Famous Santa Rosa Connection

• Burbank, Luther

  Creator of the Burbank potato

• Chandler, Raymond

  The creator of detective Philip Marlowe

• Deep Throat

  Mysterious informer of the Watergate scandal

• Hitchcock, Alfred

  The director of the classic suspense film Psycho

• London, Jack

  Author of Call of the Wild

• Marlowe, Philip

  The hard-boiled hero of Farewell, My Lovely and other novels

• Ripley, Robert L.

  Founder of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

• Schulz, Charles

  The creator of Charlie Brown and Peanuts

• Wood, Natalie

  The girl who doubts Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street

See: All of our lists