# List of people from Santa Rosa, California

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Santa Rosa, California, United States.

## Artists, designers, and cartoonists

* Linda Geary (born 1960), painter, educator
* Jean Halpert–Ryden (1919–2011), painter, printmaker
* Stephan Pastis, cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine
* Peter Schifrin (born 1958), Olympic fencer and sculptor
* Charles M. Schulz, creator and cartoonist of Peanuts
* Nancy Speir, children's book illustrator

## Entertainers, actors, musicians

* Francis Boggs, actor, writer, and early movie director
* Warren Boyd, television producer, drug counselor
* Chad Channing, drummer for Nirvana
* Eftekhar Dadehbala, Iranian singer, known by her stage name "Mahasti", deceased
* Rebecca De Mornay, film and television actress
* Chris Hayes, musician, member of Huey Lewis and the News
* Dan Hicks, singer and songwriter
* Julian Lage, guitarist and composer
* Julie London, singer and actress
* Kevin Kwan Loucks, concert pianist and arts entrepreneur
* Ray Luv, rapper, native of the South Park and West 9th districts
* Jon Provost, film and television actor
* Jade Puget, guitarist for the band AFI
* Robert Quarry, film and stage actor
* Pete Rugolo, musician
* Jussie Smollett, actor and singer
* Stephanie St. James, actress, singer, and disease advocate
* Natalie Wood, film actress; lived in Santa Rosa as a child

## Sports

* Scott Alexander, MLB player
* Luis Arriaga, soccer player
* Kim Conley, professional distance runner, two-time Olympian in the 5,000m
* Gabe Cramer, baseball pitcher
* Maya DiRado, Olympic swimmer
* Jonathan González, Mexican soccer player
* Sara Hall, American middle distance runner
* Brandon Hyde, manager of the Baltimore Orioles
* Jenna Johnson, Olympic swimmer
* Levi Leipheimer, cyclist and three-time winner of the Tour of California
* Koa Misi, football linebacker
* McKenzie Moore (born 1992), player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Alfonso Motagalvan, soccer player
* Brandon Morrow, Major League Baseball pitcher
* Ernie Nevers, football star
* Tony Renda, baseball player
* David Terrell, fighter
* Stephen Tomasin, plays for United States national rugby sevens team
* Tony Trujillo, skateboarder

## Writers, journalists

* Jacob Appelbaum, journalist, computer security researcher and hacker
* Shirlee Busbee, writer
* Robert X. Cringely, technology journalist
* Garen Drussai, science fiction writer
* Paul Gilger, author of the musical Showtune
* Richard Heinberg, ecological journalist
* Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer and author of Dune
* Robert L. Ripley, creator and columnist of Ripley's Believe It or Not
* Jim Ross, professional wrestling commentator and executive
* Greg Sarris, author, film producer and screenwriter, professor
* Albino Brown, ska music writer, historian, producer, and director

## Others

* Madeline Bunch, businesswoman
* Luther Burbank, horticulturalist
* Efren Carrillo, member of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
* María Ygnacia López de Carrillo, original grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa
* Brett Crozier, Commander of the Theodore Roosevelt
* William Mark Felt, FBI agent and associate director, Watergate informant known as "Deep Throat"
* Guy Fieri, celebrity chef
* Mendy Fry, drag racer
* Thomas Lake Harris, mystic and prophet
* Edward J. Livernash, journalist and Congressman
* Joseph and William Hunt, founders of Hunt's foods
* Vicky Nguyen, television reporter
* Michael Robinson, rabbi and activist for civil/human rights