People from Palo Alto, California

The list People from Palo Alto, California includes James Franco, Dave Franco, Markie Post, Aarón Díaz and Jamie Luner. The list consists of 293 members and 6 sublists.

Connections

Palo Alto, California

City in California in the United States

Mayors of Palo Alto, California
7T
expand_more
People from Palo Alto, California, by occupation
9L
expand_more

1.

James Franco

American actor and filmmaker (born 1978)

Overview: James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010) ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

0 0

Figures in sexual harassment scandals 71T

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television faculty 32T

Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male winners 32T
2.

Dave Franco

American actor

Overview: David John Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American actor, voice actor, and director. He began his career with small roles in films such as Superbad (2007) and Charlie St. Cloud (2010). Following a ...

Date of birth: 12 June 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Alison Brie (Married)

0 0

Male actors of Portuguese descent 23T

Male actors of Russian descent 80T

Screenwriters from California 1,055T
3.

Markie Post

American actress (1950–2021)

Overview: Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress, known for her roles as bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985, as public defender ...

Date of birth: 4 November 1950

Date of death: 7 August 2021

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

0 0

2021 deaths 6,508T

Actresses from Palo Alto, California 13T

Actors from Palo Alto, California 12T
4.

Aarón Díaz

Mexican actor, singer and model

Overview: Aarón Díaz Spencer (born March 7, 1982) is a Mexican American actor, singer, and model.

Date of birth: 7 March 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Lola Ponce (Engaged)

0 0

Male actors of Irish descent 682T

21st-century male singers 6,386T

21st-century Mexican singers 226T
5.

Jamie Luner

American actress (born 1971)

Overview: Jamie Michelle Luner (born May 12, 1971) is an American actress who first came to prominence as Cindy Lubbock on the ABC sitcom Just the Ten of Us, but is better known as Peyton Richards on Savannah, Lexi ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

0 0

21st-century American Jews 7,670T

Actresses from Palo Alto, California 14T

Actors from Palo Alto, California 12T
6.

Alessandra Torresani

American actress (1987)

Overview: Alessandra Olivia Toreson (born May 29, 1987), known professionally as Alessandra Torresani and prior to 2007, Alessandra Toreson, is an American actress. She is best known for playing Zoe Graystone in ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Sturgis Adams (Married)

0 0

American female taekwondo practitioners 74T

Actresses from Palo Alto, California 13T

Actresses from California 929T
7.

Steve Jobs

American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)

Overview: Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1955

Date of death: 5 October 2011

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

0 0

American psychedelic drug advocates 72T

Time 100 250T

Disney executives 88T
8.

Lindsey Buckingham

American musician

Overview: Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the music group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1949

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

0 0

Guitarists from California 583T

People from Atherton, California 61T

20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
9.

Stephan Jenkins

musician

Overview: Stephan Douglas Jenkins (born September 27, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Third Eye Blind. Under Jenkins's leadership, all five of Third Eye ...

Date of birth: 27 September 1964

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

0 0

Gunn High School alumni 23T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
10.

Susan Wojcicki

American, Business

Overview: Susan Diane Wojcicki (wuutch-ITS-kee; July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1968

Date of death: 9 August 2024

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

0 0

2024 deaths 4,963T

Salesforce people 6T

Businesspeople from Palo Alto, California 25T
11.

Anne Wojcicki

American entrepreneur (born 1973)

Overview: Anne E. Wojcicki (woo-CHITS-kee; born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

0 0

Businesspeople from Palo Alto, California 25T

Gunn High School alumni 26T

21st-century American women scientists 1,577T
12.

Mark Zuckerberg

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1984)

Overview: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman, chief executive ...

Date of birth: 14 May 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Priscilla Chan (Married)

0 0

Centibillionaires 11T

Directors of Meta Platforms 2T

Time Person of the Year 68T
13.

Haley Pullos

American actress (born 1998)

Overview: Haley Alexis Pullos (born July 10, 1998) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Molly Lansing-Davis in the American daytime soap opera General Hospital. She also played Bella in The Expanding ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1998

Age: 26

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

0 0

21st-century American women 14,654T

Actresses from Palo Alto, California 14T

Actresses from California 959T
14.

Bree Turner

American actress and dancer

Overview: Bree Nicole Turner (born March 10, 1977) is an American actress and dancer; she is best known for her role as Rosalee Calvert on Grimm.

Date of birth: 10 March 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

0 0

Monte Vista High School (Danville, California) alumni 1T

People from Alamo, California 24T

Dancers from California 126T
15.

Priscilla Chan

American pediatrician and philanthropist (born 1985)

Overview: Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) is an American pediatrician and philanthropist. She and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc., established the Chan Zuckerberg I ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Mark Zuckerberg (Married)

0 0

The Harker School alumni 8T

21st-century philanthropists 289T

American people of Hoa descent 13T
16.

Laurene Powell-Jobs

American business executive, philanthropist, billionaire

Overview: Laurene Powell Jobs (née Powell; born November 6, 1963) is an American billionaire businesswoman and executive. She is the founder and chair of Emerson Collective and XQ Institute. She is the widow of ...

Date of birth: 6 November 1963

Age: 60

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

0 0

Businesspeople from Palo Alto, California 24T

Family of Steve Jobs 5T

Members of the Council on Foreign Relations 381T
17.

Jason Oppenheim

American real estate broker (born 1977)

Overview: Jason Oppenheim (born April 12, 1977) is an American real estate broker and attorney. He is the President and founder of The Oppenheim Group, a real estate brokerage representing buyers and sellers of ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Reality TV

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

0 0

American realtors 195T

1977 births 15,950T

Living people 969,766T
18.

0 0
19.

Doug Clifford

American musician

Overview: Douglas Raymond "Cosmo" Clifford (born April 24, 1945) is an American drummer, best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival. After the group dissolved in the early 1970s, Douglas Clifford ...

Date of birth: 25 April 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: Drummer

Gender: Male

0 0

20th-century American drummers 1,414T

American male drummers 1,406T

Musicians from Palo Alto, California 25T
20.

Jeremy Lin

American basketball player

Overview: Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League. He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

0 0

Taiwanese men's basketball players 33T

Shenzhen Aviators players 35T

Erie BayHawks (2008–2017) players 101T