District and Sunrise Elementary. The far east side of Redmond is known as Redmond Ridge. Redmond Ridge and Redmond Ridge East communities are part of the Lake Washington School District. East of 248th to West Snoqualmie Valley Road is served by the Riverview School District. South of 24th Street is served by the Bellevue School District. DigiPen Institute of Technology and a secondary campus owned by Lake Washington Technical College is currently being leased to the City of Redmond for a Community Center are located in Redmond. The city is home to Redmond Regional Library, the second-largest branch in the King County Library System. Notable people John Archer, actor Karan Brar, actor (Chirag Gupta in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, Dog Days and Ravi Ross in Jessie) Carrie Brownstein, guitarist and vocalist for Sleater-Kinney Dudley C. Carter, artist and woodcarver Jeff Cirillo, former third baseman for several Major League Baseball teams Michael Conforto, Major League Baseball player for the New York Mets Daniel Dociu, concept artist and video game art director James Doohan, actor, famous for playing Scotty in the television series Star Trek Nick Downing, retired professional soccer player Sandra Eisert, art director, photographer Jeannine Hall Gailey, poet, writer, poet laureate of Redmond 2012–2013 Johnny Hekker, punter for NFL's Los Angeles Rams Henry Hill, former mobster, lived in Redmond in the late 1980s Earl Johnson, winning pitcher in Game 1 of 1946 World Series, born in Redmond Lu Sheng-yen, founder of the True Buddha School Shannon O'Donnell, former NBC 11/Bay Area now KOMO 4 weather anchor, later for NBC's Early Today Nick Thune, actor, comedian Steve Wiebe, two-time Donkey Kong world record holder, featured in The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters References Further reading Malowney, Georgeann (2002). Redmond (Images of America: Washington). Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. . Way, Nancy (1989). Our Town Redmond. Redmond, Washington: Marymoor Museum. . External links Official website Cities in Washington (state) Cities in King County, Washington Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area Populated places established in 1870 1870 establishments in Washington Territory