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- Bill Fagerbakke – actor/voice actor (Patrick Star)
- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – husband and wife film directors (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Heather Fargo – Mayor of Sacramento, California
- Mia Farrow – actress
- Dianne Feinstein – US Senator from California, Mayor of San Francisco (1978–1988)
- Stacy Ferguson – singer, actress, composer (The Dutchess), Charlie Brown, Fergalicious)
- Will Ferrell – actor
- Miguel Ferrer – actor (RoboCop)
- Carrie Fisher – actress
- Abigail Folger – coffee heiress, socialite, and murder victim
- Dian Fossey – zoologist
- Jodie Foster – actress (The Silence of the Lambs)
- Allen Fox – tennis player (ranked as high as # 4) and coach
- Paulette Frankl – artist, biographer
- Robert Frost – poet
- Del tha Funkee Homosapien – rapper
- Edward Furlong – actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
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