^Guide to the Albert A. Michelson Papers 1891–1969Archived 2019-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago Library. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson. Two years later the Michelson family left Strelno for Murphys, California where his father opened a dry goods store. Michelson attended Lincoln Grammar School in San Francisco, and graduated from Boys' High School in 1869."
^Lansburgh, Gustave AlbertArchived 2009-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia of San Francisco. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Graduating from Boys High School in 1894, Albert enrolled at U. C. Berkeley, the year Julia Morgan graduated."
^ abElliott, Christopher. "Budget Cuts May Silence School's Voice", Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1991. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Famous Lowell newspaper alumni include former Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown Sr., veteran journalist Pierre Salinger and illustrator Rube Goldberg."
^Kinnaird, Lawrence. History of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region, Volume 3, p. 376. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1966. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Graduating from Lowell High School at San Francisco, he studied at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated in 1910, with a Bachelor of Laws degree."
^ abcdefghijklmn"Lowell Class of '62 reclaims building for reunion". San Francisco Chronicle. May 26, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2013. Graduates who became well-known politicians, judges, artists, clothiers, financiers, philanthropists and cultural fixtures were Cyril Magnin, Class of 1918, Edmund (Pat) Brown, '23, William Hewlett, '30, Carol Channing, '38 Richard Diebenkorn, '39, Pierre Salinger, '41, Art Hoppe, '42, Don Fisher, '46, Warren Hellman, '51, Richard Blum, '53, Stephen Breyer, '55, Charles Breyer, '59, Mark Buell and Susie Tompkins, both '60, and Sydney Goldstein, '62.
^Glover, Malcolm (November 3, 2000). Larry Rhine, Hollywood comedy Writer from S.F.. The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved January 28, 2022. "Young Rhine the attended Lowell High School before going on to U.C. Berkeley, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1931."
^Hammar, Peter. Charles P. Ginsburg, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 7 (1994) . Accessed June 12, 2013. "Ginsburg was born in San Francisco and diagnosed with diabetes at the age of four, just two years after insulin was discovered. He lived a normal childhood and graduated from Lowell High School."
^Wildermuth, John. "William Coblentz dies; lawyer, UC ex-regent", San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 2010. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Mr. Coblentz was born in San Francisco on July 28, 1922, the son of a prominent obstetrician. He went to Lowell High School, received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his law degree from Yale in 1947."
^"Staunch Champion Of US Water Polo, Donald Fisher, Passes Away", USA Water Polo. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Donald George Fisher was born to middle-class parents on Sept. 3, 1928. He attended Lowell High School and UC Berkeley, where he starred on the swimming and water polo teams."
^Bill Bixby biography, Biography Channel. Accessed June 12, 2013. "After graduating from Lowell High School, Bixby attended San Francisco College to pursue a major in acting and then switched to the University of California at Berkeley."
^Stephen Gerald Breyer, The Future of the Court. Accessed June 12, 2013. "He graduated from San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School in 1955 and went on to Stanford University, where he majored in philosophy and received his A.B. in 1959."
^Music Roots, Dennis Marcellino. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Because of the changing tastes in popular music in America, in 1962 he switched to saxophone and became a vocalist/front man in his first rock band, The Spotliters, whom he worked with until 1965, when he also got married the month after he graduated from Lowell High School."
^Zane, Maitland (October 24, 1997). "African-American History Provides Melody for Oakland Singer". The San Francisco Chronicle (Final ed.). San Francisco, CA. p. EB 3. Tillery's singing career began at Lowell High....'When I graduated in '66' ....
^Terence Abad (Winter 2008). "Caught in the Headlines"(PDF). Lowell Alumni Association. p. 2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
^John V. Roos, US Ambassador to Japan, Asia Society. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Roos grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School in 1973 before attending college at Stanford University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction in 1977."
^Eric A. Cornell Autobiography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. I spent my last year of high school there, at Lowell High School. Lowell High was a so-called 'magnet school,' drawing academically inclined students from all over the city."
^Ciabattari, Jane. "The Book on Aging Rockers", The Daily Beast, June 29, 2010. Accessed June 12, 2013. "After her parents were divorced and her mother remarried, she moved to San Francisco, where she attended Lowell High School and considered herself an 'unexceptional' student."
^Kashiwagi, Soji. "Nihonmachi: The Place to Be ", Discover Nikkei, March 14, 2007. Accessed June 12, 2013. "I attended Lowell High and San Francisco State University, but after school and on weekends the place to be for me was Nihonmachi."
^Staff. "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE MARGARET CHO BUSINESS", The Sacramento Bee, August 18, 1995. Accessed June 12, 2013. "Her performing career began shortly thereafter – when she was expelled from San Francisco's Lowell High School and enrolled in the city's High School of the Performing Arts."
^Wang, Oliver. "The Storyteller: An Interview with Alex Tse"Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, UCLA Asia Institute, July 17, 2009. Accessed June 12, 2013. "APA: You grew up in San Francisco, you attended Lowell High School, you came from an upwardly mobile family -- under other circumstances, you probably could have groomed yourself for business or law or science, etc. When did you realize you had a real drive to do something creative as a career?"