New illuminati list just dropped: A leaked roster of 2,200 Bohemian Grove members
The full 2023 retreat member list was published by an independent journalist. Many, many Bay Area pooh-bahs are on it.
Emily Dreyfuss, Rya Jetha, and Max Harrison-Caldwell. Published Feb. 25, 2026 •
What do Paul Pelosi, Jimmy Buffett, Conan O’Brien, Michael Bloomberg, and Eric Schmidt have in common? They were all members of the ultra-secretive, men-only Bohemian Grove society as recently as 2023.
We know this because independent journalist Daniel Boguslaw obtained the Bohemian Grove camp membership list for that year and published it Wednesday on Substack
Boguslaw joins the rarified ranks of reporters who have succeeded in shedding light on the world’s most secretive redwood grove. Reached for comment, one club member confirmed it is a real membership list from 2023.
Since the 1980s, journalists have been trying to get inside the Bohemian Grove campground in Monte Rio in Sonoma County by posing as waiters, lost hikers, and guests. San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones was the first to succeed, publishing an inside scoop
(opens in new tab)sSince in 1981 that described the club as the place where “men who make decisions that affect us all gather quietly.” Alex Jones famously managed to film a ceremony at the grove that fueled conspiracy theories for decades. Vanity Fair reporter Alex Shoumatoff was arrested(opens in new tab) since after posing as a member in 2008. And in 2018, Outside magazine reporter Chris Colin was threatened by Bohemian Grove security(opens in new tab) simply for kayaking up to the high water line of the compound’s beach along the Russian River.
Boguslaw didn’t pull any of those tricks. He obtained the list in 2024 by pestering a San Francisco club member.
“I went to this person’s office for a week straight,” Boguslaw said. He had driven to the Bay Area from Massachusetts after getting his hands on a 2017 attendance list, he said, and stayed in a Tenderloin single-room-occupancy hotel while he hounded the local member.
Weeks passed, and he found longer-term lodging in West Oakland. One night, while he was drinking at Eli’s Mile High Club, a courier appeared with two manila envelopes.
Inside was the 2023 camp membership list. This does not necessarily represent the full membership to the club, which meets at a building in San Francisco. Bohemian Club spokesperson Sam Singer said the club is private and does not disclose its list of members or guests.
“The Intercept spiked it in this really stupid way,” he said. “They were so freaked out.”
Boguslawisn’t worried about blowback. “I’m confident in my reporting, and I’d like to see them try to fuck with me,” he said.
The 2023 camp membership list (published below) contains around 2,200 people, many of whom are not well known. Then there are the famously rich people:Mike Bloomberg and Charles Koch, in particular.
But most members are rich people you’ve never heard of, politicians you’ve maybe seen on CSPAN, and a smattering of scientists and cultural figures thrown in to make good on the “Bohemian” part of the group’s name. Perhaps unsurprising for a boys club filled with powerful American elites, the most common first names to appear are John (128 times), Robert (115), William (85), James (84), and David (75).
Here, we highlight the Bohemian Grove members with the strongest San Francisco ties, broken down by industry. There are notably fewer tech industry people than one might have expected. This is a list of old money and power. The names are divided into “camps,” which a source tells us are like fraternities; people in the same camp party together during visits to the compound.
We reached out to some of these people for comment; none responded. It’s against the rules of the club to discuss members, their guests or any club-related activities with the press. But if you’re on this list and want to share your thoughts on this leak, please get in touch.
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All 2,200 Bohemian Grove members, circa 2023
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Member Name
Douglas D. Abbey
Frank W. Jr. Abbott
James S. Acquistapace
Robert R. Adams
David A. Adams
Michael C. Adams
Peter S. Adams
Griffith H. Adams
David Bruce Adams
Clifford S. Adams
Tancred E. A. Agius
Paul Albritton
William F Aldinger
Lamar Alexander
Keith Alexander
Matthew D. Alexander
Peter Thatcher Allen
Ben M. Allison
Deladier Almeida
Bernard S. Alpert
Robert W. Alspaugh
Walter Alvarez
Don Alvarez
Andrew Ameral
James G. Anderson
Mark S. Anderson
Charles H. Anderson
Christopher Thye Anderson
Alan G. Anderson
David L. Anderson
E. Forrest Anderson
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