Notable alumni of Lowell High School, San Francisco, have been cataloged by the Lowell High Alumni Association. [1] Alumni include:
Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
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Albert Abraham Michelson | 1868 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. First American Nobel laureate in a scientific field. | [1] [2] [3] |
Charles Lee Tilden | 1874 | Attorney & businessman, namesake of Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. | [1] |
Stephen Mather | 1883 | First Director of the National Park Service. | [4] |
William Renwick Smedberg Jr. | 1888 | U.S. Army brigadier general. | [5] |
John F. Madden | 1890 | U.S. Army brigadier general. | [6] [7] |
Joseph Erlanger | 1892 | Physician; Professor, Washington University in St. Louis. Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945. | [2] [8] |
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. | [9] |
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld | 1894 | Well-known legal theorist and law professor at Yale and Stanford. | |
Rube Goldberg | 1900 | Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of "Rube Goldberg" machines. | [10] |
Walter A. Haas | 1905 | Board Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. | [11] |
Newton B. Drury | 1908 | Fourth Director of the National Park Service. | [12] |
Alexander Calder | 1915 | Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile. | [2] |
Gerald M. Loeb | Founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co. | [13] | |
Cyril Magnin | 1918 | Chief Executive of the Joseph Magnin Co. | [14] |
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Sr. | 1923 | District Attorney of San Francisco; State Attorney General; Governor of California, 1959–1967. | [14] [15] |
Larry Rhine | 1927 | American producer and screenwriter. | [16] |
Robert Lees | 1929 | Film and television writer. | [17] |
William Hewlett | 1930 | Inventor, businessman, philanthropist. Co-founder, Hewlett-Packard Company; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. | [14] [18] |
Alex Eagle | NFL player | [19] | |
Charles Ginsburg | 1936 | Developed first commercially viable Video Tape Recorder at Ampex. | [20] |
Stafford Repp | 1936 | Actor, Batman television series. | [14] |
Carol Channing | 1938 | Tony Award-winning singer, actress and comedian. | [21] [22] |
Richard Diebenkorn | 1939 | 20th century painter. | [14] |
William G. Joslyn | 1940 | Marine Corps Major general, also drafted by Washington Redskins in 1944. | [23] |
William Coblentz | California power broker, Lawyer, UC Regent | [24] | |
Pierre Salinger | 1941 | Press secretary to US President John F. Kennedy; later, United States Senator from California. | [14] [10] |
Art Hoppe | 1942 | Popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years. | [14] |
Jerry Coleman | 1942 | Decorated Marine aviator, New York Yankee, Hall of Fame announcer | [25] |
Kenneth McLennan | 1943 | Marine Corps four-star general, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. | [26] |
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. | [27] |
Frank Kudelka | NBA player | [28] | |
Allen Newell | 1945 | Pioneer in artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. | [29] |
Donald Fisher | 1946 | Founder and Board Chairman of The GAP. | [14] [30] |
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. | [2] |
Ed Mayer | 1950 | Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs. | [31] |
Warren Hellman | 1951 | Private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman. | [14] |
Bill Bixby | 1952 | Movie and TV actor: The Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and film director. | [32] |
John L. Heilbron | Historian of science. | [1] | |
Richard C. Blum | 1953 | Husband of Dianne Feinstein. Chairman and President of Blum Capital. Regent of the University of California. | [14] [33] |
Stephen Breyer | 1955 | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. | [14] [34] |
William Ware Theiss | 1948 | Academy Award nominated Costume Designer for movies and TV, including Star Trek. | [35] |
Tom Meschery | 1957 | Played in the NBA for the Warriors and SuperSonics, 1961–1971. | [1] |
Charles R. Breyer | 1959 | Senior United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. | [14] |
Howard Lachtman | 1959 | American literary critic. | [36] [37] |
Susie Tompkins Buell | 1960 | Entrepreneur and liberal political donor associated with the Democracy Alliance. | [14] |
Julia Chang Bloch | 1960 | U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. | |
Steve Silver | 1962 | Creator of Beach Blanket Babylon. | [14] |
Eric Albronda | 1963 | Founding member of the band Blue Cheer, often considered to be the first heavy metal band | [38] |
Richard Levin | 1964 | President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013. | [1] |
Dennis Marcellino | 1965 | Member of Sly & The Family Stone, The Elvin Bishop Group, Rubicon, and The Tokens ( The Lion Sleeps Tonight) | [39] |
Michael Bortin | 1966 | Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. | [40] |
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz | 1966 | Journalist and author. | [41] |
Linda Tillery | 1966 | Singer, percussionist, music arranger, record producer; founder of The Cultural Heritage Choir. | [42] |
Edison Liu | CEO of The Jackson Laboratory | [43] | |
Charles H. Ferguson | 1972 | Software entrepreneur; Writer; Filmmaker. Film Inside Job won 2011 best documentary Academy Award. | [44] |
John Roos | 1973 | Attorney & U.S. Ambassador to Japan. | [45] |
Larry Baer | 1975 | President of the San Francisco Giants MLB team. | [46] [47] |
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. | [48] |
Gill Byrd | 1978 | Played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, 1983–1992. | [49] |
Eric Allin Cornell | 1980 | Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. | [50] |
Jennifer Egan | 1980 | Novelist and short story writer. | [51] |
Soji Kashiwagi | 1980 | Playwright, Executive Producer for Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre organization. | [52] |
Naomi Wolf | 1980 | Rhodes Scholar, writer. | [1] |
Benjamin Bratt | 1982 | Movie and TV personality who starred in the television series, Law & Order. | [53] |
Paris | 1985 | Hip-hop artist. | [54] |
Margaret Cho | 1986 | Comedian, briefly attended Lowell before transferring to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. | [55] |
Lisa Bielawa | Composer and vocalist | [43] | |
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. | [56] |
Alex Tse | 1994 | Screenwriter of Sucker Free City (2004) and Watchmen (2009). | [57] |
Raina Telgemeier | 1995 | American cartoonist and author | [58] |
Adrian Lamo | Computer hacker, key figure in WikiLeaks case, and journalist who attended Lowell along with two other high schools. | [59] [60] | |
Katrina Lake | CEO of Stitch Fix. | [61] | |
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. | [62] |
Anton Peterlin | 2005 | Soccer player | [63] [64] |
Rita Volk | 2008 | (born Margarita Volkovinskaya) Model and actress. Star of Faking It. [65] | |
Lolo Zouaï | 2013 | Singer, songwriter, producer & model. | [66] |
Golden Landis von Jones (24kGoldn) | 2018 | Hip hop musician | [67] |
Graduates who became well-known politicians, judges, artists, clothiers, financiers, philanthropists and cultural fixtures were Cyril Magnin, Class of 1918, Edmund (Pat) Brown, '23, William Hewlett, '30, Carol Channing, '38 Richard Diebenkorn, '39, Pierre Salinger, '41, Art Hoppe, '42, Don Fisher, '46, Warren Hellman, '51, Richard Blum, '53, Stephen Breyer, '55, Charles Breyer, '59, Mark Buell and Susie Tompkins, both '60, and Sydney Goldstein, '62.
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