello, … - Numskull
Numskull (born Garrick Husbands in 1974 in Oakland, California), is a hip-hop rapper, and was member of the defunct rap duo, The Luniz. He became famous for The Luniz's hit single, "I Got 5 on It". He was recently featured in the Yahoo-Pepsi Pass The Mic representing the Bay Area. The group is currently signed to Yukmouth's Smoke-A-Lot Records. - Yukmouth
Yukmouth (born Jerold Dwight Ellis, II October 18, 1974 in Oakland, California), is a rapper from East Oakland, California. He is a member of the platinum-selling rap duo Luniz along with Numskull. The Luniz recorded the successful weed anthem, "I Got 5 on It" which helped propel their album to platinum certification. He went on to sign a solo record deal at J-Prince's Rap-A-Lot Records, releasing three albums, … - Hank Bauer
Henry Albert "Hank" Bauer (July 31 1922 - February 9,2007) was an American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees (1948-1959) and Kansas City Athletics (1960-1961); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as manager of the Athletics in both Kansas City (1961-62) and Oakland (1969), as well as of the Baltimore Orioles (1964-68), winning the 1966 World Series championship.
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