List: People from Sacramento, California

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•  John Sutter

  John Augustus Sutter (February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

  

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•  Mark Spitz

  Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement surpassed only by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds plus a silver and a bronze, five Pan American golds, 31 US Amateur Athletic Union titles and eight US National Collegiate Athletic Association titles. During those years, he set 33 world records.

  

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•  Molly Ringwald

  Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. She returned to the public eye with her role as Anne Juergens in the ABC Family show The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She ranked #1 in VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.

  

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•  LeVar Burton

  Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. , professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well known for his portrayal of Geordi La Forge on the syndicated science fiction series ' and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow.

  

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•  Chino Moreno

  Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is the lead singer and guitarist in Deftones and Team Sleep.

  

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•  Stephen Carpenter

  Stephen Carpenter is the co-founder and lead guitarist of the American rock band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrythms.

  

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•  Kevin Johnson

  Kevin Maurice Johnson (born March 4, 1966) is the current mayor of Sacramento, California. He is Sacramento's first African American mayor. Prior to entering politics Johnson was a basketball player in the NBA, playing point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns. As a basketball player, he was a three-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection who holds many records for the Phoenix Suns franchise.

  

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•  Rodney King

  Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965) was the subject of police brutality by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers on March 3, 1991. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance. The footage showed LAPD officers repeatedly striking King with their batons.

  

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•  Hiram Johnson

  Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as the 23rd Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.

  

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•  Anthony Kennedy

  Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, having been appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy is often considered the swing vote on many of the Court's politically charged 5–4 decisions, although he reaches conservative results more often than not.

  

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•  Sarah Zettel

  Sarah A. Zettel (born December 14, 1966) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She was born in Sacramento, California. Her mother, Gail Beavers, is a retired teacher and social worker; her father, Leonard Francis Zettel, Jr. , is a retired engineer and programmer. She obtained a B.A. in Communications from the University of Michigan. She is married to a rocket scientist and has a cat named "Buffy the Vermin Slayer".

  

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•  Lincoln Steffens

  Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works. " (Usually reprinted as "I've seen the future, and it works".

  

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•  Charles Duncombe (Upper Canada Rebellion)

  Charles Duncombe (28 July 1792 – 1 October 1867) was a leader in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837. He was born in Connecticut and became a doctor in 1819. He then settled in Upper Canada, and in 1824 he established the first medical school in Upper Canada, in St. Thomas, under the patronage of Colonel Thomas Talbot.

  

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•  Charlie Peacock

  Charlie Peacock (born Charles William Ashworth, August 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, session musician, author, and advocate for social justice. He is often noted as a unique musical and lyrical voice, intelligent, innovative, and difficult to categorize. His resume includes touring artist, much-recorded songwriter, record producer, record company president, seminary student, jazz pianist, and Sr. A&R consultant to mega-music publisher, Sony/ATV.

  

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•  Bill Cowan

  William V. Cowan, often nicknamed Bill Cowan (born August 1943 in Sacramento, California), is a retired USMC Lieutenant Colonel, co-founder and CEO of wvc3, inc. , a Reston, Virginia based company specializing in international security. He is also a contributor for the Fox News Channel

  

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•  Pat Morita

  Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005) was an American actor who was well-known for playing the role of Arnold on Happy Days and known as Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.

  

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•  George Lynch (musician)

  George Lynch (born September 28, 1954) is a Hard rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Dokken.

  

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•  Joan Didion

  Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known as a novelist and writer of personalized, journalistic essays. The disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos upon which her essays comment are explored more fully in her novels, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

  

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•  Adrienne Barbeau

  Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, as well as the author of two books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, Bea Arthur's divorced daughter Carol Traynor in the sitcom Maude, and in several early 1980s horror and science fiction films. A sex symbol during that era, her more notable film work includes The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing and Escape from New York.

  

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•  Merrin Dungey

  Merrin Dungey (born August 6, 1971) is an American film and television actress, best known for her roles on the television series The King of Queens, Alias and Summerland.

  

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•  John Ensign

  John Eric Ensign (born March 25, 1958) is the junior United States Senator from Nevada, serving since January 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party and the former chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

  

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•  Dorothea Puente

  Dorothea Helen Puente (born January 9, 1929) is a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders. Those who complained were killed and buried in her yard.

  

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•  Brotha Lynch Hung

  Brotha Lynch Hung, born Kevin James Mann on January 10, 1972, is an American rapper from Sacramento, California.

  

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•  Vincent K. Brooks

  Vincent Keith Brooks (born October 24, 1958) is an American Major General, who was the United States Army's Deputy Director of Operations during the War in Iraq. This position again made him visible in the media. He also served as the Chief of Army Public Affairs in The Pentagon. As of April, 2009, MG Brooks is the commander of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.

  

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•  Doug Ose

  Douglas Arlo "Doug" Ose (born June 27, 1955 in Sacramento, California) is a former California congressman who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005, representing California's 3rd Congressional District. In 2008, he unsuccessfully sought to win a seat with the 4th Congressional District.

  

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