:Bainbridge Island, Washington

For thousands of years,{{Cite web |url=https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/history-culture/#tab-id-1 |title=History & Culture – The Suquamish Tribe |website=suquamish.nsn.us |language=en-US |access-date=August 18, 2018}} members of the Suquamish people and their ancestors lived on the land now called Bainbridge Island.{{Cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Jay |last2=Ruby |first2=Robert H. |last3=Brown |first3=John A. |date=April 1987 |title=A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest |journal=The Western Historical Quarterly |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=205 |doi=10.2307/969592 |issn=0043-3810 |jstor=969592}} There were nine villages on the island; these included winter villages at Port Madison, Battle Point, Point White, Lynwood Center, Port Blakely, and Eagle Harbor, as well as summer villages at Manzanita, Fletcher Bay, and Rolling Bay.

In 1792, English explorer Captain George Vancouver spent several days with his ship HMS Discovery anchored off Restoration Point at the southern end of Bainbridge Island while boat parties surveyed other parts of Puget Sound. Vancouver spent a day exploring Rich Passage, Port Orchard, and Sinclair Inlet. He failed to find Agate Passage, and so his maps show Bainbridge Island as a peninsula. Vancouver named Restoration Point on May 29, the anniversary of the English Restoration, in honor of King Charles II.{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=John E. |title=A Discovery Journal: George Vancouver's First Survey Season – 1792 |year=2005 |publisher=Trafford Publishing |isbn=978-1-4120-7097-3 |pages=57–60, 67}}

In 1841, US Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes visited the island while surveying the Pacific Northwest. Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the frigate USS Constitution in the War of 1812. Settlers originally used Bainbridge Island as a center for the logging and shipbuilding industries with the island being clearcut at least two times in its history.{{Cite web |last=Duncan |first=Don |date=May 24, 1990 |title=Logging Legacy – Hoquiam's Timber Families Span The History Of The Lumber Industry In Washington |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900524&slug=1073661 |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=The Seattle Times}} The island was known for huge and accessible cedars, which were especially in demand for ships' masts. The original county seat of Kitsap County was at Port Madison on the island's north end.

In 1855, the Suquamish tribe relinquished their claim to Bainbridge Island by signing the Point Elliott Treaty.{{Cite web |url=https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/history-culture/#tab-id-3 |title=History & Culture – The Suquamish Tribe |website=suquamish.nsn.us |language=en-US |access-date=August 18, 2018}} The Suquamish agreed to cede all of their territory (which included Bainbridge Island) to the United States in exchange for a reservation at Port Madison and fishing rights to Puget Sound.

File:Bainbridge Island (Wash.) evacuation -- Group of young evacuees wave from special train as it leaves Seattle with Island evacuees, March 30, 1942.jpg residents of Bainbridge Island wave the American flag and give the victory sign as they are forcibly sent to an internment camp, March 30, 1942.]]

The first generation of Japanese immigrants, the Issei, came in 1883. During World War II, Japanese-American residents of Bainbridge Island were the first to be sent to internment camps, an event commemorated by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, which opened in 2011.{{citation |last=Seelye |first=Katherine Q. |title=A Wall to Remember an Era's First Exiles |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 5, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06internment.html?_r=1}}{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/as-national-park-service-turns-100-seattle-ranger-personifies-change/ |title=As National Park Service turns 100, Seattle ranger personifies change |newspaper=The Seattle Times |first=Glenn |last=Nelson |date=August 21, 2016 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |quote=...the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, built, maintained and supported by several community groups on Bainbridge Island. It gains its imprimatur as a satellite of the Park Service's Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho. The Park Service owns none of the Bainbridge property, but Beall (superintendent of Seattle's National Park units) kicks in $14,000 for a seasonal ranger.}} They were held by the US government through the duration of the war for fear of espionage. A High-frequency direction finding (HFDF) station was established here by the Navy during the war. These radio intercept sites along the West Coast were used to track Japanese warships and merchant marine vessels as far away as the Western Pacific. The other West Coast stations were in California at Point Arguello, Point Saint George, Farallon Islands and San Diego.{{Cite book|last=Menzel|first=Sewall|title=The Pearl Harbor Secret: Why Roosevelt Undermined the U.S. Navy|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2020|isbn= 978-1-4408-7586-1|pages=41}}

