List of people from Palo Alto

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This is a list of notable people from Palo Alto, California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in Palo Alto, or for whom Palo Alto is a significant part of their identity.

Actors

• Zach Appelman, actor known for the television series Sleepy Hollow, born and raised in Palo Alto and is a Palo Alto High alumnus ^[1]
• Aarón Díaz, Mexican American actor, singer, and model; born in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, raised in Palo Alto
• Polly Draper, actress, screenplay writer, producer, and director; was in the television program Thirtysomething ; raised in Palo Alto ^[2]
• Dave Franco, actor, born in Palo Alto ^[3]
• James Franco, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, and author, born in Palo Alto ^[4]
• Neva Gerber, silent screen actress, moved to Palo Alto after she married San Francisco oil geologist Edward F. Nolan ^[5]
• Charles Haid, actor and director known for Hill Street Blues , graduated from Palo Alto High in 1961 ^{[6] [7]}
• Teri Hatcher, actress known for Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , born in Palo Alto ^[8]
• Amy Irving, actress known for Crossing Delancey and Yentl , born in Palo Alto ^[9]
• Željko Ivanek, actor known for 24 , Damages , and Madam Secretary , Ellwood P. Cubberley High School alumnus ^[10]
• Ellen K, radio personality and television host, born in Palo Alto
• Brandis Kemp, actress known for television series Fridays
• Kaja Martin, actress and film producer, involved in Riley Rewind, born and raised in Palo Alto
• Shemar Moore, actor and model, Gunn High School alumnus
• Rick Rossovich, actor known for Top Gun , Roxanne , and The Terminator
• Alessandra Torresani, actress known for Caprica , born and raised in Palo Alto ^[11]
• Bree Turner, actress known for the television series Grimm, born in Palo Alto
• Sheila Vand, actress known for her role in Argo , raised in Palo Alto ^[12]

Visual arts

Fine artists

• Jeremy Anderson, wood sculptor and professor, graduated from Palo Alto High School ^[13]
• Greg Brown, trompe-l'oeil muralist, grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1969 ^[14]
• Margo Davis, photographer, lived in Palo Alto for over 30 years ^[15]
• Terry Acebo Davis, fine artist and chairperson of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission
• Pedro Joseph de Lemos, painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, and museum director, lived and died in Palo Alto ^[16]
• Edward McNeil Farmer, watercolorist, oil painter, and professor at Stanford University, lived in Palo Alto and was active in the Pacific Art League (previously known as Palo Alto Art Club) ^[17]
• Donald Farnsworth, fine art master printmaker, born in Palo Alto ^[18]
• Helen Katharine Forbes, muralist and painter, grew up in Palo Alto ^[19]
• Tom Franco, artist and actor, grew up in Palo Alto and attended Palo Alto High School, graduating in 1998 ^[20]
• James Gurney, illustrator, artist, and creator of the Dinotopia world, grew up in Palo Alto
• Ollie Johnston, Academy Award–winning Disney animator, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia ^[21]
• Nina Katchadourian, artist, attended Gunn High School ^[22]
• Paula Kirkeby (1934–2016), art collector, art donor, and the director and founder of the commercial art gallery, Smith Andersen Gallery, and printshops, Smith Andersen Editions and 3EP Ltd. Press ^[23]
• Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869–1937), California impressionist painter, died in Palo Alto
• Elizabeth Norton (1887–1985), bronze sculptor, printmaker, painter, and one of the founders of the Palo Alto Art Club (now known as the Pacific Art League) ^[24]
• Nathan Oliveira, painter and educator within the Bay Area Figurative Movement, maintained his art studio in Palo Alto ^[25]
• Yvonne Rainer, modern dancer and filmmaker ^[26]
• John Aloysius Stanton (1857–1929), painter, academic administrator, and professor ^[27]
• Cloyd Jonathan Sweigert, political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle, California Impressionist painter, and member of the Pacific Art League (previously known as Palo Alto Art Club)
• Jimmy Swinnerton, cartoonist and fine art painter, maintained a house in Palo Alto for many years
• Jacqueline Thurston, visual artist and writer, has lived in Palo Alto for many years ^[28]
• Shirley Williamson (1875–1944), California Impressionist painter, monotype printer, and member of the Pacific Art League (previously known as Palo Alto Art Club), lived in Palo Alto for many years

Designers

• Arthur Bridgman Clark (1866–1949), architect, professor, first mayor of Mayfield, and first head of the Art Department at Stanford University ^[29]
• Birge Clark (1893–1989), architect, worked largely in the Spanish Colonial Revival style around Palo Alto
• Lisa Hanawalt (born 1983), illustrator, cartoonist, production designer and producer; executive produced the Netflix animated series, Tuca & Bertie ; born and raised in Palo Alto ^[30]
• Michael Manwaring (born 1942), designer, artist, and one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design; born and raised in Palo Alto ^[31]
• Michael H. Riley, Emmy Award-nominated motion graphics designer and art director, grew up in Palo Alto
• Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, architect and artist, specialized in designing facilities for tech companies in Silicon Valley

