Famous Citizens:

Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. One of America’s most popular and beloved poets, Frost wrote of the people and landscape of New England. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. Frost died in 1963.

 

 

William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) was an American journalist and publisher. Born in San Francisco, he created a publishing empire that, at its peak, included 28 major newspapers and 18 successful magazines. Hearst hired only the very best American journalists. Writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane and Jack London wrote for him. Hearst also served as a congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903-1907.

 

 

Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States (1969-74) was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. During his presidency he succeeded in ending the fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the USSR and China. However, his involvement in the Watergate scandal led to his resignation in 1974.

 

 

Sally Ride
Sally K. Ride, American astrophysicist and astronaut, was born in Encino, California in 1951. After earning a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, she became a NASA astronaut and helped design the robot arm for the space shuttle. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman in space.

 

 

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. One of America’s most respected authors, Steinbeck based his stories on personal observations of the human condition. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.