Since the 1960s, Bainbridge Island has become an increasingly affluent bedroom community of Seattle, a 35-minute ride away on the Washington State Ferries.{{cite news|last=Ammons|first=David|date=May 3, 1998|title=Islanders See Grounds for Concern in Local Starbucks|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-03-mn-45816-story.html|access-date=November 22, 2017}}

The city has occupied the entire space of Bainbridge Island since February 28, 1991, when the {{convert|1.5 |sqmi|adj=mid}} city of Winslow (incorporated on August 9, 1947), annexed the rest of the island{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19901107/1102735/bainbridge-island-incorporation----bainbridge-apparently-oks-annexation-into-winslow |title=Bainbridge Island Incorporation – Bainbridge Apparently Oks Annexation Into Winslow |newspaper=Seattle Times |department=Business |first=Carlton |last=Smith |date=November 7, 1990 |access-date=November 22, 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-15-tr-24029-story.html |title=Bainbridge Island: A Seattle Retreat |first=John |last=McKinney |date=August 15, 1993 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} after a narrowly passed November 1990 referendum.{{Cite web|title=Winslow changes its name to Bainbridge Island on November 7, 1991. - HistoryLink.org|url=https://historylink.org/File/8278|access-date=2021-06-13|website=historylink.org}} It officially remained the city of Winslow for several months, until November 7, 1991, at which time the city of Winslow was renamed the city of Bainbridge Island.

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Bainbridge Island was formed during the last ice age—13,000 to 15,000 years ago—when the {{convert|3000|ft|m|adj=mid|-thick}} Vashon Glacier scraped out the Puget Sound and Hood Canal basins.

Bainbridge Island is in the Puget Sound Basin, east of the Kitsap Peninsula, directly east of the Manette Peninsula and west of Seattle. The island is about {{convert|5|mi|0}} wide and {{convert|10|mi|0}} long, encompassing nearly {{convert|17778|acre|sqmi km2}}, and is one of Puget Sound's larger islands.{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=April 23, 2011 |date=February 12, 2011 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}

Bainbridge Island shorelines border the main body of Puget Sound, as well as Port Orchard Bay, a large protected embayment, and two high-current tidal passages, Rich Passage and Agate Pass. The island has an irregular coastline of approximately {{convert|53|mi}}, with numerous bays and inlets and a significant diversity of other coastal land forms, including spits, bluffs, dunes, lagoons, cuspate forelands, tombolos, tide flats, streams and tidal deltas, islands, and rocky outcrops. The high point is {{convert|425|ft|adj=on}} Toe Jam Hill.{{citation |title=Toe Jam Hill |author=Greg Slayden |publisher=peakbagger.com |url=http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=47578 |year=2004}}

On the Kitsap Peninsula, Bremerton and Poulsbo lie across the Port Orchard channel to the west, and the city of Port Orchard lies across Rich Passage to the south. Despite the short distance over water and significant commuting population between Bremerton and Bainbridge Island, proposals to construct a bridge have been resisted on the Bainbridge side for various reasons.{{cite news |last=Kornelis|first=Chris |date=December 28, 2007 |title=The Bainbridge/Bremerton Divide |url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/the-bremerton-bainbridge-divide/|work=Seattle Weekly |access-date=November 12, 2023}}

The island is quite hilly and hosts the Chilly Hilly bicycle ride every February.File:Ferry Wenatchee enroute to Bainbridge Island WA.jpgBainbridge Island can be accessed by motor vehicle, bicycle, or foot through two access points, both on Washington State Route 305. Bainbridge Island is connected to the Kitsap Peninsula by the Agate Pass Bridge, carrying SR 305 over Agate Passage at the island's northwest corner. The only other way off the island is by the Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry, the Washington State Ferries service from the dock at Winslow in Eagle Harbor to Colman Dock (Pier 52) in Seattle. Numerous public right of way access points to water around the island also exist, officially called Road Ends.{{Cite web|title=Bainbridge Island Road Ends {{!}} Bainbridge Island, WA – Official Website|url=https://www.bainbridgewa.gov/741/Bainbridge-Island-Road-Ends|access-date=2021-12-28|website=www.bainbridgewa.gov}}

{{further|List of Bainbridge Island communities}}

When the city of Winslow annexed the entirety of Bainbridge Island in 1991, it absorbed numerous named unincorporated communities. Most of these are still referred to by name.

