Editing Lafayette, California (section)

==Notable people==
The following is a list of notable residents of Lafayette, past and present.

===Past===
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*[[Don Grady|Don Agrati]], actor and musician, as Don Grady known for his roles in ''[[My Three Sons]]'' and ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]''. Deceased.<ref name="dejesus">Janice De Jesus."Ex-Mouseketeer slated for Lesher performance: 'Robbie' from 'My Three Sons' will perform with lyricist Marty Panzer to benefit a nonprofit group for foster children," ''Walnut Creek Journal'' (CA), May 12, 2005, page 3.</ref>
*[[Jon-Erik Beckjord]], paranormal researcher and investigator, specialty was [[Bigfoot]] and related cryptids, such as the [[Yeti]]. Deceased.
*[[Mona Beaumont]], [[French Americans|French-born American]] painter and printmaker.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|date=July 17, 1960|title=Area Artist To Exhibit In Mexico|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/746070691/|url-access=subscription|access-date=February 20, 2022|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=[[Contra Costa Times]]|page=5|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Frank DeVol]], composer, arranger, conductor, singer ("Teddy Bear's Picnic"), on TV's ''[[Fernwood 2 Night]]'' as Happy Kyne. Died in Lafayette.
*[[Henry J. Kaiser]], industrialist, owner of Kaiser Industries (based in Oakland comprising more than 100 companies), builder of Hoover Dam, Liberty Ships, creator of Kaiser Permanente health organization. Built and lived in elaborate estate in west Lafayette in the early 1950s.
*[[Daniel E. Koshland Jr.]], biochemist and former chief editor of ''Science,'' lived and died in Lafayette.
*[[Brent Mydland]], musician, lived in Lafayette for a time before his death in 1990. buried at [[Oakmont Memorial Park]] in Lafayette.
*[[Buster Posey]], Major League Baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants<ref>{{cite web|date=March 24, 2022|title=Former SF Giants player Buster Posey sells his East Bay home with a 'custom' treehouse|url=https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Buster-Posey-sells-home-in-Lafayette-California-17025654.php|access-date=March 19, 2023|website=www.sfgate.com|publisher=[[SF Gate]]|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Hideo Sasaki]], American landscape architect.
*[[Glenn T. Seaborg]], University of California at Berkeley chemist and Nobel laureate (1951) prominent in the discovery of [[Plutonium]] (in 1941) and several [[transuranic elements]]. Element 106, [[Seaborgium]], is named in his honor. Worked on [[Manhattan Project]] developing first atomic bombs. Died in 1999.
*[[Emilio Segrè]], an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
*[[Alexander Shulgin]], chemist best known for discovery and use of hundreds of psychoactive compounds. Died June 2, 2014.
*[[Charles Tickner]], Olympic bronze medalist figure skater in the 1980 Winter Olympics

===Present===
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*[[Cam (singer)|Cam]], singer and songwriter, known for the song "Burning House"
*[[Natalie Coughlin]], gold medal-winning swimmer who represented United States at [[2004 Olympics]] in Athens, [[2008 Olympics]] in Beijing, and [[2012 Olympics]] in London
*[[Wayne Ferreira]], South African tennis player
*[[Will Forte]], actor, writer, and comedian best known for ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
* [[Justin Fox]] (born 1964), financial journalist, commentator, and writer
*[[Daniel Horowitz]], prominent [[Lawyer|attorney]] who was frequent TV commentator during the trial of Scott Peterson for the [[murder of Laci Peterson]]
*[[Brad Lackey]], former professional motorcycle racer and 1982 [[Motocross]] World Champion
*[[Beau Levesque]], assistant coach for the [[Los Angeles Lakers]]
*[[William Shurtleff]], writer, researcher, bibliographer, historian, and popularizer of [[Soy foods|soyfoods]]

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