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List of people from Palo Alto

Index List of people from Palo Alto

This is a list of notable people from Palo Alto, California. [1]

186 relations: Adam Juratovac, Alessandra Torresani, Alta Mesa Memorial Park, American football, Amy Irving, Andrea U'Ren, Apple Inc., ArenaBowl XXIII, Željko Ivanek, Basketball, Bob Melvin, Boston Celtics, Brandis Kemp, Bree Turner, Brian Kobilka, Brooklyn Nets, California, Caprica, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Haid, Conchology, Condoleezza Rice, Cooley LLP, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crossing Delancey, Damages (TV series), Dan Petry, Dana Kirk (swimmer), Dave Franco, Dave Schultz (wrestling), David Filo, David M. Alexander, David Packard, Debbi Fields, Desperate Housewives, Detroit Tigers, Dick Cheney, Don MacLean (basketball), Doug Clifford, Elizabeth Holmes, Ellen K, Ellwood P. Cubberley High School, Eric Valentine, Erle Stanley Gardner, Eugenics, Facebook, Fantasia (1940 film), Fleetwood Mac, Folk music, Foxcatcher, ..., Francie Larrieu Smith, Fridays (TV series), Gene F. Franklin, Google, Grace Slick, Grateful Dead, Grimm (TV series), Gunn High School, Harris Barton, Helen Katharine Forbes, Herbert Hoover, Hewlett-Packard, Hill Street Blues, Ida Shepard Oldroyd, Infosys, Jack Herrick, James Franco, Jawed Karim, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Jeremy Lin, Jerry Daniels, Jerry Yang, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Loscutoff, Joan Baez, Joc Pederson, John Markoff, Jon Huntsman Jr., Julia Flynn Siler, Katie Hoff, Keith Raffel, Korean War, Laos, Larry Page, Lindsey Buckingham, List of NBA champions, List of people from Oakland, California, List of people from San Francisco, List of people from San Jose, California, List of people from Santa Cruz, California, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Los Angeles Dodgers, M. N. Roy, Madam Secretary (TV series), Margo Davis, Marissa Mayer, Mark Hurd, Mark Schultz (wrestler), Mark Zuckerberg, Marty Klein, Matt Biondi, Menlo College, Merrill Newman, Michael H. Riley, Michael Lederer, Michigan Wolverines football, Michio Kaku, Mrs. Fields, Myspace, National Football League, Neva Gerber, Nick Bravin, Ollie Johnston, Oracle Corporation, Owen Van Natta, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California, Pamela Melroy, PARC (company), Pedro Joseph de Lemos, Perley Ason Ross, Perry Mason, Phil Hellmuth, Pop Warner, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, Raymond Carver, Richard R. Ernst, Rick Rossovich, Robert Spinrad, Romesh Wadhwani, Ron Christie, Ron Wyden, Roxanne (film), San Francisco 49ers, Sergey Brin, Shemar Moore, Sleepy Hollow (TV series), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Stanford Cardinal football, Stanford University, Stephan Jenkins, Stephen Neal (lawyer), Steve Jobs, Steve Young, Symphony Technology Group, Tad Williams, Tara Kirk, Teri Hatcher, The Donnas, The Godfather (wrestler), The Kingston Trio, The New York Times, The Terminator, Theranos, Third Eye Blind, Thomas T. Riley, Tim Cook, Tim Rossovich, Tom Franco, Tony Hargain, Top Gun, Ugly Kid Joe, Varian Associates, Vietnam War, Vincent Zhou, Vishal Sikka, Whitfield Crane, WikiHow, William Ackerman, William Redington Hewlett, William Shockley, Windham Hill Records, WWE, Xerox, Yahoo!, Yentl, YouTube, Yvonne Rainer, Yvor Winters, Zach Appelman, Zynga, 1984 World Series, 2018 Winter Olympics, 24 (TV series). Expand index (136 more) »

Adam Juratovac

Adam Stanislaus Juratovac (born April 10, 1987) is a former American football lineman.

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Alessandra Torresani

Alessandra Torresani (born Alessandra Olivia Toreson; May 29, 1987) is an American actress.

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Alta Mesa Memorial Park

Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a non-denominational burial ground located in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Amy Irving

Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American film, stage, and television actress.