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According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $88,243, and the median income for a family was $108,605. Males had a median income of $65,853 versus $42,051 for females. The per capita income for the city was $37,482. About 3.0% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

The socioeconomic profile varies significantly between the rural parts of the island and Winslow, its urban center. In contrast to Bainbridge Island as a whole, Winslow is home to households with a wide range of incomes. In 2010, the census block group in which Winslow is located had a median household income of $42,000, less than half of the island's median household income and one-third of several of the island's wealthiest block groups, and also $10,000 less than national and statewide averages. More than half of Winslow households live in rental units, compared to 20% of households across the island.

As of the 2010 census,{{cite web |title=U.S. Census website |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=December 19, 2012}} there were 23,025 people, 9,470 households, and 6,611 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|833.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 10,584 housing units at an average density of {{convert|383.3|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 91.0% White, 0.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 3.2% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.9% of the population.

There were 9,470 households, of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.2% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.2% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.88.

The median age in the city was 47.7 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.5% were from 25 to 44; 38% were from 45 to 64; and 16.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.3% male and 51.7% female.

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As of the census of 2000, there were 20,308 people, 7,979 households, and 5,784 families residing in the city. The population density was 735.6 inhabitants per square mile (284.0/km²). There were 8,517 housing units at an average density of 308.5 per square mile (119.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.88% White, 0.28% African American, 0.62% Native American, 2.40% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 0.75% from other races, and 2.96% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos, of any race, were 2.17% of the population.

There were 7,979 households, out of which 36.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.98.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 3.6% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 33.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males.

Bainbridge Island has four centers of commerce: Winslow, Lynwood Center, Fletcher Bay (which is also known as Island Center), and Rolling Bay.{{Cite web|title=About Bainbridge Island {{!}} Bainbridge Island, WA – Official Website|url=https://www.bainbridgewa.gov/192/About-Bainbridge|access-date=2021-12-28|website=www.bainbridgewa.gov}} Winslow is the downtown core and has most of the shopping and dining. Lynwood Center on the south end of the island has several restaurants and a small hotel. Fletcher Bay (also referred to as Island Center) has a small grocery store and one restaurant. Rolling Bay is located on the east side of the island.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

The local newspapers are the weekly Bainbridge Island Review, Kitsap Sun, and the Bainbridge Islander.

Chaval Outdoor, an outdoor gear company, was founded on Bainbridge Island.{{cite news |last=Ricker |first=Thomas |date=March 9, 2018 |title=Chaval's Supernova gloves are the superheated stars of winter sport |url=https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/9/17099450/heated-glove-review-rechargeable-touchscreen |work=The Verge |accessdate=May 23, 2024}} The Buy Nothing Project was founded on Bainbridge Island in July 2013.{{cite news |last=Grygiel |first=JiaYing |date=July 24, 2023 |title=On Buy Nothing's 10th anniversary, 10 tales of gratitude and community |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/on-buy-nothings-10th-anniversary-10-tales-of-gratitude-and-community/ |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=February 19, 2025}}

Bainbridge Island is served by the Bainbridge Island School District, which houses the following public schools:

• Capt. Johnston Blakely Elementary School (PK-4)
• x̌alilc (Halilts) Elementary School (PK-4)
• Ordway Elementary School (K-4) (offers the El Velero Spanish immersion program)
• Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School (5–6)
• Woodward Middle School (7–8)
• Bainbridge High School (9–12)

BISD also offers home-based and student-directed educational programming under the umbrella of the Commodore Options School:

• Mosaic Home Education Partnership (K-8)
• Odyssey Multiage Program (K-8)
• Eagle Harbor High School (9–12)

• Montessori Country School (PK-6)
• Madrona School (Parent/Child, Preschool, Kindergarten, Grades 1–5)
• St. Cecilia Catholic School (PK-8)
• Bainbridge Island Montessori (PK){{Cite web |last=Montessori |first=Bainbridge Island |title=Bainbridge Island Montessori |url=https://bainbridgeislandmontessori.com/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Bainbridge Island Montessori |language=en-US}}
• The Island School (K-5)
• Carden Country School (K-8)
• Hyla School (6–12){{Cite web |title=Welcome |url=https://hylaschool.org/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Hyla School |language=en-US}}

The Puget Sound Naval Academy, formerly the Moran School, operated on the island from 1914 to 1933, and then again from 1937 to 1951.

