Writers from San Francisco, California

The list Writers from San Francisco, California includes Linda Ronstadt, Courtney Love, Bruce Lee, Maya Angelou and Marjorie Lord. The list consists of 524 members and 4 sublists.

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San Francisco

consolidated city-county in California, United States

Journalists from San Francisco
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Novelists from San Francisco
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Poets Laureate of San Francisco, California
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Songwriters from San Francisco, California
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Linda Ronstadt

American singer (born 1946)

Overview: Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music. She has ...

Date of birth: 15 July 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Singer-songwriters from Arizona 78T

Singer-songwriters from Louisiana 163T

Singer-songwriters from California 996T
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Courtney Love

American rock musician and actress (born 1964)

Overview: Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four ...

Date of birth: 9 July 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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21st-century American singer-songwriters 2,677T

20th-century American singer-songwriters 1,284T

American activists with disabilities 268T
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Aisha Tyler

American actress and talk show host

Overview: Aisha Nilaja Tyler (born September 18, 1970) is an American actress and talk show host. She is known for playing Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer, Dr. Tara Lewis in Criminal Minds ...

Date of birth: 18 September 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American women film editors 112T

21st-century American memoirists 410T

African-American female comedians 113T
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Bruce Lee

Martial artist

Overview: Lee Jun-fan (Chinese: 李振藩; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), commonly known as Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍), was a Chinese-American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor and p ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1940

Date of death: 20 July 1973

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: Hong Konger

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Hong Kong people of Shunde descent 4T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Maya Angelou

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Overview: Maya Angelou ( ANN-jəl-oh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1928

Date of death: 28 May 2014

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American inaugural poets 5T

American women memoirists 620T

African-American memoirists 19T
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Marjorie Lord

American actress

Overview: Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1918

Date of death: 28 November 2015

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses of German descent 622T

2015 deaths 9,624T

Actresses from San Francisco, California 197T
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George Watsky

American rapper, singer and poet

Overview: George Virden Watsky (born September 15, 1986), better known mononymously as Watsky, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, poet, and author.

Date of birth: 15 September 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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21st-century American male musicians 5,527T

21st-century male musicians 9,897T

21st-century American male writers 6,080T
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Kamala Harris

American, Politician

Overview: Kamala Devi Harris ( KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. Harris served as a United States senator ...

Date of birth: 20 October 1964

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

Partner: Douglas Emhoff (Married)

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2024 United States vice-presidential candidates 4T

African-American women memoirists 26T

Women vice presidents in North America 10T
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Ali Wong

American comedian and actress (born 1982)

Overview: Alexandra Dawn "Ali" Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), and Don Wong ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

Partner: Bill Hader (Dating)

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Time 100 190T

American comedians of Asian descent 24T

American women television writers 748T
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Natacha Rambova

20th-century American film personality and fashion designer

Overview: Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1897

Date of death: 5 June 1966

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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American women fashion designers 282T

Rudolph Valentino 2T

20th-century memoirists 804T
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Danielle Steel

American, Novelist

Overview: Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Novelists from San Francisco 42T

Novelists from New York City 357T

Writers from Manhattan 616T
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Mackenzie Bezos

American, Philanthropist

Overview: MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) is an American novelist and philanthropist. As of January 2024, she has a net worth of US$40.6 billion, owning a 4% stake in Amazon, the ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Bezos family 7T

21st-century American philanthropists 325T

21st-century women philanthropists 83T
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Stuart Varney

British-American TV presenter (born 1948)

Overview: Stuart Varney (born July 7, 1949) is an English-American talk show host and conservative political commentator who works for Fox News and the Fox Business Network. Born in the United Kingdom, he worked ...

Date of birth: 7 July 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: British

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Male

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Fox Business people 34T

American conservative people 1,080T

People with acquired American citizenship 987T
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Julianne Malveaux

American journalist, economist, author, commentator

Overview: Julianne Marie Malveaux (born September 22, 1953) is an American economist, author, social and political commentator, and businesswoman. After five years as the 15th president of Bennett College in Gr ...

Date of birth: 22 September 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni 320T

20th-century African-American women 4,054T

21st-century African-American women 3,684T
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Anton LaVey

American Satanist religious leader

Overview: Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and occultist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism ...

Date of birth: 11 April 1930

Date of death: 29 October 1997

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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American male organists 374T

Male organists 2,110T

American LaVeyan Satanists 17T
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Paul Mantee

American actor and writer

Overview: Paul Mantee (January 9, 1931 – November 7, 2013) was an American film and television actor.

Date of birth: 9 March 1931

Date of death: 7 November 2013

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

United States Navy personnel of the Korean War 228T

Male actors from San Francisco, California 218T
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Robert Graysmith

American writer

Overview: Robert Graysmith (born Robert Gray Smith; September 17, 1942) is an American true crime author and former cartoonist. He is known for his work on the Zodiac killer case.

Date of birth: 17 September 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Zodiac Killer 7T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
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Alie Ward

American writer and painter

Overview: Alison Ann "Alie" Ward (born November 6, 1976) is an American writer, actress, and television and podcast host.

Date of birth: 6 November 1976

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Patreon creators 48T

American women podcasters 237T

American women television personalities 408T
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Teresa Strasser

American journalist

Overview: Teresa Lynn Strasser (born June 8, 1970) is an American writer and television personality known for hosting the first season of the home makeover show While You Were Out on TLC. She also co-hosted The ...

Date of birth: 8 June 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Radio Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Daniel (Married)

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People from Panorama City, Los Angeles 34T

Writers from Los Angeles, California 831T

American radio news anchors 30T
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Tucker Carlson

American political commentator (born 1969)

Overview: Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American paleoconservative television host and political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox ...

Date of birth: 16 May 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Susan Andrews (Married)

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Time 100 238T

American opinion journalists 70T

Activists from San Francisco 22T