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List of Lowell High School (San Francisco) alumni

January 06, 2023

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g . Lowell Alumni Association. 2011. Archived from the original on September 24, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Woo, Elaine. "COLUMN ONE : Caught on the Wrong Side of the Line? : Chinese Americans must outscore all other groups to enter elite Lowell High in San Francisco, sparking an ugly battle over diversity and the image of a 'model minority.'", Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1995. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Lowell has produced a governor (Edmund G. Brown Sr.), scientists and artists (naturalist Dian Fossey, sculptor Alexander Calder), Nobel laureates (physicist Albert Michelson, physiologist Joseph Erlanger) and a United States Supreme Court justice (Stephen G. Breyer)."
  3. ^ Guide to the Albert A. Michelson Papers 1891–1969 2019-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago Library. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson. Two years later the Michelson family left Strelno for Murphys, California where his father opened a dry goods store. Michelson attended Lincoln Grammar School in San Francisco, and graduated from Boys' High School in 1869."
  4. ^ "San Francisco Resolution 212-17", San Francisco Board of Supervisors, October 11, 2019.
  5. ^ Red and White: The Yearbook of Lowell High School; Centennial Edition. San Francisco, CA: Lowell High School Student Association. 1956. p. 68 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Davis, Hallowell. "Joseph Erlanger: 1874–1964, National Academy of Sciences, 1970. Accessed June 12, 2013. "He tells of his early schooling at the San Francisco Boys' High School where he took the three-year 'classical' course."
  7. ^ Lansburgh, Gustave Albert 2009-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia of San Francisco. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Graduating from Boys High School in 1894, Albert enrolled at U. C. Berkeley, the year Julia Morgan graduated."
  8. ^ a b Elliott, Christopher. "Budget Cuts May Silence School's Voice", Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1991. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Famous Lowell newspaper alumni include former Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown Sr., veteran journalist Pierre Salinger and illustrator Rube Goldberg."
  9. ^ Kinnaird, Lawrence. History of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region, Volume 3, p. 376. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1966. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Graduating from Lowell High School at San Francisco, he studied at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated in 1910, with a Bachelor of laws degree."
  10. ^ "Past Directors of the National Park Service", [1], October 11, 2019.
  11. ^ "Mrs. Dahlie Loeb, of Old S.F. Family". San Francisco Examiner. Vol. CCXVII, no. 11 (Final ed.). July 11, 1962. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Lowell Class of '62 reclaims building for reunion". San Francisco Chronicle. May 26, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2013. 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.
  13. ^ Reinhold, Robert. 'Edmund G. Brown Is Dead at 90; He Led California in Boom Years", The New York Times, February 18, 1996. Accessed June 12, 2013. "At Lowell High School, Pat Brown gave ample evidence of what was to come, running for 11 student offices and winning each time."
  14. ^ Glover, Malcolm (November 3, 2000). Larry Rhine, Hollywood comedy Writer from S.F.. The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved January 28, 2022. "Young Rhine the attended Lowell High School before going on to U.C. Berkeley, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1931."
  15. ^ Hearings, Volume 1, United States Congress, 1951.Accessed June 12, 2013. "Mr. Lees: I was in grammar school in San Francisco, Lowell High School, San Francisco."
  16. ^ William Redington Hewlett, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Although the father died suddenly when Bill was twelve, the family rallied. Bill was enrolled in San Francisco's Lowell High School, and life moved on."
  17. ^ Hammar, Peter. Charles P. Ginsburg, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 7 (1994) . Accessed June 12, 2013. "Ginsburg was born in San Francisco and diagnosed with diabetes at the age of four, just two years after insulin was discovered. He lived a normal childhood and graduated from Lowell High School."
  18. ^ Zinko, Carolyne (May 11, 2003). "Carol Channing marries long-time sweetheart" 2013-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. San Francisco Chronicle. Reprinted at Lowell Alumni Association. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  19. ^ Staff. "CAROL CHANNING THE CHARACTERS, NOT THE DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND", The Salt Lake Tribune, March 28, 1993. Accessed June 12, 2013."As student body secretary at San Francisco's Lowell High School, the born entertainer would read the minutes in her own inimitable style."
