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词条 List of people from Palo Alto
释义

  1. Actors

  2. Artists and designers

  3. Business leaders and entrepreneurs

  4. Musicians

  5. Politicians and civil servants

  6. Writers

  7. Scientists

  8. Athletes

  9. See also

  10. References

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.

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Actors

  • Zach Appelman, actor known for the television series Sleepy Hollow, born and raised in Palo Alto and Palo Alto High alumnus[1]
  • Dave Franco, actor, born in Palo Alto[2]
  • James Franco, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, author, was born in Palo Alto.[3]
  • Neva Gerber, silent screen actress, moved to Palo Alto after she married San Francisco oil geologist Edward F. Nolan.[4]
  • Charles Haid, actor and director, Hill Street Blues, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1961[5][6]
  • Teri Hatcher, actress known for Desperate Housewives and The New Adventures of Superman, was born in Palo Alto.[7]
  • Amy Irving, actress known for Crossing Delancey and Yentl, was born in Palo Alto[8]
  • Željko Ivanek, actor known for 24, Damages, Madam Secretary, and Ellwood P. Cubberley High School alumnus[9]
  • 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[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • Margo Davis, photographer, lived in Palo Alto for over 30 years.[12]
  • Pedro Joseph de Lemos, painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer and museum director, lived and died in Palo Alto.[13]
  • Helen Katharine Forbes, muralist and painter, grew up in Palo Alto.[14]
  • Tom Franco, artist and actor, grew up in Palo Alto, attended Palo Alto High School class of 1998.[15]
  • Nina Katchadourian, artist, attended Gunn High School.[16]
  • Ollie Johnston, Academy Award–winning Disney animator, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia[17]
  • Yvonne Rainer, modern dancer and filmmaker[18]
  • Michael H. Riley, Emmy Award-nominated motion graphics designer and art director, grew up in Palo Alto

Business leaders and entrepreneurs

  • Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
  • Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc.
  • Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
  • David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! Inc.
  • Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow
  • William Hewlett, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
  • Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos
  • Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle Corporation, past chairman, chief executive officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard
  • Steve Jobs, deceased 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
  • Stephen Neal, chairman of Cooley LLP, resident.[19]
  • Merrill Newman, retired tech CEO, 85-year-old Channing House resident, Korean War veteran
  • David Packard, deceased 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.[20]
  • Joan Baez, folk singer went to school in Palo Alto[21] and now resides in Woodside, California.[22]
  • 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[23][24]
  • Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Palo Alto native.[25]
  • The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band; early incarnations of band were based in Palo Alto.[26]
  • The Donnas, rock group, met while growing up in Palo Alto, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1997.[27][28]
  • Stephan Jenkins, rock musician with Third Eye Blind and Gunn High School alumnus class of 1983.[29]
  • Ugly Kid Joe, rock band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt grew up in Palo Alto,[30] as did producer Eric Valentine
  • The Kingston Trio,[31] a folk group formed in Palo Alto while its members were enrolled at Stanford University and nearby Menlo College
  • Grace Slick, singer with the rock group Jefferson Airplane, later known as Jefferson Starship[32]

Politicians 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[33]
  • Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States
  • Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S Ambassador to China
  • Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
  • Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
  • Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary[34]
  • Ron Wyden, US Senator

Writers

  • David M. Alexander, science-fiction and crime novelist, attorney
  • Raymond Carver – American short story writer and poet
  • Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist, creator of Perry Mason[35]
  • 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.[36]
  • 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.[37]
  • Julia Flynn Siler, journalist and nonfiction author[38]
  • 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"[39]

Scientists

  • Richard R. Ernst, Nobel laureate in chemistry, worked at Varian Associates in Palo Alto[40]
  • 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.[41]
  • 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.[42]
  • William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist[43]

Athletes

  • 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
  • Jim Harbaugh, football player, head coach of Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers and Michigan, Palo Alto High School class of 1982[44]
  • Nick Bravin (born 1971), Olympic fencer
  • 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 {{convert|200|yd|m|adj=on}} breaststroke
  • 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[45][46]
  • Don MacLean, UCLA and NBA basketball player[47]
  • 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.[48]
  • Vincent Zhou Figure skater that attended the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  • Davante Adams NFL Player and wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. East Palo Alto resident but Palo Alto High School graduate.

See also

  • 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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