Rancho Santa Fe, California
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Rancho Santa Fe known locally as ″The Ranch″, is one of the most exclusive and affluent communities in Southern California. It is also a census-designated place
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 (CDP) in San Diego County, California
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 and an unincorporated bedroom community of San Diego
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 County. At $245,631, it is one of the highest income communities in the United States with at least 1,000 households. The population was 3,117 at the 2010 census, down from 3,252 at the 2000 census
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.The CDP is primarily residential with one shopping avenue as well as several private schools, and single family residential areas situated on uncommonly large lots.

Rancho Santa Fe has many strict architectural design codes as can be exemplified by several attempts from local residents to improve upon or build new residences. Forbes reported Rancho Santa Fe as having the third most expensive ZIP code in the United States, and most expensive in California, with a median home sale price of $2,585,000. Some homes in ZIP code 92067 but not within the CDP are valued at more than the median home-value within the Master Planned Community that makes up the official CDP
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, and many people who live within the 92067 ZIP code cite their community as Rancho Santa Fe even though they do not live within the strict boundaries of the Master Planned Community. The United States Postal Service
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 (USPS) refers to all homes in the 92067 and 92091 ZIP codes, as well as many of the communities in the 92127 ZIP code, as "Rancho Santa Fe".

History

In 1906, the Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The company was first chartered in February 1859...

 initiated a project of growing eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...

 trees for railroad timber at the Rancho San Dieguito which constitutes present-day Rancho Santa Fe. At that time about 93% of the property was under one ownership, but the balance of the acreage was vested in a number of separate owners.

In August 1906, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The company was first chartered in February 1859...

 Company acquired the several tracts, taking title in its affiiliate, the so-called “Santa Fe Land Improvement Company”.

Additional small parcels were added including the original properties owned by the Mexican
Mexican American
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 settlers of the area, the Osuna family who had been recipients of a Mexican Land Grant under Mexican rule of California called "Rancho San Dieguito". A survey in 1922 showed that the new land Company owned 8,796.23 acres.

Officials of the Santa Fe Railway needed satisfactory material for railroad ties, and since the Rancho San Dieguito could be supplied with sufficient water from wells and the nearby river, Eucalyptus seedlings were imported from Australia
Australia
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 and planting began in January 1907.

While the Company planted about 3,000 acres, the experiment proved a failure.

A drought in 1912, followed by a severe frost in 1914, killed about 60% of the remaining trees and all seedlings. Experiments with redwood and other materials at other locations brought abandonment of the project in 1915, and eucalyptus planting was discontinued on Rancho San Dieguito.

While the experiment proved the eucalyptus lumber too hard for railway ties, the eucalyptus and additional planting of other non-native trees and shrubbery were seen as an enhancement to the environment of Rancho Santa Fe until the disastrous California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 wildfire
Wildfire
A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

s of September and October 2007.

The actual planning of the residential community occurred in the early 1920's, with local architect Lilian Jeannette Rice leading the effort.

Disease, Fire, and the Red Gum Eucapyltus

The community's adherence to maintaining the Red Gum Eucapyltus species (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is enforced through deed restrictions on every homeowner within the Covenant area of Rancho Santa Fe by the "Rancho Santa Fe Protective Covenant Association."

Since the 2007 fire, many in the community have grown to believe that the Association is not representative of the homeowners' best interests due the ever-present fire danger posed by diseased and dying eucalyptus trees. Disease spread in 1989 with infestation of the area by an insect native to Australian eucalyptus forests, leading to the immediate and possibly irreversible decline of the Red Gum Eucalyptus forest of Rancho Santa Fe. This insect, the red gum lerp psyllid (Glycaspis brimblecombei), was found in Los Angeles County in 1998 and has rapidly spread through much of California as well as to Arizona
Arizona
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, Florida
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, Hawaii
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, and Mexico
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, on varieties of eucalyptus.

Despite optimistic assertions by hired arborists and the "Forest Health Task Force," the Rancho Santa Fe Red Gum Eucalyptus forest has continued to decline, while the Rancho Santa Fe Protective Covenant Association, which is unelected, attempts to maintain the status quo by replanting burned areas. Opponents of this policy favor returning the area to a more natural environment through the planting of California-native tree species, such as Coastal Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) and Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana).

