List of people from Palo Alto

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This is a list of notable people from Palo Alto, California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in Palo Alto, or for whom Palo Alto is a significant part of their identity.

Actors[]

Visual arts[]

Fine artists[]

Designers[]


Business leaders and entrepreneurs[]

  • Sergey Brin, (born 1973) co-founder of Google
  • Tim Cook, (born 1960), CEO of Apple Inc. since 2011.
  • Debbi Fields, (born 1956) founder of Mrs. Fields Bakeries.
  • David Filo, (born 1966) co-founder of Yahoo! Inc.
  • Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow.
  • William Hewlett, (1913–2001) co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto.
  • Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos.
  • Mark Hurd, (1957–2019) former joint CEO of Oracle Corporation, past chairman, chief executive officer, and President of Hewlett-Packard.
  • Steve Jobs, (1955–2011) co-founder of Apple Inc.; lived in Palo Alto 1980–2011; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto.
  • Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.
  • Darren Kimura, founder of Sopogy, Inventor of MicroCSP solar technology, resident
  • William R. Larson, founder of Round Table Pizza
  • Marissa Mayer, CEO and president of Yahoo!, former vice president of search products & user experience at Google
  • Chip Morningstar, software developer; project leader for Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first large-scale virtual multiuser environment; resident of Palo Alto.
  • Stephen Neal, chairman of Cooley LLP, resident.[28]
  • David Packard, (1912–1996) co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto.
  • Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, resident
  • Vishal Sikka, ex-CEO of Infosys, Ex- CTO of SAP AG
  • Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook, CEO of Myspace, COO of Zynga
  • Romesh Wadhwani, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
  • Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
  • Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook

Musicians[]

  • William Ackerman, acoustic guitarist, founded influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.[29]
  • Joan Baez, folk singer went to school in Palo Alto[30] and now resides in Woodside, California.[31]
  • Lindsey Buckingham, musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac, born and raised in Palo Alto[32][33]
  • Doug Clifford, drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Palo Alto native.[34]
  • The Grateful Dead, rock "jam" band; early incarnations of band were based in Palo Alto.[35]
    • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, (1945–1973) founding member of the Grateful Dead; moved to Palo Alto as a teenager; buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
    • Jerry Garcia, (1942–1995) founding member of the Grateful Dead; moved to Palo Alto in the 1960s.
    • Bill Kreutzmann, (born 1946) founding member and drummer of the Grateful Dead; born and raised in Palo Alto.
  • The Donnas, rock group, met while growing up in Palo Alto, Palo Alto High alumnus class of 1997.[36][37]
  • Stephan Jenkins, rock musician with Third Eye Blind and Gunn High School alumnus class of 1983.[38]
  • Ugly Kid Joe, rock band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt grew up in Palo Alto,[39] as did producer Eric Valentine
  • The Kingston Trio,[40] folk group formed in Palo Alto while its members were enrolled at Stanford University and nearby Menlo College
  • Rick Nowels, pop music record producer and songwriter.
  • Grace Slick, singer with the rock group Jefferson Airplane, later known as Jefferson Starship[41]

Politicians, political figures and civil servants[]

  • Robert Bell, Virginia State Delegate, was born in Palo Alto.[42]
  • Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and political pundit
  • Jerry Daniels, CIA officer in Laos during the Vietnam War[43]
  • Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, starting in 1916 he maintained a home in Palo Alto.
  • Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S Ambassador to China
  • Merrill Newman, (born 1928) Palo Alto Channing House resident, former United States Army officer, Korean War veteran, noted for his 2013 arrest in North Korea.
  • Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
  • Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
  • Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary[44]
  • Byron Sher (born 1928), served in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2004, California State Assembly from 1980 and 1996 and a professor emeritus at Stanford Law School.[45]
  • Sarah Wallis (1825–1905) The first President of the California Woman Suffrage Educational Association.[46]
  • Ron Wyden, United States Senator

Religion[]

  • Indradyumna Swami (formally Brian Tibbitts) ISKCON Guru and a sannyasi for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, born and raised in Palo Alto.
  • John Duryea, former Palo Alto Catholic priest excommunicated by the church in the 1970s and author of his autobiography.[47]
  • Gerrit W. Gong, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church),[48] raised in Palo Alto.

