List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Lindsay Hartley
Lindsay Nicole Korman is an American actress. She first came to attention with three long-running soap opera roles: Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald Crane Winthrop on Passions, Cara Castillo on All My Children and Arianna Hernandez on Days of Our Lives. Since leaving soap operas, Korman has appeared in a number of made for television films on the Lifetime network.
Deborah Falconer
Deborah Falconer is an American singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Her first album was Untangle. She released her second album, Brave Like Me, on July 22, 2003. Her third album, Lift Your Gaze, was released on October 18, 2014.
Amon-Ra St. Brown
Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St. Brown is an American football wide receiver for the USC Trojans.
Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy is an American film producer and the current president of Lucasfilm. In 1981, she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
Jared Dudley
Jared Anthony Dudley is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. The forward has also played for the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Washington Wizards, Brooklyn Nets.
Jennie Finch
Jennie Lynn Finch Daigle is an American, former collegiate All-American and medal winning Olympian, retired 2-time pro All-Star, right-handed hitting softball pitcher originally from La Mirada, California. She pitched for the Arizona Wildcats, the USA national softball team and the Chicago Bandits. Finch won the 2001 Women's College World Series and helped lead Team USA to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history. In 2010, Finch retired from softball to focus on her family. In August 2011, she started working at ESPN as a color commentator for National Pro Fastpitch and college softball games. Finch is ranked in several categories for both the Wildcats in the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA Division I, where she was named #2 Greatest College Softball Player. She is the National Pro Fastpitch career leader in WHIP and is a National Softball Hall of Fame inductee. She has been ranked by Tucson, Arizona sportswriters as the #1 Best Arizona Wildcats Softball Player; picked the #5 Best NCAA Pitcher All-Time and was chosen by the Pac-12 for the All-Century Team as a pitcher.
Tom Franco
Thomas Andrew Franco is an American actor, artist, and the founder of the Firehouse Art Collective in Berkeley, California. He is the brother of actors James Franco and Dave Franco.
Jessica Springsteen
Jessica Rae Springsteen is an American equestrian. The daughter of musicians Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, she is a show jumping champion rider who has represented the United States Equestrian Team in international competition.
Lloyd Avery II
Lloyd Fernandez Avery II was an American actor. He was best known for his character in John Singleton's Oscar-nominated film Boyz n the Hood (1991), as the triggerman who murdered high school football star Ricky Baker and was later killed in retaliation. In 2005, Avery was convicted of double homicide, and later killed in prison by his cellmate.
Ryan O'Callaghan
Ryan Thomas O'Callaghan is a former American football offensive tackle. He played college football at California and was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He also played for the Kansas City Chiefs.