* Paul DePodesta: A key figure in Michael Lewis ' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game as Beane's assistant in Oakland.

* Art Thoms, ( born 1947 ), NFL defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders ( 1969 – 1975 ) and Philadelphia Eagles ( 1977 ).

After being institutionalized for 35 years she attended Creative Growth Art Center ( a center for artists with disabilities in Oakland, CA ) and went on to become an internationally-renowned fiber art sculptor.

* Art Howe: Major League Baseball infielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, and St. Louis Cardinals ; manager with the Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets.

* Museum of Modern Art, New York City-features 23 digital typefaces for their permanent collection, including five Emigre font families: Jeffery Keedy's Keedy Sans, Jonathan Barnbrook's Mason Serif, Barry Deck's Template Gothic, Zuzana Licko's Oakland ( renamed Lo-Res in 2001 ), and P. Scott Makela's Dead History.

In 1967, Lamonica was traded to the Oakland Raiders with Glenn Bass for Art Powell and Tom Flores, for whom he played until his final year in 1974.

* Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA.

His paintings are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Britain, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Williams was born in Oakland, California, and attended the San Francisco School of Art and Design.

Oakland, Calif: Oakland Museum, Art Dept.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game ( ISBN 0-393-05765-8 ) is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane.

* Art Howe – Oakland field manager

He was cast as himself in Moneyball, the film adaptation of the best-selling Michael Lewis book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager, Billy Beane.

Charles Burns ' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, CA, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman.

The success of the " City Beautiful " philosophy in Washington, D. C., is credited with influencing subsequent plans for beautification of many other cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Des Moines, Denver, Madison ( with the axis from the capitol building through State Street and to the University of Wisconsin campus ), Montreal, New York City ( notably the Manhattan Municipal Building ), Philadelphia ( the Benjamin Franklin Parkway museum district between Philadelphia City Hall and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ( the Schenley Farms district in the Oakland neighborhood of parks, museums, and universities ), San Antonio, Texas ( San Antonio River development ), San Francisco ( manifested by its Civic Center ), and the Washington State Capitol Campus in Olympia and the University of Washington's Rainier Vista in Seattle.

It was founded by Art Roth, an Oakland police officer who was present on the night of the riots.

Among them were ambidextrous quarterback and former University of Houston star D. C. Nobles and several American Football League veterans: quarterbacks Mike Taliaferro and Don Trull, fullback Jim Nance, wide receivers Don Maynard and Rick Eber, tight end Willie Frazier, former Houston Oiler and All-AFL tackle Glen Ray Hines, linebacker Garland Boyette, defensive end Al Dotson, defensive backs Daryl Johnson, Richmond Flowers, Jr., John Mallory and Art McMahon, and rookie linebacker John Villapiano, brother of Oakland Raiders defender Phil Villapiano.

Bounded by Skinker Boulevard, Lindell Boulevard, Kingshighway Boulevard, and Oakland Avenue, the park is known as the " heart of St. Louis " and features a variety of attractions, including the St. Louis Zoo, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center.

A retrospective of Elmer Bischoff's work, Grand Lyricist: The Art of Elmer Bischoff, was offered by the Oakland Museum of California, November 3, 2001-January 13, 2002.

The Caldecott Tunnel was designated a City of Oakland Landmark in 1980, and received a Preservation Award from the Art Deco Society of California in 1993.

The Akron Art Museum ( Akron, OH ), the Arizona State University Art Museum ( Tempe, AZ ), the Chrysler Museum of Art ( Norfolk, VA ), the Jack S Blanton Museum of Art ( University of Texas, Austin, TX ), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Montana Historical Society ( Helena, MT ), the Museum of New Mexico ( Santa Fe, NM ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington, DC ), the Neuberger Museum of Art ( Purchase, NY ), the Oakland Museum of California ( Oakland, CA ), the Phoenix Art Museum, the Roswell Museum and Art Center ( Roswell, NM ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington, DC ), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ( Kansas City ), the University of Arizona Museum of Art ( Tucson, AZ ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ) are among the public collections holding work by Milton Resnick.

* Robert Gallery, guard for the Oakland Raiders

* Gallery of Oakland Hills fire of 1991

* Robert Gallery, an American football player for the Oakland Raiders

Regarded as " the best lineman to come out of college in years ", Gallery was selected with the second overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders.

Offensive tackle Robert Gallery was that season's Outland Trophy winner ; after the season, the Oakland Raiders chose him with the second overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft.