Geography

Rancho Santa Fe is located at 33°1′26"N 117°12′0"W (33.023943, -117.200110).

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP has a total area of 6.8 square miles (17.6 km²). 6.7 square miles (17.4 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square mile (0.258998811 km²) of it (1.07%) is water.

The climate of Rancho Santa Fe is, for the most part, typical of the San Diego metropolitan area, though the higher elevation and inland location tends to lend itself to higher temperature variation. Additionally, Rancho Santa Fe is notable for being one of only a few places in suburban San Diego to receive snowfall, the last of which occurred on February 26–27, 2011.

2010

The 2010 United States Census reported that Rancho Santa Fe had a population of 3,117. The population density
Population density
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 was 459.2 people per square mile (177.3/km²). The racial makeup of Rancho Santa Fe was 2,910 (93.4%) White, 10 (0.3%) African American, 1 (0.0%) Native American, 87 (2.8%) Asian, 4 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 45 (1.4%) from other races
Race (United States Census)
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, and 60 (1.9%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 176 persons (5.6%).

The Census reported that 3,117 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.

There were 1,195 households, out of which 364 (30.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 848 (71.0%) were opposite-sex married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 62 (5.2%) had a female householder with no husband present, 33 (2.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 23 (1.9%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships
POSSLQ
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, and 9 (0.8%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 213 households (17.8%) were made up of individuals and 124 (10.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61. There were 943 families
Family (U.S. Census)
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 (78.9% of all households); the average family size was 2.93.

The population was spread out with 724 people (23.2%) under the age of 18, 142 people (4.6%) aged 18 to 24, 332 people (10.7%) aged 25 to 44, 1,178 people (37.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 741 people (23.8%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 51.3 years. For every 100 females there were 96.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.5 males.

There were 1,391 housing units at an average density of 204.9 per square mile (79.1/km²), of which 1,010 (84.5%) were owner-occupied, and 185 (15.5%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.4%; the rental vacancy rate was 12.3%. 2,674 people (85.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 443 people (14.2%) lived in rental housing units.

2000

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 3,252 people, 1,204 households, and 947 families residing in the CDP. The population density
Population density
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 was 476.2 inhabitants per square mile (183.8/km²). There were 1,339 housing units at an average density of 196.1 per square mile (75.7/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 93.33% White, 0.46% African American, 0.15% Native American, 2.77% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 2.15% from other races
Race (United States Census)
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, and 1.08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.32% of the population.

There were 1,204 households out of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.4% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.3% were non-families. 17.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.01.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 2.9% from 18 to 24, 17.7% from 25 to 44, 33.0% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.7 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was in excess of $200,000, as is the median income for a family. Males had a median income of over $150,000 versus $86,933 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the CDP was $113,132. 3.5% of the population and 2.0% of families were below the poverty line. None under the age of 18 and 5.5% of those 65 and older was living below the poverty line.

Because of the (especially) recent wildfire devastation, Rancho Santa Fe is expecting a significant loss in population when the 2010 census is released (compared to 2000). Many residents, burned out sometimes two or three times, have decided not to return permanently. Many residents decide not to return

Politics

In the state legislature
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 Rancho Santa Fe is located in the 38th Senate
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 District, represented by Republican
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 Mark Wyland
Mark Wyland
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, and in the 74th Assembly
California State Assembly
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 District, represented by Republican Martin Garrick
Martin Garrick
Martin W. Garrick represents the 74th district in the California State Assembly. He was elected to the Assembly in November 2006. Garrick served in the Reagan Administration and is a small business owner.-Background:...

. Federally, Rancho Santa Fe is located in California's 50th congressional district
California's 50th congressional district
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, which has a Cook PVI
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 of R +3 -- that is, in recent presidential elections its voters have voted Republican somewhat more than the national average—and is represented by Republican Brian Bilbray
Brian Bilbray
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.

