10 Most Famous People And Celebrities Who Live in San Francisco

10 Most Famous People And Celebrities Who Live in San Francisco

San Francisco’s dynamic culture, breathtaking scenery, and growing arts and technology industry have drawn a lot of notable personalities and celebrities. The late actor and comedian Robin Williams, the late musician Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, the renowned poet Maya Angelou, the retired NFL quarterback Joe Montana, and the legendary heavy metal band Metallica are just a few notable inhabitants.

Author Dave Eggers, a best-seller, and comedian Margaret Cho have made the city their home. Along with reality TV star Danielle Colby, musicians Carlos Santana and Brian Wilson have also resided in San Francisco. These people are but a small portion of the well-known locals who through time have added to the city’s diverse cultural fabric.

1. Kamala Harris

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Kamala Devi Harris, the 49th and current vice president of the United States, was born in America on October 20, 1964. She is not only the first female vice president but also the first African-American and Asian-American vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in American history. She was a senator for California from 2017 to 2021 and the attorney general (AG) of California from 2011 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Prior to the primaries, Harris withdrew from consideration for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. She was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running partner, and their team won the 2020 election by defeating Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the incumbent president and vice president. On January 20, 2021, Harris and Biden were sworn in as president.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, an American business mogul, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist, was born on May 14, 1984. He is renowned for co-founding Facebook, a social networking platform, and Meta Platforms, the corporation that owns it (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), of which he serves as executive chairman, CEO, and majority shareholder.

Political and legal attention has been drawn to Zuckerberg due to his fame and rapid ascent in the technology sector. The launch of Facebook engaged Zuckerberg in a number of legal battles about the ownership and construction of the website as well as concerns over user privacy.

He co-founded the immigration-friendly advocacy organization FWD.us in 2013. During his testimony before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 10 and 11, 2018, Zuckerberg discussed how Facebook used users’ personal information in connection with the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach.

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3. Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Patricia Pelosi, an American politician who was born on March 26, 1940, held the position of speaker of the House of Representatives for two terms, from 2019 to 2023 and from 2007 to 2011. She led the House Democrats for 20 years, from 2003 to 2023, and was the first woman elected Speaker and to head a major political party in either chamber of Congress.

She is a member of the Democratic Party. Since 1987, she has served as the 11th congressional district’s representative from California. The majority of San Francisco is included in the district, which was known as the 5th district from 1987 to 1993, the 8th from 1993 to 2013, and the 12th from 2013 to 2023.

4. George Lucas

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American director George Walton Lucas Jr. was born on May 14, 1944. Lucas is most known for developing Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and THX as well as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series. Prior to selling Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012, he served as its chairman. Lucas is one of the most commercially successful directors in history and has received four Academy Award nominations.

His movies are among the top 100 highest-grossing pictures in North America, when ticket inflation is taken into account. As the father of the contemporary blockbuster, George Lucas is regarded as one of the most important figures in the 20th-century New Hollywood movement.

5. Sean Penn

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Sean Justin Penn, an American actor and filmmaker, was born on August 17, 1960. His performances in the biopic Milk (2008) and the mystery film Mystic River (2003) both earned him Academy Awards.

On December 4, 1974, Penn made his television acting debut in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie, which was directed by his father Leo Penn. After making his acting debut in the drama Taps in 1981 and playing a variety of roles in the 1980s, such as in Bad Boys (1983) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Penn gained notoriety for his performances in the crime dramas At Close Range (1986), State of Grace (1990), and Carlito’s Way (1993).

6. Steve Jobs

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Jobs, Steven Paul An American business tycoon, inventor, and investor who lived from February 24, 1955, to October 5, 2011, was. He served as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple as well as Pixar’s majority shareholder, the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT, and the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar when that company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

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7. Danielle Steel

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Fernandes, Danielle American author Dominique Schuelein-Steel, who was born on August 14, 1947, is well known for her romantic novels. With over 800 million books sold, she is both the best-selling living novelist and one of the all-time best-selling fiction authors. She had written 190 books as of 2021, including more than 140 novels.

Steel has spent the majority of her career living in California, producing many books each year while managing up to five different projects at once. Despite receiving “a resounding lack of critical acclaim” (Publishers Weekly), all of her novels have been bestsellers, including those published in hardcover.

8. Gavin Newsom

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Gavin Christopher Newsom, an American politician and businessman born on October 10, 1967, has served as California’s 40th governor since 2019. He was a Democrat who served as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019.

Newsom graduated from Santa Clara University after attending Redwood High School. Following graduation, he established the PlumpJack wine shop with the help of Gordon Getty, a wealthy heir and close family friend. Wineries, restaurants, and hotels are just a few of the 23 enterprises that the PlumpJack Group now oversees.

Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco, named Newsom to the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, marking the start of his political career. The next year, Brown selected Newsom to fill a vacancy on the Board of Supervisors, and he was subsequently elected in 1998, 2000, and 2002.

9. Armistead Maupin

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American author Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. was born on May 13, 1944, and is best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, which are all set in San Francisco. Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and earned his high school diploma from Needham Broughton in 1962. He wrote for The Daily Tar Heel as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

10. Janis Joplin

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American singer Janis Lyn Joplin lived from January 19, 1943, through October 4, 1970. She was regarded as one of the most popular and successful rock musicians of her day and was recognized for her “electric” stage presence and strong mezzo-soprano voice.

Joplin gained fame in 1967 after performing at the Monterey Pop Festival as the lead vocalist of the obscure San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. She quit Big Brother after the band’s two albums were released in order to pursue a solo career with her own backing bands, the Kozmic Blues Band and subsequently the Full Tilt Boogie Band.

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