  20. ^ "MG William G. Joslyn Obituary - The San Diego Union Tribune, January 15, 2012". legacy.com. The San Diego Union Tribune Websites. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  21. ^ Paris, Jay. "Paris: Jerry Coleman never forgot his first sight of Jackie Robinson", U-T San Diego, April 15, 2013. Accessed June 12, 2013. "But Coleman's exposure to Robinson, who was honored by major league baseball on Monday, goes back. Way back, to when Coleman was a senior at San Francisco's Lowell High School."
  22. ^ GENERAL KENNETH MCLENNAN, USMC (DECEASED), United States Marine Corps History Division. Accessed June 12, 2013. "General McLennan was born 31 May 1925, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He graduated from Lowell High School, San Francisco, California, in 1943, and received his B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco in 1948."
  23. ^ 1948 Men's Tennis Singles Champion, San Francisco Dons. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Men's Singles Tennis Champion: Harry Likas – Hometown: San Francisco; High School: Lowell High School"
  24. ^ "In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, Newell and co-recipient Herbert A. Simon made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.".Accessed June 25, 2019.
  25. ^ "Staunch Champion Of US Water Polo, Donald Fisher, Passes Away", USA Water Polo. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Donald George Fisher was born to middle-class parents on Sept. 3, 1928. He attended Lowell High School and UC Berkeley, where he starred on the swimming and water polo teams."
  26. ^ deadfamous.info https://deadfamous.info/ed-mayer-baseball-pitcher-died-at-84. Retrieved January 12, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ^ Bill Bixby biography, Biography Channel. Accessed June 12, 2013. "After graduating from Lowell High School, Bixby attended San Francisco College to pursue a major in acting and then switched to the University of California at Berkeley."
  28. ^ Groves, Martha. "The Man Behind the Woman Who Would Be Governor : Politics: Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, is a shrewd businessman, a friend of the famous, with a 'Lt. Columbo style' and a passion for distance running and Tibetan treks.", Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1990. Accessed June 12, 2013. "A lifelong San Franciscan, Blum was brought up in well-to-do circumstances.... Blum attended San Rafael Military Academy for a year, then went to prestigious Lowell High School."
  29. ^ Stephen Gerald Breyer, The Future of the Court. Accessed June 12, 2013. "He graduated from San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School in 1955 and went on to Stanford University, where he majored in philosophy and received his A.B. in 1959."
  30. ^ Lowell High School – Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA) – Class of 1956. 1956.
  31. ^ "They're Engaging: Lachtman-Corren". The San Francisco Examiner. January 12, 1964. Sec. Reviews, pg. 12.
  32. ^ "Lowell High School Graduates 105". The San Francisco Examiner. January 26, 1959. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  33. ^ Lowell High School year book 1962
  34. ^ Music Roots, Dennis Marcellino. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Because of the changing tastes in popular music in America, in 1962 he switched to saxophone and became a vocalist/front man in his first rock band, The Spotliters, whom he worked with until 1965, when he also got married the month after he graduated from Lowell High School."
  35. ^ "Bay Area's roll call of fame", SFGate.com, June 2, 2009.
  36. ^ Yolandha, Friska. "Stephen Suleyman Schwartz: Dari Komunis Menjadi Muslim (Bag 1)", Republika (Indonesian newspaper), January 18, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Ayahnya berjualan buku dan ibunya adalah pekerja sosial. Keluarganya hijrah ke San Francisco, ketika dirinya masih kecil. Di kota itu, Schwartz menempuh pendidikan pada Lowell High School."
  37. ^ Zane, Maitland (October 24, 1997). "African-American History Provides Melody for Oakland Singer". The San Francisco Chronicle (Final ed.). San Francisco, CA. p. EB 3. Tillery's singing career began at Lowell High....'When I graduated in '66' ....
