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San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public
Public university

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, nonsectarian
Nonsectarian

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, coeducation
Coeducation

Mixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education....
al university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
. The university is situated in the southwest corner of San Francisco, bordering Lake Merced
Lake Merced

Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California. It is surrounded by three golf courses , as well as residential areas, Lowell High School , San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean....
 and Stonestown Galleria
Stonestown Galleria

Stonestown Galleria is a shopping mall in San Francisco, California anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, and Borders Books & Music. The original Stonestown Mall was developed by Stoneson Development Corporation, but the complex is now owned and managed by General Growth Properties, and is located immediately north of San Francisco State Univer...
, at the corner of 19th
19th Avenue (San Francisco)

19th Avenue in San Francisco, California, is a five-mile long, eight-lane arterial thoroughfare that bisects the southwestern part of the city....
 and Holloway Avenues. San Francisco State University, as part of the 23-campus California State University
California State University

The California State University is one of three public higher education systems in the U.S. state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system....
 system, offers 117 areas of study for bachelor's degrees, 96 for master's, 27 credential programs and 34 certificate programs, from eight academic colleges.






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San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public
Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private university....
, nonsectarian
Nonsectarian

Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe secular private Types of educational institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious denomination....
, coeducation
Coeducation

Mixed-sex education , is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education....
al university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
. The university is situated in the southwest corner of San Francisco, bordering Lake Merced
Lake Merced

Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California. It is surrounded by three golf courses , as well as residential areas, Lowell High School , San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean....
 and Stonestown Galleria
Stonestown Galleria

Stonestown Galleria is a shopping mall in San Francisco, California anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, and Borders Books & Music. The original Stonestown Mall was developed by Stoneson Development Corporation, but the complex is now owned and managed by General Growth Properties, and is located immediately north of San Francisco State Univer...
, at the corner of 19th
19th Avenue (San Francisco)

19th Avenue in San Francisco, California, is a five-mile long, eight-lane arterial thoroughfare that bisects the southwestern part of the city....
 and Holloway Avenues. San Francisco State University, as part of the 23-campus California State University
California State University

The California State University is one of three public higher education systems in the U.S. state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system....
 system, offers 117 areas of study for bachelor's degrees, 96 for master's, 27 credential programs and 34 certificate programs, from eight academic colleges. The university is currently ranked as the 48th best master's-granting university in the Western United States by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
.

In the year of 2006–2007, approximately 29,628 students were enrolled at San Francisco State University, of which 80.47% were undergraduate students and 19.53% were graduate students. San Francisco State University was founded in 1899, making it one of California's oldest public universities.

History

  • 1899 - Founded as San Francisco State Normal School.
  • 1901 - First graduating class
  • 1906 - The 1906 earthquake and fire
    1906 San Francisco earthquake

    The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California, California and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 A.M....
     forces the school to relocate from Nob Hill to a new campus at Buchanan and Haight Streets.
  • 1921 - Renamed San Francisco State Teachers College
  • 1923 - First bachelor of arts degree awarded
  • 1935 - Renamed San Francisco State College
  • 1953 - Present campus near Lake Merced
    Lake Merced

    Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California. It is surrounded by three golf courses , as well as residential areas, Lowell High School , San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean....
     opens; it is formally dedicated in October, 1954.
  • 1966 - Beginning of the era of campus protests led by student organizations including the Black Students Union and the Third World Liberation Front. The protests against college policies and off-campus issues such as the Vietnam War included sit-ins, rallies, marches, teach-ins, and on several occasions violent conflicts with police. The protests were marked by counter-protests and widespread charges of corruption and election fraud in the student newspaper.
  • 1968 - A lengthy student strike
    Student strike

    A student strike occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. This form of strike action is often used as a negotiating tactic in order to put pressure on the governing body of the university, particularly in countries where education is free, and the government cannot...
     erupted that developed into an important event in the history of the U.S. in the late 1960s. It was as significant, or more so, than events that occurred at UC Berkeley. The strike was led by the Third World Liberation Front, and it demanded an Ethnic Studies program as well as an end to the Vietnam War
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
    . This became a major news event for weeks in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. At one point, University president S.I. Hayakawa famously pulled the wires out of the speakers on top of a van at a student rally. During the course of the strike large numbers of police drawn from many jurisdictions occupied the campus and over 700 people were arrested on various protest-related charges.
  • 1969 - In March, the strike officially comes to an end, with the administration retaining control of hiring and admissions, and the creation of the School (now College) of Ethnic Studies.
  • 1972 - Received University status as California State University, San Francisco
  • 1974 - Renamed San Francisco State University
  • 1993 - Downtown campus opened
  • 1999 - Celebrated 100th birthday
  • 2007 - New Downtown Campus opened at 835 Market Street


Academics

The university's colleges are:
  • Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Business
  • Creative Arts
  • Education
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Health and Human Services
  • Humanities
  • Science and Engineering
    List of engineering programs in the California State University

    This a list of engineering programs offered at 17 campuses of the California State University system. A bullet indicates presence on campus while a golden background indicates an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology accredited program....


In addition, the university features an , , and for .

The university awards bachelor's degrees in 112 areas of specialization and master's degrees in 96. It jointly offers three doctoral programs; a doctorate in education in partnership with University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
 for aspiring principals and school administrators, and two doctorates in physical therapy with University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's medical, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world....
.

The Cinema department, in the College of Creative Arts, was named one of the nation's "top film schools" by Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is a magazine published by Time Inc. in the United States which covers movies, television, music, Broadway stage productions, books, and popular culture....
 in 2000 . Alumni of the program have worked on such films as Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
, Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 in film fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the The Two Towers and The Return of the King of J....
.

