List of Famous People From California From A-Z

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Below is a list of famous people that were born in California.

List of Famous People From California From A-Z

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Parodist, Musician
Aaron Boone – Baseball player
Abigail Folger – American coffee heiress, socialite, and murder victim
Adam Brody – actor
Adam Carson – drummer of AFI
Adam Lambert – singer
Adam Levine – musician
Adrian Young – No Doubt’s drummer
Adrienne Barbeau – actress
Aisha Tyler – actress
Alan Cranston – U.S. Senator from California
Albert Brooks – actor/director
Alicia Silverstone – actress
Alton Brown – television host
Amanda Beard – Olympic swimmer
Amber Tamblyn – actress
Ami Dolenz actress
Amy Chow – Gymnast
Amy Tan – writer
Anastasia Ashman – writer
Andre Ward – 2004 Summer Olympics gold medal winning boxer
Andy Samberg – comedian
Angelina Jolie – actress
Ansel Adams – photographer
Anthony Kennedy – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Anthony Zerbe – actor
Antonio Villaraigosa 51st Los Angeles mayor.
B-Real – rapper
B.G. Knocc Out – rapper
Baron Davis – professional basketball player
Barry Bonds – baseball player
Barry Bostwick – actor
Beatrice Gray – actress
Beatrice Wood – artist
Beau Bridges – actor
Beck – musician
Ben Nighthorse Campbell – U.S. Senator from Colorado
Benjamin Bratt – actor
Betsy Bloomingdale – socialite
Bill Bixby – actor
Bill Buckner – Baseball player
Bill Fagerbakke – actor/voice actor
Bill Mumy – child actor
Bill Walsh
Bill Walton – Hall of Fame basketball player
Billie Jean King – tennis player
Billie Joe Armstrong – musician, lead vocalist
Billy Gray – actor, motorcyclist
Bob Mathias – decathlete
Bob Swenson – football player
Bob Weir – musician
Bobby Bonds – baseball player
Bobby Martinez-Pro surfer Reef
Brad Delson – musician
Brad Gilbert – tennis coach
Brad Lesley – baseball player/cast member on Takeshi’s Castle
Bradford Bishop – indicted murderer and at-large fugitive
Brandon Whitt – NASCAR driver
Brenda Holloway – singer and songwriter
Brenda Song – actress
Brotha Lynch Hung – rapper
Bruce Bowen – NBA player
Bruce Lee – martial artist
C-Bo – rapper
Cameron Diaz – actress
Candice Bergen – actress
Canh Thong Do – Vietnamese American Activist
Captain Beefheart – musician
Carolyn Beug – passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 11
Carrie Fisher – actress
Carson Daly – television host
Casey Mears – NASCAR driver
Casey Merrill – football running back
Caspar Weinberger – Secretary of Defense
Cathy Rigby – gymnast/actress
Cathy Scott – true crime author
CC Sabathia – baseball player
Chad Power – martial artist
Charles Martin Smith – actor
Charles R. Schwab – CEO
Cheech Marin – actor
Cher – singer/actress/entertainer
Cheryl Lynn – singer
Chris Kattan – actor, comedian
Chris Mordetzky – wrestler
Christi O’Connor – television journalist
Christina Applegate – actress
Christina Ricci – actress
Christy Hemme – professional wrestler and model
Clint Eastwood – film actor and director
Colin Hanks – actor
Coolio – rapper
Courtney Love – musician
Cruz Bustamante – California lieutenant governor
Cynthia Stevenson – actress
Dagmar Oakland – Actress of stage and screen
Dan Haren – professional baseball player
Dana Rohrabacher – member of the United States House of Representatives
Dane Reynolds – Pro surfer
Daniel Handler – Lemony Snicket
Danielle Steele – author
Danny Glover – actor
Danny Im – member of Korean music group, 1TYM
Daron Malakian – Guitarist for System of a Down
Darryl Strawberry – baseball player
