BA Billie Joe Armstrong
born 1972 American rock musician
Mark Hamill
born 1951 American actor
Mahershala Ali
born 1974 American actor
Thomas Schelling
1921–2016 American economist
Brandon Lee
1965–1993 American actor
Amy Tan
born 1952 American novelist
George Stevens
1904–1975 American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
MC Hammer
born 1962 American rapper
Angus Cloud
1998–2023 American actor from California
Daveed Diggs
born 1982 American actor and rapper
Elizabeth Roemer
1929–2016 American astronomer
Russell Hornsby
born 1974 American actor
Jan Henne
born 1947 American swimmer
Raphael Saadiq
born 1966 American contemporary R&B singer, songwriter and record producer
Barbara Acklin
1943–1998 American singer-songwriter
David Murray
born 1955 American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet)
Hubert A. Caldwell
1907–1972 American rower
Winslow Hall
1912–1995 American rower
Amen Thompson
born 2003 American basketball player
Gary Fisher
born 1950 American cyclist and inventor
Mac Dre
1970–2004 American rapper
Cynthia Stevenson
born 1962 American actress
Dakin Matthews
born 1940 American actor
David Turner
1923–2015 American rower
Ian Turner
1925–2010 American rower
Bill Champlin
born 1947 American singer, musician, arranger, producer, and songwriter
Also called Oakland home
Tom Hanks
born 1956 American actor and film producer
Philip K. Dick
1928–1982 American science fiction author
Dorothy Day
1897–1980 American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert
Julia Serano
born 1967 American writer and activist
Pat Parker
1944–1989 American poet
Ruthie Tompson
1910–2021 American animator
Frances M. Beal
born 1940 Black feminist and a peace and justice political activist