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Andrea U'Ren

Andrea U'Ren (born 1968) also known as Andrea Uren and A. U'Ren is an American author and illustrator of many children's picture books.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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ArenaBowl XXIII

NAPA Auto Parts ArenaBowl XXIII was an arena football game between the National Conference champion, Spokane Shock and the American Conference Champion, Tampa Bay Storm.

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Željko Ivanek

Željko Ivanek (né Šimić-Ivanek;;; born August 15, 1957) is a Slovenian-American actor, known for his role as Ray Fiske on Damages, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bob Melvin

Robert Paul Melvin (born October 28, 1961) is an American professional baseball catcher, coach, and manager.

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Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brandis Kemp

Brandis Kemp is an American actress who is best known for her appearances in Fridays and AfterMASH from the years 1980 to 1985.

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Bree Turner

Bree Nicole Turner (born March 10, 1977) is an American dancer and actress; she is best known for her role as Rosalee on ''Grimm''.

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Brian Kobilka

Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors.

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Brooklyn Nets

The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Caprica

Caprica is an American science fiction drama television series.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Charles Haid

Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and film director, with notable work in both movies and television.

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Conchology

Conchology (from κόγχος konkhos, "cockle") is the study of mollusc shells.

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Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.

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Cooley LLP

Cooley LLP is an American international law firm, headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival (often referred to as Creedence or CCR) was an American rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s which consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.

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Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey is a 1988 American romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert.

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Damages (TV series)

Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler.

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Dan Petry

Daniel Joseph Petry (born November 13, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1979–87 and 1990–91), California Angels (1988–89), Atlanta Braves (1991) and Boston Red Sox (1991).

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Dana Kirk (swimmer)

Dana Kirk (born June 23, 1984) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympian and Pan American Games medalist.

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Dave Franco

David John Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American film and television actor.

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Dave Schultz (wrestling)

David Leslie "Dave" Schultz (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was an American Olympic and world champion freestyle wrestler, a seven-time World and Olympic medalist.

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David Filo

David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

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David M. Alexander

David M. Alexander, born in 1945 in upstate New York, is a writer of science fiction and mysteries who now lives in Palo Alto, California.

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David Packard

David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an electrical engineer and co-founder, with William Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and Chairman of the Board (1964–68, 1972–93).

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Debbi Fields

Debbi Fields (born September 18, 1956) is the founder and spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries.

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Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions.

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Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Dick Cheney

Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Don MacLean (basketball)

Donald James MacLean (born January 16, 1970) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA.

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Doug Clifford

Douglas Ray "Cosmo" Clifford (born April 24, 1945 in Palo Alto, California) is an American drummer, best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is the founder and former CEO of Theranos, a privately held company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests that used very small amounts of blood.

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Ellen K

Ellen K. (born September 19, 1962) is an American radio personality in the Los Angeles, California market and a television host.

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Ellwood P. Cubberley High School

Ellwood P. Cubberley High School (1956–1979) known locally as "Cubberley", was one of three public high schools in Palo Alto, California.

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Eric Valentine

Eric Dodd, known professionally as Eric Valentine, is an American record producer, who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band T-Ride.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Eugenics

Eugenics (from Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ eu, 'good, well' and γένος genos, 'race, stock, kin') is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Fantasia (1940 film)

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher is a 2014 American biographical sports true crime drama film produced and directed by Bennett Miller.

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Francie Larrieu Smith

Frances Anne "Francie" Larrieu Smith (November 23, 1952 in Palo Alto, California) is an American track and field athlete.

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Fridays (TV series)

Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.

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Gene F. Franklin

Gene F. Franklin (July 25, 1927 – August 9, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Grace Slick

Grace Barnett Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Grimm (TV series)

Grimm is an American fantasy police procedural drama television series created by Stephen Carpenter and Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt and produced by Universal Television for NBC.

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Gunn High School

Henry M. Gunn High School is one of two public high schools in Palo Alto, California.

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Harris Barton

Harris Scott Barton (born April 19, 1964) is a fund manager and a former All-Pro American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers.

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Helen Katharine Forbes

Helen Katharine Forbes (February 3, 1891 – May 27, 1945) was a Californian artist and arts educator specializing in etching, murals and painting.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for 146 episodes.

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Ida Shepard Oldroyd

Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1856–1940) was an American conchologist and Curator of Geology at Stanford University for over 20 years, who curated what was for a time the second largest collection of mollusk shells in the world.

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Infosys

Infosys Limited (formerly Infosys Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services.