Education

Schools located within the Rancho Santa Fe School District:
  • R. Roger Rowe Rancho Santa Fe School - public elementary
    Elementary school
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     and middle school
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     serving grades K
    Kindergarten
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     through 8
    Eighth grade
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  • Diegueno Country School - Private Elementary School serving Kindergarten through Sixth grade http://www.diegueno.com/
  • Horizon Preparatory - private
  • The Nativity School - private


In Rancho Santa Fe near gated community of Fairbanks Ranch (Solana Beach School District)
  • Solana Santa Fe - public elementary school
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     serving grades K
    Kindergarten
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     through 6
    Sixth grade
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Rancho Santa Fe is located within the San Dieguito Union High School District which includes the schools:
  • Torrey Pines High School
    Torrey Pines High School
    Torrey Pines High School is a high school in the North County Coastal area of San Diego, California. The school is named after the Torrey Pine tree that grows in the area...

  • Canyon Crest Academy
    Canyon Crest Academy
    Canyon Crest Academy is a public high school in San Diego, California. Founded in 2004, the school is a member of the San Dieguito Union High School District...

  • La Costa Canyon High School
    La Costa Canyon High School
    La Costa Canyon High School is one of the high schools in the San Dieguito Union High School District. Located on 88 acres in south Carlsbad in northwest San Diego County, La Costa Canyon opened in September, 1996. The students attending La Costa Canyon live in Encinitas and south Carlsbad...

  • Earl Warren Middle School
  • Carmel Valley Middle School
  • Sunset Academy
  • Oak Crest Middle School
  • North Coast Alternative High School
  • Diegueño Middle School


Private Schools:
  • Horizon
  • Horizon prep
  • The Nativity School

Communities

  • The Covenant refers to the original planned community of Rancho Santa Fe.
  • Rancho Santa Fe Groves, a gated community on the northeast border of the Covenant set in an Orange grove.
  • Cielo, a gated community
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     east of the Covenant and bordered by Del Dios Highway.
  • Santa Fe Hills, a community of 31 homes located directly East of the Covenant and West of Del Sur.
  • The Crosby, a gated community east of the Covenant and bordered by Del Dios Highway.
  • Morgan Run, a golf course community surrounded by the Morgan Run Golf Course in the southern portion of Rancho Santa Fe.
  • Fairbanks Ranch
    Fairbanks Ranch, California
    Fairbanks Ranch is a census-designated place in San Diego County, California. The population was 3,148 at the 2010 census, up from 2,244 at the 2000 census. The entire population is contained within two gated communities, divided into North and South sections by the formerly private San Dieguito...

    , The Crosby, Hacienda Santa Fe, The Summit, Del Rayo, The Bridges, Rancho La Cima, The River Estates.

Social history

Rancho Santa Fe has its origins as Rancho San Dieguito
Rancho San Dieguito
Rancho San Dieguito was a Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Juan María Osuna. The rancho was renamed Rancho Santa Fe.-History:...

, a Mexican land grant made during 1836–1845 to Juan María Osuna
Juan María Osuna
Juan María Osuna was an early settler of San Diego, California-Life:Juan María Osuna was born 1785 in California to Juan Hismerio Osuna and Maria Alvarado. He was a soldier and corporal of the San Diego Company and settled in San Diego...

 (the first mayor
Mayor
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 or alcalde
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 of the San Diego area). In 1906 it was sold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The company was first chartered in February 1859...

 Company, which renamed it after the second transcontinental railroad to reach California. As previously mentioned, the Railway planted extensive groves of eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...

 trees in the hope of having a near-inexhaustible supply of raw material for the railway ties they needed to expand their Western American market. Eucalyptus wood, however, proved too brittle; unable to hold railway spikes. One Sydney Nelson, about whom little else is known, helped finance the purchase of the ten square mile plot, as well as the construction of a golf course (today the main course of the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club). Nelson also drew up rudimentary community plans.

Rancho Santa Fe gained popularity between World War I and World War II, especially following the construction of the Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar Racetrack is an American Thoroughbred horse racing track at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in the seaside city of Del Mar, California, 20 miles north of San Diego. Operated by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, it is known for the slogan: "Where The Turf Meets The Surf." It was built by a partnership...

. Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
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 is credited as an "early settler", hosting annual clambakes on the golf course at the Club. The present-day luxury home development "The Crosby Estates" stands on the site of his former estate.

In addition to many notable Hollywood figures (Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
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, Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
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) who played important roles in the founding and popularization of the resort town, Rancho Santa Fe has been the scene for a good deal of San Diego County's high social dramas. In March 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult, committed mass suicide in a rented house at 18241 Colina Norte. Due to the publicity surrounding the case, the street name was changed to Paseo Victoria.

Rancho Sante Fe was chosen to host the equestrian
Equestrianism
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 events during the 1984 Summer Olympics
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.

Rancho Santa Fe is in the 50th congressional district. Their representative, Randy Duke Cunningham, resigned from the House on November 28, 2005 after pleading guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion for underreporting his income in 2004. Cunningham's corruption first came to light when he bought his Rancho Santa Fe house largely with the proceeds of the sale of his Del Mar home
for an inflated price. He was replaced by Brian Bilbray in the 2006 elections, who beat Democrat Francine Busby.

The public library in Rancho Santa Fe is a branch of the San Diego County Library system, and is open to all California residents. The Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild owns the building and land that house the Rancho Santa Fe Library, as well as providing the staff for the children's room.

Notable people

  • Rick Aguilera
    Rick Aguilera
    Richard Warren Aguilera is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. During a 16-year baseball career, he pitched from 1985-2000 for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs....

    , former major league baseball player
  • Marshall Applewhite
    Marshall Applewhite
    Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr. , known among his followers as "Do", was the leader of the Heaven's Gate religious group. A self-proclaimed prophet and messiah, he died in the group's mass suicide of 1997.-Early life:...

    , Heaven's Gate leader
  • Jackson D. Arnold
    Jackson D. Arnold
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    , retired Admiral, USN
  • Bob Baker
    Bob Baker
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    , Automobile retail magnate with a chain of car dealerships throughout the West selling the spectrum of makes and models
  • Douglas Barnhart, PETCO Park Builder.
  • Warren Barton
    Warren Barton
    Warren Dean Barton is a former English football player and a TV Pundit for Fox Soccer Channel.-Club career:...

    , former English football player
  • Bud Black
    Bud Black
    Harry Ralston "Bud" Black is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher and current manager of the San Diego Padres.-College:Black played two years at Lower Columbia College in Longview...

    , former major league pitcher from 1981–1995, Pitching Coach for Anaheim Angels 2000-2006, Manager of the San Diego Padres, 2007–present
  • Jud Buechler
    Jud Buechler
    Judson Donald "Jud" Buechler is a retired American professional basketball player. He grew up in Poway, CA and attended Poway High School, where he was a top basketball recruit as well as a Top-50 men's volleyball prospect....

    , Former NBA player and champion
  • Clair Burgener
    Clair Burgener
    Sinclair Walter "Clair" Burgener was an American Republican politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1973-1983.-Early life:...

    , local politician
  • Joseph Coors
    Joseph Coors
    Joseph Coors, Sr. , was the grandson of Adolph Coors and president of Coors Brewing Company. -Birth and education:...

    , of the Coors
    Coors Brewing Company
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     brewery family and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation
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  • Jenny Craig (entrepreneur), weight loss guru and founder of Jenny Craig Inc.
  • Randy "Duke" Cunningham, former Congressman, currently an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson, Arizona
    United States Penitentiary, Tucson
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  • Tom DeLonge
    Tom DeLonge
    Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an American rock musician. He is the guitarist and one of the two lead vocalists for the American pop punk band Blink-182 as well as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the alternative band Angels & Airwaves...

    , guitarist and vocalist of the bands Blink-182
    Blink-182
    Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...

    , Angels & Airwaves
    Angels & Airwaves
    Angels & Airwaves is an American alternative rock supergroup led by Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, also including guitarist David Kennedy from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer, bass guitarist Matt Wachter from 30 Seconds to Mars and former Lostprophets and Nine Inch...

