and Nobel Prize Winner Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos founder and CEO Jack Kerouac, writer Dorothea Lange, photographer Rose Wilder Lane, journalist, writer Gavin Newsom, former Mayor of San Francisco, and Governor of California Cynthia Oti, radio show host Willis Polk, architect William H. Ranlett, architect Mary Curtis Richardson, painter Andrew Summers Rowan, army officer Fanny Stevenson, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson Anita Whitney, political activist Rose Wilder Lane, writer and daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder Rev. Joseph Worcester, who designed and built the first shingled house in the Bay Area In fiction Life in the neighborhood during the 1970s was used as the basis for the fictionalized series Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. Much of the famous car chase sequence in the 1968 thriller Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen (whose character lived in Nob Hill on Taylor and Clay streets), were filmed on Russian Hill, notably the scenes on Taylor Street. The neighborhood was also featured in the early scenes of the 1982 action-comedy feature film, 48 Hrs. The cast of The Real World: San Francisco, which aired in 1994, lived in the house at 949 Lombard Street on Russian Hill from February 12 to June 19, 1994. In Anne Rice's book The Wolf Gift, the main character, Reuben Golding, grew up in Russian Hill. John "Scottie" Ferguson, a character played by James Stewart lives at 900 Lombard Street in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo (1958). Based on the view from the window, Admiral James T. Kirk's apartment seen in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was located in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco. In the racing video game Blur, one of the courses is named after and closely resembles Russian Hill. See also San Francisco cable car system List of San Francisco, California Hills List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco References Further reading External links Chronicle's article "Russian Hill hike" from 1 Jan 2009 Neighborhoods in San Francisco Hills of San Francisco