List of people from Bolinas, California

Bolinas, California is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California with a reputation as an art colony. This list includes any notable people known to have resided in Bolinas.


 * Donald Allen, editor, publisher
 * Dawn-Michelle Baude, poet
 * Bill Berkson, poet
 * Ted Berrigan, poet
 * Peg Bracken, author
 * Joe Brainard, artist and writer
 * Richard Brautigan, writer
 * Gail Carriger, writer
 * Jim Carroll, author, poet, rock musician
 * C. West Churchman, philosopher
 * Suzanne Ciani, electronic music pioneer
 * Tom Clark, poet, biographer
 * Joel Coen, one of the Coen Brothers, screenwriter, film director
 * Signy Coleman, actress
 * Clark Coolidge, poet
 * Robert Creeley, poet, author
 * Stephen Emerson, author
 * Paulette Frankl, artist, photographer, biographer
 * Robert Grenier, poet
 * Paul Harris, sculptor and lithographer
 * Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet
 * Stephan Jenkins, singer, songwriter, Third Eye Blind frontman
 * Paul Kantner, rhythm guitarist, rock vocalist, songwriter
 * Harmony Korine, film director, producer, screenwriter
 * Joanne Kyger, poet with ties to the Beat generation
 * Anne Lamott, nonfiction author
 * Kenneth Lamott, writer
 * Annie Leibovitz, photographer
 * Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter
 * Lewis MacAdams, poet, author
 * Jerry Mander, activist, author
 * Paul McCandless, master oboist, reed player, co-founded Oregon, world class musician
 * Frances McDormand, actress
 * Barry McGee, artist
 * Duncan McNaughton, poet
 * David Meltzer, poet
 * Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor, sound mixer
 * Bill Niman, founder with Orville Schell of Niman Ranch Meats
 * Alice Notley, poet
 * Arthur Okamura, painter and silk screen artist
 * Guy Overfelt, conceptual artist
 * Gladys Kathleen Parkin, wireless radio operator
 * Ponponio Lupugeyun, Coast Miwok, born c. 1799 to the Guaulen local tribe area of present-day Bolinas; insurgent
 * Bill Rafferty, television personality
 * Stephen Ratcliffe, poet
 * Charles A. Reich, professor of law at Yale University, author
 * Aram Saroyan, poet, novelist, playwright
 * Strawberry Saroyan, journalist and author
 * Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
 * Tony Serra, radical civil rights attorney, tax resister
 * Grace Slick, rock singer, songwriter
 * Sean Thackrey, winemaker
 * Susie Tompkins Buell, founder of Esprit
 * Lewis Warsh, writer and artist
 * Peter Warshall, ecologist, member of the board of directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District
 * Philip Whalen, poet
 * Michael Wolfe, poet, author, publisher, documentary film producer