  38. ^ Terence Abad (Winter 2008). (PDF). Lowell Alumni Association. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  39. ^ John V. Roos, US Ambassador to Japan, Asia Society. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Roos grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School in 1973 before attending college at Stanford University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction in 1977."
  40. ^ SF Giants President and Chief Operating Officer, Laurence M. Baer, San Francisco Giants. Accessed June 12, 2013. "The San Francisco Lowell High School graduate was the driving force behind every phase of the ballpark project..."
  41. ^ "Giants President and CEO Larry Baer to deliver SF State Commencement keynote", San Francisco State University, April 2, 2013. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Baer attended nearby San Francisco Lowell High School, and said that SF State continues to be the influential community partner that he remembers from his youth in the public schools."
  42. ^ Lowell Alumni Southern California Luncheon 4/9/05 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved May 23, 2009).
  43. ^ Nightengale, Bob. "HE COMES TO PRAY : Gill Byrd Wishes Teammates Would Understand Why God, Not Football, Comes First", Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1989. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Byrd's skin darkens with embarrassment as he recall his days at Lowell High School in San Francisco."
  44. ^ Eric A. Cornell Autobiography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. I spent my last year of high school there, at Lowell High School. Lowell High was a so-called 'magnet school,' drawing academically inclined students from all over the city."
  45. ^ Ciabattari, Jane. "The Book on Aging Rockers", The Daily Beast, June 29, 2010. Accessed June 12, 2013. "After her parents were divorced and her mother remarried, she moved to San Francisco, where she attended Lowell High School and considered herself an 'unexceptional' student."
  46. ^ Kashiwagi, Soji. "Nihonmachi: The Place to Be ", Discover Nikkei, March 14, 2007. Accessed June 12, 2013. "I attended Lowell High and San Francisco State University, but after school and on weekends the place to be for me was Nihonmachi."
  47. ^ Barrios, Gregg. "The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Actor in Hollywood", Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1988. Accessed June 12, 2013. "But by the time he was attending San Francisco's Lowell High School, he'd become homogenized."
  48. ^ Byrne, Peter. "Capital RapFrom revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.", SF Weekly, December 3, 2003. Accessed June 12, 2013. "The son of a medical doctor, Oscar Jackson Jr. grew up in the Haight and Western Addition neighborhoods of San Francisco.... He was, he says, an unremarkable student at Lowell High School, preferring to spend his time recording music with his DJ pal, 'Mad Mike' Hornsby."
  49. ^ Staff. "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE MARGARET CHO BUSINESS", The Sacramento Bee, August 18, 1995. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Her performing career began shortly thereafter – when she was expelled from San Francisco's Lowell High School and enrolled in the city's High School of the Performing Arts."
  50. ^ Benfer, Amy. "The mysterious Mr. Snicket. He's been compared to Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl, but to know the true identity of the author behind the bestselling children's series, you must read this story.", Salon, August 17, 2000. Accessed June 12, 2013." The mysterious Mr. Snicket. He's been compared to Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl, but to know the true identity of the author behind the bestselling children's series, you must read this story."
  51. ^ Wang, Oliver. "The Storyteller: An Interview with Alex Tse" 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, UCLA Asia Institute, July 17, 2009. Accessed June 12, 2013. "APA: You grew up in San Francisco, you attended Lowell High School, you came from an upwardly mobile family -- under other circumstances, you probably could have groomed yourself for business or law or science, etc. When did you realize you had a real drive to do something creative as a career?"
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  57. ^ Kawanami, Tobi. "HIDDEN GEMS OF LOWELL: Rapper Golden Landis Von Jones". The Lowell. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  58. ^ Pilkington, Ed "Adrian Lamo on Bradley Manning: 'I knew my actions might cost him his life'" "The Guardian", January 03, 2013. Accessed September 02, 2016. "More than two years after (WikiLeaks source) Chelsea Manning's arrest, the man who gave him up talks to Ed Pilkington about how he made the decision."
