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My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

— Sid Sriram

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

— Freddy Fender

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in…

— Lisa Su

I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

— Robert Vaughn

When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from…

— Zaytoven

I grew up in San Francisco. And I grew up with gay parents.

— Chloe Benjamin

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

— Sasha Alexander

I grew up in Mexico until I was 16, and then we moved to San Antonio because my dad's business was headquartered there.

— Daniel Lubetzky

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

— Mitch Kapor

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a…

— Michael Tubbs