CITY

Official Website:
http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/

Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.paloaltochamber.com/

Population:
58598 (2000 census)

Founding Date:
1887

County:
Santa Clara County

Annexed the adjoining town of Mayfield on 6 July 1925.

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA	1964
Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA	1898

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Flipboard	2010
CPI International	2006
Ning	2005
Facebook	2004
Palantir Technologies	2004
Tesla Motors	2003
Danger	2000
Agilent	1999
Varian Medical Systems	1999
VMware	1998
Financial Engines	1996
Allegis Capital	1995
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers	1972
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	1961
Varian	1948
Hewlett-Packard	1939
CNF	1929
Accel Partners

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mark Bauerlein	Educator	27-Jan-1959		The Dumbest Generation
Matt Biondi	Swimmer	8-Oct-1965		Competitive swimmer, 10 Olympic medals
Consuelo M. Callahan	Judge	9-Jun-1950		9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Ron Christie	Government	7-Aug-1969		Former Cheney aide
Eric A. Cornell	Physicist	19-Dec-1961		Atomic physicist, Nobel laureate
Alan Cranston	Politician	19-Jun-1914	31-Dec-2000	US Senator from California, 1969-93
Alison Davis-Blake	Educator	5-Nov-1958		Dean, Ross School of Business, 2011-16
Dave Franco	Actor	12-Jun-1985		Cole Aaronson on Scrubs
James Franco	Actor	19-Apr-1978		Freaks and Geeks
David E. Hoffman	Journalist	1953		The Dead Hand
Jon Huntsman, Jr.	Politician	26-Mar-1960		US Ambassador to China, 2009-11
Amy Irving	Actor	10-Sep-1953		Carrie and Yentl
Eugene Jarvis	Computer Programmer	1955		Defender, Robotron, Smash TV
Bill Keller	Journalist	18-Jun-1949		Executive Editor, The New York Times
Bill Kreutzmann	Drummer	7-Apr-1946		Drummer for Grateful Dead
Jamie Luner	Actor	12-May-1971		Lexi on Melrose Place
Bill McKibben	Activist	8-Dec-1960		The End of Nature
Bob Melvin	Baseball	28-Oct-1961		Manager, Arizona Diamondbacks
Kenny Ortega	Choreographer	18-Apr-1950		High School Musical
Elaine Pagels	Historian	13-Feb-1943		The Gnostic Gospels
Markie Post	Actor	4-Nov-1950		Christine on Night Court
Rick Rossovich	Actor	28-Aug-1957		Navy Seals
Bree Turner	Actor	10-Mar-1977		Sorority Boys

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fouad Ajami	Author	9-Sep-1945	22-Jun-2014	Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS
Gene Amdahl	Engineer	16-Nov-1922	10-Nov-2015	Parallel computing pioneer
Kenneth J. Arrow	Economist	23-Aug-1921	21-Feb-2017	Social Choice and Individual Values
Paul Baran	Engineer	29-Apr-1926	26-Mar-2011	Packet-sharing in computer communications
Rose Bird	Judge	2-Nov-1936	4-Dec-1999	California Chief Justice, 1977-87
Claude S. Brinegar	Business	16-Dec-1926	13-Mar-2009	US Secretary of Transportation, 1973-75
Bill Campbell	Business	31-Aug-1940	18-Apr-2016	CEO of Intuit, 1994-98 and 1999-2000
Lloyd H. Donnell	Engineer	20-May-1895	7-Nov-1997	Donnell's thin shell theory
Sidney D. Drell	Physicist	13-Sep-1926	21-Dec-2016	In the Shadow of the Bomb
Rajiv Dutta	Business	5-May-1960	31-Jan-2011	President of PayPal, 2006-08
Norman Foerster	Critic	14-Apr-1887	1-Aug-1972	New Humanist movement
John W. Gardner	Administrator	8-Oct-1912	16-Feb-2002	Founder of Common Cause
Chuck Hansen	Activist	13-May-1947	26-Mar-2003	Nuclear historian and archivist
Nicholas J. Hoff	Engineer	3-Jan-1906	4-Aug-1997	Aluminum in aircraft design
Steve Jobs	Business	24-Feb-1955	5-Oct-2011	Co-Founder of Apple Computer
David Starr Jordan	Biologist	19-Jan-1851	19-Sep-1931	Fishes of North and Middle America
Laurence W. Lane, Jr.	Publisher	7-Nov-1919	31-Jul-2010	US Ambassador to Australia, 1986-89
Ernest Lawrence	Physicist	8-Aug-1901	27-Aug-1958	Inventor of the cyclotron
Richard W. Lyman	Educator	18-Oct-1923	27-May-2012	President of Stanford University, 1971-80
John McCarthy	Computer Programmer	4-Sep-1927	24-Oct-2011	Created LISP programming language
M. Kenneth Oshman	Business	9-Jul-1940	6-Aug-2011	CEO of Echelon, 1988-2009
Kenneth Patchen	Poet	13-Dec-1911	8-Jan-1972	Journal of Albion Moonlight
Martin L. Perl	Physicist	24-Jun-1927	30-Sep-2014	Discovered the tau lepton
Walter B. Pitkin	Psychologist	6-Feb-1878	25-Jan-1953	Life Begins at Forty
Arthur L. Schawlow	Physicist	5-May-1921	28-Apr-1999	Laser spectroscopy
Ezra Solomon	Economist	20-Mar-1920	9-Dec-2002	Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73
Leland Stanford	Business	9-Mar-1824	21-Jun-1893	Founder of Stanford University
Joel Stebbins	Astronomer	30-Jul-1878	16-Mar-1966	Photoelectric photometry
Frederick Terman	Scientist	7-Jun-1900	19-Dec-1982	Stanford Research Park
Lewis Terman	Psychologist	15-Jan-1877	21-Dec-1956	Intelligence tests
William D. Walsh	Business	4-Aug-1930	16-Nov-2013	Sequoia Associates
Pop Warner	Football	5-Apr-1871	7-Sep-1954	Coach and kids' football namesake
Yvor Winters	Poet	17-Oct-1900	25-Jan-1968	Primitivism & Decadence
Bertram D. Wolfe	Historian	19-Jan-1896	21-Feb-1977	Three Who Made a Revolution

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