San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a branch of the California State University system. It is located in the southwestern part of San Francisco, California near Lake Merced, Fort Funston, and only a mile north of Daly City.

Famous Alumni

• Annette Bening - actress
• Dean Biersch - founder of the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
• Po Bronson - author and journalist (MFA in creative writing)
• Willie Brown - member and 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, California
• John Burton - president pro tempore of the California State Senate
• David Carradine - actor (best known for the television series Kung Fu)
• Dana Carvey - comedian (best known for his characterizations in Saturday Night Live and in Wayne's World)
• Peter Coyote - actor
• Saeb Erekat - Official in the Palestinian Authority
• Jennifer Finch - former bassist for all-girl punk group L7
• Gregory Fischbach - founder of Acclaim Entertainment, a videogame company
• Heather Fong - current and first female chief of the San Francisco Police Department (MA)
• Ben Fong-Torres - co-founder of Rolling Stone
• Ernest J. Gaines - novelist
• Andreas Glocker - founder of Sirius Connections
• Danny Glover - Lethal Weapon actor
• Charles Hall - inventor of the waterbed
• Delroy Lindo - actor
• Johnny Mathis - musician
• Manny Mashouf - founder of bebe Inc. clothing retail shops
• Stan Mazor - while at Intel, helped to design the first microprocessor with Federico Faggin
• Frances Mayes - author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
• Greg Proops - actor and stand-up comedian
• Anne Rice - novelist
• Mario Savio - Berkeley free speech activist
• Ronnie Schell - actor
• Jeffrey Tambor - actor
• Cal Tjader - jazz vibraphonist
• B.D. Wong - actor
• Leland Yee - California State Assembly speaker pro tempore
• Dan 'The Automator' Nakamura - Music Producer