  59. ^ Kirby, Carrie. "Alleged hacker grounded at home / Accused of breaking into N.Y. Times' system, he faces his fate with Zen serenity", San Francisco Chronicle, September 22, 2003. Accessed June 13, 2013. "Lamo attended three San Francisco high schools -- Lowell, the International Studies Academy and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School – but instead of graduating, he passed the California High School Proficiency Exam. "
  60. ^ "Frank Kudelka NBA statistics". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  61. ^ Wildermuth, John. "William Coblentz dies; lawyer, UC ex-regent", San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 2010. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Mr. Coblentz was born in San Francisco on July 28, 1922, the son of a prominent obstetrician. He went to Lowell High School, received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his law degree from Yale in 1947."
  62. ^ a b Gerebren, Janos. "SF Girls Chorus brings 'Tidings of Great Joy'" San Francisco Examiner, December 17, 2010. Accessed 12 October 2013. " Herbert Bielawa and his daughter, Rome-Prize winner Lisa Bielawa (Lowell High School and SFGC alumna) have contributed to the chorus repertory."
  63. ^ "Meet Lolo Zouaï, the Rising-Star Musician With Kawaii-Cool Style". Vogue.com. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  64. ^ "Sanders, Lorraine. A new shopping 'fix' - themed packages of products". sfgate.com. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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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 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 amp 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 Joseph Erlanger 1892 Physician Professor Washington University in St Louis Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945 2 6 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 7 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 8 Walter A Haas 1905 Board Chairman Levi Strauss amp Co and namesake of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley 9 Newton B Drury 1908 Fourth Director of the National Park Service 10 Alexander Calder 1915 Renowned artist and inventor of the mobile 2 Gerald M Loeb Founding partner of E F Hutton amp Co 11 Cyril Magnin 1918 Chief Executive of the Joseph Magnin Co 12 Edmund G Pat Brown Sr 1923 District Attorney of San Francisco State Attorney General Governor of California 1959 1967 12 13 Larry Rhine 1927 American producer and screenwriter 14 Robert Lees 1929 Film and television writer 15 William Hewlett 1930 Inventor businessman philanthropist Co founder Hewlett Packard Company William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 12 16 Charles Ginsburg 1936 Developed first commercially viable Video Tape Recorder at Ampex 17 Stafford Repp 1936 Actor Batman television series 12 Carol Channing 1938 Tony Award winning singer actress and comedian 18 19 Richard Diebenkorn 1939 20th century painter 12 William G Joslyn 1940 Marine Corps Major general also drafted by Washington Redskins in 1944 20 Pierre Salinger 1941 Press secretary to US President John F Kennedy later United States Senator from California 12 8 Art Hoppe 1942 Popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years 12 Jerry Coleman 1942 Decorated Marine aviator New York Yankee Hall of Fame announcer 21 Kenneth McLennan 1943 Marine Corps four star general Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps 22 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 23 Allen Newell 1945 Pioneer in artificial intelligence the psychology of human cognition and list processing 24 Donald Fisher 1946 Founder and Board Chairman of The GAP 12 25 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 26 Warren Hellman 1951 Private equity investor and co founder of Hellman amp Friedman 12 Bill Bixby 1952 Movie and TV actor The Incredible Hulk My Favorite Martian The Courtship of Eddie s Father and film director 27 Richard C Blum 1953 Husband of Dianne Feinstein Chairman and President of Blum Capital Regent of the University of California 12 28 Stephen Breyer 1955 Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 12 29 William Ware Theiss 1948 Academy Award nominated Costume Designer for movies and TV including Star Trek 30 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 12 Howard Lachtman 1959 American literary critic 31 32 Susie Tompkins Buell 