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 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 the town of Stein, Lower Austria, he studied law in Vienna and graduated with a PhD in 1827.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

Born Tommy Ray Bentley in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and adopted by Ray and Lorene " Pete " Parker Franks, Tommy Franks graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas one year ahead of First Lady Laura Bush.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, and raised in the midwestern states of Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, Admiral Clark graduated from Evangel College and earned a Master's Degree of Business Administration ( MBA ) from the University of Arkansas.

Born in Chicago, with Jewish origins, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II.

Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945.

Born Eugene Rubessa () in Christopher, Illinois, he was the only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College.

Born in Cincinnati, he graduated from Cornell University ( 1874 ) and Harvard Law School ( 1877 ).

Born in Cincinnati, he attended the University of Michigan, graduated from Cornell University ( 1880 ), and did post-graduate work at Boston Institute of Technology.

Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, Bashir graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions, with a particular emphasis in psychiatry.

Born in Miami, Florida, Allen attended and graduated from high school in Gainesville, Texas, in 1942.

Born in Jackson, Michigan, Coats graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Born in Munich, he graduated from the University of Munich shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.

Born in Bristol, he was educated at Blundell's School and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge as third wrangler in the mathematics tripos before turning to physiology.

Born in Scotland, where he attended parish school and graduated from the Tain Royal Academy in 1869.

Born in Greensboro, graduated from Grimsley High School.

Born in Chitenay, ( Loir-et-Cher, Centre Région ), Papin attended a Jesuit school there, and from 1661 attended University at Angers, from which he graduated with a medical degree in 1669.

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 Missouri, she attended the local public schools and graduated from Amity High School in 1924, before attending Oklahoma State University.

Born in Iberville Parish in 1820, Hebert graduated from West Point in 1845 third in his class.

) is a former NASA astronaut, who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir Born and raised in Eastpointe, Linenger graduated from East Detroit High School in 1973.

* Admiral Dominick Mattie ( Born in Hornell, NY in 1906 ), attended St. Anne's School and Hornell High School, attended the US Naval Academy, and graduated from the Academy in 1924.

Born in Brady to the late John G. Jones and the former Oma Willoughby, he graduated in 1952 from Brady High School.

Born and raised in Sunnyside, he graduated from Sunnyside High School in 1982.