# List of Lowell High School (San Francisco) alumni

Notable alumni of Lowell High School, San Francisco, have been cataloged by the Lowell High Alumni Association. Alumni include:
| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Albert Abraham Michelson | 1868 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. First American Nobel laureate in a scientific field. |
| Charles Lee Tilden | 1874 | Attorney & businessman, namesake of Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. |
| Stephen Mather | 1883 | First Director of the National Park Service. |
| William Renwick Smedberg Jr. | 1888 | U.S. Army brigadier general. |
| John F. Madden | 1890 | U.S. Army brigadier general. |
| Joseph Erlanger | 1892 | Physician; Professor, Washington University in St. Louis. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945. |
| Eugene Meyer | 1892 | First President of the World Bank; Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. |
| G. Albert Lansburgh | 1894 | Notable architect of Broadway and Los Angeles theatres and cinemas. |
| Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld | 1897 | Well-known legal theorist and law professor at Yale and Stanford. |
| Rube Goldberg | 1900 | Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of "Rube Goldberg" machines. |
| Walter A. Haas | 1905 | Board Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. |
| Newton B. Drury | 1908 | Fourth Director of the National Park Service. |
| Alexander Calder | 1915 | Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile. |
| Gerald M. Loeb | | Founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co. |
| Cyril Magnin | 1918 | Chief Executive of the Joseph Magnin Co. |
| Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Sr. | 1923 | District Attorney of San Francisco; State Attorney General; Governor of California, 1959–1967. |
| Larry Rhine | 1927 | American producer and screenwriter. |
| Robert Lees | 1929 | Film and television writer. |
| William Hewlett | 1930 | Inventor, businessman, philanthropist. Co-founder, Hewlett-Packard Company; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |
| Alex Eagle | | NFL player |
| Charles Ginsburg | 1936 | Developed first commercially viable Video Tape Recorder at Ampex. |
| Stafford Repp | 1936 | Actor, Batman television series. |
| Carol Channing | 1938 | Tony Award-winning singer, actress and comedian. |
| Richard Diebenkorn | 1939 | 20th century painter. |
| William G. Joslyn | 1940 | Marine Corps Major general, also drafted by Washington Redskins in 1944. |
| William Coblentz | | California power broker, Lawyer, UC Regent |
| Pierre Salinger | 1941 | Press secretary to US President John F. Kennedy; later, United States Senator from California. |
| Art Hoppe | 1942 | Popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years. |
| Jerry Coleman | 1942 | Decorated Marine aviator, New York Yankee, Hall of Fame announcer |
| Kenneth McLennan | 1943 | Marine Corps four-star general, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. |
| Harry Likas | 1943 | NCAA Men's Tennis Championship in Singles in 1948 (as a member of the University of San Francisco Dons); Collegiate Tennis Hall of Famer. |
| Frank Kudelka | | NBA player |
| Allen Newell | 1945 | Pioneer in artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. |
| Donald Fisher | 1946 | Founder and Board Chairman of The GAP. |
| Jann Darlyn | 1947 | Actress and model. |
| Dian Fossey | 1949 | Primatologist and conservationist known for extensive study of the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Subject of the book and film Gorillas in the Mist. |
| Ed Mayer | 1950 | Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs. |
| Warren Hellman | 1951 | Private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman. |
| Bill Bixby | 1952 | Movie and TV actor: The Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and film director. |
| John L. Heilbron | | Historian of science. |
| Richard C. Blum | 1953 | Husband of Dianne Feinstein. Chairman and President of Blum Capital. Regent of the University of California. |
| Stephen Breyer | 1955 | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
| William Ware Theiss | 1948 | Academy Award nominated Costume Designer for movies and TV, including Star Trek. |
| Tom Meschery | 1957 | Played in the NBA for the Warriors and SuperSonics, 1961–1971. |
| Charles R. Breyer | 1959 | Senior United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. |
| Howard Lachtman | 1959 | American literary critic. |
| Susie Tompkins Buell | 1960 | Entrepreneur and liberal political donor associated with the Democracy Alliance. |
| Julia Chang Bloch | 1960 | U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. |
| Steve Silver | 1962 | Creator of Beach Blanket Babylon. |
| Eric Albronda | 1963 | Founding member of the band Blue Cheer, often considered to be the first heavy metal band |
| Richard Levin | 1964 | President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013. |
| Dennis Marcellino | 1965 | Member of Sly & The Family Stone, The Elvin Bishop Group, Rubicon, and The Tokens (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) |
| Michael Bortin | 1966 | Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. |
| Stephen Suleyman Schwartz | 1966 | Journalist and author. |
| Linda Tillery | 1966 | Singer, percussionist, music arranger, record producer; founder of The Cultural Heritage Choir. |
| Edison Liu | | CEO of The Jackson Laboratory |
| Charles H. Ferguson | 1972 | Software entrepreneur; Writer; Filmmaker. Film Inside Job won 2011 best documentary Academy Award. |
| John Roos | 1973 | Attorney & U.S. Ambassador to Japan. |
| Larry Baer | 1975 | President of the San Francisco Giants MLB team. |
| Stefan Wever | 1976 | Major League Baseball Player for New York Yankees |
| John D. Trasviña | 1976 | President of MALDEF, HUD Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. |
| Gill Byrd | 1978 | Played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, 1983–1992. |
| Eric Allin Cornell | 1980 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. |
| Jennifer Egan | 1980 | Novelist and short story writer. |
| Soji Kashiwagi | 1980 | Playwright, Executive Producer for Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre organization. |
| Naomi Wolf | 1980 | Rhodes Scholar, writer. |
| Benjamin Bratt | 1982 | Movie and TV personality who starred in the television series, Law & Order. |
| Paris | 1985 | Hip-hop artist. |
| Paul Miyamoto | 1985 | Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco |
| Margaret Cho | 1986 | Comedian, briefly attended Lowell before transferring to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. |
| Lisa Bielawa | | Composer and vocalist |
| Daniel Handler | 1988 | Aka Lemony Snicket, bestselling author of a series of children's novels: A Series of Unfortunate Events, and a novel set in a fictional Lowell High School, The Basic Eight. |
| Alex Tse | 1994 | Screenwriter of Sucker Free City (2004) and Watchmen (2009). |
| Raina Telgemeier | 1995 | American cartoonist and author |
| Adrian Lamo | | Computer hacker, key figure in WikiLeaks case, and journalist who attended Lowell along with two other high schools. |
| Katrina Lake | | Founder and former CEO of Stitch Fix. |
| Jamie Chung | 2001 | Reality television personality who gained fame on The Real World: San Diego, and later, an actress known for her work in films such as Sorority Row and The Hangover Part II and in TV series such as Once Upon a Time. |
| Anton Peterlin | 2005 | Soccer player |
| Rita Volk | 2008 | (born Margarita Volkovinskaya) Model and actress. Star of Faking It. |
| Daniela Amodei | 2006 | President and co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. |
| Lolo Zouaï | 2013 | Singer, songwriter, producer & model. |
| Golden Landis von Jones (24kGoldn) | 2018 | Hip hop musician |