• Alexander Sachal: Russian artist. (Petaluma)
• Agoston Haraszthy: the "father of Californian wine." His Buena Vista Winery still exists today (Sonoma)
  
• Albert E. Kahn: journalist, photographer, and author (Glen Ellen)
  
• Alexander Sachal: Russian artist. (Petaluma)
  
• Alfonso Motagalvan: soccer player. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Alicia Bay Laurel: artist, author and musician. (Occidental)
  
• Ariana Richards: actress and painter. (Healdsburg)
  
• Ben Bostrom: Pro AMA motorcycle racer. (Petaluma)
  
• Ben McKee: bassist of the band Imagine Dragons (Forestville)
  
• Benjamin Trott: co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. (Petaluma)
  
• Bernie Krause: musician and soundscape ecologist (Glen Ellen)
  
• Bill Knickerbocker: baseball player, died in Sebastopol. (Sebastopol)
  
• Bill Pronzini: (born 1943), mystery writer. (Petaluma)
  
• Bill Tiller: (born 1967), illustrator, computer game designer, writer, and artist,
  
• Brainerd Jones: architect. (Petaluma)
  
• Brandon Hyde: manager of the Baltimore Orioles. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Brandon Morrow: Major League Baseball pitcher. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Brett Crozier: Commander of the Theodore Roosevelt. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Brian Posehn: comedian and co-star on The Sarah Silverman Program, grew up in Sonoma (Sonoma)
  
• Bruce Bochte: (born 1950), baseball player (Petaluma)
  
• Catherine Yronwode: editor of comic books and non-fiction trading cards, author and graphics designer (Forestville)
  
• Chad Channing: drummer for Nirvana. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Charles M. Schulz: cartoonist and creator of Peanuts. (Sebastopol & Santa Rosa)
  
• Charles V. Stuart: In 1859, Charles V. Stuart purchased a part of the Rancho Agua Caliente land grant and in 1868 beganbuilding a house there, eventually establishing a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) vineyard he named Glen Ellen after his wife. (Glen Ellen)
  
• Chris Hayes: musician, member of Huey Lewis and the News. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Christina Hoff Sommers: author and equity feminist. (Petaluma)
  
• Chuck Williams: founder of Williams-Sonoma, the food accessory chain store, started its existence on Broadway, two blocksfrom the Plaza, before moving to San Francisco. (Sonoma)
  
• Clark Coolidge: poet. (Petaluma)
  
• Count Agoston Haraszthy: the father of California viticulture, created the first winery west of the Mississippi. He tried manylocations but settled in Sonoma with General Vallejo's assistance. His first winery, Buena Vista, still exists today. (Sonoma)
  
• Daedalus Howell: writer. (Petaluma)
  
• Dan Dion: photographer and comedy producer. (Kenwood)
  
• Dan Hicks: (1941–2016) singer and songwriter. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Dave Schools: bassist of the band Widespread Panic. (Sebastopol)
  
• David Best: (sculptor) (1945-present), sculptor, lives and works in Petaluma, known for Burning Man creations (Petaluma)
  
• David Del Tredici: (1937–present), Pulitzer Prize winning 20th and 21st century classical music composer; he was born and spent the first four years of his life in Cloverdale. (Cloverdale)
  
• David Terrell: fighter. (Santa Rosa)
  
• David Wharff: W.J. Hardin; First Settler Penngrove. (Penngrove)
  
• Don Sebastiani: of Sebastiani Vineyards, Californian politician (Sonoma)
  
• Duke Iversen: (1920-2011), football player (Petaluma)
  
• “Dutch Bill" Howards: Founded in 1876, Occidental was a stop on the North Pacific Coast Railroad connecting Cazadero to the Sausalito ferry. In return for donating right-of-way to the railroad, a local landowner named "Dutch Bill" Howards received a lifetime railway pass, and the station was named after him. (Occidental)
  
• Edmond Coblentz: Temelec hall was owned by journalist Edmond Coblentz in the mid 1900s. (Temelec)
  
• Efren Carrillo: member of Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Eftekhar Dadehbala: Iranian singer, known by her stage name "Mahasti", deceased. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Elijah K. Jenner, Dr.: Historically, Jenner was part of the Rancho Muniz. The town’s namesake, Dr. Elijah K. Jenner, was a dentist and inventor from Vermont. When his son Charles K. was born in 1846, the family was living in Wisconsin. Elijah came west in 1850 and sought his fortune in the California goldfields. Working as a miner, he designed a pump that could raise water one hundred feet (30 m) high. His patent application included a model pump made of pure gold, which is the only golden model that the Patent Office has ever received. Jenner’s family joined him in 1852. Traveling by ship from the Great Lakes to Panama, it crossed the Isthmus and sailed up the Pacific Coast. By 1854, the Jenners had settled near the mouth of the Russian River and built a house in what became known as Jenner Gulch, the site of the town. Charles K. Jenner would go on to be a prominent attorney in early Seattle, arguing several cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Jenner)
  
