Notable residents have included poet, journalist and editor William Cullen Bryant, inventor and entrepreneur LaMarcus Adna Thompson (who established Sea Cliff's Thompson Park residential development), poet and journalist Alfred Lansing, author of "", Pulitzer Prize–winning short story writer Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Dan Fagin, actress Natalie Portman, Emmy-award-winning comedian Kate McKinnon, John Rzeznik, frontman of the rock band Goo Goo Dolls, cartoonist Arnold Levin, Robert Ehrlich, founder of Pirate's Booty and Vegan Robs snack brands, Tim "The Tan Man" Ayers, R&B musician Mac Ayres, and Rose Elizabeth Bird, first female Chief Justice of California.