    , and Box Car Racer
    Box Car Racer
    Box Car Racer was a short-lived American post-hardcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2002. The band was a side-project of guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182, along with lead guitarist David Kennedy of Hazen Street, and touring bassist Anthony Celestino...

     ; owner of Macbeth Footwear and Modlife
    Modlife
    Modlife is a website that connects fans with bands, artists and personalities using live video broadcasts, text messaging, video blogs, mobile updating and twitter feeds. Modlife's goal is to reward loyal fans and to create a new revenue stream for content creators through a high level of...

  • Steve Finley
    Steve Finley
    Steven Allen Finley is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.-Early life:Finley, who grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, attended Paducah Tilghman High School and Southern Illinois University, where he earned a degree in physiology and played for the baseball team from 1984–87.-College, Team USA,...

    , baseball player
  • Steven Ford
    Steven Ford
    Steven Meigs Ford is an American actor and son of former United States President Gerald Ford and Former First Lady Betty Bloomer Ford.-Early life:...

    , former U.S. President Gerald Ford's son
  • Sidney Frank
    Sidney Frank
    Sidney E. Frank was an American businessman who became a billionaire through his promotion of Grey Goose vodka and Jägermeister.-Early life, family, education:...

    , liquor promotions billionaire
  • Robert Frimtzis
    Robert Frimtzis
    Robert Frimtzis - Born 1930, Robert Frimtzis, the author of From Tajikistan to the Moon – a memoir, lived in Bălţi formerly Bessarabia, now Moldova....

    , Holocaust survivor and engineer for the Apollo space program
  • Bill Gates
    Bill Gates
    William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...

    , American entrepreneur, software executive, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

     owns a home here, although his main residence is in Medina, Washington
    Medina, Washington
    Medina is a city located in the Eastside, a region of King County, Washington, United States. Surrounded on the north, west, and south by Lake Washington, opposite Seattle, Medina is bordered by Clyde Hill and Hunts Point, as well as the satellite city of Bellevue. The city's population was 2,969...

    .
  • David Gates
    David Gates
    David Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame...

    , musician, songwriter, member of 70's group Bread
  • Marshall Goldsmith
    Marshall Goldsmith
    Marshall Goldsmith is an American author of management-related literature, professor, executive educator and coach. Born in Valley Station, Kentucky, he received his BS from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1970, his MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in 1972 , and his...

    , noted executive coach and management guru, best-selling author
  • Bear Grylls
    Bear Grylls
    Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls is an English adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survivor in the United Kingdom...

    , Man Vs. Wild Star
  • Trevor Hoffman
    Trevor Hoffman
    Trevor William Hoffman is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. During his 18-year career from 1993 to 2010, he pitched for the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, and the Milwaukee Brewers, spending years of his career with the Padres. A long-time closer, he is the Major...

    , MLB Pitcher with second most saves in MLB history
  • Janet Jackson
    Janet Jackson
    Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

    , singer and performer
  • Richard Jefferson
    Richard Jefferson
    Richard Allen Jefferson is a 6 ft 7 in American professional basketball player currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association...

    , Current NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs
  • I.K. Kim, golfer. Winner of three LPGA Tour events
  • Steve Kerr
    Steve Kerr
    Stephen Douglas "Steve" Kerr is a retired American professional basketball player. He shot .454 from three point range over his career and currently holds the record as the most accurate three-point shooter in NBA history...

    , NBA player and former Phoenix Suns GM.
  • Gary Kremen
    Gary Kremen
    Gary Alan Kremen is an entrepreneur who founded personals site match.com, and registered several premiere domain names in the early days of the internet, including sex.com, jobs.com, , and autos.com...

    , founder of match.com
    Match.com
    Match.com is an online dating company which reportedly has more than 20 million members, made up of a 49/51 male/female ratio, and Web sites serving 25 countries in more than 8 different languages. Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas and the company also has offices in West Hollywood, Tokyo, Rio,...

     and sex.com
    Sex.com
    Sex.com is an Internet domain name and web portal currently owned by Clover Holdings LTD. The domain name was the focus of one of the most publicized legal actions about ownership of domain names...

