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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
Entertainers, actors, musicians
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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
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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
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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