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Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline. This is a list of notable people from San Francisco, California.It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in San Francisco, or for whom San Francisco is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in San Francisco.
Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population: 149,473. [17] 1871 – San Francisco Art Association and St. Luke's Hospital [14] [25] established. 1872 – Bohemian Club and Bar Association of San Francisco founded. [8] 1873 Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating. Polish Society of California ...
The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972. Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Rueff's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution. Carlsson, Chris; Elliott, LisaRuth (2011). Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978.
World War II enlistment commences in the Bay Area (San Francisco recruiting office pictured) A two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Matthew Turner's Benicia shipyard, arrives in San Francisco under the French flag; The Xerces blue butterfly is last observed in San Francisco either this year, or in 1943
San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, and the 17th most populous in the US.
The mayor of San Francisco is elected every four years; until 2019 elections took place one year before United States presidential elections on election day in November. Candidates must live and be registered to vote in San Francisco at the time of the election. The mayor is usually sworn in on the January 8 following the election.
Pages in category "History of San Francisco" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 265 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of events in the history of the San Francisco Police Department; List of people associated with San Francisco; List of San Francisco Ballet at 75 productions; List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines; List of theatres in San Francisco; List of diplomatic missions in San Francisco; List of San Francisco Giants first-round draft picks