1960 Entrepreneur and liberal political donor associated with the Democracy Alliance 12 Julia Chang Bloch 1960 U S Ambassador to Nepal Steve Silver 1962 Creator of Beach Blanket Babylon 12 Eric Albronda 1963 Founding member of the band Blue Cheer often considered to be the first heavy metal band 33 Richard Levin 1964 President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013 1 Dennis Marcellino 1965 Member of Sly amp The Family Stone The Elvin Bishop Group Rubicon and The Tokens The Lion Sleeps Tonight 34 Michael Bortin 1966 Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army 35 Stephen Suleyman Schwartz 1966 Journalist and author 36 Linda Tillery 1966 Singer percussionist music arranger record producer founder of The Cultural Heritage Choir 37 Charles H Ferguson 1972 Software entrepreneur Writer Filmmaker Film Inside Job won 2011 best documentary Academy Award 38 John Roos 1973 Attorney amp U S Ambassador to Japan 39 Larry Baer 1975 President of the San Francisco Giants MLB team 40 41 Stefan Wever 1976 Major League Baseball Player for New York YankeesJohn D Trasvina 1976 President of MALDEF HUD Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity 42 Gill Byrd 1978 Played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers 1983 1992 43 Eric Allin Cornell 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 44 Jennifer Egan 1980 Novelist and short story writer 45 Soji Kashiwagi 1980 Playwright Executive Producer for Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre organization 46 Naomi Wolf 1980 Rhodes Scholar writer 1 Benjamin Bratt 1982 Movie and TV personality who starred in the television series Law amp Order 47 Paris 1985 Hip hop artist 48 Margaret Cho 1986 Comedian briefly attended Lowell before transferring to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts 49 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 50 Alex Tse 1994 Screenwriter of Sucker Free City 2004 and Watchmen 2009 51 Raina Telgemeier 1995 American cartoonist and author 52 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 53 Anton Peterlin 2005 Soccer player 54 55 Rita Volk 2008 born Margarita Volkovinskaya Model and actress Star of Faking It 56 Golden Landis von Jones 24kGoldn 2018 Hip hop musician 57 Adrian Lamo Computer hacker key figure in WikiLeaks case and journalist who attended Lowell along with two other high schools 58 59 Frank Kudelka NBA player 60 John L Heilbron Historian of science 1 William Coblentz California power broker Lawyer UC Regent 61 Lisa Bielawa Composer and vocalist 62 Lolo Zouai 2013 Singer songwriter producer amp model 63 Edison Liu CEO of The Jackson Laboratory 62 Katrina Lake CEO of Stitch Fix 64 John F Madden 1890 U S Army brigadier general 65 66 References Edit a b c d e f g Famous Lowell Graduates Lowell Alumni Association 2011 Archived from the original on September 24 2014 Retrieved January 23 2017 a b c d Woo Elaine COLUMN ONE Caught on the Wrong Side of the Line Chinese Americans must outscore all other groups to enter elite Lowell High in San Francisco sparking an ugly battle over diversity and the image of a model minority Los Angeles Times July 13 1995 Accessed June 12 2013 Lowell has produced a governor Edmund G Brown Sr scientists and artists naturalist Dian Fossey sculptor Alexander Calder Nobel laureates physicist Albert Michelson physiologist Joseph Erlanger and a United States Supreme Court justice Stephen G Breyer Guide to the Albert A Michelson Papers 1891 1969 Archived 2019 09 07 at the Wayback Machine University of Chicago Library Accessed June 12 2013 Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19 1852 in Strelno Poland then a part of Prussia to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson Two years later the Michelson family left Strelno for Murphys California where his father opened a dry goods store Michelson attended Lincoln Grammar School in San Francisco and graduated from Boys High School in 1869 San Francisco Resolution 212 17 San Francisco Board of Supervisors October 11 2019 Red and White The Yearbook of Lowell High School Centennial Edition San Francisco CA Lowell High School Student Association 1956 p 68 via Google Books Davis Hallowell Joseph Erlanger 1874 1964 National Academy of Sciences 1970 Accessed June 12 2013 He tells of his early schooling at the San Francisco Boys High School where he took the three year classical course Lansburgh Gustave Albert Archived 2009 07 19 