Oakland, California (usa)

Oakland, California

Oakland, California ranks 155th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ghent, Graz, and Bergen. Memorable people born in Oakland, California include Kamala Harris, Brandon Lee, and Mark Hamill. Memorable people who died in Oakland, California include Charles H. Townes, Robert N. Bellah, and Jack Vance. Oakland, California has been the birth place of many actors, and basketball players and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Oakland, California is located in United States.

Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat of and the most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the most populous city in the East Bay, the third most populous city in the Bay Area, and the eighth most populous city in California. It serves as the Bay Area's trade center: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth- or sixth-busiest in the United States. A charter city, Oakland was incorporated on May 4, 1852, in the wake of the state's increasing population due to the California gold rush. Read more on Wikipedia