In 2001, Bainbridge Island Little League were represented in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania at the Little League World Series. The island's high school lacrosse team has won state titles, the most recent coming on May 19, 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.walax.com/division_i_final_bainbridge_island_v_mercer_island |access-date=May 21, 2007 |title=D1 final: Bainbridge Island Wins The Islands Battle |work=Walax.com March-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621131353/http://www.walax.com/division_i_final_bainbridge_island_v_mercer_island |archive-date=June 21, 2007| url-status= dead}} In 2009, the Bainbridge High School Fastpitch team won the Washington 3A State Title. The team also played in the championship game in 2010. In 2011, 2012 and 2018, the Bainbridge High School Girls Lacrosse team won the state championship.

Pickleball was invented by the family of congressman Joel Pritchard at their summer home on Bainbridge Island in 1965.{{Cite web |last=Eckstein |first=Bob |date=January–February 2024 |title=How the Obscure Sport of Pickleball Became King of the Court |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/obscure-sport-pickleball-became-king-court-180983454/ |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}} It is similar to badminton and tennis, but played with paddles and a lightweight plastic ball.{{cite news |last=Lyons |first=Gil |date=August 24, 1990 |title=Pickle-ball: Founders of game say paddle sport simply is a barrel of fun |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900824&slug=1089412 |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=January 25, 2020}}

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Bainbridge Island has a seven-member city council. The members are elected to staggered four-year terms and appoint a city manager.

The city is in the 23rd legislative district and Washington's 6th congressional district.{{cite map |date=July 2024 |title=Washington State Legislative & Congressional District Map |url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/Road%20Map_01.pdf |at=[https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/Road%20Map%20Inset_01.pdf Puget Sound inset] |publisher=Washington State Redistricting Commission |accessdate=April 6, 2025}} Bainbridge Island is considered a stronghold of the Democratic Party.{{cn|date=April 2025}} Jay Inslee, the 23rd governor of Washington, is a local resident, and represented it in Congress from 1999 to 2012.{{cite news |last=Gutman |first=David |date=March 1, 2019 |title=Jay Inslee's political career: From part-time, small-town prosecutor to presidential candidate |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jay-inslees-political-career-from-part-time-small-town-prosecutor-to-presidential-candidate/ |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=April 6, 2025}}

In the 2008 Democratic primary (which in Washington state was not used for delegate appointment), Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton by a margin of 67.8% to 29.7%.{{cite web |url=http://www.kitsapgov.com/aud/elections/archive/08/Canvass/PP0208/PP0208Index.htm |title=Presidential Primary, February 19, 2008 |website=Kitsap County Auditor|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517143514/http://www.kitsapgov.com/aud/elections/archive/08/Canvass/PP0208/PP0208Index.htm|archive-date=May 17, 2008}}] This was Obama's second-best performance in an incorporated municipality in the state, behind Yarrow Point. In the earlier caucus, Obama received 79.3% of delegates, Clinton received 19.8%, and 0.1% were uncommitted.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bainbridgereview.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=96&cat=23&id=1158055&more=0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328122114/http://www.bainbridgereview.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=96&cat=23&id=1158055&more=0|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 28, 2008 |title=BCNG Portals Page (R) |date=March 28, 2008}}

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The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art opened in June 2013 near the Winslow ferry terminal. It was developed by Cynthia Sears, who began collecting works of art made by island residents in 1989. The museum cost $15.6 million to construct and includes a 99-seat auditorium, a classroom, and other spaces. The building has {{convert|20,000|sqft|sqm}} of space and was designed to resemble the bow of a ship.{{cite news |last=Upchurch |first=Michael |date=June 11, 2013 |title=A new, light-filled art museum for Bainbridge and West Sound |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2021167645_bainbridgemuseumopeningxml.html |work=The Seattle Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130020955/http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2021167645_bainbridgemuseumopeningxml.html |archive-date=November 30, 2014 |accessdate=December 1, 2022}}

