Bolinas, California is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California with a reputation as an art colony. This list includes any notable people known to have resided in Bolinas.
Donald Allen, editor, publisher Dawn-Michelle Baude, poet Bill Berkson, poet Ted Berrigan, poet Peg Bracken, author Joe Brainard, artist and writer Richard Brautigan, writer Gail Carriger, writer Jim Carroll, author, poet, rock musician C. West Churchman, philosopher Suzanne Ciani, electronic music pioneer Tom Clark, poet, biographer Joel Coen, one of the Coen Brothers, screenwriter, film director Signy Coleman, actress Clark Coolidge, poet Robert Creeley, poet, author Stephen Emerson, author Paulette Frankl, artist, photographer, biographer Robert Grenier, poet Paul Harris, sculptor and lithographer Ilka Hartman, photographer Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet Stephan Jenkins, singer, songwriter, Third Eye Blind frontman. Paul Kantner, rhythm guitarist, rock vocalist, songwriter Harmony Korine, film director, producer, screenwriter Joanne Kyger, poet with ties to the Beat Generation Anne Lamott, nonfiction author Kenneth Lamott, writer Annie Leibovitz, photographer Michael Lerner, integrative health pioneer, MacArthur grant recipient Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter Lewis MacAdams, poet, author Jerry Mander, activist, author Paul McCandless, master oboist, reed player, co-founded Oregon, world class musician Frances McDormand, actress Barry McGee, artist Duncan McNaughton, poet David Meltzer, poet Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor, sound mixer Bill Niman, founder with Orville Schell of Niman-Schell Ranch Meats Alice Notley, poet Arthur Okamura, painter and silk screen artist Guy Overfelt, conceptual artist Gladys Kathleen Parkin, wireless radio operator Ponponio Lupugeyun, Coast Miwok, born c. 1799 to the Guaulen local tribe area of present-day Bolinas; insurgent Bill Rafferty, television personality Stephen Ratcliffe, poet Charles A. Reich, professor of law at Yale University, author Aram Saroyan, poet, novelist, playwright Strawberry Saroyan, journalist and author Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism co-founder with Bill Niman of Niman-Schell Ranch Meats Tony Serra, radical civil rights attorney, tax resister Grace Slick, rock singer, songwriter Sean Thackrey, winemaker Susie Tompkins Buell, founder of Esprit Lewis Warsh, writer and artist Peter Warshall, ecologist, member of the board of directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District Philip Whalen, poet Michael Wolfe, poet, author, publisher, documentary film producer Lloyd Kahn, publisher, editor, author, photographer, carpenter, and self-taught architect
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