Accreditation

The university is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities, a subgroup of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Western Association of Schools and Colleges

The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the School accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin....
. The College of Business is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

Distinctions

  • The university is currently ranked as the 48th best master's-granting university in the Western United States by U.S. News & World Report
    U.S. News & World Report

    U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
    .
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks San Francisco State University 1st in reputation among its "Western University peers" in 2000. .
  • Among Western Universities, of which there are 112, San Francisco State was ranked 10th in terms of campus diversity by U.S. News and World Report .
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks San Francisco State as 8th nationally in the number of transfer students .
  • San Francisco State University's physical therapy master's program is consistently ranked among the top 20 in the country by U.S. News and World Report .
  • San Francisco State University ranks 1st nationwide in the number of biological sciences undergrads who go on to earn biology Ph.D.s according to the most recent National Science Foundation report .
  • San Francisco State University is among the top 201 colleges and universities that offer "real world," job-focused services and skill development, according to Great Colleges for the Real World by (Michael P. Viollt, Octameron Associates, 2002) .
  • San Francisco State University is listed as having "one of the nation's top film schools" by Entertainment Weekly .
  • Each year San Francisco State University's College of Business awards more business degrees than Stanford, UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco -- combined .
  • San Francisco State University sends more master's graduates into Ph.D. programs than any other masters'-granting university in the country .
  • San Francisco State University is the only university in California to offer a bachelor's degree in technical and professional writing .
  • The Academy of Management, the leading professional association for management scholars in the world, honored San Francisco State University's College of Business' Ohrenschall Center for Entrepreneurship with the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award (2002) .
  • San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning offers the only American Bar Association-approved paralegal studies program in San Francisco .
  • San Francisco State University was one of the first California State University campuses to offer a doctorate of education .
  • San Francisco State University is the first and only university in the United States to house a College of Ethnic Studies .


Diversity

In 1968, what was then the longest student strike
Student strike

A student strike occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. This form of strike action is often used as a negotiating tactic in order to put pressure on the governing body of the university, particularly in countries where education is free, and the government cannot...
 in the nation's history, resulted in establishment of a College of Ethnic Studies
Ethnic studies

Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the United States and elsewhere. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English language, ethnology, Asian Studies, and orientalism were imbued with an inherently eurocentr...
, and increased recruiting and admissions of students of color. The University's extensive and sustained efforts at addressing tensions between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian students in 2002 have become a national model for addressing civil discussion and disagreement on college campuses.

The university's public enrollment data for Fall 2006 shows a slight under-representation of two minority groups when compared with the U.S. population. It reports a Native American enrollment of 0.8% (compared to 1.0% for the national population), and an African-American enrollment of 6.8% (compared to 12.8%). However there is a combined Chicano and other Latino enrollment of 16.9% (compared to 14.4% persons of Hispanic or Latino origin in the national population), and a total Asian or Pacific Islander enrollment of 24.5% (versus 4.5% of the national population), which shows that the enrollment may be more in line with citywide and statewide demographics. It is notable that the report's demographic categories and U.S. census categories use different language, and are therefore only broadly comparable.

Mascot

The school first adopted their mascot, the Gator, in 1931. After a call for a mascot by the student newspaper the Bay Leaf, students suggested the "alligator" for its strength and steadfastness. The student also suggested the spelling "Golden Gaters," with an "e," in reference to the Golden Gate
Golden Gate

The Golden Gate is the North American strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Since 1937 it has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge....
. Students voted in favor of the name, but after numerous "misspellings" by the newspaper, the use of Gator, with an "o," stuck.

The team was called the Golden Gaters until the late 40's. At that time, they began having two live alligators at football games, Oogee (oo-gee) and Ougee (aug-gee). The name was changed to the Golden Gators. The alligator mascots were dropped shortly and Golden was dropped from the name in the early 70's.

Campus buildings


Classes and Services

  • Administration (ADM)
  • Burk Hall (BH)
  • Business Building (BUS)
  • Cesar Chavez Student Center - a unique building with an unusual floor plan. The ground floors are shaped like hexagons, containing open areas, concessions, the book store and the cafeteria. Each hexagon is topped by a thin pyramid approximately five stories tall. Both pyramids lean at approximately 45 degrees towards each other. The inside of the pyramids contain a stacked set of ever-higher living-room-like areas with couches and tables.
  • Creative Arts Building (CA)
  • Ethnic Studies and Psychology (EP)
  • Fine Arts Building (FA)
  • Gymnasium (GYM)
  • Hensill Hall (HH)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Building
  • Humanities Building (HUM)
  • J. Paul Leonard Library (currently under renovation expected completion date 2011)
  • Library Annex I and II (temporary facilities due to library renovation)
  • Science Building (SCI)
  • Student Health Center - An underground building with a center open-air court area.
  • Student Services Building (SSB)
  • Thornton Hall (TH)


Residence Buildings, Communities, and Services

  • Café in the Park
  • City Eats Dining Center (DC)
  • Mary Park Hall (MPH)
  • Mary Ward Hall (MWH)
  • Science and Technology Theme Community (STTC)
  • The Towers at Centennial Square (TCS)
  • The Village at Centennial Square (VCS)
  • University Park North (UPN)
  • University Park South (UPS)


Conference Facilities

  • Seven Hills Conference Center
  • Towers Conference Center
  • Downtown Campus


Athletics

The school's athletic teams, called the Gators, compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association
California Collegiate Athletic Association

The California Collegiate Athletic Association is an list of college athletic conferences in the Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association....
 (except in wrestling
Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling is the style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling is sometimes known as folkstyle wrestling because by and large, it is the style that emerged out of the folk wrestling styles practiced in the early history of the United States....
, that is in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the western United States, mostly in Colorado with some members in Nebraska and New Mexico....
), in the Division II
Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the highly competitive level of intercollegiate sports offered in NCAA Division I and to the non-scholarship level offered in Division III....
 of the NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
. SFSU fields eleven sports for men and women for the fall
Autumn

Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in late September or late March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
, winter, and spring seasons. Fall sports for men include cross country
Cross country running

Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
 and soccer
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
. Fall sports for women include cross country and soccer. Winter sports for men include basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 and wrestling. Winter sports for women include basketball and indoor track and field. The spring sport for men is baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
. Spring sports for women include outdoor track and field and softball
Softball

Softball is a Team sport sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball and the rules of both sports are substantially similar....
.