Business leaders and entrepreneurs

• Sergey Brin (born 1973), co-founder of Google
• Thomas Foon Chew, founder of Bayside Canning Company in 1918
• Tim Cook (born 1960), CEO of Apple Inc. since 2011
• Debbi Fields (born 1956), founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
• David Filo (born 1966), co-founder of Yahoo! Inc.
• Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow
• William Hewlett (1913–2001), co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
• Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn
• Mark Hurd (1957–2019), former joint CEO of Oracle Corporation; past chairman, chief executive officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard
• Steve Jobs (1955–2011), co-founder of Apple Inc., lived in Palo Alto (1980–2011); buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
• Darren Kimura, founder of Sopogy and inventor of MicroCSP solar technolog
• William R. Larson, founder of Round Table Pizza
• Marissa Mayer, CEO and president of Yahoo!; former vice president of search products and user experience at Google
• Chip Morningstar, software developer; project leader for Lucasfilm's Habitat , the first large-scale virtual multiuser environment; current resident
• Stephen Neal, chairman of Cooley LLP; current resident ^[32]
• David Packard (1912–1996), co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
• Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google; current resident
• Vishal Sikka, ex-CEO of Infosys, ex-CTO of SAP AG
• Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook, CEO of Myspace, COO of Zynga
• Romesh Wadhwani, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
• Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe
• Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
• Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook

Musicians

• William Ackerman, acoustic guitarist, founded influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records ^[33]
• Joan Baez, folk singer, went to school in Palo Alto, ^[34] now resides in Woodside, California ^[35]
• Lindsey Buckingham, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac, born and raised in Palo Alto ^{[36] [37]}
• Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Palo Alto native ^[38]
• The Donnas, rock group, met while growing up in Palo Alto; graduated from Palo Alto High in 1997 ^{[39] [40]}
• The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band; early incarnations of the band were based in Palo Alto ^[41]
  • Jerry Garcia (1942–1995), founding member of the Grateful Dead; moved to Palo Alto in the 1960s
  • Bill Kreutzmann (born 1946), founding member and drummer of the Grateful Dead; born and raised in Palo Alto
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1945–1973), founding member of the Grateful Dead; moved to Palo Alto as a teenager; buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park
• Stephan Jenkins, rock musician with Third Eye Blind and Gunn High School alumnus (1983) ^[42]
• The Kingston Trio, ^[43] folk group, formed in Palo Alto while its members were enrolled at Stanford University and nearby Menlo College
• Rick Nowels, pop music record producer and songwriter
• Virginia Seay, composer and musicologist, born in Palo Alto in 1922 ^[44]
• Matt Simons, singer-songwriter, born and raised in Palo Alto; graduated from Gunn High School in 2005
• Grace Slick, singer with the rock group Jefferson Airplane, later known as Jefferson Starship ^[45]
• Molly Tuttle, singer-songwriter, banjo player, guitarist, recording artist, and teacher in the bluegrass tradition, raised in Palo Alto and attended Palo Alto High School ^[46]
• Ugly Kid Joe, rock band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt grew up in Palo Alto, ^[47] as did producer Eric Valentine
• Remi Wolf, indie pop singer-songwriter, born and raised in Palo Alto; ^[48] graduated from Palo Alto High School in 2014 ^[49]

Politicians, political figures and civil servants

• Robert Bell, Virginia State Delegate, born in Palo Alto
• Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and political pundit
• Jerry Daniels, CIA officer in Laos during the Vietnam War ^[50]
• Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States; starting in 1916, maintained a home in Palo Alto
• Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China
• Merrill Newman (born 1928), Palo Alto Channing House resident, former United States Army officer, and Korean War veteran, noted for his 2013 arrest in North Korea
• Guy H. Preston, US Army brigadier general ^[51]
• Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
• Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
• Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary ^[52]
• Byron Sher (born 1928), served in the California State Senate 1996–2004, the California State Assembly from 1980 and 1996, and was a professor emeritus at Stanford Law School ^[53]
• Sarah Wallis (1825–1905), first president of the California Woman Suffrage Educational Association ^[54]
• Ron Wyden, United States Senator

Religion

• John Duryea, former Palo Alto Catholic priest excommunicated by the church in the 1970s and author of his autobiography ^[55]
• Gerrit W. Gong, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), ^[56] raised in Palo Alto
• Indradyumna Swami (formerly Brian Tibbitts), ISKCON Guru and a sannyasi for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, born and raised in Palo Alto

