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.
Dawn-Michelle Baude, poet
Bill Berkson, poet
Peg Bracken, author
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
Paulette Frankl, artist, photographer, biographer
Robert Grenier, poet
Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet
Stephan Jenkins, singer, songwriter, founder Third Eye Blind band
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
Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter
Lewis MacAdams, poet, author
Jerry Mander, activist, author
Frances McDormand, film, stage and TV actress
Barry McGee, artist
David Meltzer, poet
Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor, sound mixer
Bill Niman, founder with Orville Schell of Niman Ranch Meats
Arthur Okamura, painter and silk screen artist
Guy Overfelt, conceptual artist
Gladys Kathleen Parkin, wireless radio operator
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
Tony Serra, radical civil rights attorney, tax resister
Grace Slick, rock singer, songwriter
Susie Tompkins Buell, founder of Esprit
Peter Warshall, ecologist, member of the board of directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District
Alice Waters, chef, Chez Panisse restaurant
Philip Whalen, poet
Michael Wolfe, poet, author, publisher, documentary film producer