SFSU has produced three major league baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 players, of which two later became All-Stars (former Mets
New York Mets

The New York Mets are a professional baseball based in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
 shortstop Bud Harrelson
Bud Harrelson

Derrel McKinley "Bud" Harrelson is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played for the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers from 1965 to 1980....
, and former Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers, commonly referred to as "The Brew Crew" or simply "The Crew" by sports writers and fans, are a Major League Baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which plays in the Central Division of the National League....
 and Red Sox
Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in . The Red Sox are a member of the Major League Baseball?s American League East. Since , the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park....
 outfielder Tommy Harper
Tommy Harper

Tommy Harper is a former multi-position player in Major League Baseball who played with the Cincinnati Reds , Cleveland Indians , Milwaukee Brewers , Milwaukee Brewers , Boston Red Sox , Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim , Oakland Athletics , and Baltimore Orioles ....
).

The Gators have also produced thirteen National Football League
National Football League

The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
 players, including Billy Baird
Billy Baird

William "Billy" Baird was a Canada professional ice hockey player in the early 1900s. He was one of the first professionals in the sport of ice hockey....
, Elmer Collett
Elmer Collett

Charles Elmer Collett is a Fire Fighter with the Kentfield Fire District and former professional American football player....
, Maury Duncan
Maury Duncan

Maurice Perry Duncan is a former quarterback for the National Football League and Canadian Football League. He played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1956-1957, the BC Lions from 1956-1957, and the Calgary Stampeders in 1958....
, Carl Kammerer
Carl Kammerer

Carlton Cordell Kammerer is a former American football defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins....
, and Floyd Peters
Floyd Peters

Floyd Charles Peters was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League and went to three Pro Bowls during his 13 year career....
.

Wrestling has been the most successful sports team in SFSU history. The Gators have scored at a National Championship meet every year since 1963-64. They currently have the sixth longest scoring streak of any collegiate squad. Lars Jensen has been the head coach since 1983-84 and has had an All-American in 22 of his 24 seasons. He has coached nine individual NCAA Champions, 50 All-Americans and in 1996-97, he led SFSU to the NCAA Division II National Championship.

Controversy

Recent controversies have included accusations of racial profiling
Racial profiling

Racial profiling is the inclusion of Race or ethnicity characteristics in determining whether a person is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime or an illegal act or to behave in a "predictable" manner....
 surrounding the 2005 arrest of Dr. Antwi Akom, at the time a tenure-track assistant professor of Africana Studies. Akom allegedly fought with and was subsequently arrested by campus police outside his office. He had previously expressed his concerns regarding police conduct to the administration in a letter. In reporting on the incident, the university’s paper also cites another controversial incident in 2004. The local ABC news affiliate reported that Akom was charged with two felonies in the incident and that some witnesses corroborate the University Police department's version of events. Charges against Akom were eventually lifted by the San Francisco district attorney.

The incident prompted supporters to create a website that advocates the end of what they term racial profiling at San Francisco State. The administration defended its role in the entire incident. It commissioned an investigation by former City Attorney Louise Renne and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, the latter an alumnus of the university and popular advocate of diversity in California politics. The president's public statements marketed the investigation as an independent commission. The investigation concluded that no racial profiling took place.

Additional controversies include:
  • Student protests of military recruiters on campus (in which the administration defended its actions ), and confrontations between students with differing views on the Iraq War
    Iraq War

    The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing conflicts military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a Multinational force in Iraq now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United King...
     (in which the administration defended its actions again ).
  • The National Lawyers Guild
    National Lawyers Guild

    The National Lawyers Guild is a Progressivism bar association in the United States "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system."...
     charged that the university violated due process rights of campus anti-war activists.
  • The Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) has charged that the university violated due process rights of campus anti-war activists
  • A near-riot occurred on May 7, 2002, when a pro-Palestinian group attended a pro-Israel demonstration on campus. The pro-Israel students say that the Palestinian supporters chanted anti-semitic epithets at them, such as "Hitler should have finished the job." The pro-Palestinian group say the pro-Israelis started the conflict by calling them terrorists and using epithets such as "camel jockey." No violence occurred, but campus and city police were called in to defuse the situation.
  • In 1994 a mural depicting Malcolm X was painted on the student union building, commissioned by the Pan-African Student Union and African Student Alliance. The mural's border contained yellow Stars of David
    Star of David

    The Star of David or Shield of David is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.It is named after King David of History of ancient Israel and Judah; and its earliest known communal usage began in the Middle Ages, alongside the more ancient symbol of the Menorah ....
     and dollar signs mingled with skulls and crossbones and near the words "African Blood." The next week, after demonstrations on both sides, the school administration had the mural painted over, and subsequently sand blasted. Two years later a new Malcolm X mural was painted, without the controversial symbols.