Dave Mustaine – musician
Davey Havok – lead singer of AFI
David Carr – football player
David Carradine – actor
David Strathairn – actor
Daz Dillinger – rapper
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – rapper
Dennis Eckersley – baseball player
Dennis Haysbert – actor
Dian Fossey – zoologist
Diane Baker – actress
Diane Keaton – actress
Dianne Feinstein – US Senator, mayor
Dirk Gates – network entrepreneur
Dolph Camilli – baseball player
Don Budge – Tennis player
Dontrelle Willis – baseball player
Dr Dre – musician, rap producer
Dresta – rapper
Drew Barrymore – actress
Drew Gooden – professional basketball player
Duke Snider – baseball player
Dustin Hoffman – actor
Dusty Baker – manager of the Cincinnati Reds
Dwayne Johnson
Earl Warren – Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Eazy-E – rapper
Eddie Murray – baseball player
Edward Furlong – actor
Edwin Meese – US Attorney General
Elisha Cook Jr. – actor
Elliott Yamin – singer
Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. – Chief of Naval Operations
Emily_Deschanel – actress
Eugene Schmitz – San Francisco Mayor
Eve Arden – actress
Ever Carradine – actress
Florence Griffith-Joyner, track athlete
Fran Jeffries – actress
Freddie Prinze, Jr. – actor
Gabriel Iglesias – comedian
Gary Payton – professional basketball player
Gary Snyder – poet
Gary Soto – poet
Gavin Newsom – mayor
Gene Hackman – actor
George Lopez – actor/comedian
George Lucas – billionaire filmmaker
George Moscone mayor
George S. Patton – soldier
George Stevens – film director/producer/writer
Gloria Grahame – actress
Grant Imahara – electronics and radio control expert
Greg Louganis- Olympic Diver
Gregg Jarrett – lawyer, journalist
Gregory Peck – actor
Guy Gabaldon – United States Marine Corps
Gwen Stefani – singer
Gwyneth Paltrow – actress
Haley Joel Osment – actor
Hank Blalock – baseball player
Harry Hamlin – actor
Harry Partch – composer
Harry Shearer – actor and comedian
Heather Fargo – mayor of Sacramento, California
Heather Locklear – actress
Helen Andelin – author
Helen Hunt – actress
Henry Harrower – endocrinologist
Herb Caen – newspaper columnist
Hilary Duff – actress, singer
Holly Marie Combs – actress
Huey Lewis – musician
Hunter Burgan – Bass player for AFI
Ice Cube – musician, actor
Isadora Duncan – dancer
Isiah Rider – basketball player
Iva Toguri D’Aquino
Jack Black – actor
Jack London – author
Jackie Earle Haley – actor
Jade Puget – musician
Jake Gyllenhaal – actor
James Hetfield – musician
James Horner – composer
Jamie Lee Curtis – actress
Janet Leigh – actress
Jason Giambi – professional baseball player
Jason Kidd – NBA player
Jason Lee – actor
Jason Mraz- singer
Jason Ritter – actor
Jeff B. Harmon – film producer, director, actor.
Jeff Bridges – actor
Jeff Garcia – American football player
Jeff Gordon – NASCAR driver
Jeff Hanneman – guitarist
Jennifer Aniston – actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh – actress
Jennifer Tilly – actress
Jeremy McGrath – supercross racer
Jermaine Dye – baseball player
Jerry Brown – Governor of California
Jerry Garcia – musician
Jerry Hsu- skateboarder
Jerry Jones – owner, Dallas Cowboys
Jerry Paris – actor
Jesse G. James – actor, welder, and CEO of West Cost Choppers
Jessica Alba – actress, model
Jessica Jung – singer, Girls’ Generation
Jhonen Vasquez – comic book writer/artist
Jill Whelan – actress Airplane!
Jim Plunkett – football quarterback
Jim Rome – sports radio talk show host
Jimmie Johnson – NASCAR driver and champion
Jimmy Rollins – baseball player
Joanie Greggains – radio show host, health and fitness expert.
