Oakland, California (usa)

Oakland, California

Oakland, California ranks 155th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ghent, Graz, and Bergen. Memorable people born in Oakland, California include Kamala Harris, Brandon Lee, and Mark Hamill. Memorable people who died in Oakland, California include Charles H. Townes, Jack Vance, and Jerzy Neyman. Oakland, California has been the birth place of many actors, and musicians and the death place of many writers, and musicians. Oakland, California is located in United States.

Oakland is the most populous city in and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the third-largest city overall in the Bay Area. With a population of 440,646 in 2020, it serves as the Bay Area's trade center: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth- or sixth-busiest in the United States. A charter city, Oakland was incorporated on May 4, 1852, in the wake of the state's increasing population due to the California gold rush. Read more on Wikipedia