Notable alumni


Entertainment


  • Gary Austin
    Gary Austin

    Gary Austin is the founder and was the original director of the Los Angeles theatre company, "The Groundlings". Austin earned a B.A. in theater from San Francisco State University, and holds workshops on both the east and west coasts of the United States....
     - actor, teacher, founding director of the Groundlings
  • Shibani Bathija
    Shibani Bathija

    Shibani Bathija is an Indian screenwriter.Bahija studied English at DePauw University and Communications at San Francisco State. After a period in advertising with SONY, Bathija showed a script to Karan Johar which was then accepted by Yash Raj Films....
     - screenwriter
  • Kari Byron
    Kari Byron

    Kari Elizabeth Byron is a San Francisco, California-based artist and television personality, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters....
     - artist, cast member on the Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel

    The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
     show MythBusters
    MythBusters

    MythBusters is a popular science television program produced by Australian firm Beyond Television Productions originally for the Discovery Channel in the United States and Canada....
  • Tory Belleci - special effects engineer and cast member on MythBusters
    MythBusters

    MythBusters is a popular science television program produced by Australian firm Beyond Television Productions originally for the Discovery Channel in the United States and Canada....
  • Annette Bening
    Annette Bening

    Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
     - Academy Award-nominated actress, American Beauty
    American Beauty

    American Beauty may refer to:*Rosa 'American Beauty', commonly known as the American Beauty rose, is a hybrid perpetual rose, bred in France in 1875, and originally named 'Madame Ferdinand Jamin'...
    , The American President
  • Alex Borstein
    Alex Borstein

    Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein is an United States actress, voice acting, writer and comedian. She is best known for her roles on the Fox Broadcasting Company sketch comedy series MADtv and the animated series Family Guy....
     - comedian, actress, voice actress
  • Christopher Boyes - Academy Award-winning sound designer and mixer
  • Rachel Brice
    Rachel Brice

    Rachel Brice is a contemporary innovator in Tribal Fusion Style Belly Dance based in San Francisco. She is the artistic director and choreography for The Indigo Belly Dance Company and a frequent performer with the Bellydance Superstars....
     - belly dancer
  • David Carradine
    David Carradine

    David Carradine is an United States actor....
     - actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Dana Carvey
    Dana Carvey

    Dana Thomas Carvey is an United States comedian and actor, known for his work on Saturday Night Live and the spin-off movie Wayne's World ....
     - comedian
    Comedian

    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
  • Peter Casey
    Peter Casey

    Peter Casey is an American television producer and screenwriter. He was a writer for the American sitcoms The Jeffersons, Cheers and Wings , as well as being a co-creator and writer for Frasier....
    -writer-producer, Frasier, Wings, Cheers, The Jeffersons
  • Glen Charles
    Glen Charles

    Glen Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a Bachelor of arts in English language....
    -writer-producer
  • Vernon Chatman
    Vernon Chatman

    Vernon Chatman is a television producer, writer, voice actor, stand-up comedian, musician and a member of PFFR, an art collective based in Brooklyn, NYC....
     - co-creator of Wonder Showzen
    Wonder Showzen

    Wonder Showzen was an United States sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR....
  • Lisa Cholodenko
    Lisa Cholodenko

    Lisa Cholodenko is an American filmmaker who grew up in Los Angeles and earned an MFA at Columbia University School of the Arts where she made an award winning short film Dinner Party....
     - director and screenwriter High Art
    High Art

    For the general use of the term, see High cultureHigh Art is an independent movie directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell....
    , Laurel Canyon
    Laurel Canyon

    Laurel Canyon can refer to several things:*Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, an area in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles*Laurel Canyon Boulevard, a street that connects the San Fernando Valley to Hollywood that passes through Laurel Canyon...
  • Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote

    Peter Coyote is an United States actor, author, film director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics....
     - actor and author
  • Michael Curtis
    Michael Curtis

    Michael Curtis is a television producer and writer. He was a writer and executive producer of Friends during seasons 2 through 5. He is currently working with the Jonas Brothers and Disney Channel as executive producer of the new series JONAS. He co-wrote the biblical mockumentary ...And God Spoke and directed the series finale of P...
     - television, film writer, and producer
  • Roger Dobkowitz
    Roger Dobkowitz

    Roger Kurt Dobkowitz is the head of his own production company in Los Angeles, California. For 24 years, he was best known as the producer for the CBS game show The Price Is Right ....
     - former producer of The Price is Right
    The Price Is Right (US game show)

    The Price Is Right is an United States game show centered on the pricing of merchandise and grocery products to win cash and prizes. The current version of the show premiered on September 4, 1972 on CBS and was hosted by Bob Barker until his retirement on June 15, 2007....
  • Arthur Dong
    Arthur Dong

    Arthur Dong is an Academy Award-nominated United States documentary filmmaker. His work combines the art of the visual medium with an investigation of social issues, examining topics such as Asian American history and identity, and gay oppression....
     - Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker
  • Keir Dullea
    Keir Dullea

    Keir Dullea is an United States actor perhaps best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010 as well as in the cult film Bunny Lake is Missing....
     - actor
  • George Fenneman
    George Fenneman

    George Watt Fenneman was a radio and television announcer who died aged 77. He was born in Beijing, China and grew up in San Francisco, California....
     - radio and television announcer on the Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
     quiz show, You Bet Your Life
    You Bet Your Life

    You Bet Your Life is an United States radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman....
  • Danny Glover
    Danny Glover

    Danny Lebern Glover is an United States actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is possibly best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film Media franchise....
     - actor, best known for his role in the Lethal Weapon
    Lethal Weapon

