Born in Los Angeles, Walsh played running back in the San Francisco Bay Area for Hayward High School in Hayward.

Born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to San Francisco during her childhood.

Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, CA area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J.

Born in Los Angeles, Kavner grew up in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School and later San Diego State University.

Born in Roma in 1904 and moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1910.

Born in San Diego, he grew up in Rawlins.

Born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, into a musical family in Milan, Rota was a renowned child prodigy — his first oratorio, L ' infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 ; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926.

Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake.

Born in San Francisco, California, Weinberger served in the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific theater of World War II.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Born 15 March 1943, Sylvester Stewart was the second of five children raised in Vallejo, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.

Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth " Bessie " Crabb.

Born in Los Angeles, Palast attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School and transferred to San Fernando Valley State College ( now California State University, Northridge ) in 1969, before his senior year of high school.

Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London.

Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University.

Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BA degree in mathematics in 1968 and his Ph. D. degree in EECS in 1976.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California.

Born in Milan's San Marcellino district, Castiglione studied painting in Italy with Carlo Cornara of the renowned Bottega degli Stampatori painting studio.

Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida.

Robert Edward Machado ( better known simply as Rob Machado ) ( b. October 16, 1973 Sydney, Australia ) is an Australian Born American professional surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a community in Encinitas ( San Diego County ), California.

Born in Shanghai, Soong arrived in the United States at the Port of San Francisco, CA on June 30, 1904 aboard the SS Korea at the age of 14 to begin her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta.

Born in San Francisco, California, Heilmann attended Sacred Heart High School, the same school that Joe Cronin attended.

Born in Eastland, Texas, Hayden Fry was descended from one of the Texas First Families ; his great-great-grandfather fought beside General Sam Houston in the Mexican War against Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto.

Born in 1826, Francisco Solano López became the second and final ruler of the López dynasty.

Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents – a Hispanic / Mexican father, Francisco Estévez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia ( Spain ) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary – he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts.

Born in Santo Domingo to a Dominican father and a Spanish mother ( her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco ), at an early age, her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up with her father.

Among the more unusual recipients are Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( Detroit, 1980 ), Sam Born, for inventing a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops ( San Francisco, 1916 ), and " Scarlett's Magic " ( Corona, 2010 ), a cat listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as World's Tallest Cat.

Born in San Francisco, California, Chamberlain graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1937.

Born in Orange, California, Harryman studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University.

Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964.

Born in Trujillo, Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro accompanied his eldest brother, Francisco Pizarro, in his third expedition for the conquest of Peru in 1532.

* Holton D. Robinson ( 1886 ), Born in Massena, NY he invented stronger suspension bridge cable, and built such famous spans as the Manhattan Bridge and the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Born in Campeche, Campeche as Francisco Garcia Escalante, Francis gained attention first as a vedette, participating at various clubs and theaters, with a transvestites ' ballet.

Born March 12, 1960 in Hollywood, CA.

Born in San Francisco, California, Ward currently lives in Dublin, CA and trains in Oakland, CA.

* Born Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player, in Moscow ; and Larisa Oleynik, American actress ( The Secret World of Alex Mack ), in Santa Clara, CA

* Born: Chris Senn, professional skateboarder, in Grass Valley, CA

* Born: Willa Ford, American singer / actor, in Ruskin, FL ; Beverley Mitchell, American singer / actor, in Arcadia, CA ; and Ben Moody, American singer / actor ( formerly of Evanescence ), in Little Rock

Born and raised in Southern California, Morrow graduated from Ganesha High School in Pomona, CA.

* Born: Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor best known for portrayal of Anakin Skywalker in Episodes II and III of Star Wars, in Vancouver ; Troy Polamalu, American NFL player, in Garden Grove, CA ; and Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian-born film actress, ( Maria Full of Grace ), in Bogotá ;

* Born: Jessica Alba, American actress ( Dark Angel ), in Pomona, CA

Born in Calahorra, La Rioja, Ezquerro emerged through the youth ranks of CA Osasuna, playing two second division seasons with the Navarrese before signing with Atlético Madrid in 1996 – 97.