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Jack Herrick

Jack Herrick is an American entrepreneur, programmer and wiki enthusiast.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

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Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Jerry Daniels

Jerrold B. Daniels or Jerry Daniels (June 11, 1941 - April 29, 1982) was a CIA Paramilitary Officer in Special Activities Division who worked in Laos and Thailand from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

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Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur, engineer, and programmer.

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Jim Harbaugh

James Joseph Harbaugh (born December 23, 1963) is the head football coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines and is a former quarterback.

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Jim Loscutoff

James Loscutoff Jr (February 4, 1930 – December 1, 2015) was a professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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Joc Pederson

Joc Russell Pederson (born April 21, 1992) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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John Markoff

John Gregory Markoff (born October 29, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.

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Jon Huntsman Jr.

Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American businessman, diplomat, politician and the current Ambassador of the United States to Russia, serving since October 2017.

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Julia Flynn Siler

Julia Flynn Siler is an American journalist and nonfiction author.

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Katie Hoff

Kathryn Elise Hoff (born June 3, 1989) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder.

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Keith Raffel

Keith Raffel (born 1951) is an American novelist, technology executive, and former United States Senate aide and political candidate.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Laos

Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

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Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to 2018.

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List of NBA champions

The National Basketball Association (NBA) (formerly Basketball Association of America (BAA) from 1946 to 1949) Finals is the championship series for the NBA and the conclusion of the NBA's postseason.

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List of people from Oakland, California

This is a list of people from Oakland, California, people born in Oakland or who lived in Oakland for a significant time.

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List of people from San Francisco

This is a list of notable people from San Francisco, California.

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List of people from San Jose, California

This is a list of notable people from San Jose, California.

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List of people from Santa Cruz, California

This is a list of notable people from Santa Cruz County, California.

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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California.

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M. N. Roy

Manabendra Nath Roy (21 March 1887 – 24 January 1954), born Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, was an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist, as well as a noted philosopher in the 20th century.

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Madam Secretary (TV series)

Madam Secretary is an American political drama television series created by Barbara Hall and executive produced by Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman.

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Margo Davis

Margo Baumgarten Davis is a photographer, educator and author of several photographer's books.

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Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American information technology executive, formerly serving as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, a position she had held starting July 2012.

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Mark Hurd

Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1957) is CEO of Oracle Corporation and serves on the board of directors.

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Mark Schultz (wrestler)

Mark Philip Schultz (born October 26, 1960) is an American Olympian and 2-time World champion freestyle wrestler and a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame, the California Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the San Mateo Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.

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Marty Klein

Marty Ralph Klein (born 1950) is an American sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst.

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Matt Biondi

Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965) is an American former competition swimmer, eleven-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in five events.

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Menlo College

Menlo College is a private, four-year baccalaureate college specializing in business located in the Silicon Valley town of Atherton, California, United States.

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Merrill Newman

Merrill Edward Newman (born May 20, 1928) is a retired businessman and former United States Army officer noted for his 2013 arrest in North Korea and release 42 days later.

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Michael H. Riley

Michael Harold Riley (born November 1, 1968, in Palo Alto) is an American motion graphics designer, art director and the founder of design company Shine.

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Michael Lederer

Michael Lederer (born July 9, 1956 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright currently living in Berlin, Germany.

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Michigan Wolverines football

The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level.

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Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science.

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Mrs. Fields

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Neva Gerber

Neva Gerber (April 3, 1894 – January 2, 1974) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 128 films between 1912 and 1930.

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Nick Bravin

Eric Oliver "Nick" Bravin (born May 28, 1971) is an American Olympic fencer and lawyer.

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Ollie Johnston

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

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Owen Van Natta

Owen T. Van Natta (born November 12, 1969) is an American businessman.

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Palo Alto High School

Palo Alto Senior High School, known locally as "Paly", is a public comprehensive high school located in Palo Alto, California.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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Pamela Melroy

Pamela Anne Melroy (born September 17, 1961) is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut.

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PARC (company)

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.

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Pedro Joseph de Lemos

Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 – 5 December 1954) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer, museum director and art educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Perley Ason Ross

Perley Ason Ross (6 April 1883 – 13 March 1939) was a U.S. experimental physicist who worked, carefully and without seeking publicity, at some essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays.

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Perry Mason

Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Phil Hellmuth

Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record fourteen World Series of Poker bracelets.