Scientists[]

Writers[]

  • David M. Alexander, science-fiction and crime novelist, attorney
  • Jordan Allen-Dutton, screenplay writer, producer of theatre; raised in Palo Alto.
  • Renée Ashley, poet, novelist, essayist, and educator; born in Palo Alto.
  • Raymond Carver, short story writer and poet
  • Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist, creator of Perry Mason[54]
  • Ariel Gore, (born 1970) journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author. Raised in Palo Alto.[55]
  • Ken Kesey, (1935–2001) novelist, short story writer, playwright - author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He began One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at a creative writing program at Stanford University and finished it while living in a cottage in Palo Alto.[56]
  • Marty Klein, (born 1950) is an American sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst.
  • Michael Lederer, author
  • John Markoff, Pulitzer prize winning, former New York Times technology journalist, he grew up in Palo Alto and has lived there for many years.[57]
  • Chanel Miller (born 1992), victim of sexual assault and author of best-selling memoir Know My Name.
  • Azadeh Moaveni, (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist and author; born in Palo Alto. Author of Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
  • Julia Flynn Siler, journalist and nonfiction author[58]
  • Keith Raffel, crime novelist, tech entrepreneur, university lecturer
  • Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator
  • Tad Williams, New York Times best-selling author
  • Yvor Winters, poet, known as the "Sage of Palo Alto"[59]
  • Ron Unz, (born 1961) unsuccessful race in the 1994 California gubernatorial election, from 2007 to 2013 he was the publisher of The American Conservative, and The Unz Review.
  • Al Young (1939–2021), poet, educator, novelist, essayist; lived in Palo Alto for almost three decades.
  • Jessica Yu, (born 1966) screenplay writer and film director; attended Gunn High School.

Athletes[]

Jeremy Lin
Joc Pederson
  • Davante Adams NFL Player and wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. East Palo Alto resident and Palo Alto High School graduate.[60]
  • Harris Barton (born 1964), All Pro NFL offensive lineman
  • Matt Biondi (born 1965), swimmer, won a total of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto
  • Hunter Bishop (born 1998), baseball player
  • Nick Bravin (born 1971), Olympic fencer
  • Jim Harbaugh, football player, head coach of Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers and Michigan, Palo Alto High School class of 1982[61]
  • Tony Hargain, NFL player
  • Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player, regarded as one of the best, holds a record of 16 WSOP bracelets with total earnings of more than 25 million to date
  • Katie Hoff, Olympic swimmer, Palo Alto native
  • Adam Juratovac, Professional Football player, Arena Bowl XXIII Champion, Alumnus of Gunn High School
  • Dana Kirk, Olympic swimmer, coaches for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics
  • Tara Kirk, swam with Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, Olympic swimmer, American record holder in 100 and 200-yard (180 m) breaststroke
  • Trajan Langdon, basketball executive and former player
  • Francie Larrieu-Smith, long-distance runner, first female athlete to make five Olympic teams, born in Palo Alto
  • Jeremy Lin (born 1988), basketball player, formerly for the NBA's Toronto Raptors, alumnus of Palo Alto High School
  • Jim Loscutoff, basketball player who won seven NBA championships with Boston Celtics[62][63]
  • Don MacLean, UCLA and NBA basketball player[64]
  • Bob Melvin (born 1961), Major League Baseball player and manager
  • Joc Pederson (born 1992), baseball player, for San Francisco Giants.
  • Dan Petry, pitcher for 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Palo Alto
  • Tim Rossovich, professional football player
  • Dave Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
  • Mark Schultz, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, subject of film Foxcatcher
  • Pop Warner (early football player & coach) head coach 8 colleges including Stanford University (1924–1932), lived and died Palo Alto died (83) September 7, 1954 resided 251 Madrono Ave.
  • Charles Wright, professional wrestler, formerly working for WWE as Papa Shango and The Godfather
  • Steve Young, former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers and NFL Hall of Famer.[65]
  • Vincent Zhou, figure skater that attended the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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