    Lethal Weapon is a 1987 in film action film, the first in a film series of Cinema of the United States that were released in 1987, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, and Lethal Weapon 4, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of Los Angeles Police Department detectives....
     series
  • Richard Goodman
    Richard Goodman

    Richard Goodman born July 11, 1945 is an American writer of nonfiction. He lives in New York, New York. He is on the faculty of Spalding University's Brief Residency Master of Fine Arts Program in Louisville Kentucky.....
     - television writer
  • Nina Hartley
    Nina Hartley

    Nina Hartley is an United States pornographic actress, pornographic film director and sex educator....
     - porn actress
  • Ed Haynes
    Ed Haynes

    Ed Haynes is an American singer and songwriter.After relocating from the suburban Washington, DC area to San Francisco, California, Ed began playing to night clubs of the Bay Area while attending San Francisco State University....
     - folk singer and songwriter
  • Ellen Idelson - television writer and producer
  • Sarah Lane
    Sarah Lane

    Sarah Lane is an United States television personality most known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4 's Attack of the Show, and Revision3's popSiren....
     - former host of Attack of the Show
  • John Lee
    John Lee

    John Lee is the name of:Politicians and government officials:*John Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford, former Minister and Conservative Member of Parliament for Pendle from 1979 - 1992...
     - co-creator of Wonder Showzen
    Wonder Showzen

    Wonder Showzen was an United States sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR....
  • Delroy Lindo
    Delroy Lindo

    Delroy Lindo is a British-born American actor. Lindo has been nominated for the Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award awards, and has won a Satellite Award....
     - actor
  • Emcee Lynx
    Emcee Lynx

    Lynx, or Emcee Lynx is an anarchist hip hop music artist from Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay Area who has achieved significant popularity and name-recognition in the West Coast hip hop and underground hip hop scenes and among anarchists and other radicals around the world....
    - anarchist rapper
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan
    Rosie Malek-Yonan

    Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian people actress, artist, Theatre director, author and activist....
     - actress
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Mike McShane
    Mike McShane

    Mich?al McShane is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian who first became known through his appearances in the early 1990s on the British version of the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?...
     - actor and improvisational artist
  • Mary Mara
    Mary Mara

    Mary Mara is an American TV and film actress known for her recurring role as Inspector Bryn Carson on Nash Bridges and primetime dramas ER and Law & Order....
     - actress
  • Ed Marques - actor, comedian and MTV VeeJay
  • Rex Navarrete
    Rex Navarrete

    Rex Lasat Navarrete is a Filipino American comedian whose material is geared toward Philippines audiences....
     - comedian
  • Kenn Navarro
    Kenn Navarro

    Kenn Navarro is a Filipino American animator known for creating the popular internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends....
     - animator, creator of Happy Tree Friends
    Happy Tree Friends

    Happy Tree Friends is a Flash cartoon series by Mondo Mini Shows, created by Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro, Warren Graff, and Aubrey Ankrum. The show has become a popular internet phenomenon since its debut and has also won a cult following....
  • Melissa Ng
    Melissa Ng

    Melissa Ng Mei Hang is a TV actress in Hong Kong. She has been a TVB actress since her leading role in the TVB 2006 episodic series La Femme Desperado, where she portrayed a woman with weak personality....
     - actress
  • Steven Okazaki
    Steven Okazaki

    Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received a Peabody Award and been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the Documentary film short subject, Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo ....
     - filmmaker
  • Greg Proops
    Greg Proops

    Gregory Everett Proops is an American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedy, and Television producer. He is best known for his improvisational work on the United kingdom and United States Of America versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?....
     - actor and stand-up comedian
  • Reg Rogers - actor and Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     nominee
  • Cyrus Saatsaz - creative director and host for KNBR
    KNBR

    KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM broadcasting radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....
    , freelance sports writer.
  • Ggreg Snyder
    Ggreg Snyder

    Ggreg Snyder Though his acting career has spanned many years, and he has been featured on such programs as The Man Show and USA Up All Night, Ggreg is perhaps most notorious for appearing on Comedy Central?s Beat the Geeks and the Paramount Pictures film Trekkies 2, in which he was interviewed about his Star Trek-themed production of Willia...
     - actor
  • Ronnie Schell
    Ronnie Schell

    Ronald Ralph Schell is an United States actor, stand-up comedian and cartoon voice actor . Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on You Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk....
     - actor and comedian
  • Frank Silva
    Frank Silva

    Frank Silva was an United States set dresser and sometime actor best known for his disturbing performance as the evil spirit Bob in the TV series Twin Peaks....
     - set dresser and actor
  • Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor

    Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor, perhaps most known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. on the television series Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show....
     - actor
  • B.D. Wong
    B.D. Wong

    'Bradley Darryl ?B.D.? Wong' is an American Tony Award-winning actor, best-known for his roles as George Huang on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as Father Ray Mukada on HBO's Oz , and for his starring role as Song Liling in the Broadway theatre production of M....
     - actor
  • Steven Zaillian
    Steven Zaillian

    Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director, film editor and film producer. He won an Academy Awards for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and Gangs of New York....
     - Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film producer and director. Wrote or co-wrote American Gangster, Schindler's List
    Schindler's List

    Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
     amongst others.