Scientists

• Richard R. Ernst, Nobel laureate in chemistry, worked at Varian Associates in Palo Alto ^[57]
• Gene F. Franklin, control engineer and NASA scientist
• Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, author, and college professor; attended Cubberly High School and built an atom smasher in his parents' garage ^[58]
• Brian Kobilka, Nobel laureate in chemistry, lives in Palo Alto
• Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), Nobel prize-winning biochemist
• Pamela Melroy, astronaut and second woman to command a space shuttle mission
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), Iranian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Stanford University ^[59]
• Souvik Bose, an Indian astrophysicist, works in Lockheed Martin & NASA
• James G. Moore (born 1930), geologist, born in Palo Alto
• Ida Shepard Oldroyd, conchologist and curator (1856–1940)
• Perley Ason Ross, physicist who worked on essential problems in the behavior of X-rays
• William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist ^[60]
• Robert Spinrad (1932–2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ^[61]
• Sidney Dean Townley, astronomer, geodeticist, and Stanford University professor emeritus ^[62]

Writers

• David M. Alexander, attorney and science-fiction and crime novelist
• Jordan Allen-Dutton, screenplay writer and producer of theatre, raised in Palo Alto
• Renée Ashley, poet, novelist, essayist, and educator, born in Palo Alto
• Raymond Carver, short story writer and poet
• Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist and creator of Perry Mason ^[63]
• Ariel Gore (born 1970), journalist, memoirist, and novelist author, raised in Palo Alto ^[64]
• Ken Kesey (1935–2001), novelist, short story writer, playwright, and author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , which he finished writing while living in a cottage in Palo Alto ^[65]
• Marty Klein (born 1950), sex therapist, author, educator, and public policy analyst
• Michael Lederer, author
• John Markoff, Pulitzer prize winner and former New York Times technology journalist; grew up in Palo Alto and has lived there for many years ^[66]
• Chanel Miller (born 1992), victim of sexual assault and author of best-selling memoir Know My Name
• Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist and author, born in Palo Alto; author of Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
• Julia Flynn Siler, journalist and nonfiction author ^[67]
• Keith Raffel, crime novelist, tech entrepreneur, syndicated columnist, and university lecturer
• Ron Unz (born 1961), far-right writer
• Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator
• Tad Williams, New York Times best-selling author
• Yvor Winters, poet, known as the "Sage of Palo Alto" ^[68]
• Al Young (1939–2021), poet, educator, novelist, and essayist, lived in Palo Alto for almost three decades
• Jessica Yu (born 1966), screenplay writer and film director, attended Gunn High School

Athletes

Jeremy Lin

Joc Pederson

• Davante Adams, NFL wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders, East Palo Alto resident and Palo Alto High School graduate ^[69]
• Harris Barton (born 1964), All Pro NFL offensive lineman
• Matt Biondi (born 1965), swimmer and winner of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto
• Hunter Bishop (born 1998), baseball player
• Paul Blanchette (born 1994), soccer player ^[70]
• Nick Bravin (born 1971), Olympic fencer
• Sebastian DeFrancesco, paralympic athlete and table tennis player
• Jim Harbaugh, former football player and current head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1982 ^[71]
• Tony Hargain, NFL player
• Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player, holds a record 16 WSOP bracelets with total earnings of more than $25 million to date
• Katie Hoff, Olympic swimmer, Palo Alto native
• Adam Juratovac, professional football player and Arena Bowl XXIII champion alumnus of Gunn High School
• Dana Kirk, Olympic swimmer, coaches for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics
• Tara Kirk, Olympic swimmer, swam with Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics; American record holder in 100 and 200-yard (180 m) breaststroke
• Hilary Knight, PHWL ice hockey player, 1-time Olympic gold medal winner, 9-time Women's World Championships winner
• Trajan Langdon, basketball executive and former player
• Francie Larrieu-Smith, long-distance runner and first female athlete to make five Olympic teams, born in Palo Alto
• Jeremy Lin (born 1988), basketball player, formerly for the NBA's Toronto Raptors, alumnus of Palo Alto High School
• Jim Loscutoff, basketball player who won seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics ^{[72] [73]}
• Don MacLean, UCLA and NBA basketball player ^[74]
• Bob Melvin (born 1961), Major League Baseball player and manager of the San Francisco Giants
• Joc Pederson (born 1992), baseball player for the Arizona Diamondbacks
• Dan Petry, pitcher for 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Palo Alto
• Tim Rossovich, professional football player
• Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
• Mark Schultz, Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
• Nolan Siegel, IndyCar driver.
• Pop Warner, early football player and head coach of eight colleges including Stanford University (1924–1932), lived and died in Palo Alto
• Charles Wright, professional wrestler, formerly worked for WWE as Papa Shango and The Godfather
• Steve Young, former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers and NFL Hall of Famer ^[75]
• Vincent Zhou, figure skater, attended the 2018 Winter Olympics

See also

• San Francisco Bay Area portal
• Biography portal
• Cities portal
• California portal

• List of people from Oakland, California
• List of people from San Francisco
• List of people from San Jose, California
• List of people from Santa Cruz, California

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