- Mário Sacramento
Mário Emílio de Morais Sacramento was a Portuguese doctor and essayist that became famous for his Anti-fascist activities against the dictatorial regime led by Oliveira Salazar in Portugal. Mário Sacramento was born in Ílhavo, near Aveiro and studied medicine in Coimbra, Lisbon, Porto and finally graduated in Paris. He started his writing activity very soon and became a regular contributor to several newspapers and magazines, … - Telmario de Araújo Sacramento
Telmario de Araújo Sacramento or simply Dinei, is a Brazilian striker. He currently plays for Atlético-PR. Made professional debut and scored for Atlético-PR in 2-1 away win against Império-PR, in the Campeonato Paranaense on January 20, 2005. - Carla Sacramento
Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, <small>OIH</small> (born December 10, 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira) is a middle distance runner from Portugal. Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships. She won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. - John Gibson
John Gibson is a neoconservative American television talk show host, hosting the weekday edition of "The Big Story" and "The John Gibson Show" on Fox News Radio. Prior to joining Fox News, Gibson hosted news talk programs on MSNBC and covered the Lewinsky scandal at length. He began his career in the late 1960's as a staff reporter for the entertainment gossip magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and was a reporter and weekend anchorman at KCRA, … - Doug Christie
Douglas Dale Christie (born May 9, 1970, in Seattle, Washington) is an American basketball player who is currently a free agent. Christie attended Seattle's Rainier Beach High School and, in his senior year (1988), led the school's varsity boy's basketball team to RB's first-ever Washington State championship. He then went on to Pepperdine University where he gained national exposure. He was drafted 17th in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. - Darrell Steinberg
Darrell S. Steinberg (born 15 October 1959) is a Democratic politician from Sacramento, California. He is currently serving his first term in the California State Senate. Steinberg represents the 6th District, which includes the capital city of Sacramento parts of Elk Grove and Citrus Heights. Darrell Steinberg was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until he was termed out in 2004. - Heather Fargo
Heather Fargo (born December 12, 1952, in Oakland, California) has been Mayor of Sacramento, California since 2001. - Dee Brown
Dermal Bram "Dee" Brown (born March 27, 1978 in the Bronx, New York) is an outfielder with the Oakland Athletics. Drafted in the first round (14th overall) by the Kansas City Royals in 1996, Brown played for the Royals in parts of major league seasons from 1998-2004, spending all of the 2005 and 2006 seasons in the minor leagues. - Derrek Lee
Derrek Leon Lee (born September 6, 1975 in Sacramento, California) is a first baseman in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Chicago Cubs and has since 2004. From 1997 through 2003, Lee played with the San Diego Padres (1997) and Florida Marlins (1998-2003). He bats and throws right-handed. - Explicit
Explicit is an underground rapper from Sacramento, California. Explicit is the head of the hip-hop clique The Locust, and founder of independent record labels Locust Records and Narcotic Music. Explicit is primarily known for his very aggressive, raw and lyrical delivery, and along with T-Nutty is considered to be at the forefront of the second generation of hardcore rappers from The 916. - Dan Lungren
Daniel Edward (Dan) Lungren (born September 22, 1946), is a Republican of the United States House of Representatives representing California's 3rd congressional district (see map), located in the suburbs of Sacramento where he has served since 2005. - J. C. Tran
J. C. Tran (born Justin Cuong Van Tran on January 20 1977 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player, based in Sacramento, California. Tran was born the youngest of eight children and has a degree in Business Management Information Systems from California State University at Sacramento. Tran has finished in the money at numerous poker tournaments, … - Mike Murphy
Mike Murphy is a Republican political consultant. He has advised such nationally prominent Republicans as John McCain, Jeb Bush, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Lamar Alexander and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was, until Feb. 3, 2006 an, adviser to Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts and a potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination for the 2008 election. - Mark Williams
Mark Williams is a conservative opinion journalist who often winds up far more libertarian. He is based in Sacramento, California. Williams is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Court TV and writes a newspaper column for the new Sacramento Union newspaper. Additionally he fills in for radio talk hosts on a number of mostly major market radio outlets such as the Schnitt Show from Tampa, Florida's WFLA, … - John Sutter