Business

  • Dean Biersch - founder of the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
    Gordon Biersch Brewing Company

    Gordon Biersch Brewery is an United States brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California in July 1988....
  • Robert L. Harris - vice president of Environmental Affairs at PG&E
  • Gregory Fischbach
    Gregory Fischbach

    Gregory Fischbach founded video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. in 1987 and was its CEO until its bankruptcy in 2004.Mr. Fischbach addressed the United States Senate regarding Internet privacy and ESRB ratings....
     - founder of Acclaim Entertainment
    Acclaim Entertainment

    Acclaim Entertainment was an United States video game developer and video game publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed video game for a variety of video game console, including Sega's Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, and Sega Game Gear, Nintendo's Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment S...
    , a videogame company
  • Andreas Glocker - founder of Sirius Connections
  • Gilman Louie
    Gilman Louie

    Gilman Louie is a West Coast of the United States technology venture capitalist who got his start as a game designer and then ran the CIA venture capital fund....
     - software entrepreneur, venture capitalist and founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel
    In-Q-Tel

    In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States Intelligence capability....
  • Manny Mashouf
    Manny Mashouf

    Manny Mashouf is an Iranian American businessman.He came to the USA in his teens and settled in San Francisco. There, he went to San Francisco State University and graduated with a political science degree in 1966....
     - founder of bebe stores inc.
    Bebe stores

    bebe stores is an Culture of the United States clothing retailer founded in 1976. Iranian-born Manny Mashouf, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970's, opened the first bebe store in San Francisco during a time when three categories dominated the women's wear market: junior, bridge and missy....
     clothing retail shops
  • Chris Larson - co-founder and chairman of financial services company E-Loan
    E-Loan

    E-Loan, Inc. is a Pleasanton, California-based financial services company that offers savings accounts and certificates of deposit and access to partners that may be able to assist customers in obtaining loans....
     and founder of Prosper.com
  • Kenneth Fong - founder of Clontech Laboratories and chairman of Palo Alto based Kenson Ventures LLC
  • Mohan Gyiani - president and CEO of AT&T Mobility
  • George M. Marcus - founder of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company
  • Jayshree Ullal - senior vice president at Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems

    Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
    , was named one of Newsweek magazine's "20 Most Powerful Women to Watch" in 2001.
  • Stephen M. Wolf - former chairman of United Airlines
    United Airlines

    United Air Lines, Inc., trading as United Airlines , is a major carrier of the United States. It is a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago at 77 West Wacker Drive, and its operations base in nearby Elk Grove Village, Illinois....


Politics

  • Willie Brown
    Willie Brown (politician)

    Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. served over thirty years in the California State Assembly, fifteen years as its Speaker, and afterward, as the only African-American mayor of San Francisco, California....
     - member and 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly
    California State Assembly

    The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000....
     and former mayor of San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  • John L. Burton
    John L. Burton

    John Lowell Burton is an United States politician who served as a Democratic Party California State Senate from 1996 until 2004, representing the California's 3rd State Senate district....
     - former president pro tempore
    Pro tempore

    Pro tempore or pro tem is a List of Latin phrases which best translates to "for the time being" in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a locum tenens in the absence of a superior, such as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate....
     of the California State Senate
    California State Senate

    The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. There are 40 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento, California....
  • Ron Dellums
    Ron Dellums

    Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums is the mayor of Oakland, California. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Northern California's Progressivism 9th Congressional District, which currently has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D +38....
     - mayor of Oakland and former U.S. Representative from 1971-1998
  • Saeb Erekat
    Saeb Erekat

    Saeb Muhammad Salih Erakat is the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee. He negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian Authority....
     - head of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization
    Palestine Liberation Organization

    The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
     (PLO).
  • Keith Kerr
    Keith Kerr

    Keith Kerr, Colonel, USA-ret, and BG, CSMR-ret., is a retired United States Army Reserve Colonel, who later was given the rank of Brigadier General in the California State Military Reserve, part of the California State Defense Forces who in 2003 became one of the highest ranking military officers to be openly gay....
     - military general and gay rights activist
  • Wilma Mankiller
    Wilma Mankiller

    Wilma Pearl Mankiller was the first female Tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation. She served as the Principal Chief for ten years from 1985 to 1995....
     - first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation
  • Mario Savio
    Mario Savio

    Mario Savio was an United States political activism and a key member in the University of California, Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially his "put your bodies upon the gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964....
     - Berkeley
    Berkeley, California

    Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
     free speech activist
  • Bill Thomas
    Bill Thomas

    William Marshall Thomas , commonly known as Bill Thomas, United States politician, was a United States Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979?2007, representing the 22nd District of California...
     - American politician, representing the 22nd District of California in the House of Representatives
  • Leland Yee
    Leland Yee

    Leland Yee is a California State Senate in District 8 which includes the western half of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County. Prior to becoming state senator, Yee was a California State Assemblyman, Supervisor of San Francisco's Sunset District, and was a member of the San Francisco School Board....
     - member, California State Senate
    California State Senate

    The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. There are 40 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento, California....
  • Javad Zarif - Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     to the United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
  • Hank Chapot - founding member, Green Party of California
    Green Party of California

    The Green Party of California is the California affiliate of the Green Party of the United States. The party is a ballot-qualified in California, first established as such in 1991, using the petition method of gaining state recognition....
     and Green Party of the United States
  • Faisal bin Musa'id - Saudi prince who killed his uncle, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
    Faisal of Saudi Arabia

    *Abdullah al Faisal*Muhammad bin Faisal al Saud*Sara al Faisal*Luluwa al Faisal*Khalid al Faisal*Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz*Sa'd bin Faisal...