• Elijah Qualls: (born 1995), football player (Petaluma)
  
• Elsie Allen: (1899-1990), Pomo basket maker and teacher regarded as one of the three best California basket makers of her generation. (Cloverdale)
  
• Em Rossi: (born 1998), singer and songwriter (Petaluma)
  
• Erden Eruç: made history here when he completed the first entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. He began the expedition on July 10, 2007 in Bodega Bay and returned a little more than five years later on July 21, 2012. (Bodega Bay)
  
• Ernie Nevers: football star. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Francine Rivers: novelist. (Sebastopol)
  
• Francis Boggs: actor, writer, and early movie director. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Frank Herbert: science-fiction writer and author of Dune. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Gabe Cramer: baseball pitcher. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Garen Drussai: science fiction writer. (Santa Rosa)
  
• George and Emma Fetters: opened the Fetters Hot Springs resort in 1908. (Fetters Hot Springs)
  
• George Guerne: The present name Guerneville was introduced to honor Swiss immigrant George Guerne, a local businessman of the 19th century who owned the town's sawmill. (Guerneville)
  
• George Segal: Academy Award-nominated actor and musician (Graton)
  
• Granville P. Swift, Captain: Temelec is the site of Temelec Hall, built in 1858 by Captain Granville P. Swift, a member of the Bear Flag Party. (Temelec)
  
• Greg Sarris: author, film producer and screenwriter, professor. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Guy Fieri: celebrity chef. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Guy Wilson: actor. (Sebastopol)
  
• Hap Arnold, General: was an aviation pioneer and commander of the United States Army Air Corps (from 1938), commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces (from 1941 until 1945) and the first General of the Air Force (in 1949). The main arterial road, Arnold Drive, which runs up the west side of Sonoma Valley, is named for him, as was Arnold Field - a Baseball field in downtown Sonoma. (Sonoma)
  
• Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman: tennis player, Wimbledon and Olympic champion. (Healdsburg)
  
• Heidi Newfield: country singer, formerly of Trick Pony. (Healdsburg)
  
• Helen Beardsley: author. (Healdsburg)
  
• Henry D. Fitch: early resident. (Healdsburg)
  
• Henry Ernest Boyes: discovered hot springs in 1895 in the central part of the area. He and his wife called the area Agua Rica and started the Boyes Hot Springs Hotel, now the site of the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa. (Boyes Hot Springs)
  
• Hunter S. Thompson: journalist and author (Glen Ellen)
  
• Ignazio Vella: (1928–2011) ran the Vella Cheese Company for many years and also served three terms on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. (Sonoma)
  
• J.Lately: rapper. (Sebastopol)
  
• J.M. Palmer: First Settler Penngrove. (Penngrove)
  
• Jack London: novelist, journalist, and social activist (Sonoma & Glen Ellen)
  
• Jack Sonni: former guitarist of Dire Straits. (Healdsburg)
  
• Jackson Temple: Justice of the California Supreme Court. (Petaluma)
  
• Jacob Appelbaum: journalist, computer security researcher and hacker. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jade Puget: guitarist for the band AFI. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jake Rodkin: video game designer, graphic designer, podcaster (Petaluma)
  
• James Eldridge: Eldridge is named for James Eldridge who owned part of the Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa land grant. (Eldridge)
  
• James Walker Benét: reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED, veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War (Forestville)
  
• Jared Emerson-Johnson: An American video game music composer, sound designer, voice director and voice actor. Emerson-Johnson is the Music Supervisor and lead composer at Bay Area Sound, an audio production company specializing in sound design, music and voiceover for video games. (Petaluma)
  
• Jason Prejean: Rapper/Producer; Co Founder Of Gutta Game Entertainment. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jayce Ray: professional baseball player for the Sussex County Miners. Spent 2016 in the Boston Red Sox minor league system. (Sonoma)
  
• Jeff Gerstmann: video game journalist. (Petaluma)
  
• Jenna Johnson: American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart: of the Grateful Dead. (Sebastopol)
  
• Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr.: wine entrepreneur. (Healdsburg)
  
• Jim Boggio: (December 11, 1939[1]–November 6, 1996) was an American accordionist. He died of heart failure in Cotati, California, aged 56.[2] A statue of him stands in La Plaza Park, near the center of Cotati. (Cotati)
  
