Marin County, California, one of the
most affluent counties in the United States, has had many well-known personalities associated with it. This is a list of current and former residents with individual entries on Wikipedia:
- America, band with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, "Ventura Highway"
- Andre Agassi, tennis player
- Isabel Allende, writer
- Jennifer Aniston, actress
- Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens), Tamalpais High School, Class of 1926, actress (Our Miss Brooks, Grease)
- Melba Beals, civil rights activist
- Tom Barbash, author
- Michael Bloomfield, blues guitarist
- Barbara Boxer, current United States Senator
- Terry Bozzio, musician
- Joe Breeze, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1972, mountain bike inventor and industry leader
- Merritt Butrick, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1977, actor (Square Pegs; Kirk's son, David Marcus (Star Trek))
- Pete Carroll, Redwood High School, Class of 1966, head football coach at USC
- Edwin Catmull, President of the Disney-Pixar Studios
- Bill Champlin, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1965, musician (Sons of Champlin, Chicago)
- Chris Chaney, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1988, musician (Jane's Addiction, The Panic Channel)
- Brenda Chapman, animation director
- Sam Chapman, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1934, athlete (high school & college all star, California Golden Bears; MLB)
- Julia Child, Katherine Branson School, Class of 1930; host of "The French Chef"
- Craig Chaquico, guitarist from Jefferson Starship
- Maxine Chernoff, author
- John Cipollina, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1964, musician (lead guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service)
- Signy Coleman, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1978, model, actress (The Young and the Restless, Guiding Light)
- Elmer Collett, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1962, athlete (lineman, NFL)
- Peter Coyote, actor
- Martin Cruz Smith, author
- Charlie Cunningham, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1967, mountain bike pioneer (Mountain Bike Hall of Fame)
- Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now
- Joe DeMaestri, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1946, MLB shortstop
- Philip K. Dick, science fiction author
- George Duke, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1963, jazz pianist
- Alaura Eden, Redwood High School, American pornographic actress
- Dave Eggers, author
- Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter
- David Fincher, film director
- Jack Finney, author, The Body Snatchers,Time and Again
- Gary Fisher, mountain biking pioneer
- Jon Fisher, entrepreneur
- Tyler Florence, celebrity chef
- Phil Frank, cartoonist
- David Freiberg, musician
- Bill Graham, founder of the Fillmore West in San Francisco
- Most members of The Grateful Dead
- David Grisman, famous Mandolin player, wrote and performed movie scores
- Jerry Hannan, singer-songwriter, actor
- Sammy Hagar, singer
- Annette Haven, ex-porn star
- Sterling Hayden, actor
- Matt Hazeltine, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1951, athlete (linebacker, NFL)
- Jon Hendricks, jazz lyricist, singer
- James Hetfield, musician
- Booker T. Jones, musician
- Janis Joplin, singer
- Charlie Kelly, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1963, roadie (Sons of Champlin); Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
- Klaus Kinski, actor
- Anne Lamott, writer
- John Lasseter, film director and Disney executive
- Anton Szandor LaVey (Howard Stanton Levey), Tamalpais High School, Class of ~1947, founder, Church of Satan
- Sharon Lebell, author
- John Lennon, musician
- Barry Levinson, film director
- Huey Lewis, singer
- Kevin Lima, film director
- John Walker Lindh, American who fought for the Taliban
- Ki Longfellow, aka Pamela Longfellow, novelist
- George Lucas, film director and founder of Lucasfilm
- Andy Luckey, Redwood High School Class of 1983 Television Producer, Author, Illustrator
- Ray Lynch, composer and mathematician
- Maria Muldaur, singer/songwriter - "Midnight at the Oasis"
- Joyce Maynard, author
- Brian Maxwell, Powerbar founder
- Artie Mitchell, pornographic film producer
- Van Morrison, singer and songwriter
- Jonny Moseley, gold medal winning Olympic skier
- Walter Murch, film editor
- Gavin Newsom, current mayor of San Francisco
- Don Novello, actor and writer
- Karl Olson, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1948, MLB outfielder
- William L. Patterson, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1911, attorney; civil rights pioneer
- Pat Paulsen, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1945, statesman; comic (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
- Jacquie Phelan Mountain Biking pioneer and racing champion now freelance cycle skills trainer and writer
- Sean Penn, actor, activist
- Robin Wright Penn, actress
- Brad Pitt, actor
- Steve Potts, bicycle framebuilder
- Kathleen Quinlan, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1972, actress (American Graffiti, Apollo 13, Oliver Stone's The Doors)
- Bonnie Raitt, singer
- Bill Rafferty, former game show host, comedian
- Hal Riney, advertising executive
- Jason Roberts, author
- Pernell Roberts, actor, civil rights activist
- Brande Roderick, model and actress
- George H. Ruge, San Francisco radio pioneer
- Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate of the United States
- Carlos Santana, musician
- Aram Saroyan, poet
- Strawberry Saroyan, novelist
- Michael Savage (commentator), right-wing radio host
- Charles Schwab, investor
- Tupac Shakur, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1989, rapper, poet, and actor
- Peter Shor, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1977, mathematician, MIT; MacArthur Fellow
- Grace Slick, musician; Jefferson Airplane
- Gary Snyder, poet
- Tom Snyder, television talk host
- Myron Spaulding, boat designer and builder, sailboat racer and concert violinist
- David Strathairn, Redwood High School, actor
- Adam Steltzner, Tamalpais High School, NASA scientist
- Amy Tan, author
- Courtney Thorne-Smith, Tamalpais High School, Class of 1985, actress (Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, According to Jim)
- Scott Thunes, musician
- Peter Tork, musician; member of The Monkees
- Lars Ulrich, musician
- Vendela Vida, author
- John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle entertainment critic
- Cassandra Webb, (Cassandra Politzer), Tamalpais High School, Class of 1976, actress (Starship, Sons and Daughters)
- Robin Williams, Redwood High School, actor and comedian
- Tony Williams, drummer
- Jesse Colin Young, singer/songwriter famous in the 70s/80s, "Song for Julia"
- Saul Zaentz, American movie producer
- Prince Andrew Romanov, Russian royal and artist