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of San Francisco Accessed June 12 2013 Graduating from Boys High School in 1894 Albert enrolled at U C Berkeley the year Julia Morgan graduated a b Elliott Christopher Budget Cuts May Silence School s Voice Los Angeles Times April 30 1991 Accessed June 12 2013 Famous Lowell newspaper alumni include former Gov Edmund G Pat Brown Sr veteran journalist Pierre Salinger and illustrator Rube Goldberg Kinnaird Lawrence History of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region Volume 3 p 376 Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1966 Accessed June 12 2013 Graduating from Lowell High School at San Francisco he studied at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1910 with a Bachelor of laws degree Past Directors of the National Park Service 1 October 11 2019 Mrs Dahlie Loeb of Old S F Family San Francisco Examiner Vol CCXVII no 11 Final ed July 11 1962 p 57 via Newspapers com a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Lowell Class of 62 reclaims building for reunion San Francisco Chronicle May 26 2012 Retrieved June 12 2013 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 Reinhold Robert Edmund G Brown Is Dead at 90 He Led California in Boom Years The New York Times February 18 1996 Accessed June 12 2013 At Lowell High School Pat Brown gave ample evidence of what was to come running for 11 student offices and winning each time Glover Malcolm November 3 2000 Larry Rhine Hollywood comedy Writer from S F The San Francisco Examiner Retrieved January 28 2022 Young Rhine the attended Lowell High School before going on to U C Berkeley where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1931 Hearings Volume 1 United States Congress 1951 Accessed June 12 2013 Mr Lees I was in grammar school in San Francisco Lowell High School San Francisco William Redington Hewlett William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Accessed June 12 2013 Although the father died suddenly when Bill was twelve the family rallied Bill was enrolled in San Francisco s Lowell High School and life moved on Hammar Peter Charles P Ginsburg Memorial Tributes National Academy of Engineering Volume 7 1994 Accessed June 12 2013 Ginsburg was born in San Francisco and diagnosed with diabetes at the age of four just two years after insulin was discovered He lived a normal childhood and graduated from Lowell High School Zinko Carolyne May 11 2003 Carol Channing marries long time sweetheart Archived 2013 06 14 at the Wayback Machine San Francisco Chronicle Reprinted at Lowell Alumni Association Retrieved June 10 2013 Staff CAROL CHANNING THE CHARACTERS NOT THE DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL S BEST FRIEND The Salt Lake Tribune March 28 1993 Accessed June 12 2013 As student body secretary at San Francisco s Lowell High School the born entertainer would read the minutes in her own inimitable style MG William G Joslyn Obituary The San Diego Union Tribune January 15 2012 legacy com The San Diego Union Tribune Websites Retrieved 24 March 2018 Paris Jay Paris Jerry Coleman never forgot his first sight of Jackie Robinson U T San Diego April 15 2013 Accessed June 12 2013 But Coleman s exposure to Robinson who was honored by major league baseball on Monday goes back Way back to when Coleman was a senior at San Francisco s Lowell High School GENERAL KENNETH MCLENNAN USMC DECEASED United States Marine Corps History Division Accessed June 12 2013 General McLennan was born 31 May 1925 in Vancouver B C Canada He graduated from Lowell High School San Francisco California in 1943 and received his B S degree in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco in 1948 1948 Men s Tennis Singles Champion San Francisco Dons Accessed June 12 2013 Men s Singles Tennis Champion Harry Likas Hometown San Francisco High School Lowell High School In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years initially in collaboration with J C Shaw at the RAND Corporation and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University Newell and co recipient Herbert A Simon made basic contributions to artificial intelligence the psychology of human cognition and list processing Accessed June 25 2019 Staunch Champion Of US Water Polo Donald Fisher Passes Away USA Water Polo Accessed June 12 2013 Donald George Fisher was born to middle class parents on Sept 3 1928 He attended Lowell High School and UC Berkeley where he starred on