This list was compiled from the station journals and from the registers of lighthouse keepers' salaries. The dates of appointment were often several weeks after they began duty. The list does not include temporary and substitute keepers and assistants. Records of personnel who served on the island from 1946 to 1969 were not available.
| Samuel M. Farran | March 1, 1874 | Resigned 1880 |
| George B. Koons | June 27, 1880 | Transferred to Point Montara October, 1880 |
| Charles F. Winsor | October 16, 1880 | Retired 1887 |
| P. J. Quinlan | November 10, 1887 | Resigned 1894 |
| John O. Stenmark | August 31, 1894 | Retired 1914 |
| John P. Kofod | July 25, 1914 | Transferred to Yerba Buena Island, 1921 |
| Herbert Luff | May 31, 1921 | |
| J. Dunn | October 9, 1921 | |
| Willard Miller | November 29, 1922 | Retired July, 1942 |
| J. S. McGrath | July 2, 1942 | Replaced March 1, 1944, by Acting Keeper Hall |
| E. P. Perry | August 14, 1944 |
| John Cawley | March 1, 1874 | Left the Lighthouse Service May 24, 1881 |
| Joseph M. Page | May 28, 1881 | Resigned 1883 |
| Albert Tippett | February 10, 1883 | Resigned 1886 |
| Charles A. Paulson | April 22, 1886 | Removed December 27, 1888 |
| Charles McCarthy | February 19, 1889 | Transferred and promoted to Oakland Harbor light station January, 1890 |
| Martin Haave | January 25, 1890 | Resigned September 6, 1893 |
| James Anderson | September 8, 1893 | Promoted to keeper, Point Reyes, September, 1901, and replaced temporarily by Oscar Sellman, laborer |
| Charles A. Paulson | November 2, 1901 | Resigned from Lighthouse Service July 21, 1902, and replaced by Acting Assistant A. Bunth |
| John W. Astrom | September 8, 1902 | |
| Andrew Szarnecke | August 31, 1908 | |
| C. E. Clark | October 11, 1909 | Left the Lighthouse Service February 1, 1918 |
| E. C. Easton | February 11, 1918 | |
| D. O. Kinyon | December 6, 1918 | |
| W. Monette | March 6, 1919 | |
| A. H. Joost | February 1, 1921 | Promoted to keeper, Southampton Shoal, August 1921 |
| T. F. Brown | October 10, 1921 | |
| F. L. Pike | August 25, 1922 | Resigned October 13, 1926 |
| Roy L. Murphy | October 14, 1926 | Transferred to Southeast Farallon Island September 28, 1928 |
| Frederick S. Cobb | September 28, 1928 | Promoted to keeper, Southampton Shoal, June 30, 1930 |
| J. H. Sylvia | June 30, 1930 | |
| W. J. Atkins | July 29, 1931 | Left because of poor health 1936 |
| Earl Snodgrass | November 30, 1936 | Retired July 31, 1943 |
| Frank Dacosta | October 1, 1943 |
| P. Moran | March 1, 1874 | |
| James Rankin | Unknown | Transferred and promoted to Fort Point August, 1878 |
| Wm. McCarthy | August 18, 1878 | Transferred to Cape Mendocino April 25, 1880 |
*Position of second assistant abolished at East Brother May 1, 1880.
| Pat Jackson | 1980-1982 |
| Less McDonald | 1980-1981 |
| Phil Toomire | 1982-1983 |
| Kate Toomire | 1982-1983 |
| Leigh Hurley | 1983- |
| Linda Hurley | 1983- |
| Point Loma | San Diego | Nov. 15, 1855 | Discontinued in 1891 |
| New Point Loma | San Diego | Mar. 23, 1891 | |
| *Ballast Point | San Diego | Aug. 1, 1890 | Light relocated in 1960 |
| Los Angeles Harbor | Los Angeles | May 7, 1912 | |
| Point Fermin | Los Angeles | Dec. 15, 1874 | Light relocated to separate tower in 1945 |
| Point Vicente | Los Angeles | 1926 | |
| *Point Hueneme | Ventura | Dec. 5, 1874 | |
| Anacapa Island | Ventura | 1912 | |
| *Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | Dec. 1, 1856 | Leveled by earthquake in 1926 |
| Point Conception | Santa Barbara | Feb. 1, 1856 | New lighthouse built in 1882 |
| *Point Arguello | Santa Barbara | Feb. 22, 1901 | |
| San Luis Obispo | San Luis Obispo | June 30, 1890 | |
| Piedras Blancas | San Luis Obispo | Feb. 15, 1875 | |
| Point Sur | Monterey | Aug. 1, 1889 | |
| Point Pinos | Monterey | Feb. 1, 1855 | |
| Point Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz | Jan. 1, 1870 | Automated in 1941, new lighthouse built in 1967 |
| *Año Nuevo Island | San Mateo | 1890 | Fog signal established 1872 |
| Pigeon Point | San Mateo | Nov. 15, 1872 | Fog signal established 1871 |
| Point Montara | San Mateo | Nov. 26, 1900 | Fog signal established 1875 |
| Southeast Farallon Island | San Francisco | Jan. 1, 1856 | |
| Mile Rock | San Francisco | Feb. 15, 1906 | |
| Fort Point | San Francisco | 1855 | |
| Alcatraz Island | San Francisco | June 1, 1854 | New lighthouse built in 1909 |
| Yerba Buena Island | San Francisco | Oct. 1, 1875 | |
| Southampton Shoal | San Francisco | 1905 | Lighthouse sold and relocated in 1960 |
| Oakland Harbor | Alameda | Jan. 27, 1890 | New lighthouse built in 1903, sold and relocated in 1971 |
| East Brother | Contra Costa | March 1, 1874 | Automated in 1969 |
| *Mare Island | Solano | 1873 | Discontinued in 1917 |
| Carquinez Strait | Solano | Jan. 15, 1910 | Sold and relocated in 1960s |
| *Roe Island | Solano | 1891 | Discontinued in 1945 |
| *Angel Island (Point Knox) | Marin | 1900 | Fig signal established 1886 |
| Lime Point | Marin | 1900 | Fog signal established 1883 |
| Point Bonita | Marin | April 30, 1855 | Lighthouse relocated in 1877 |
| Point Reyes | Marin | Dec. 1, 1870 | |
| Point Arena | Mendocino | May 1, 1870 | New lighthouse completed in 1908 |
| Point Cabrillo | Mendocino | June 10, 1909 | |
| Punta Gorda | Humboldt | Jan. 15, 1912 | Discontinued in 1951 |
| Cape Mendocino | Humboldt | Dec. 1, 1868 | |
| Table Bluff | Humboldt | Oct. 31, 1892 | Discontinued in 1971 |
| *Humboldt Harbor | Humboldt | Dec. 20, 1856 | Discontinued in 1892 |
| Trinidad Head | Humboldt | Dec. 1, 1871 | |
| Crescent City | Del Norte | Dec. 10, 1856 | Automated in 1953, discontinued in 1965 |
| Saint George Reef | Del Norte | Oct. 20, 1892 | Discontinued in 1975 |
*No longer standing
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