Alice Babette Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century,and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein.
Fred Harry Lau is a former Chief of Police for San Francisco,having served from 1996–2002. He was the first Asian American to ever hold that position,and has been called the first Chinese-American to lead the police in any major American city. In 2013,he became the TSA Federal Security Director of the San Francisco International Airport.
Theresa Sparks is an American transgender woman,and is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election. She is a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations. She is also one of San Francisco's most famous transgender women and was a Grand Marshal in the 2008 San Francisco Pride Parade.
Carmen Chu is an American politician serving as City Administrator of the City and County of San Francisco. She previously served as the city's assessor-recorder,where she was the only Asian-American assessor elected to serve among the 58 counties in the State of California. Prior to being elected assessor-recorder,Chu served as a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors,where she served two terms as the chair of the board's budget and finance committee,and was a board director of the Golden Gate Bridge,Highway and Transportation District. Before joining the board of supervisors,Chu served as deputy budget director in the mayor's office of public policy and finance. In July 2022,she was appointed to the Regents of the University of California by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Eric Lee Mar is an American politician. He served on the San Francisco Board of Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008,he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represented District 1.
Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco. It begins at Market Street passing Union Square,a major shopping district in the city. It then runs underground for about two and a half blocks in the Stockton Street Tunnel,passes through Chinatown and North Beach,and ends at Beach Street near the Pier 39 shopping center and tourist attraction.
Hunters View is a housing project in the Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco.
Anthony Hall is a former American elected official. He was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2000 to 2004. He resigned in 2004 to accept appointment as executive director of the Treasure Island Development Authority,a post he held for only 14 months. Hall later filed papers for running against the incumbent Newsom in the 2007 mayoral election but dropped out before the election,citing Newsom's entrenchment. He was known as the lone conservative on the Board of Supervisors and surprised the other board members when he supported Matt Gonzalez's successful bid for president of the board.
San Francisco Chinese Hospital is a community hospital in San Francisco and the only Chinese hospital in the United States. The hospital is located in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Rose Lan Pak was a political activist in San Francisco,California,noted for her influence on city politics and power in the Chinatown community. Pak served as a consultant for the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce and organizer of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. Although Pak never held an elective political office,she was known as an outspoken,controversial but well-connected "gatekeeper" figure who supported politicians by raising funds and connecting them with the city's growing Asian American community. Her political ties to the Chinese government attracted scrutiny.
Norman Yee is a former American elected official and educator in San Francisco,California. He served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 7 from 2012 to 2021 and was elected president of the Board in January 2019.
Katy Tang is a former American elected official in San Francisco,California. She served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 4.
As of 2012,21.4% of the population in San Francisco was of Chinese descent,and there were at least 150,000 Chinese American residents. The Chinese are the largest Asian American subgroup in San Francisco. San Francisco has the highest percentage of residents of Chinese descent of any major U.S. city,and the second largest Chinese American population,after New York City. The San Francisco Area is 7.9% Chinese American,with many residents in Oakland and Santa Clara County. San Francisco's Chinese community has ancestry mainly from Guangdong province,China and Hong Kong,although there is a sizable population of ethnic Chinese with ancestry from other parts of mainland China and Taiwan as well.
The lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United States,and is one of the most important in the history of American LGBT rights and activism alongside New York City. The city itself has been described as "the original 'gay-friendly city'". LGBT culture is also active within companies that are based in Silicon Valley,which is located within the southern San Francisco Bay Area.
Julienne "Julie" Christensen is an American politician,who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from January 2015 to December 2015,representing District 3.
Edmund Jew is an American former politician and businessman,who was convicted of extortion,bribery,and perjury in 2008.
Aaron Dan Peskin is an American elected official in San Francisco,California. He is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 3. He was elected in 2015,having previously served two terms in 2001–2009.
A special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5,2018,to fill the remainder of the term of Ed Lee,who had died in office on December 12,2017. Upon Lee's death,London Breed,President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,became Acting Mayor of San Francisco,but a vote of six supervisors replaced Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. The mayoral election was held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. In San Francisco,the election for the eighth district member of the board of supervisors was also on the ballot.
Thomas Kuo Shyang Hsieh was a Chinese-born American politician,architect,and vineyard owner. He was San Francisco's third supervisor of Asian ancestry when he was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1986. He was the first Chinese American to be elected to a citywide office in San Francisco. He was re-elected twice and termed out of office in 1997.
Pius Lee is an American political power broker and landlord. He was a long-time supporter of Mayor Willie Brown and has served as the commissioner on several governmental commissions in San Francisco,including the San Francisco Port Commission and the San Francisco Police Commission. He serves as the chairman of the Chinese Six Companies and the Chinese Neighborhood Association.
