San Francisco
San Francisco ranks 34th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Amsterdam, Florence, and Mexico City. Memorable people born in San Francisco include Clint Eastwood, Steve Jobs, and Bruce Lee. Memorable people who died in San Francisco include Anton LaVey, Milton Friedman, and Warren G. Harding. San Francisco has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many actors, and politicians. San Francisco is located in United States.
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco proper is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States. Among U.S. cities proper with over 300,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked second by population density, first by per capita income, and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. Depending on how its borders are defined, the broader San Francisco metropolitan area or San Francisco Bay Area is home to 4.6–9.2 million residents as of 2023, making it the 13th to 5th most populous urban region in the country. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1853 and 2003, San Francisco was the birth place of 241 globally memorable people, including Clint Eastwood, Steve Jobs, and Bruce Lee. Additionaly, 111 globally memorable people have passed away in San Francisco including Anton LaVey, Milton Friedman, and Warren G. Harding.
People Born in San Francisco
Go to all RankingsClint Eastwood
ACTOR
1930 - Present
HPI: 89.20
Rank: 27
Steve Jobs
DESIGNER
1955 - 2011
HPI: 88.84
Rank: 117
Bruce Lee
ACTOR
1940 - 1973
HPI: 86.28
Rank: 54
Robert Frost
WRITER
1874 - 1963
HPI: 83.18
Rank: 116
Jack London
WRITER
1876 - 1916
HPI: 81.73
Rank: 122
Isadora Duncan
DANCER
1877 - 1927
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 90
Robert McNamara
BUSINESSPERSON
1916 - 2009
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 59
Luis Walter Alvarez
PHYSICIST
1911 - 1988
HPI: 76.99
Rank: 56
O. J. Simpson
AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER
1947 - 2024
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 193
Jerry Brown
POLITICIAN
1938 - Present
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 6
John Young
ASTRONAUT
1930 - 2018
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 114
Maria Branyas
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1907 - 2024
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 152
Newly Added People Born in San Francisco
Go to all RankingsColin Woodell
ACTOR
1991 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 52
Devin Haney
BOXER
1998 - Present
HPI: 39.60
Rank: 51
Thomas Horn
ACTOR
1997 - Present
HPI: 37.46
Rank: 50
Toni Breidinger
RACING DRIVER
1999 - Present
HPI: 22.21
Rank: 49
People Deceased in San Francisco
Go to all RankingsAnton LaVey
OCCULTIST
1930 - 1997
HPI: 79.08
Rank: 100
Milton Friedman
ECONOMIST
1912 - 2006
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 63
Warren G. Harding
POLITICIAN
1865 - 1923
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 49
Arno Allan Penzias
PHYSICIST
1933 - 2024
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 30
Levi Strauss
BUSINESSPERSON
1829 - 1902
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 25
Chester W. Nimitz
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1885 - 1966
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 33
Tsung-Dao Lee
PHYSICIST
1926 - 2024
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 110
Dorothea Lange
JOURNALIST
1895 - 1965
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 1
Gregory Bateson
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1904 - 1980
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 103
Erich Mendelsohn
ARCHITECT
1887 - 1953
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 80
Władysław Tarnowski
WRITER
1836 - 1878
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 99
Philip Zimbardo
PSYCHOLOGIST
1933 - 2024
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 111
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day San Francisco were actors (93), writers (18), musicians (13), athletes (12), and politicians (11), while most who died were actors (13), politicians (12), writers (10), athletes (9), and musicians (5).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in San Francisco, including Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee, and Natalie Wood. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day San Francisco, including Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee, and Natalie Wood.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in San Francisco since 1700.