Jodie Foster – actress
Jodie Sweetin – actress
Joe Cronin – professional baseball player
Joe DiMaggio – baseball player
Joe Jonas – guitarist,singer
Joey Chestnut – competitive eater
John Cage – Composer
John Morrison – wrestler
John Steinbeck – author
John Williams – composer
Jon Appleton – composer
Jon Lovitz – actor
Jon Miller – sportscaster
Jonathan Blum – hockey player
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – husband/wife directors
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – husband/wife directors
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – actor
Joseph Hahn – painter, director, musician
Josh Groban – musician
Josh Hartnett – actor
Josiah Royce – philosopher
Julia Child – cook
Julie Hayek – Miss USA 1983
Julie Kavner – actress
Juliette Lewis – actress
Junior Seau – American football player
K. Eric Drexler – engineer
Kari Byron – artist and television personality
Kate Hudson – actress
Katharine McPhee – singer
Katy Perry – singer
Keith Carradine – actor
Keith Hernandez – baseball player
Ken Venturi – golfer
Kenneth Tobey – actor
Kerry King – guitarist
Kevin Costner – actor
Kevin Harvick – NASCAR driver
Kevin Jonas – guitarist,back-up singer
Keyshawn Johnson – retired professional football player
Kimberly Guilfoyle – television personality
Kirk Hammett – musician
Kirk Kerkorian – Billionaire investor and philanthropist
Krystal Jung – singer, F
Kyle Gass – musician
Laci Peterson – murder victim
Laird Hamilton – surfer
Lana Clarkson – actress
Laurie Walters – actress
Lefty O’Doul – baseball player
Leland Stanford, Jr. – namesake of Stanford University
Leon Panetta – White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton
Leonardo DiCaprio – actor
Les Claypool – Bass player for Primus
Liev Schreiber – actor
Lillian Moller Gilbreth – engineer
Linda Cardellini – actress
Lindsay Davenport – tennis player
Lindsey Buckingham – musician
Lisa Kudrow – actress
Lisa Tucker – singer
Liza Minnelli – singer/actress
Lloyd Bridges – actor
Lorenzo Neal – Pro Bowl football player
Luke Walton – basketball player
Lyn Nofziger – author/journalist/press secretary
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins – professional skateboarder
Lynn Swann – football player
Lynx and Lamb Gaede – white nationalist twin singers and musicians
Mac Dre – rapper
Mack 10 – rapper
Marcus Benjamin –
Margaret Cho – actress
Maria Remenyi – Miss USA 1966
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo – Mexican general, American politician
Mariel Hemingway – actress
Marilyn Monroe – sex symbol, actress
Mario López – actor
Marion Jones – track athlete
Marisa Miller – supermodel
Mariska Hargitay – actress
Marjoe Gortner – evangelical minister
Mark Hamill – actor
Mark Hoppus – Blink 182
Mark McGwire – baseball player
Mark-Paul Gosselaar,actor.
Marla Ruzicka – activist
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – actresses and entrepreneurs
Mason Reese – child actor
Matt Barnes – NBA player
Maureen Arthur – actress
Maureen Connolly – tennis player
Max Baer, Jr. – actor
Maxine Hong Kingston – author
Mc Eiht – actor, rapper
MC Hammer – musician
MC Ren – rapper
Mel Blanc – cartoon voice actor
Melissa Gilbert – actress
Melissa Sue Anderson – actress
Merle Haggard – Country music singer
Merv Griffin – talk show host, singer, television producer
Mia Farrow – actress
Michael Bay – director
Michael Richards – actor
Michelle Kwan – figure skater
Michelle Pfeiffer – actress
Mickey Dolenz – member of The Monkees
Miguel Ferrer – actor
Mike Connors- actor
Mike Holmgren – football coach
Mike Krukow – baseball pitcher/announcer
Mike Shinoda – painter, musician, producer, singer/rapper
Miranda Cosgrove – actress, singer
Monica Lewinsky
Mr. Capone-E – rapper
Natalie Coughlin – Olympic swimmer
Natalie Wood – actress
Nate Dogg – musician
Nicholas Brendon – actor
Nicholas Jonas – guitarist, singer
Nick Cannon – actor
Nicolas Cage- actor
Nicole Richie – actress
Nikki Cox – actress
Norm Mineta – U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Transportation
O.J. Simpson – football player
Omarion – musician
Pat Brown – Governor of California
Paul Pierce – professional basketball player
Paul Williams – architect
Paula Abdul – dancer/singer
Paulette Frankl – artist, biographer
Penelope Ann Miller – actress
Pete Carroll – football coach
