List of people from Palo Alto
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 Palo Alto High alumnus[1]
- 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, author, was 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, Hill Street Blues, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1961[6][7]
- Teri Hatcher, actress known for Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, was born in Palo Alto.[8]
- Amy Irving, actress known for Crossing Delancey and Yentl, was born in Palo Alto[9]
- Željko Ivanek, actor known for 24, Damages, Madam Secretary, and 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.
- Shemar Moore, actor and model, Gunn High School alumnus
- Rick Rossovich, actor known for Top Gun, Roxanne, 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
Artists and designers
- Greg Brown (painter), trompe-l'oeil muralist, grew up in Palo Alto, attended Palo Alto High School class of 1969.[12]
- Margo Davis, photographer, lived in Palo Alto for over 30 years.[13]
- Pedro Joseph de Lemos, painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer and museum director, lived and died in Palo Alto.[14]
- Helen Katharine Forbes, muralist and painter, grew up in Palo Alto.[15]
- Tom Franco, artist and actor, grew up in Palo Alto, attended Palo Alto High School class of 1998.[16]
- Nina Katchadourian, artist, attended Gunn High School.[17]
- Ollie Johnston, Academy Award–winning Disney animator, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia[18]
- Yvonne Rainer, modern dancer and filmmaker[19]
- Michael H. Riley, Emmy Award-nominated motion graphics designer and art director, grew up in Palo Alto
Business leaders and entrepreneurs
- Sergey Brin, (born 1973) co-founder of Google
- 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.
- Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos.
- 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.
- Marissa Mayer, CEO and president of Yahoo!, former vice president of search products & user experience at Google
- Chip Morningstar, software developer; project leader for Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first large-scale virtual multiuser environment; resident of Palo Alto.
- Stephen Neal, chairman of Cooley LLP, resident.[20]
- 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, 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
- 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.[21]
- Joan Baez, folk singer went to school in Palo Alto[22] and now resides in Woodside, California.[23]
- 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[24][25]
- Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Palo Alto native.[26]
- The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band; early incarnations of band were based in Palo Alto.[27]
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, (1945–1973) founding member of the Grateful Dead; moved to Palo Alto as a teenager; buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
- 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.
- The Donnas, rock group, met while growing up in Palo Alto, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1997.[28][29]
- Stephan Jenkins, rock musician with Third Eye Blind and Gunn High School alumnus class of 1983.[30]
- Ugly Kid Joe, rock band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt grew up in Palo Alto,[31] as did producer Eric Valentine
- The Kingston Trio,[32] 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.
- Grace Slick, singer with the rock group Jefferson Airplane, later known as Jefferson Starship[33]
Politicians, political figures and civil servants
- Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and political pundit
- Jerry Daniels, CIA officer in Laos during the Vietnam War[34]
- Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, starting in 1916 he 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, Korean War veteran, noted for his 2013 arrest in North Korea.
- Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
- Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
- Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary[35]
- Ron Wyden, United States Senator
Writers
- David M. Alexander, science-fiction and crime novelist, attorney
- Jordan Allen-Dutton, screenplay writer, 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
- John Duryea, former Palo Alto Catholic priest excommunicated by the church in the 1970s and author of his autobiography.[36]
- Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist, creator of Perry Mason[37]
- Ariel Gore, (born 1970) journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author. Raised in Palo Alto.[38]
- Ken Kesey, (1935–2001) novelist, short story writer, playwright - author of One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. He began One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest at a creative writing program at Stanford University and finished it while living in a cottage in Palo Alto.[39]
- Marty Klein, (born 1950) is an American sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst.
- Michael Lederer, author
- John Markoff, Pulitzer prize winning, former New York Times technology journalist, he grew up in Palo Alto and has lived there for many years.[40]
- 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[41]
- Keith Raffel, crime novelist
- 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"[42]
- Ron Unz, (born 1961) unsuccessful race in the 1994 California gubernatorial election, from 2007 to 2013 he was the publisher of The American Conservative, and The Unz Review.
- Jessica Yu, (born 1966) screenplay writer and film director; attended Gunn High School.
Scientists
- Richard R. Ernst, Nobel laureate in chemistry, worked at Varian Associates in Palo Alto[43]
- Gene F. Franklin, control engineer and NASA scientist.
- Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, author, college professor. Attended Cubberly High School and while there built an atom smasher in his parents' garage.[44]
- Brian Kobilka, Nobel laureate in chemistry, lives in Palo Alto
- Pamela Melroy, astronaut, second woman to command a space shuttle mission
- Ida Shepard Oldroyd, conchologist and curator (1856–1940)
- Perley Ason Ross, physicist who worked on essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays
- Robert Spinrad (1932–2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.[45]
- William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist[46]
Athletes
- Davante Adams NFL Player and wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. East Palo Alto resident and Palo Alto High School graduate.[47]
- Harris Barton (born 1964), All Pro NFL offensive lineman
- Matt Biondi (born 1965), swimmer, won a total of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto
- Hunter Bishop (born 1998), baseball player
- Nick Bravin (born 1971), Olympic fencer
- Jim Harbaugh, football player, head coach of Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers and Michigan, Palo Alto High School class of 1982[48]
- Tony Hargain, NFL player
- Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player, regarded as one of the best holds a record of 14 WSOP bracelets with total earnings of more than 20 million to date
- Katie Hoff, Olympic swimmer, Palo Alto native
- Adam Juratovac, Professional Football player, Arena Bowl XXIII Champion, Alumnus of Gunn High School
- Dana Kirk, Olympic swimmer, coaches for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics
- Tara Kirk, swam with Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, Olympic swimmer, American record holder in 100 and 200-yard (180 m) breaststroke
- Trajan Langdon, basketball executive and former player
- Francie Larrieu-Smith, long-distance runner, first female athlete to make five Olympic teams, born in Palo Alto
- Jeremy Lin (born 1988), basketball player for the NBA's Toronto Raptors, alumnus of Palo Alto High School
- Jim Loscutoff, basketball player who won seven NBA championships with Boston Celtics[49][50]
- Don MacLean, UCLA and NBA basketball player[51]
- Bob Melvin (born 1961), Major League Baseball player and manager
- Joc Pederson (born 1992), baseball player for Los Angeles Dodgers
- Dan Petry, pitcher for 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Palo Alto
- Tim Rossovich, professional football player
- Dave Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
- Mark Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
- Pop Warner (early football player & coach) head coach 8 colleges including Stanford University (1924–1932), lived and died Palo Alto died (83) September 7, 1954 resided 251 Madrono Ave.
- Charles Wright, professional wrestler, formerly working for WWE as Papa Shango and The Godfather
- Steve Young, former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers and NFL Hall of Famer.[52]
- Vincent Zhou, figure skater that attended the 2018 Winter Olympics.
See also
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