Music

  • Kevin Cadogan
    Kevin Cadogan

    Kevin Rene Cadogan is an alternative rock guitarist and songwriter. He is most known for playing lead guitar in the band Third Eye Blind from 1996 to 2000, officially....
     - former guitarist for rock band Third Eye Blind
    Third Eye Blind

    Third Eye Blind is an American alternative rock band formed in the early 1990s in San Francisco. The band's current line-up is Stephan Jenkins , Brad Hargreaves , and Tony Fredianelli ....
  • Paul Desmond
    Paul Desmond

    Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophone and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"....
     - jazz alto sax player; played with Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
     for many years
  • Craig Fairbaugh
    Craig Fairbaugh

    Craig Fairbaugh is a guitarist, who is best known for playing with the rock music band +44 . The band was made up of Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, who reunited with Tom Delonge to continue the pop punk band Blink-182 in 2009, and Shane Gallagher of The Nervous Return....
     - vocalist and guitarist Plus 44, Mercy Killers
    Mercy Killers

    Mercy Killers is a gothic rock/punk rock band from Los Angeles. It was formed in 2005 by guitarist Craig Fairbaugh, also a member of the band +44 ....
  • Fat Mike - lead singer and bassist for the punk band NOFX
    NOFX

    NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....
  • Jennifer Finch
    Jennifer Finch

    Jennifer Finch , born August 5, 1966, is an United States photographer and musician, notable for her involvement in the all-female punk rock group L7 ....
     - former bassist
    Bassist

    A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
     for all-girl punk group L7
    L7 (band)

    L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge music movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  • Johnny Mathis
    Johnny Mathis

    Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
     - musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Dan Nakamura
    Dan the Automator

    Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is a Japanese-American Hip hop production. He founded the record label 75 Ark, which was distributed by Tommy Boy Entertainment during its short existence....
     - music producer
  • Terry Riley
    Terry Riley

    Terry Riley is an American composer associated with the minimalism school....
     - composer
  • Cal Tjader
    Cal Tjader

    Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death....
     - jazz
    Jazz

    Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
     vibraphonist
  • Janet Weiss
    Janet Weiss

    Janet Lee Weiss was the drummer of now defunct Sleater-Kinney and is currently a member of Quasi and the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks....
     - drummer Sleater-Kinney
    Sleater-Kinney

    Sleater-Kinney was an United States Rock music band that existed from 1994 to 2006. Formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, Washington state, the location of one of their early practice spaces....
    , Quasi
    Quasi

    Quasi is an indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993, consisting of the ex-husband and wife team of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss vocals and drum set....
    , The Jicks
  • Frank Moura jazz band director at Menlo Atherton High School
  • Jess Thomas
    Jess Thomas

    Jess Thomas was a lyric and Richard Wagner tenor. As a child he took part in various musical activities and later studied psychology at the University of Nebraska and Stanford University....
     - opera tenor
  • Vince Guaraldi
    Vince Guaraldi

    Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an United States jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip....
     - jazz musician and composer of the Peanuts
    Peanuts

    Peanuts is a print syndication daily strip and Sunday strip comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 , continuing in reruns afterward....
     cartoon music


Literature

  • Po Bronson
    Po Bronson

    Po Bronson is an United States journalist and author who lives in San Francisco, California....
     - author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
     and journalist
    Journalist

    A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
     (MFA
    Master of Fine Arts

    In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree level and usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, or theater/performing arts....
     in creative writing
    Creative writing

    Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
    )
  • Ernest J. Gaines - novelist
  • Cork Graham
    Cork Graham

    Cork Graham is an American author....
     - author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
     and war correspondent
    War correspondent

    A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war. In the 19th century they were also called Special Correspondents....
     (AP
    Associated Press

    The Associated Press is an Media of the United States news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, Radio station and Television station stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers....
    )
  • Linda Gregg
    Linda Gregg

    Linda Alouise Gregg is an award-winning American poet....
     - an award-winning American poet.
  • Bill Lee
    Bill Lee (author)

    Bill Lee is a Chinese American and a former member of the San Francisco, California Chinatown gang that was responsible for the 1977 Golden Dragon Massacre....
     - author
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan
    Rosie Malek-Yonan

    Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian people actress, artist, Theatre director, author and activist....
     - author of
  • Frances Mayes - author of Under the Tuscan Sun
    Under the Tuscan Sun

    Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 in film film based on Frances Mayes 1996 memoir of the same name. The film was directed by Audrey Wells and starred Diane Lane....
  • Richard Melo
    Richard Melo

    Richard Melo is an American author and book reviewer. His debut novel, Jokerman 8, was published in 2004....
     - author of Jokerman 8
    Jokerman 8

    Jokerman 8, by Richard Melo, is a novel of so-called Eco-terrorism whose aim is to hurt no one. It was published in 2004 by Soft Skull Press and received reviews in The Oregonian, The Believer , and other print and online periodicals....
    , a novel set at San Francisco State University
  • William Mize - Shamus Award
    Shamus Award

    The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novels and short story of the year.The Shamus Award is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction....
     nominated mystery author
  • Anne Rice
    Anne Rice

    Anne Rice is a best-selling United States author of gothic fiction and religious-themed books. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002....
     - novelist
  • David Wallechinsky
    David Wallechinsky

    David Wallechinsky has worked as a commentator for NBC Olympic Games coverage and is the author of many Olympic reference books and other reference books....
     - author
  • Shawn Wong
    Shawn Wong

    Shawn Hsu Wong is an author and English Professor and former Director of the Honors Program at the University of Washington. He is Chinese American and a pioneer of Asian American studies....
     - author
  • Kirby Wright
    Kirby Wright

    Kirby Wright is an American writer best known for his coming of age island novel Punahou Blues and the epic novel "Moloka'i Nui Ahina", which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother....
     - poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
     and novelist (MFA
    Master of Fine Arts

    In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree level and usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, or theater/performing arts....
     in Creative Writing
    Creative writing

    Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
    )
  • Tim Cahill
    Tim Cahill (writer)