• Jim Cullom: an American football guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Yanks. (Healdsburg)
  
• Jim Wood: politician. (Healdsburg)
  
• Joe Enochs: (born 1971), soccer player for VfL Osnabrück (Petaluma)
  
• John A. Sutter: Pioneer, Around the same time (1843), John A. Sutter bought land from the Russians, an area that included Bodega. His land purchase included "some hunting rights, a small boat, several rusty cannons, and some old muskets." (Bodega)
  
• John Carl Warnecke: architect. (Healdsburg)
  
• John Lasseter: (born January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, California) is an animator and the chief creative executive at Pixar Animation Studios. Lasseter won Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film (Tin Toy) and Special Achievement Award (Toy Story). Lasseter and his family reside in the Sonoma Valley area of the city. (Sonoma & Glen Ellen)
  
• John Thomas Reed: In 1827, an Irishman named John Thomas Reed ventured into Miwok territory and built a cabin near Crane Creek. (Cotati)
  
• John Udell: an American farmer and Baptist lay preacher who is primarily known for two detailed diaries he kept of his travels to California across the Great Plains of the United States. (Healdsburg)
  
• Johnny Otis: rhythm and blues pioneer. (Sebastopol)
  
• Jon Andersen: wrestler. (Petaluma)
  
• Jon Provost: film and television actor. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jonathan González: Mexican soccer player. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jonny Gomes: (born 1980), baseball player (Petaluma)
  
• Joseph and William Hunt: founders of Hunt's foods. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Joseph Hooker: one-time politician and future American Civil War general, lived in Sonoma in the 1850s. His house still exists in town. (Sonoma)
  
• Josh Akognon: basketball player. (Petaluma)
  
• Juan Castaneda, Captain: In July 1844, the Mexican government granted Rancho Cotate (encompassing present-day towns of Cotati, Penngrove and Rohnert Park, and home to Coast Miwok people) to Captain Juan Castaneda, a Mexican military commander from Texas,[15] in payment for his service as a soldier under General Vallejo. (Cotati)
  
• Juanita Musson: Flamboyant restaurateur Juanita Musson opened her second Sonoma Valley restaurant in the old Fetters hotel around 1970, but it burned to the ground five years later. (Fetters Hot Springs)
  
• Julian Lage: guitarist and composer. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Julie London: singer and actress. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Jussie Smollett: actor and singer. Plays Jamal Lyon on Empire. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Justin Raimondo: American author and the editorial director of Antiwar.com. (Sebastopol)
  
• Justine Frischmann: visual artist & lead singer of Elastica. (Petaluma)
  
• Karen Kilgariff: (born 1970), actress, comedian, podcaster and writer (Petaluma)
  
• Karen Valentine: actress of the television show Room 222. (Sebastopol)
  
• Kate Wolf: singer/songwriter. (Sebastopol)
  
• Kevin Kwan Loucks: concert pianist and arts entrepreneur. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Kevin Tsujihara: (born 1964), former chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. (Petaluma)
  
• Kim Conley: professional distance runner, two-time olympian in the 5,0000m. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Kirk Hammett: (born November 18, 1962) is lead guitarist and a songwriter in the heavy metal band Metallica. (Sonoma)
  
• Kitaro: Japanese New Age recording artist. (Sebastopol)
  
• Koa Misi: football linebacker. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Kristen Barnhisel: winemaker. (Healdsburg)
  
• L Peter Deutsch: creator of Ghostscript. (Healdsburg)
  
• Lana Clarkson: (1962-2003) actress murdered by music producer Phil Spector; she grew up in Cloverdale. (Cloverdale)
  
• Leo Laporte: technology journalist, previously of Tech TV, founder of TwiT. (Petaluma)
  
• Les Claypool: bassist/vocalist of the band Primus. (Occidental & Sebastopol)
  
• Levi Leipheimer: cyclist and three-time winner of the Tour of California. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Lloyd Bridges: (1913-1998), actor; graduated from Petaluma High School in 1930 (Petaluma)
  
• Luke Lamperti: racing cyclist (Sebastopol)
  
• Luther Burbank: horticulturist who established an 18-acre (73,000 m2) Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century. (Santa Rosa & Sebastopol)
  
• Lynn Woolsey: U.S. Representative from California[40]. (Petaluma)
  
• M. F. K. Fisher: food writer (Glen Ellen)
  
• María Ygnacia López de Carrillo: original grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Comandante General: was the last Mexican military commander of northern California. His residence in Sonoma was the site for a portion of the Bear Flag revolt which made California a Republic. (Sonoma)
  