Johann Augustus Sutter (February 23 1803 - June 18 1880) was a Californian of Swiss descent famous for his association with the California Gold Rush (in that gold was discovered by James W. Marshall in Sutter's Mill) and for establishing Sutter's Fort in an area that would later become the capital of the U.S. state of California, Sacramento. Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter ironically died almost poor, … - Brian Smith
Byron Joseph Smith (born on March 1, 1959 in Sacramento, California) is an American News Correspondent. - Doris Matsui
Doris Okada Matsui (born September 25, 1944) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represents the Fifth Congressional District of California (Sacramento County, map) in the United States House of Representatives. Following the death on January 1, 2005 of her husband, Bob Matsui, who represented the district for twenty-six years, she was elected as his replacement in a special election on March 8, 2005. She took the oath on March 10, 2005. - Roger Niello
Roger Niello is a Republican of the California State Assembly since 2004. He represents California's 5th Assembly District, which includes the Sacramento County cities and towns of Arden-Arcade, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Arden-Arcade, Folsom, North Highlands, McClellan Park, Orangevale, Natomas, Sacramento and the Placer County town of Granite Bay. - Dolores Huerta
Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). She was born in the miningtown of Dawson, New Mexico where her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and state legislator. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother, Alicia Chavez, raised Dolores, along with her two brothers, and two sisters, … - Donnie Murphy
Donald Rex "Donnie" Murphy (born March 10, 1983 in Lakewood, California) is a second baseman in the Oakland Athletics organization of Major League Baseball. He attended Riverside (California) Polytechnic High School and Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa, Califoria and was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 5th round of the 2002 amateur draft. In 2004 and 2005, he appeared in 39 games for the Royals, hitting .163 with one home run and eleven RBI. - Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones is a news anchor for San Francisco radio station KGO-AM 810. She co-anchors "The KGO Morning News" with Ed Baxter. Before taking her current position, Jones was a reporter for KGO's San Jose bureau. She is a veteran of other California news and talk radio stations, having been a reporter and anchor for KFBK in Sacramento, and for KPAY in Chico. - Newton Booth
Newton Booth (December 30, 1825 - July 14, 1892) was an American politician. Born in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from Asbury University, later renamed DePauw University, in nearby Greencastle, Indiana. He studied law in Terre Haute and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the same year he moved to California, … - Wally Herger
Walter William (Wally) Herger, Jr. (born May 20 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the 2nd District of California. This district is geographically large, and includes Chico, Redding and Red Bluff. He was born in Yuba City, California, and graduated from American River College with an Associates of Arts and attended California State University, Sacramento for a year. - Monique Alexander
Monique Alexander (born May 26, 1982) is an American pornographic actress and nude model. Alexander was born in Vallejo, California and began working in the adult industry as a stripper in Sacramento when she was 18. She appeared in several adult magazines, then started performing in adult films in 2001, becoming a contract girl for Sin City in that year. In addition to a catalog of solely girl-girl hardcore work, … - Jennifer Strange
Jennifer Lea Strange was a 28-year-old woman who died of water intoxication on January 12, 2007 after taking part in a Sacramento, California, radio station's water-drinking contest. Strange, along with twenty other participants, took part in a contest held by KDND-FM's "Morning Rave" show called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii," where the winner would win a Wii, a popular and at that time difficult-to-obtain Nintendo video game console. - Doug Davis
Douglas P. "Doug" Davis (born September 21, 1975) is a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Davis was born in Sacramento, California and went to Northgate High School in Walnut Creek California. Later, he attended the City College of San Francisco; he earned Second Team All-Conference honors as a pitcher in his junior season. - Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Scott Brown (born October 24, 1979 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a Major League Baseball catcher in the Oakland Athletics's organization. Brown played for Hueytown High School in Hueytown, Alabama, and went on to play for the University of Alabama. He is primarily known for his place in Michael Lewis' 2004 #1 bestseller Moneyball. - Sam Elliott
Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American film and television actor. He is usually recognized by his tall, thin, rough-hewn physique, a thick handlebar moustache and a gruff speaking voice. - Sasha Grey
Sasha Grey (born on March 14, 1988, in Sacramento, CA) is an American pornographic actress. - Jill Stewart
Jill Stewart is a print, radio, Internet, and television political commentator. From 1984 through 1991, she was a metro reporter with the Los Angeles Times. From 1997 through 2003, she authored a weekly commentary column on Los Angeles, southern California, and Sacramento politics for the now-defunct alternative newspaper New Times LA. That "acerbic, iconoclastic" column propelled Stewart into the public conscious and made her a "must-read for many in town", … - Jim Costa
James Manuel "Jim" Costa (born April 13 1952) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of California. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent the 20th Congressional District of California. (map) The district takes in large and predominantly Latino portions of Fresno and Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley. Jim Costa is a Blue Dog Democrat. Born in Fresno, Costa is a third-generation family farmer. - Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker (September 16 1822 - June 14 1888) was born in Troy, New York to a modest family. When he was fourteen he moved to a farm in Iowa, Crocker soon became independent, working on several farms, a sawmill, and at an iron forge. In 1845 he founded a small, independent iron forge of his own. After hearing of the California Gold Rush, Crocker led a party of Forty-niners overland to the Pacific coast, and arrived in 1850. - Glenn Hagele
Glenn Hagele is the founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance ( details ). As an independent consultant since 1982 with Creative Marketing Design (CMD), Mr. Hagele has participated in several different facets of the healthcare industry. Mr. Hagele was responsible for the start-up of a managed services organization (MSO) in Detroit and a specialist independent practitioner association (IPA) in Sacramento. - 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. - Kevin Seconds
Kevin Seconds is a musician from Reno, Nevada currently based in Sacramento, California. He founded the hardcore punk band 7 Seconds in 1979 with his brother Steve Youth. Having been their frontman ever since, he also writes their lyrics. He got the band signed to the Better Youth Organization label in 1982. Since its formation, 7 Seconds has released over 15 records as well as touring North America, Europe and Japan multiple times. - Phil Johnson
Phil D. Johnson is a former professional basketball player and a current basketball coach. He played college basketball at Utah State University, and has coached collegiately at Weber State University. He has served as head coach for two different National Basketball Association teams. He was the head coach for the Sacramento Kings in three different locations - Sacramento, Kansas City, … - Thomas King
Thomas King (born 24 April 1943) is a noted Canadian novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about Canada's First Nations and is an outspoken advocate for First Nations causes. He is of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent. Born in Sacramento, California, he worked in Australia as a photojournalist before moving to Canada in 1980. King is currently an English professor at the University of Guelph and lives in Guelph, Ontario. - Richard Chase
Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 - December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He earned the nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento" due to his drinking of his victims' blood and his cannibalism. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish. - Ron Reagan
Ronald Prescott Reagan (born May 20, 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA), usually known as Ron Reagan, is the son of the late former President of the United States Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy. He is currently a political commentator for the cable television network MSNBC as well as a talk show host on and chief political analyst for KIRO radio in Seattle. In May 2006, he became part of the regular line-up on 710 KIRO, … - Smosh
Smosh is a video-creating duo that has established fame on YouTube; friends, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. Smosh is the most subscribed channel of all time on YouTube (as of July 2007), with 135,000+ subscribers, 40,000+ more than any other channel. Smosh's videos have been viewed by millions of people and have appeared on mainstream television. Padilla and Hecox both attend American River College and live in Carmichael, California, …
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