    Tim Cahill is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editing of Outside and currently serves as an "Editor at Large" for the magazine....
     - adventure travel author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
     and journalist
    Journalist

    A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
     (MFA
    Master of Fine Arts

    In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree level and usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, or theater/performing arts....
     in creative writing
    Creative writing

    Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
    )
  • Sara Zarr
    Sara Zarr

    Sara Zarr was born October 3, 1970, raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband. Her first novel, Story of a Girl, was a 2007 National Book Award finalist....
     - National Book Award
    National Book Award

    The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....
     finalist and author


Journalism

  • Ken Bastida
    Ken Bastida

    Ken Bastida is a California news anchor on CBS, Channel 5 . He has been a reporter with the station since 1990. Bastida began his career as a Bay Area radio host in 1978....
     - news anchor, CBS affiliate in San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  • Stan Bunger - news anchor, KCBS (AM)
    KCBS (AM)

    KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One....
    , San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  • Ben Fong-Torres
    Ben Fong-Torres

    Benjamin Fong-Torres is an United States Rock music journalist, author, and Presenter best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle ....
     - writer, broadcaster, editor at Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
  • Mike Galanos
    Mike Galanos

    Mike Galanos is a news anchor for CNN Headline News. Based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Galanos joined the network in May 2002. He graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State University....
     - CNN Headline News
    CNN Headline News

    HLN, is a cable television news channel based in the United States, and a spinoff of the original cable news channel, CNN. Initially airing tightly-formatted 30-minute newscasts around the clock, since 2005 the channel has increasingly aired long-form pop culture news and opinion programming....
     anchor
  • Kimberly Hunt
    Kimberly Hunt

    Kimberly Hunt is one of San Diego's most respected news anchors. Hunt began her on-air television career at the CBS affiliate in Monterey, CA. She came to San Diego in 1987 as an anchor for the ABC affiliate, KGTV....
     - Award Winning News Anchor, KGTV 10 News
    KGTV

    KGTV is the American Broadcasting Company television affiliate in San Diego, California. It broadcasts as a digital only station on VHF channel 10 also using VHF channel 10 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP ....
    , San Diego
  • Frank Munnich - traffic reporter for Shadow Traffic
    Shadow Traffic

    Shadow Broadcast Services is a traffic reporting service owned by Westwood One.The company had its start in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1975 as an informal service provided over citizens' band radio and took its name from the handle, or nickname, of its originator, Michael Lenet....
    , KCBS (AM)
    KCBS (AM)

    KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One....
  • Bill Nichols
    Bill Nichols

    Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. His study Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory....
     - sportswriter, Dallas Morning News
  • Malou Nubla - former television host on KRON and KPIX
  • Frank Somerville - news anchor for KTVU
    KTVU

    KTVU, channel 2, is the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate. Its studio facilities are located in Oakland, California at Jack London Square, and its transmitter is located at Sutro Tower in San Francisco, California....
  • Jan Wahl (movie critic) - journalist
    Journalist

    A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
     and movie critic for KRON
    KRON-TV

    KRON-TV, channel 4, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. City of license to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its analog signal on Very high frequency channel 4, and its digital signal on Ultra high frequency channel 57....
     and KCBS
    KCBS (AM)

    KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One....
  • Pierre Salinger
    Pierre Salinger

    Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to President of the United States of America John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson....
     - press secretary to President John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
     and longtime chief of ABC's Paris bureau
  • Dylan de Thomas - environmental journalist (Resource Recycling Magazine)


Other

  • Elizabeth Axtman
    Elizabeth Axtman

    Elizabeth Axtman is an American artist. Her photography and video work investigates race and its refractions in American culture....
     - video artist and photographer
  • R. Paul Butler
    R. Paul Butler

    Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets. He and collaborator Geoffrey Marcy were the first to discover extrasolar planets orbiting around a sun-like star....
     - astronomer who discovered first system of multiple planets orbiting around a sun-like star.
  • Yvonne Cagle
    Yvonne Cagle

    Yvonne Darlene Cagle Yvonne Cagle received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from San Francisco State University in 1981, and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington in 1985....
     - NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
     astronaut
  • Heather Fong
    Heather Fong

    Heather Jeanne Fong is the chief of police for San Francisco, California, United States. She is the first woman to lead the San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan city police force....
     - current and first female chief of the San Francisco Police Department
    San Francisco Police Department

    The San Francisco Police Department, also known as the SFPD, is the police department of the City and County of San Francisco, California....
     (MA
    Master's degree

    A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
    )
  • Charles Hall
    Charles Hall

    Charles Hall may refer to:*Charles Hall *Charles Francis Hall , American explorer*Charles Martin Hall , chemist*Charles Hall , British race car driver...
     - inventor of the waterbed
    Waterbed

    A waterbed or water mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water....
  • Stan Mazor - helped to design the first microprocessor
    Microprocessor

    A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
     at Intel
  • Floyd Peters
    Floyd Peters

    Floyd Charles Peters was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League and went to three Pro Bowls during his 13 year career....
     - former NFL player and coach
  • Kathleen Rand Reed - corporate anthropologist and ethnomarketer
  • Bob Toledo
    Bob Toledo

    Bob Toledo is an American football coach, currently the head coach at Tulane University. He is best-known as the thirteenth head coach at University of California, Los Angeles....
     - former UCLA
    University of California, Los Angeles

    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
     head football coach
    Head coach

    A head coach is a professional at training and developing sports men and women. He is typically paid more than other coach . Other coaches are often subordinate to the head coach, often in offense positions or defense positions, and occasionally proceeding down into individualized position coaches....
    , current head coach at Tulane University
    Tulane University

    Tulane University is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in the late 19th century....


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