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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
Charles Schulz (1993), cartoonist and
Peanuts creator
Entertainers, actors, musicians
Julie London, singer and actress
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Francis Boggs, actor, writer, and early movie director
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Warren Boyd, television producer, drug counselor
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Chad Channing, drummer for
Nirvana
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Eftekhar Dadehbala, Iranian singer, known by her stage name "
Mahasti", deceased
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Rebecca De Mornay, film and television actress
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Chris Hayes, musician, member of
Huey Lewis and the News
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Dan Hicks, singer and songwriter
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Julian Lage, guitarist and composer
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Julie London, singer and actress
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Kevin Kwan Loucks, concert pianist and arts entrepreneur
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Ray Luv, rapper, native of the South Park and West 9th districts
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Jon Provost, film and television actor
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Jade Puget, guitarist for the band AFI
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Pete Rugolo, musician
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Jussie Smollett, actor and singer
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Stephanie St. James, actress, singer, and disease advocate
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Natalie Wood, film actress; lived in Santa Rosa as a child
Sports
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Scott Alexander, MLB player
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Kim Conley, professional distance runner, two-time Olympian in the 5,000m
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Gabe Cramer, baseball pitcher
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Maya DiRado, Olympic swimmer
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Jonathan González, Mexican soccer player
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Sara Hall, American middle distance runner
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Brandon Hyde, manager of the Baltimore Orioles
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Jenna Johnson, Olympic swimmer
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Levi Leipheimer, cyclist and three-time winner of the
Tour of California
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Koa Misi, football linebacker
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McKenzie Moore (born 1992), player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Alfonso Motagalvan, soccer player
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Brandon Morrow, Major League Baseball pitcher
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Ernie Nevers, football star
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Tony Renda, baseball player
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David Terrell, fighter
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Stephen Tomasin, plays for
United States national rugby sevens team
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Tony Trujillo, skateboarder
Writers, journalists
Robert L. Ripley, creator and columnist of
Ripley's Believe It or Not
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Jacob Appelbaum, journalist, computer security researcher and hacker
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Shirlee Busbee, writer
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Robert X. Cringely, technology journalist
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Garen Drussai, science fiction writer
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Paul Gilger, author of the musical
Showtune
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Richard Heinberg, ecological journalist
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Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer and author of Dune
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Robert L. Ripley, creator and columnist of
Ripley's Believe It or Not
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Jim Ross, professional wrestling commentator and executive
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Greg Sarris, author, film producer and screenwriter, professor
Others
Luther Burbank, horticulturalist
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Luther Burbank, horticulturalist
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Efren Carrillo, member of
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
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María Ygnacia López de Carrillo, original grantee of
Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa
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Brett Crozier, Commander of the
Theodore Roosevelt
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William Mark Felt, FBI agent and associate director, Watergate informant known as "Deep Throat"
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Guy Fieri, celebrity chef
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Mendy Fry, drag racer
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Thomas Lake Harris, mystic and prophet
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Edward J. Livernash, journalist and Congressman
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Joseph and William Hunt, founders of Hunt's foods
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Vicky Nguyen, television reporter
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Michael Robinson, rabbi and activist for civil/human rights
References