Pete McCloskey – politician
Phil Ivey – professional poker player
Pierre Salinger – White House Press Secretary under John F. Kennedy
Randy Johnson
Randy Newman – composer, musician
Ray Lynch – actor
Reggie Miller – basketball player
Regina King – actress
Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu – bassist
Richard Gage
Richard Jefferson – professional basketball player
Richard Nixon – President of the United States
Richard Park – ice hockey forward, New York Islanders
Richard Serra – sculptor
Rick Adelman – NBA head coach
Rick Law – illustrator/producer
Ricky Manning, Jr. Football player
Rita Wilson – actress
Rob Liefeld – comic book writer
Rob Schneider actor/comedian
Robert Carradine – actor
Robert Duvall – actor
Robert Frost – poet
Robert McNamara – former United States Secretary of Defense
Robert Redford – actor
Robert Stack – actor
Robert W. Straub – Oregon governor 1975–1979
Robin Thicke – singer
Rodney Melville – judge
Roger Smith – actor
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. – actor
Roy Edward Disney, billionaire, nephew of Walt Disney
Roy Marlin Voris – World War II flying ace and Founder of the United States Navy Blue Angels
Rube Goldberg – cartoonist
Russ Tamblyn – actor
Saleisha Stowers – model
Sally Ride – astronaut
Sam Horrigan – actor Little Giants
Sam Peckinpah – director
Sammy Hagar – musician
Samuel H. Smith – president emeritus of Washington State University
Sara Gilbert – actress
Sasha Cohen – figure skater
Scout Taylor-Compton – actress
Sean Astin – actor
Shannon Marketic – Miss USA 1992
Shemar Moore – actor
Shia LaBeouf – actor
Shirley Jackson – author
Shirley Temple – child actress
Snoop Dogg – rapper
Stacy Ferguson – singer, actress, composer
Stanley Miller – chemist
Stephen Breyer – Supreme Court Justice
Steve Jobs – billionaire computer pioneer, co-founder of Apple Computer
Steve Wozniak – inventor of the Apple Computer
Steven C. Hackett – economist
Steven Stayner
Summer Bartholomew – Miss USA 1975
Suzanne Somers – actress
Tamara Witmer – model
Tatum O’Neal – actress
Taylor Horn – singer and actress
Tayshaun Prince – professional basketball player
Ted Danson – actor
Ted Stickles – world-class swimmer
Ted Williams – Hall of Fame baseball player
Teri Hatcher – actress
Terrell Davis – professional football player
Terri Stickles – Olympic swimmer
Terry Huntingdon – Miss USA 1959
Terry Moore – actress Mighty Joe Young
Tess Taylor – reality TV star and Playboy Cyber Girl of the Year for 2010
The Game – rapper
Theodore Harold Maiman-Inventor of Ruby Laser Systems Laser
Thora Birch – actress
Tiffany Hwang – singer, Girls’ Generation
Tiger Woods – golfer
Tina Yothers – actress
Tom Brady – football quarterback
Tom DeLonge – Blink 182
Tom Dumont – No Doubt’s guitarist
Tom Hanks – actor
Tom Seaver – Hall of Fame baseball player
Tony Gwynn – Hall of Fame baseball player
Tony Kanal – bassist with No Doubt
Tony Robbins – life coach
Tony Serra – civil rights attorney
Too Short – rapper
Torry Castellano – drummer of The Donnas
Tory Belleci – film maker and model maker
Trace Gallagher – journalist
Tracy Austin – tennis player
Travis Barker – Blink 182
Trent Dilfer – NFL quarterback
Trevor Hoffman – professional baseball player
Tucker Carlson – television host
Tyra Banks – model/actress
Tyrese Gibson – actor
Val Kilmer – actor
Vanessa Anne Hudgens – American actress and singer. Best known for her role in High School Musical
Victor Wong – actor
Victoria Vetri – model and actress
Vince Guaraldi – musician
Walt Stack – First Nike “Just Do It” advertisement subject
Walter A. Haas, Jr. CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
Warren G – rapper
Will Ferrell – actor
William H. Crocker – philanthropist and founder of Crocker National Bank
William Hung –
William Randolph Hearst – newspaper publisher* Patty Hearst – newspaper heiress
Willie Aames – actor
Willie Brown – 58th Speaker of the California Assembly, Mayor of San Francisco
Willie McCool – astronaut, killed on Columbia
Willie McGee – baseball player
Willis O’Brien – movie special effects artist
Yasuhiro Ishimoto – photographer
Young Noble – rapper
Yukmouth – rapper
Zac Efron – American film and TV actor. Best known for his role in High School Musical
Zack de la Rocha – singer

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