The fictional San Piedro Island in the 1994 novel Snow Falling on Cedars is based on Bainbridge Island. The novel's author, David Guterson, lives on the island and worked for ten years as a teacher at Bainbridge High School.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

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Bainbridge Island is the main setting of the 2021 novel You Love Me, the third installment in the You series by novelist Caroline Kepnes. Kepnes visited Bainbridge while writing the story and used the names of several local businesses.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/caroline-kepnes-you-joe-goldberg-1153839/ |title=Caroline Kepnes, Author of 'You Love Me,' on Killer Joe's Next Chapter |magazine=Rolling Stone}}

In Michael Crichton's 1994 novel Disclosure, protagonist Tom Sanders lives with his wife and two children on Bainbridge Island. Some scenes from the film adaptation later that year were filmed on the island, including at Bainbridge Ferry Terminal and Capt. Johnston Blakely Elementary School.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

File:Stone Sculptures at Winslow Wharf Marina.jpg|Stone Sculptures at Winslow Wharf Marina

File:Cottages on Bainbridge Island.jpg|Cottages on Bainbridge Island

File:Docks and forest clearing on Bainbridge Island.jpg|Docks and forest clearing on Bainbridge Island

File:Scenic 101 (14411944480).jpg|Mist surrounds the marina.

File:Seattle-bound cars waiting at Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.jpg|Seattle-bound cars waiting at Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal

• Laura Allen, actress
• Bruce Barcott, author
• Jane F. Barry, author, Linksbridge principal
• Marshall Latham Bond, landlord, employer of Jack London
• John Henry Browne, defense attorneyWilliam Yardley, "For Lawyer in Afghan Killings, the Latest in a Series of Challenging Defenses," The New York Times (March 25, 2012).
• Frank Buxton, actor, author and television director
• Paul Brainerd, founder of Islandwood
• Dove Cameron, actress and singer{{cite web |title=Dove Cameron – Synchronicity One |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBiYw9z_rs | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/cBBiYw9z_rs| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|publisher=YouTube |access-date=March 26, 2021 |quote=I was born in, I always say Seattle, Washington, but that's just because nobody knows where the fuck I'm from, which is a small island next to Seattle, called Bainbridge Island.}}{{cbignore}}
• Chad Channing, musician, former drummer with Nirvana
• Leeann Chin, founder of the Leeann Chin restaurant chain{{cite news |title=Leeann Chin, 77 |url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/17/leeann-chin-77/ |work=Kitsap Sun |date=March 17, 2010 |access-date=March 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224030133/http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/17/leeann-chin-77/ |archive-date=February 24, 2012}}
• Ben Eisenhardt, professional basketball player
• Jonathan Evison, author
• Stefan Frei, professional soccer player{{cite news|last=Shuey|first=Tyler |date=11 September 2020 |title=Sounders goalie building 'dream home' in Blakely Harbor|url=https://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/sounders-goalie-building-dream-home-in-blakely-harbor/|work=Bainbridge Island Review|access-date=16 August 2021}}
• Bill Frisell, musician
• Ruth Fremson, The New York Times journalist; resides on Bainbridge
• Meg Greenfield, editor, The Washington Post{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/may99/rosenblatt_5-13.html|title=PBS|website=PBS }}{{Cite web |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000202&slug=4002509 |title=UW gets gift of $3 million |website=archive.seattletimes.com}}
• David Guterson, author{{cite web |url=http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_david_guterson.html |access-date=December 19, 2006 |title=Biography of David Guterson |publisher=GradeSaver}}{{cite web |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=799778 |access-date=December 19, 2006 |title=David Guterson |work=Meet the Writers |publisher=Barnes & Noble.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206073634/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=799778 |archive-date=December 6, 2006 | url-status= live}}
• Kristin Hannah, author
• Brendan Hill, musician, drummer with Blues Traveler
• Matthew Inman, author of The Oatmeal{{cite web |title=The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman talks about Bainbridge, his new Netflix series |date=October 30, 2022 |url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/oatmeals-matthew-inman-talks-bainbridge-140013421.html|access-date=February 27, 2024}}
• Jay Inslee, governor of Washington
• Russell Johnson, actor, on Gilligan's Island{{citation |last=Weber|first=Bruce |title=Russell Johnson, 89, of 'Gilligan's Island' dies on Bainbridge

|newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=January 17, 2014 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/russell-johnson-89-of-lsquogilliganrsquos-islandrsquo-dies-on-bainbridge/}}{{citation |last=Kelly|first=Brian |title=The Professor, Bainbridge Island's most famous resident, dies at age 89

|newspaper=Bainbridge Island Review |date=January 27, 2014 |url=https://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/update-the-professor-bainbridge-islands-most-famous-resident-dies-at-age-89/}}

• Chris Kattan, comedian, actor
• David Korten, economist, author and political activist
• Damien Lawson, musician, singer with Awaken the Empire
• Garrett Madison, mountain climber{{cite web |title=Everest News |url=http://www.everestnews.com/everest2011/alpineascentseverest05222011.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122134623/http://www.everestnews.com/everest2011/alpineascentseverest05222011.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |access-date=March 30, 2012}}
• Dinah Manoff, actress
• Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man recorded in history
• Elizabeth Mitchell, actress
• Jack Olsen, author{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/79191_olsen19.shtml |access-date=January 1, 2007 |title=Jack Olsen, Crime Writer |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=July 19, 2002 |first1=Gordy |last1=Holt}}
• John Perkins, author
• Dav Pilkey, author, illustrator
• Gifford Pinchot III, author, entrepreneur
• Jack Prelutsky, poet
• Dorothy Provine, actress
• Kiel Reijnen, professional cyclist {{cite web|url=https://racing.trekbikes.com/riders/trek-segafredo-men/kiel-reijnen|title=Kiel Reijnen|publisher=Trek|date=December 10, 2018|access-date=September 8, 2021}}
• Ben Shepherd, bassist with Soundgarden{{cite web |url=http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/spin_7-96.shtml |access-date=December 19, 2006 |title=The Real Thing |work=SPIN |date=July 1996}}
• Emily Silver, Olympic swimmer (silver medalist){{cite web |url=http://swimming.about.com/od/swimhistoryandstars/p/silver.htm |title=Emily Silver |author=Mat Luebbers |website=About.com:Swimming|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001195413/http://swimming.about.com/od/swimhistoryandstars/p/silver.htm|archive-date=October 1, 2008}}
• Allen Strange, professor of music
• Michael Trimble, operatic tenor, voice teacher{{cite book |language=en |title=Michael Trimble, tenor |publisher=Trimble Vocal Institute |url=http://www.trimblevocalinstitute.com/about}}: The Trimble Vocal Institute is thriving on Bainbridge Island, Washington in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where Michael Trimble and his wife, Cantor Pamela Trimble, relocated in May 2001.
• Ed Viesturs, mountain climber{{cite web |url=http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--11104-0,00.html |access-date=December 19, 2006 |title=I'm a Runner: Ed Viesturs |author=Sarah Tuff |work=Runner's World |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002050/http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0%2C7120%2Cs6-243-297--11104-0%2C00.html |archive-date=September 27, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.spacecamp.no |access-date=December 19, 2006 |title=ESC |publisher=GradeSaver |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205040010/http://spacecamp.no/ |archive-date=December 5, 2006 | url-status= live}}
• Marcel Vigneron, runner-up of Top Chef
• Susan Wiggs, author
• Garin Wolf, television writer, playwright
• Andrew Wood, musician

Bainbridge has the following sister cities:

• {{flagicon|Nicaragua}} Ometepe Island, Nicaragua{{Cite web |url=https://ometepeislandinfo.com/ |title=Ometepe Island Information – Everything About Traveling To Ometepe Island In One Place! |website=ometepeislandinfo.com |language=en|access-date=March 5, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bosia.org/ |access-date=June 6, 2006 |title=Sister Islands-Islas Hermanas Bainbridge-Ometepe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060610034806/http://bosia.org/ |archive-date=June 10, 2006 | url-status= live}}
• {{flagicon|France}} Nantes, France

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