List of people from Santa Rosa, California
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Santa Rosa, California, United States.
Artists, designers, and cartoonists
- Linda Geary (born 1960), painter, educator
- Jean Halpert–Ryden (1919–2011), painter, printmaker[1]
- Stephan Pastis, cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine[2][3]
- Peter Schifrin (born 1958), Olympic fencer and sculptor[4][5][6]
- Charles M. Schulz, creator and cartoonist of Peanuts[7][8]
- Nancy Speir, children's book illustrator
Entertainers, actors, musicians
- Francis Boggs, actor, writer, and early movie director[9]
- Warren Boyd, television producer, drug counselor
- Chad Channing, drummer for Nirvana
- Eftekhar Dadehbala, Iranian singer, known by her stage name "Mahasti"
- Rebecca De Mornay, film and television actress
- Chris Hayes, musician, member of Huey Lewis and the News
- Dan Hicks, singer and songwriter
- Jesca Hoop, singer and songwriter
- Julian Lage, guitarist and composer[10][11]
- Julie London, singer and actress[12][13]
- Kevin Kwan Loucks, concert pianist and arts entrepreneur
- Ray Luv, rapper, native of the South Park and West 9th districts[14][15]
- Jon Provost, film and television actor
- Jade Puget, guitarist for the band AFI
- Robert Quarry, film and stage actor
- Pete Rugolo, musician
- Auggie Smith, comedian
- Jussie Smollett, actor and singer[16]
- Stephanie St. James, actress, singer, and disease advocate[17][18]
- Natalie Wood, film actress; lived in Santa Rosa as a child[19][20]
Sports
- Scott Alexander, MLB player[21][22]
- Luis Arriaga, soccer player[23]
- Kim Conley, professional distance runner, two-time Olympian in the 5,000m[24][25]
- Gabe Cramer, baseball pitcher[26][27]
- Maya DiRado, Olympic swimmer[28][29]
- Jonathan González, Mexican soccer player
- Sara Hall, American middle distance runner[30][31]
- Brandon Hyde, manager of the Baltimore Orioles[32][33]
- Jenna Johnson, Olympic swimmer
- Levi Leipheimer, cyclist and three-time winner of the Tour of California[34][35]
- Koa Misi, football linebacker[36][37]
- McKenzie Moore (born 1992), player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Alfonso Motagalvan, soccer player[38][39]
- Brandon Morrow, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ernie Nevers, football star[40][41]
- Tony Renda, baseball player
- David Terrell, fighter
- Stephen Tomasin, plays for United States national rugby sevens team
- Tony Trujillo, skateboarder[42][43]
Writers, journalists
- Jacob Appelbaum, journalist, computer security researcher and hacker
- Shirlee Busbee, writer[44][45]
- Robert X. Cringely, technology journalist
- Garen Drussai, science fiction writer
- Paul Gilger, author of the musical Showtune[46][47]
- Richard Heinberg, ecological journalist[48][49]
- Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer and author of Dune
- Robert L. Ripley, creator and columnist of Ripley's Believe It or Not[50][51]
- Jim Ross, professional wrestling commentator and executive
- Greg Sarris, author, film producer and screenwriter, professor[52][53]
- Albino Brown, ska music writer, historian, producer, and director
Others
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- Madeline Bunch, businesswoman
- Luther Burbank, horticulturalist
- Fred J. Wiseman, aviation pioneer and first airmail pilot
- Efren Carrillo, member of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors[54][55]
- María Ygnacia López de Carrillo, original grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa[56][57]
- Brett Crozier, Commander of the Theodore Roosevelt[58][59]
- Frank Pierce Doyle, banker and philanthropist, known as the "Father of the Golden Gate Bridge"[60]
- William Mark Felt, FBI agent and associate director, Watergate informant known as "Deep Throat"[61][62]
- Guy Fieri, celebrity chef[63][64]
- Mendy Fry, drag racer[65][66]
- Thomas Lake Harris, mystic and prophet
- Edward J. Livernash, journalist and Congressman
- Joseph and William Hunt, founders of Hunt's foods
- Vicky Nguyen, television reporter[67][68]
- Ruth Paine, friend of Marina Oswald
- Michael Robinson, rabbi and activist for civil/human rights[69][70]
- Robley C. Williams, geneticist