the swimming and water polo teams deadfamous info https deadfamous info ed mayer baseball pitcher died at 84 Retrieved January 12 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Bill Bixby biography Biography Channel Accessed June 12 2013 After graduating from Lowell High School Bixby attended San Francisco College to pursue a major in acting and then switched to the University of California at Berkeley Groves Martha The Man Behind the Woman Who Would Be Governor Politics Dianne Feinstein s husband Richard Blum is a shrewd businessman a friend of the famous with a Lt Columbo style and a passion for distance running and Tibetan treks Los Angeles Times May 27 1990 Accessed June 12 2013 A lifelong San Franciscan Blum was brought up in well to do circumstances Blum attended San Rafael Military Academy for a year then went to prestigious Lowell High School Stephen Gerald Breyer The Future of the Court Accessed June 12 2013 He graduated from San Francisco s prestigious Lowell High School in 1955 and went on to Stanford University where he majored in philosophy and received his A B in 1959 Lowell High School Red and White Yearbook San Francisco CA Class of 1956 1956 They re Engaging Lachtman Corren The San Francisco Examiner January 12 1964 Sec Reviews pg 12 Lowell High School Graduates 105 The San Francisco Examiner January 26 1959 Retrieved January 28 2022 Lowell High School year book 1962 Music Roots Dennis Marcellino Accessed June 12 2013 Because of the changing tastes in popular music in America in 1962 he switched to saxophone and became a vocalist front man in his first rock band The Spotliters whom he worked with until 1965 when he also got married the month after he graduated from Lowell High School Bay Area s roll call of fame SFGate com June 2 2009 Yolandha Friska Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Dari Komunis Menjadi Muslim Bag 1 Republika Indonesian newspaper January 18 2012 Accessed June 12 2013 Ayahnya berjualan buku dan ibunya adalah pekerja sosial Keluarganya hijrah ke San Francisco ketika dirinya masih kecil Di kota itu Schwartz menempuh pendidikan pada Lowell High School Zane Maitland October 24 1997 African American History Provides Melody for Oakland Singer The San Francisco Chronicle Final ed San Francisco CA p EB 3 Tillery s singing career began at Lowell High When I graduated in 66 Terence Abad Winter 2008 Caught in the Headlines PDF Lowell Alumni Association p 2 Archived from the original PDF on 2011 07 19 Retrieved 2011 04 13 John V Roos US Ambassador to Japan Asia Society Accessed June 12 2013 Roos grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School in 1973 before attending college at Stanford University from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction in 1977 SF Giants President and Chief Operating Officer Laurence M Baer San Francisco Giants Accessed June 12 2013 The San Francisco Lowell High School graduate was the driving force behind every phase of the ballpark project Giants President and CEO Larry Baer to deliver SF State Commencement keynote San Francisco State University April 2 2013 Accessed June 12 2013 Baer attended nearby San Francisco Lowell High School and said that SF State continues to be the influential community partner that he remembers from his youth in the public schools Lowell Alumni Southern California Luncheon 4 9 05 Archived 2007 10 30 at the Wayback Machine retrieved May 23 2009 Nightengale Bob HE COMES TO PRAY Gill Byrd Wishes Teammates Would Understand Why God Not Football Comes First Los Angeles Times September 8 1989 Accessed June 12 2013 Byrd s skin darkens with embarrassment as he recall his days at Lowell High School in San Francisco Eric A Cornell Autobiography Nobel Prize Accessed June 12 2013 Just before my final year of high school my brother sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco I spent my last year of high school there at Lowell High School Lowell High was a so called magnet school drawing academically inclined students from all over the city Ciabattari Jane The Book on Aging Rockers The Daily Beast June 29 2010 Accessed June 12 2013 After her parents were divorced and her mother remarried she moved to San Francisco where she attended Lowell High School and considered herself an unexceptional student Kashiwagi Soji Nihonmachi The Place to Be Discover Nikkei March 14 2007 Accessed June 12 2013 I attended Lowell High and San Francisco State University but after