• Mario Saviov: freedom activist. (Sebastopol)
  
• Mark di Suvero: (1933-present), sculptor, lived and worked in Petaluma, 1975- (Petaluma)
  
• Mary Ellen Bamford: author. (Cotati & Healdsburg)
  
• Mary Fuller McChesney: (1922-present), sculptor, lived on Sonoma Mountain, 1953-2019 (Petaluma)
  
• Matt Nix: show runner for Burn Notice. (Sebastopol)
  
• Max Thieriot: actor, grew up in Occidental. (Occidental)
  
• Maya DiRado: Olympic swimmer. (Santa Rosa)
  
• McKenzie Moore: (born 1992), player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Megan McDonald: an American children's literature author of more than 25 books including the Judy Moody & Stink Moody series. (Sebastopol)
  
• Mena Grabowski Trott: co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. (Petaluma)
  
• Mendy Fry: drag racer. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Michael Robinson: rabbi and activist for civil/human rights. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Mickey Hart: musician. (Occidental)
  
• Mike McGuire: politician. (Healdsburg)
  
• Myron Healey: (1923-2005), actor (Petaluma)
  
• Natalie Wood: film actress; lived in Santa Rosa as child. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Nicholas Green: Bodega Bay was the hometown of Nicholas Green, the American child shot dead during a robbery by highwaymen in Italy where his family were on vacation in 1994. Nicholas and his family became famous when almost every organ or body part was donated to those in need following his death. (Bodega Bay)
  
• Nick Gravenites: singer/songwriter. (Occidental & Sebastopol)
  
• Nicole Aunapu Mann: (born 1977), USMC fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. (Petaluma)
  
• Nikita Ducarroz: BMX freestyle cyclist and Olympic medalist (Glen Ellen)
  
• Nina Gerber: guitarist (Sebastopol)
  
• Norman Greenbaum: singer songwriter. (Petaluma)
  
• Obie Scott Wade: screenwriter and creator of SheZow, went to Analy High School. (Sebastopol)
  
• Patti McCarty: actress. (Healdsburg)
  
• Paul Erdman: business and financial writer. (Healdsburg)
  
• Paul Gilger: author of the musical Showtune. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Paul Otellini: businessman. (Kenwood)
  
• Paula Wolfert: (born 1938 in Brooklyn, New York), award-winning author of eight cookbooks, and her husband William Bayer (born 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio), award-winning crime fiction writer, have been resident in Sonoma since 1998. (Sonoma)
  
• Pauline Kael: (1919-2001), movie critic, born in Petaluma. (Petaluma)
  
• Pete Rugolo: musician. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Peter Coyote: narrator/author/actor (Sebastopol)
  
• Peter D'Amato: an American author, businessman, and carnivorous plant authority. (Sebastopol)
  
• Peter Krause: actor. (Sebastopol)
  
• Peter Schifrin: (born 1958), Olympic fencer and sculptor. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Phil Coturri: a viticulturist who is recognized as pioneering organic and biodynamic.(Sonoma)
  
• Ralph Rose: track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist in 1904-08-12. (Healdsburg)
  
• Ray Luv: rapper, native of the South Park and West 9th districts. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Raymond Burr: actor. (Healdsburg)
  
• Rebecca De Mornay: film and television actress. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Richard A. Penry: (1948-1994), soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (Petaluma)
  
• Richard Heinberg: ecological journalist. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Rider Strong: actor. (Sebastopol)
  
• Robert L. Ripley: creator and columnist of Ripley's Believe It or Not. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Robert Nichols: actor. (Occidental)
  
• Robert P. McChesney: (1913-2008), painter, lived on Sonoma Mountain, 1953-2008 (Petaluma)
  
• Robert X. Cringely: technology journalist. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Rod Beaton: an American journalist and media executive with United Press International (Sonoma)
  
• Roderick N. Matheson: early resident. (Healdsburg)
  
• Rosemary Gladstar: founder of an herbal school named after her (Forestville)
  
• Ryan Davis: video game journalist. (Petaluma)
  
• Sara Hall: American middle distance runner. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Schuyler Grant: actress of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. (Sebastopol)
  
• Scooby Wright III: linebacker for the Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. (Windsor)
  
