Top 10 Top 10 Historic Figures
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1. Junipero Serra
This 18th-century Spanish cleric traveled up and down California establishing missions, including Mission Dolores.
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2. John C. Fremont
Instrumental in the US annexation of California in the mid-1800s, it was Fremont who dubbed the Bay straits the “Golden Gate”.
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3. John Muir
Muir was a keen promoter of the National Parks movement. The Muir Woods are named in his honor.
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4. Leland Stanford
One of the “Big Four” who masterminded the Transcontinental railroad also founded Stanford University (see Palo Alto and Stanford).
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5. Mark Hopkins
Another of the “Big Four” who struck it super-rich and lived on Nob Hill.
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6. Charles Crocker
Another “Big Four” accomplice. The Crocker Galleria recalls his legacy (see Crocker Galleria, Top 10 Shopping Areas).
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7. A.P. Giannini
Founder in 1904 of the Bank of Italy, later the Bank of America, Giannini financed the Golden Gate Bridge.
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8. Harvey Milk
The first openly gay politician to become a member of the Board of Supervisors was assassinated in 1978.
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9. Dianne Feinstein
One of the movers and shakers of San Francisco politics in recent decades, she became a US Senator in 1992.
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10. Jerry Brown
Buddhist monk and mayor of Oakland, this intellectual free spirit ran for president.
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