List of Lowell High School (San Francisco) alumni

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Notable alumni of Lowell High School, San Francisco, have been cataloged by the Lowell High Alumni Association. [1] Alumni include:

NameClass yearNotabilityReference(s)
Albert Abraham Michelson 1868 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. First American Nobel laureate in a scientific field. [1] [2] [3]
Charles Lee Tilden 1874Attorney & businessman, namesake of Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. [1]
Stephen Mather 1883First Director of the National Park Service. [4]
William Renwick Smedberg Jr. 1888U.S. Army brigadier general. [5]
John F. Madden 1890U.S. Army brigadier general. [6] [7]
Joseph Erlanger 1892Physician; Professor, Washington University in St. Louis. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945. [2] [8]
Eugene Meyer 1892First President of the World Bank; Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
G. Albert Lansburgh 1894Notable architect of Broadway and Los Angeles theatres and cinemas. [9]
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld 1894Well-known legal theorist and law professor at Yale and Stanford.
Rube Goldberg 1900Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of "Rube Goldberg" machines. [10]
Walter A. Haas 1905Board Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. [11]
Newton B. Drury 1908Fourth Director of the National Park Service. [12]
Alexander Calder 1915Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile. [2]
Gerald M. Loeb Founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co. [13]
Cyril Magnin 1918Chief Executive of the Joseph Magnin Co. [14]
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Sr.1923District Attorney of San Francisco; State Attorney General; Governor of California, 1959–1967. [14] [15]
Larry Rhine 1927American producer and screenwriter. [16]
Robert Lees 1929Film and television writer. [17]
William Hewlett 1930Inventor, businessman, philanthropist. Co-founder, Hewlett-Packard Company; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. [14] [18]
Alex Eagle NFL player [19]
Charles Ginsburg 1936Developed first commercially viable Video Tape Recorder at Ampex. [20]
Stafford Repp 1936Actor, Batman television series. [14]
Carol Channing 1938 Tony Award-winning singer, actress and comedian. [21] [22]
Richard Diebenkorn 193920th century painter. [14]
William G. Joslyn 1940Marine Corps Major general, also drafted by Washington Redskins in 1944. [23]
William Coblentz California power broker, Lawyer, UC Regent [24]
Pierre Salinger 1941Press secretary to US President John F. Kennedy; later, United States Senator from California. [14] [10]
Art Hoppe 1942Popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years. [14]
Jerry Coleman 1942Decorated Marine aviator, New York Yankee, Hall of Fame announcer [25]
Kenneth McLennan 1943Marine Corps four-star general, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. [26]
Harry Likas 1943 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship in Singles in 1948 (as a member of the University of San Francisco Dons); Collegiate Tennis Hall of Famer. [27]
Frank Kudelka NBA player [28]
Allen Newell 1945Pioneer in artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. [29]
Donald Fisher 1946Founder and Board Chairman of The GAP. [14] [30]
Jann Darlyn 1947Actress and model.
Dian Fossey 1949Primatologist and conservationist known for extensive study of the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Subject of the book and film Gorillas in the Mist . [2]
Ed Mayer 1950Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs . [31]
Warren Hellman 1951 Private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman. [14]
Bill Bixby 1952Movie and TV actor: The Incredible Hulk , My Favorite Martian , The Courtship of Eddie's Father , and film director. [32]
John L. Heilbron Historian of science. [1]
Richard C. Blum 1953Husband of Dianne Feinstein. Chairman and President of Blum Capital. Regent of the University of California. [14] [33]
Stephen Breyer 1955Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. [14] [34]
William Ware Theiss 1948Academy Award nominated Costume Designer for movies and TV, including Star Trek . [35]
Tom Meschery 1957Played in the NBA for the Warriors and SuperSonics, 1961–1971. [1]
Charles R. Breyer 1959 Senior United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [14]
Howard Lachtman 1959American literary critic. [36] [37]
Susie Tompkins Buell 1960Entrepreneur and liberal political donor associated with the Democracy Alliance. [14]
Julia Chang Bloch 1960 U.S. Ambassador to Nepal.
Steve Silver 1962Creator of Beach Blanket Babylon. [14]
Eric Albronda 1963Founding member of the band Blue Cheer, often considered to be the first heavy metal band [38]
Richard Levin 1964President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013. [1]
Dennis Marcellino 1965Member of Sly & The Family Stone, The Elvin Bishop Group, Rubicon, and The Tokens (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) [39]
Michael Bortin 1966Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. [40]
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz 1966Journalist and author. [41]
Linda Tillery 1966Singer, percussionist, music arranger, record producer; founder of The Cultural Heritage Choir. [42]
Edison Liu CEO of The Jackson Laboratory [43]
Charles H. Ferguson 1972Software entrepreneur; Writer; Filmmaker. Film Inside Job won 2011 best documentary Academy Award. [44]
John Roos 1973Attorney & U.S. Ambassador to Japan. [45]
Larry Baer 1975President of the San Francisco Giants MLB team. [46] [47]
Stefan Wever 1976Major League Baseball Player for New York Yankees
John D. Trasviña 1976President of MALDEF, HUD Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. [48]
Gill Byrd 1978Played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, 1983–1992. [49]
Eric Allin Cornell 1980Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. [50]
Jennifer Egan 1980Novelist and short story writer. [51]
Soji Kashiwagi 1980Playwright, Executive Producer for Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre organization. [52]
Naomi Wolf 1980 Rhodes Scholar, writer. [1]
Benjamin Bratt 1982Movie and TV personality who starred in the television series, Law & Order . [53]
Paris 1985Hip-hop artist. [54]
Paul Miyamoto 1985Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco [55]
Margaret Cho 1986Comedian, briefly attended Lowell before transferring to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. [56]
Lisa Bielawa Composer and vocalist [43]
Daniel Handler 1988Aka Lemony Snicket, bestselling author of a series of children's novels: A Series of Unfortunate Events , and a novel set in a fictional Lowell High School, The Basic Eight . [57]
Alex Tse 1994Screenwriter of Sucker Free City (2004) and Watchmen (2009). [58]
Raina Telgemeier 1995American cartoonist and author [59]
Adrian Lamo Computer hacker, key figure in WikiLeaks case, and journalist who attended Lowell along with two other high schools. [60] [61]
Katrina Lake Founder and former CEO of Stitch Fix. [62]
Jamie Chung 2001Reality television personality who gained fame on The Real World: San Diego , and later, an actress known for her work in films such as Sorority Row and The Hangover Part II and in TV series such as Once Upon a Time . [63]
Anton Peterlin 2005Soccer player [64] [65]
Rita Volk 2008(born Margarita Volkovinskaya) Model and actress. Star of Faking It. [66]
Daniela Amodei 2006President and co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic.
Lolo Zouaï 2013Singer, songwriter, producer & model. [67]
Golden Landis von Jones (24kGoldn) 2018Hip hop musician [68]

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