school and on weekends the place to be for me was Nihonmachi Barrios Gregg The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Actor in Hollywood Los Angeles Times March 27 1988 Accessed June 12 2013 But by the time he was attending San Francisco s Lowell High School he d become homogenized Byrne Peter Capital RapFrom revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again the long strange trip of Paris aka Oscar Jackson Jr SF Weekly December 3 2003 Accessed June 12 2013 The son of a medical doctor Oscar Jackson Jr grew up in the Haight and Western Addition neighborhoods of San Francisco He was he says an unremarkable student at Lowell High School preferring to spend his time recording music with his DJ pal Mad Mike Hornsby Staff THERE S NO BUSINESS LIKE MARGARET CHO BUSINESS The Sacramento Bee August 18 1995 Accessed June 12 2013 Her performing career began shortly thereafter when she was expelled from San Francisco s Lowell High School and enrolled in the city s High School of the Performing Arts Benfer Amy The mysterious Mr Snicket He s been compared to Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl but to know the true identity of the author behind the bestselling children s series you must read this story Salon August 17 2000 Accessed June 12 2013 The mysterious Mr Snicket He s been compared to Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl but to know the true identity of the author behind the bestselling children s series you must read this story Wang Oliver The Storyteller An Interview with Alex Tse Archived 2011 05 26 at the Wayback Machine UCLA Asia Institute July 17 2009 Accessed June 12 2013 APA You grew up in San Francisco you attended Lowell High School you came from an upwardly mobile family under other circumstances you probably could have groomed yourself for business or law or science etc When did you realize you had a real drive to do something creative as a career https www facebook com Lowell High School Class of 1995 20 Year Reunion 1399626483634863 user generated source Fred Topel Sorority Row Remake Scares its own Star Archived 2009 04 05 at the Wayback Machine SciFi Wire April 3 2009 Boys Soccer All City 2004 2005 Archived 2009 12 11 at the Wayback Machine CIF San Francisco Section Academic Athletic Association Accessed June 12 2013 CIF SF San Francisco Sports Information Boys Soccer All City 2003 2004 Archived 2009 12 11 at the Wayback Machine CIF San Francisco Section Academic Athletic Association Accessed June 12 2013 MTV Biography Kawanami Tobi HIDDEN GEMS OF LOWELL Rapper Golden Landis Von Jones The Lowell Retrieved 2020 08 14 Pilkington Ed Adrian Lamo on Bradley Manning I knew my actions might cost him his life The Guardian January 03 2013 Accessed September 02 2016 More than two years after WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning s arrest the man who gave him up talks to Ed Pilkington about how he made the decision Kirby Carrie Alleged hacker grounded at home Accused of breaking into N Y Times system he faces his fate with Zen serenity San Francisco Chronicle September 22 2003 Accessed June 13 2013 Lamo attended three San Francisco high schools Lowell the International Studies Academy and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School but instead of graduating he passed the California High School Proficiency Exam Frank Kudelka NBA statistics basketball reference com Retrieved 10 August 2012 Wildermuth John William Coblentz dies lawyer UC ex regent San Francisco Chronicle September 14 2010 Accessed June 12 2013 Mr Coblentz was born in San Francisco on July 28 1922 the son of a prominent obstetrician He went to Lowell High School received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his law degree from Yale in 1947 a b Gerebren Janos SF Girls Chorus brings Tidings of Great Joy San Francisco Examiner December 17 2010 Accessed 12 October 2013 Herbert Bielawa and his daughter Rome Prize winner Lisa Bielawa Lowell High School and SFGC alumna have contributed to the chorus repertory Meet Lolo Zouai the Rising Star Musician With Kawaii Cool Style Vogue com 1 April 2020 Retrieved 3 May 2022 Sanders Lorraine A new shopping fix themed packages of products sfgate com 19 February 2012 Retrieved 18 July 2018 Who s Who In New York City And State Vol 11 New York NY L R Hamersly amp Co 1947 p 666 via Google Books Regents of the University of California 1891 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