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 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 in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

Born September 26, 1962 in Berkeley, California, she began her career as a child actress.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Asher is the son of gallerist Betty Asher and Dr. Leonard Asher.

Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California, Bassler received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a Ph. D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University.

Born in Oakland, California, he studied at University of California at Berkeley ( earning his B. Sc.

Born in the Bronx, New York City, Davis moved to California with his family as a child in 1954.

Born in Bern, Idaho, he moved with his family several times in childhood, while his father searched for work before settling in Los Angeles, California.

Born in Wisconsin in 1846, he held various occupations in Arizona, California, Utah, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington state.

Born and raised in Orange County, California, as of 2008 MacDougall and his wife have five children, and five grandsons.

Born on the Fourth of July was written in Santa Monica, California during the fall of 1974 in exactly one month, three weeks and two days.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials.

Born into a musical family in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, Norwood first appeared in a supporting role on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thea in 1993.

Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a ' patcher ', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915.

Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight.

Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP Nervous Breakdown.

Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Winchell and his family moved to California when he was 9 years old.

Angela Isadora Duncan ( May 27, 1877 – September 14, 1927 ), was an American dancer, Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50.

Born in El Cerrito, California, Allman knew from an early age that he wanted to work in computing, breaking into his high school's mainframe and later using the UC Berkeley computing center for his computing needs.