  • Joan Kroc, philanthropist and widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc
    Ray Kroc
    Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American fast food businessman who joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime...

  • Arthur Laffer
    Arthur Laffer
    Arthur Betz Laffer is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board . Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve, an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will...

    , Reaganomics
    Reaganomics
    Reaganomics refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics and called trickle-down economics, particularly by critics...

     collaborator and coiner of the term "voodoo economics"
  • Jim Lampley
    Jim Lampley
    James "Jim" Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. Lampley has anchored a record 14 Olympic Games U.S. television broadcasts, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China....

    , sports commentator
  • Mark Loretta
    Mark Loretta
    Mark David Loretta is a retired Major League Baseball infielder. Loretta played for the Milwaukee Brewers , Houston Astros , San Diego Padres , Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers...

    , baseball player
  • Victor Mature
    Victor Mature
    Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,...

    , American leading man - long term resident who died in Rancho Santa Fe in 1999.
  • Kirk McCaskill
    Kirk McCaskill
    Kirk Edward McCaskill is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher and a retired professional hockey player....

    , former MLB Pitcher, 1985–1996
  • Jack McDowell
    Jack McDowell
    Jack Burns McDowell is a former Major League Baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, McDowell won the American League Cy Young Award in 1993. He was nicknamed "Black Jack."...

    , former MLB Pitcher 1987-1999, 1993 Cy Young Award Winner
  • Phil Mickelson
    Phil Mickelson
    Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed...

    , professional golfer
  • John Moores
    John Moores (baseball)
    John Jay Moores is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, and the owner of the San Diego Padres.-Early years:...

    , philanthropist, former owner of the San Diego Padres
    San Diego Padres
    The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...

     and a regent of the University of California
    Regents of the University of California
    The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. The Board has 26 full members:* The majority are appointed by the Governor of California for 12-year terms....

  • Juice Newton
    Juice Newton
    Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...

    , singer
  • T. Boone Pickens, investor.
  • Lilian Jennette Rice
    Lilian Jennette Rice
    Lilian Jeannette Rice was an eco-conscious, early 20th century American architect.Rice was the daughter of Julius and Laura Rice and was born in National City, California, ten miles north of the Mexican border in south bay, San Diego County...

    , architect and designer of Rancho Santa Fe, deceased
  • Pete Rozelle
    Pete Rozelle
    Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was the commissioner of the National Football League from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. Rozelle is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world....

    , former commissioner of the NFL
  • Brian Tracy
    Brian Tracy
    Brian Tracy is a self-help author and motivational speaker. He serves as Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in Solana Beach, California, with affiliates throughout the United States and thirty-one other countries.-Early life:After dropping out of school before...

    , self-help author, motivational speaker, and Chairman of Brian Tracy International
  • Joe Walsh
    Joe Walsh
    Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

    , guitarist for The Eagles band
  • Luke Walton
    Luke Walton
    Luke Theodore Walton is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . His primary position is at small forward. After the 2010 NBA Finals, Walton and his father Hall of Famer Bill Walton became the first and only father and son to...

    , NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
  • David Wells
    David Wells
    David Lee Wells , nicknamed "Boomer", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Wells was considered to be one of the game's better left-handed pitchers, especially during his years with the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays. He pitched the fifteenth perfect game in baseball history...

    , Los Angeles Dodgers and former San Diego Padres pitcher
  • Shaun White
    Shaun White
    Shaun Roger White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.-Early life:Shaun White is an Irish American...

    , Olympic gold medalist, professional snowboarder/skateboarder
  • Steve Yuhas
    Steve Yuhas
    Steve Yuhas is a conservative radio personality in southern California. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs and contributes to a myriad of newspapers and magazines with his unique style of conservative analysis. The Steve Yuhas Show airs on News Radio 600 KOGO...

    , television personality and radio talk show host on KOGO radio.
  • Jewel
    Jewel (singer)
    Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...

    , singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer; recipient of four Grammy Award nominations

Jelena Jankovic,Serbian professional tennis player,former number 1
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