* Vineyards and Beyond-Kaiser Arts Center Gallery, Oakland, California-1987

Voulkos ' work is found in museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, in New York ; Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art ; the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC ; the Stedelijk Museums in Amsterdam and Eindhoven ; the Tokyo Folk Art Museum and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art ; the National Gallery, in Melbourne ; the University of Iowa Museum of Art ; the Oakland Museum of California ; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London.

Exhibited: Del Monte Art Gallery before 1914 ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( solos in 1915, 1917, 1918 and group show in 1929 ); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932.

He was the third offensive lineman selected, behind only Iowa offensive tackle Robert Gallery ( 2nd, Oakland Raiders ) and Arkansas offensive guard Shawn Andrews ( 16th, Philadelphia Eagles ).

In 1981, the Art Gallery opened in its present location-historic 1920s Oakland Building, former club house for the Oakland Country Club and the oldest building on campus.

He exhibited at the Oakland Museum, DeYoung Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Crocker Gallery in Stockton, St. Mary's Gallery, Richmond Art Center and the Northwood Gallery in Midland, Michigan.

Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente, who opened the land to American settlers, loggers, European whalers, and fur-traders

In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County.

North American also opened operations in Newark, New Jersey, and Oakland, California, at that time.

Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff ( FLOW district ) approved creation of a regional high school in 1954 by a vote of 1, 060 to 51, with Ramapo High School ( in Franklin Lakes ) opened in 1957 and Indian Hills High School in 1960.

These recordings were produced by Victor's Oakland plant, which had opened in 1924.

Victor went on to record the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Willem Mengelberg and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rudolph Ganz from 1922, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Alfred Hertz from 1925 ; Hertz's earliest discs, made at Victor's new Oakland studios ( opened in 1924 ), were the company's last acoustical orchestral sessions.

In 1943, the U. S. Armed Forces temporarily took over Oakland Airport and opened Naval Air Station Oakland.

FedEx Express opened a cargo base in Oakland in 1988, which is now one of the busiest air freight terminals in the United States.

In the 1990s, Southwest Airlines opened a crew base in Oakland, and expanded its flights to become the airport's dominant passenger carrier.

Next, back as leader again, Hines took his own small combos around the States and Europe but, at the start of the jazz-lean 1960s and old enough now to retire and take up bowling, Hines settled " home " in Oakland, California, with his wife and two young daughters, Janear and Tosca, opened a tobacconist's and came close to giving up the profession.

From San Jose, this route temporarily followed existing Legislative Route 5 ( present Oakland Road, Main Street, Milpitas Boulevard, and Warm Springs Boulevard ) to SR 21 at Warm Springs, and then continued along existing county roads and city streets, now known as Fremont Boulevard, Alvarado Boulevard, Hesperian Boulevard, Lewelling Boulevard, Washington Avenue, 14th Street, 44th Avenue, 12th Street, 14th Avenue, 8th Street, and 7th Street opened on June 11, 1957, connecting the freeway with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

As early as 1936, at age 21, he opened one of the nation's first fitness gyms in Oakland, California, which became a prototype for dozens of similar gyms using his name.

In 1936, he opened what is considered the nation's first health and fitness club in Oakland, California, where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice.

She opened her own office in San Francisco, while living at the old family home in Oakland.

Since 2005 a number of restaurants operating on a fast-food model — but serving only macaroni and cheese — have opened in places such as New York City, Oakland, Portland, St. Louis, Manchester and Vancouver, Canada.

The final piece to Oakland Road ( 13th Street ) in San Jose, which was then the main road-Legislative Route 5 and Sign Route 17-between San Jose and Oakland, was dedicated on June 12, 1937, over ten years after the Dumbarton Bridge opened in January 1927.

On March 1, 1942, Sidney R. Garfield & Associates opened its offices in Oakland to provide care to 20, 000 workers, followed by the opening of the Permanente Health Plan on June 1.

The first Permanente Hospital opened in Oakland on August 1.

The Giants opened the 1889 season at a ballfield in Jersey City called Oakland Park, playing their first two games there.

On November 17, 1934, using $ 500 in borrowed money, Bergeron opened a small bar / restaurant across from his parent's grocery store at San Pablo Avenue and 65th Street in Oakland, California.

Also, second baseman Eric Sogard opened enough eyes to be sought by the Oakland Athletics in a trade that sent Sogard and Kevin Kouzmanoff to the A ’ s and Scott Hairston and Aaron Cunningham.

The Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics opened the 2008 MLB season in Japan as well.