Notable alumni:Michael Altman (1993), oarsman, 2004 (alternate) and 2008 US Olympic Rowing (lightweight four) teams
Greg Behrendt, stand-up comedian, author, TV performer
Buddy Biancalana, former shortstop for the Kansas City Royals
Pete Carroll, current Seattle Seahawks head football coach and former USC head football coach. ; a 3-sport (football, basketball and baseball) standout at Redwood High, earning the school's Athlete of the Year award as a senior
Gabrielle Carteris, actress
Matt Doyle, actor
David Dukes, Film, TV, and Broadway actor
Alaura Eden, adult film star
Mark Fainaru-Wada, co-author of Game of Shadows
Steve Fainaru, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of the Washington Post
Gary Fisher, mountain bike inventor
Ken Flax (1981), two-time olympic athlete in track and field, current holder of the NCAA American Collegiate Record in the hammer throw
Don Francis M.D., noted US epidemiologist, pioneer in AIDS and HIV research
Erin Gray, actress
JR Hildebrand, Indy race car driver
Peter Horton, actor and director
Maz Jobrani, Iranian-American comedian
China Kantner, former MTV VJ and actress
Chad Kreuter, former University of Southern California head baseball coach
Anne Lamott, author
Matthew Leutwyler, producer, director, owner Ambush Entertainment
John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban
Ki Longfellow, aka Pamela Longfellow, novelist and screenwriter, amongst other books, author of The Secret Magdalene and Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria
Joan Lubamersky, former Mayor of Larkspur, CA. Member, Marin County Planning Commission
Andy Luckey, television producer of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Adventures from the Book of Virtues," author and illustrator of children's books
Lon McEachern, television host, World Seies of Poker (ESPN)
Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco
Ned Overend, cyclist
Eric Schmitt, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of the New York Times
Tiffany Shlain, founder of the Webby Awards
David Strathairn, actor, most notably for his roles in Sneakers and Good Night, and Good Luck
Nicholas Suntzeff, US astronomer and cosmologist, Gruber Prize Laureate of 2007 for the discovery of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
Twinka Thiebaud, writer and model
Russell Weiner, creator and CEO of Rockstar Energy Drinks
Robin Williams, comedian and actor |
