List of people from Santa Rosa, California

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Santa Rosa, California, United States.

Artists, designers, and cartoonists

 * Linda Geary (born 1960), painter, educator
 * Jean Halpert–Ryden (1919–2011), painter, printmaker
 * Stephan Pastis, cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine
 * Peter Schifrin (born 1958), Olympic fencer and sculptor
 * Charles M. Schulz, creator and cartoonist of Peanuts
 * Nancy Speir, children's book illustrator

Entertainers, actors, musicians

 * Francis Boggs, actor, writer, and early movie director
 * Warren Boyd, television producer, drug counselor
 * Chad Channing, drummer for Nirvana
 * Eftekhar Dadehbala, Iranian singer, known by her stage name "Mahasti", deceased
 * Rebecca De Mornay, film and television actress
 * Chris Hayes, musician, member of Huey Lewis and the News
 * Dan Hicks, singer and songwriter
 * Julian Lage, guitarist and composer
 * Julie London, singer and actress
 * Kevin Kwan Loucks, concert pianist and arts entrepreneur
 * Ray Luv, rapper, native of the South Park and West 9th districts
 * Jon Provost, film and television actor
 * Jade Puget, guitarist for the band AFI
 * Robert Quarry, film and stage actor
 * Pete Rugolo, musician
 * Jussie Smollett, actor and singer
 * Stephanie St. James, actress, singer, and disease advocate
 * Natalie Wood, film actress; lived in Santa Rosa as a child

Sports

 * Scott Alexander, MLB player
 * Kim Conley, professional distance runner, two-time Olympian in the 5,000m
 * Gabe Cramer, baseball pitcher
 * Maya DiRado, Olympic swimmer
 * Jonathan González, Mexican soccer player
 * Sara Hall, American middle distance runner
 * Brandon Hyde, manager of the Baltimore Orioles
 * Jenna Johnson, Olympic swimmer
 * Levi Leipheimer, cyclist and three-time winner of the Tour of California
 * Koa Misi, football linebacker
 * McKenzie Moore (born 1992), player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Alfonso Motagalvan, soccer player
 * Brandon Morrow, Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Ernie Nevers, football star
 * Tony Renda, baseball player
 * David Terrell, fighter
 * Stephen Tomasin, plays for United States national rugby sevens team
 * Tony Trujillo, skateboarder

Writers, journalists

 * Jacob Appelbaum, journalist, computer security researcher and hacker
 * Shirlee Busbee, writer
 * Robert X. Cringely, technology journalist
 * Garen Drussai, science fiction writer
 * Paul Gilger, author of the musical Showtune
 * Richard Heinberg, ecological journalist
 * Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer and author of Dune
 * Robert L. Ripley, creator and columnist of Ripley's Believe It or Not
 * Jim Ross, professional wrestling commentator and executive
 * Greg Sarris, author, film producer and screenwriter, professor

Others

 * Luther Burbank, horticulturalist
 * Efren Carrillo, member of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
 * María Ygnacia López de Carrillo, original grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa
 * Brett Crozier, Commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
 * William Mark Felt, FBI agent and associate director, Watergate informant known as "Deep Throat"
 * Guy Fieri, celebrity chef
 * Mendy Fry, drag racer
 * Thomas Lake Harris, mystic and prophet
 * Edward J. Livernash, journalist and Congressman
 * Joseph and William Hunt, founders of Hunt's foods
 * Vicky Nguyen, television reporter
 * Michael Robinson, rabbi and activist for civil/human rights