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Pop Warner

Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment.

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.

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Richard R. Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (born 14 August 1933) is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.

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Rick Rossovich

Rick Rossovich (born August 28, 1957) is an American actor best known as Ron "Slider" Kerner in the 1986 film Top Gun.

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Robert Spinrad

Robert J. Spinrad (March 20, 1932 – September 2, 2009) was an American computer designer, who was on the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory and who created many of the key technologies used in modern personal computers while director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

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Romesh Wadhwani

Romesh T. Wadhwani (born 1947/48) is an Indian-born American billionaire businessman, the founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity firm for software, Internet and technology services companies.

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Ron Christie

Ronald I. "Ron" Christie (born August 7, 1969) is an American government relations expert and Republican political strategist, who has also worked as a member of former Vice President Dick Cheney's staff.

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Ron Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon since 1996.

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Roxanne (film)

Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.

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San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.

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Shemar Moore

Shemar Franklin Moore (born April 20, 1970) is an American actor and former fashion model.

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Sleepy Hollow (TV series)

Sleepy Hollow is an American supernatural drama television series that aired on Fox from September 16, 2013 to March 31, 2017.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Stanford Cardinal football

The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference's North Division.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stephan Jenkins

Stephan Douglas Jenkins (born September 27, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Third Eye Blind.

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Stephen Neal (lawyer)

Stephen C. Neal is the chairman and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Cooley LLP, and the chairman of the board of directors of Levi Strauss & Co. Neal joined Cooley in 1995, having previously been a partner at Kirkland and Ellis in Chicago.

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate.

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Steve Young

Jon Steven Young (born October 11, 1961) is a former professional American football quarterback who played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and is best known for his 13 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.

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Symphony Technology Group

Symphony Technology Group is an American private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California.

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Tad Williams

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born 14 March 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer.

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Tara Kirk

Tara Kirk (born July 12, 1982) is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is an Olympic silver medalist.

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Teri Hatcher

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress, voice-actress, writer, singer, YouTuber, and former National Football League cheerleader.

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The Donnas

The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California.

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The Godfather (wrestler)

Charles Wright (born May 16, 1961) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Terminator

The Terminator is a 1984 American science-fiction action film directed by James Cameron.

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Theranos

Theranos is a privately held health technology company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very small amounts of blood.

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Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1993.

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Thomas T. Riley

Thomas Thomas Riley was the United States Ambassador to Morocco for 5 years.

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Tim Cook

Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive and industrial engineer.

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Tim Rossovich

Timothy John "Tim" Rossovich (born March 14, 1946) is a retired American football linebacker and a television and movie actor, active from 1977 to 1998.

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Tom Franco

Thomas Andrew Franco (born April 14, 1980) is an American actor, artist and the founder of the Firehouse Art Collective in Berkeley, California.

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Tony Hargain

Anthony Michael Hargain (born December 26, 1967) is a former American football wide receiver who played one season with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).

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Top Gun

Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures.

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Ugly Kid Joe

Ugly Kid Joe is an American rock band from Isla Vista, California, formed in 1987.

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Varian Associates

Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vincent Zhou

Vincent Zhou (born October 25, 2000) is an American figure skater.

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Vishal Sikka

Vishal Sikka (born May, 1967) was an Executive Vice Chairman of Infosys and former Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys.

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Whitfield Crane

William Whitfield "Whit" Crane IV (born January 19, 1968) is a founding member and lead singer of the rock band Ugly Kid Joe, which was formed in 1989 and disbanded in 1997, reforming in 2010.

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WikiHow

wikiHow is an online wiki-style community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides.

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William Ackerman

William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.

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William Redington Hewlett

William "Bill" Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).

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William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor.

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Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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Xerox

Xerox Corporation (also known as Xerox, stylized as xerox since 2008, and previously as XEROX or XeroX from 1960 to 2008) is an American global corporation that sells print and digital document solutions, and document technology products in more than 160 countries.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yentl

Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

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Yvor Winters

Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.

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Zach Appelman

Zach Appelman (born May 8, 1986) is an American film, television and theatre actor.

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Zynga

Zynga Inc. is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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1984 World Series

The 1984 World Series began on October 9 and ended on October 14, 1984.

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2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was an international winter multi-sport event that was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February 2018, the eve of the opening ceremony.

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24 (TV series)

24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and starring Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Palo_Alto

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