• Sebastiani Family: family patriarch Samuele Sebastiani started Sebastiani Vineyards in 1904. His son August ran the company from 1944 to the late 1970s, when his son Sam took the reins. August died in 1980. In 1986, August's youngest son, Don Sebastiani, took the company from about 200,000 cases to just shy of 8 million cases produced in 1999, at which time he sold a number of assets to Constellation Wines. Don then left the old family company and he, along with his sons, Donny and August, started Don Sebastiani & Sons in 2000. Sebastiani Vineyards was under the direction of Sam and Don's sister, Mary AnnSebastiani Cuneo, before being sold to the Foley Wine Group in 2008. Don's son, August Sebastiani, was elected to the Sonoma City Council in 2006. (Sonoma) 
• Shirlee Busbee: an American writer of romance novels since 1977. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Shirley Neilsen Blum: (born 1932), American art historian, author, gallerist, curator, and professor; born in Petaluma. (Petaluma)
  
• Shotsie Gorman: tattoo artist, painter, sculptor and poet. (Boyes Hot Springs)
  
• Silver Tree: film writer and producer. (Petaluma)
  
• Smoov-E: rapper (Sebastopol)
  
• Spencer Torkelson: (born 1999) baseball player (Petaluma)
  
• Stephan Pastis: cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Stephanie St. James: actress, singer, and disease advocate. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Stephen Tomasin: plays for United States national rugby sevens team. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Steven Cozza: (born 1985), professional road bicycle racer (Petaluma)
  
• Terence McKenna: ethnobotanist (Occidental & Sebastopol)
  
• The Mommies: comedy duo. (Petaluma)
  
• Thomas and James Fulton: The community (of Fulton) is named after Thomas and James Fulton, who founded the community. (Fulton)
  
• Thomas C. Reed: former Secretary of the Air Force. (Healdsburg)
  
• Thomas Kearns: A mining, railroad, newspaper and banking magnate, Thomas Kearns, who was also a U.S. Senator from Utah. It is reported that he entertained President Theodore Roosevelt there at the Kearns Ranch, also known as the William Hood House. (Kenwood)
  
• Thomas Lake Harris: an Anglo-American preacher, spiritualistic prophet, poet, and vintner. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Thomas Oliver Boggs: was a resident for a brief period in Bodega, before leaving for New Mexico, where he witnessed the burial of Kit Carson. Boggs' papers are held in the collection of the Bancroft Library. (Bodega)
  
• Thomas Stokes Page, Dr: In 1849, Ruckle sold the land (Cotati) to Dr. Thomas Stokes Page, a former resident of Valparaíso, Chile, for $1,600. (Cotati)
  
• Thornton Lee: (1906-1997) an All-Star pitcher in Major League Baseball, was born in Sonoma. (Sonoma)
  
• Tim Schafer: an American computer game designer and founder of Double Fine Productions (Sonoma)
  
• Tobias Capwell: (born c.  1973), American curator, military historian and jouster; born in Petaluma (Petaluma)
  
• Tom Smothers: (born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2, 1937) is a comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick. They currently operate theRemick Ridge Vineyards in the Sonoma Valley. (Sonoma)
  
• Tom Waits: singer/songwriter/musician. (Sebastopol)
  
• Tommy Everidge: an American former professional first baseman who is currently the hitting coach for the Oakland Athletics. (Sonoma)
  
• Tony Moll: was a professional football player. Professional athletes Tommy Everidge and Tony Moll were classmates, and grew up in Sonoma. (Sonoma)
  
• Tony Renda: baseball player. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Tony Trujillo: skateboarder. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Valerie K. Brown: former member of the California State Assembly and Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. (Kenwood)
  
• Vicky Nguyen: television reporter. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Warren Boyd: television producer, drug counselor. (Santa Rosa)
  
• Willard Libby: inventor of carbon dating, went to Analy High School (Sebastopol)
  
• William Bayer: award-winning crime fiction writer, have been resident in Sonoma since 1998 (Sonoma)
  
• William Marcus West: a Scottish American pioneer who settled in what is now eastern Sonoma County, California, United States. (Larkfield-Wikiup)
  
• William Mark Felt: FBI agent and associate director, Watergate informant known as "Deep Throat". (Santa Rosa)
  
• William Smith: is the only American Revolutionary War veteran believed to be buried in California (Sonoma)
  
• William Zellhardt: Pioneer, In 1853, William Zellhardt built a house on the site of present-day Bloomfield, which attracted other immigrants and led to plans for a town in 1856. (Bloomfield)
  
• Winona Ryder: (1971-present), actor; graduated from Petaluma High School in 1989. (Petaluma)
  

The People of Sonoma County

Notable People of Sonoma County

Wikipedia has a long list of people it considers "Notable" for Sonoma County so I am not going to re-do anything that has already been done. That is not the point of this page. I have put Wikipedia's list on this page and you can view it if you wish to see the famous people who had a part of making Sonoma County's history.

If myself or another does personal research on any of these people then I will move them to the main People of Sonoma County page.