Notable alumni of Lowell High School, San Francisco, have been cataloged by the Lowell High Alumni Association. [1] Alumni include:
Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
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Albert Abraham Michelson | 1868 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. First American Nobel laureate in a scientific field. | [1] [2] [3] |
Charles Lee Tilden | 1874 | Attorney & businessman, namesake of Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. | [1] |
Stephen Mather | 1883 | First Director of the National Park Service. | [4] |
William Renwick Smedberg Jr. | 1888 | U.S. Army brigadier general. | [5] |
John F. Madden | 1890 | U.S. Army brigadier general. | [6] [7] |
Joseph Erlanger | 1892 | Physician; Professor, Washington University in St. Louis. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945. | [2] [8] |
Eugene Meyer | 1892 | First President of the World Bank; Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. | |
G. Albert Lansburgh | 1894 | Notable architect of Broadway and Los Angeles theatres and cinemas. | [9] |
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld | 1894 | Well-known legal theorist and law professor at Yale and Stanford. | |
Rube Goldberg | 1900 | Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of "Rube Goldberg" machines. | [10] |
Walter A. Haas | 1905 | Board Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. | [11] |
Newton B. Drury | 1908 | Fourth Director of the National Park Service. | [12] |
Alexander Calder | 1915 | Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile. | [2] |
Gerald M. Loeb | Founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co. | [13] | |
Cyril Magnin | 1918 | Chief Executive of the Joseph Magnin Co. | [14] |
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Sr. | 1923 | District Attorney of San Francisco; State Attorney General; Governor of California, 1959–1967. | [14] [15] |
Larry Rhine | 1927 | American producer and screenwriter. | [16] |
Robert Lees | 1929 | Film and television writer. | [17] |
William Hewlett | 1930 | Inventor, businessman, philanthropist. Co-founder, Hewlett-Packard Company; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. | [14] [18] |
Alex Eagle | NFL player | [19] | |
Charles Ginsburg | 1936 | Developed first commercially viable Video Tape Recorder at Ampex. | [20] |
Stafford Repp | 1936 | Actor, Batman television series. | [14] |
Carol Channing | 1938 | Tony Award-winning singer, actress and comedian. | [21] [22] |
Richard Diebenkorn | 1939 | 20th century painter. | [14] |
William G. Joslyn | 1940 | Marine Corps Major general, also drafted by Washington Redskins in 1944. | [23] |
William Coblentz | California power broker, Lawyer, UC Regent | [24] | |
Pierre Salinger | 1941 | Press secretary to US President John F. Kennedy; later, United States Senator from California. | [14] [10] |
Art Hoppe | 1942 | Popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years. | [14] |
Jerry Coleman | 1942 | Decorated Marine aviator, New York Yankee, Hall of Fame announcer | [25] |
Kenneth McLennan | 1943 | Marine 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 | 1945 | Pioneer in artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. | [29] |
Donald Fisher | 1946 | Founder and Board Chairman of The GAP. | [14] [30] |
Jann Darlyn | 1947 | Actress and model. | |
Dian Fossey | 1949 | Primatologist 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 | 1950 | Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs . | [31] |
Warren Hellman | 1951 | Private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman. | [14] |
Bill Bixby | 1952 | Movie 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 | 1953 | Husband of Dianne Feinstein. Chairman and President of Blum Capital. Regent of the University of California. | [14] [33] |
Stephen Breyer | 1955 | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. | [14] [34] |
William Ware Theiss | 1948 | Academy Award nominated Costume Designer for movies and TV, including Star Trek . | [35] |
Tom Meschery | 1957 | Played 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 | 1959 | American literary critic. | [36] [37] |
Susie Tompkins Buell | 1960 | Entrepreneur and liberal political donor associated with the Democracy Alliance. | [14] |
Julia Chang Bloch | 1960 | U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. | |
Steve Silver | 1962 | Creator of Beach Blanket Babylon. | [14] |
Eric Albronda | 1963 | Founding member of the band Blue Cheer, often considered to be the first heavy metal band | [38] |
Richard Levin | 1964 | President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013. | [1] |
Dennis Marcellino | 1965 | Member of Sly & The Family Stone, The Elvin Bishop Group, Rubicon, and The Tokens (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) | [39] |
Michael Bortin | 1966 | Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. | [40] |
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz | 1966 | Journalist and author. | [41] |
Linda Tillery | 1966 | Singer, percussionist, music arranger, record producer; founder of The Cultural Heritage Choir. | [42] |
Edison Liu | CEO of The Jackson Laboratory | [43] | |
Charles H. Ferguson | 1972 | Software entrepreneur; Writer; Filmmaker. Film Inside Job won 2011 best documentary Academy Award. | [44] |
John Roos | 1973 | Attorney & U.S. Ambassador to Japan. | [45] |
Larry Baer | 1975 | President of the San Francisco Giants MLB team. | [46] [47] |
Stefan Wever | 1976 | Major League Baseball Player for New York Yankees | |
John D. Trasviña | 1976 | President of MALDEF, HUD Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. | [48] |
Gill Byrd | 1978 | Played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, 1983–1992. | [49] |
Eric Allin Cornell | 1980 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. | [50] |
Jennifer Egan | 1980 | Novelist and short story writer. | [51] |
Soji Kashiwagi | 1980 | Playwright, Executive Producer for Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre organization. | [52] |
Naomi Wolf | 1980 | Rhodes Scholar, writer. | [1] |
Benjamin Bratt | 1982 | Movie and TV personality who starred in the television series, Law & Order . | [53] |
Paris | 1985 | Hip-hop artist. | [54] |
Paul Miyamoto | 1985 | Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco | [55] |
Margaret Cho | 1986 | Comedian, briefly attended Lowell before transferring to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. | [56] |
Lisa Bielawa | Composer and vocalist | [43] | |
Daniel Handler | 1988 | Aka 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 | 1994 | Screenwriter of Sucker Free City (2004) and Watchmen (2009). | [58] |
Raina Telgemeier | 1995 | American 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 | 2001 | Reality 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 | 2005 | Soccer player | [64] [65] |
Rita Volk | 2008 | (born Margarita Volkovinskaya) Model and actress. Star of Faking It. [66] | |
Daniela Amodei | 2006 | President and co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. | |
Lolo Zouaï | 2013 | Singer, songwriter, producer & model. | [67] |
Golden Landis von Jones (24kGoldn) | 2018 | Hip hop musician | [68] |
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