Rube Goldberg
Cartoonist
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who co-founded the National Cartoonists Society and drew complicated machines intended to perform simple tasks.
He began drawing when he was four years old.
He was born in San Francisco and founded the National Cartoonists Society.
He married Irma Seeman in 1916; the couple had two sons.
An episode of The X-files that featured Shia LaBeouf was named after him.