List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Sara Michael Foster
Sara Michael Foster is an American actress, best known for her role as Jen Clark on 90210. She was a fashion model before moving to the film industry.
Burn Gorman
Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman is a British-American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–2014), Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), and Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014). Gorman portrayed 'The Marshal' in the first season of the Amazon drama The Man in the High Castle.
Trevor Donovan
Trevor Donovan Neubauer, known professionally as Trevor Donovan, is an American actor and model. He is best known for his role as Teddy Montgomery on the hit teen drama television series 90210.
Diana Lee Inosanto
Diana Lee Inosanto is an American actress, stuntwoman, and martial artist. She has also written and directed the film The Sensei (2008), as well as having written a children's book titled The Curious Mind of Sebastian in 2020.
Marc Benioff
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur, with a net worth of $8.8 billion as of May 2020. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. As of June 2020, he owned 3.36% of Salesforce shares, worth $4.8 billion.
Kellie Martin
Kellie Noelle Martin is an American actress and producer. She is known for her roles as Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher in Life Goes On (1989–1993), Daphne Blake in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991), Christy Huddleston in Christy (1994–1995), Lucy Knight on ER (1998–2000), Samantha Kinsey in Mystery Woman TV film series (2003–2007), and as Hailey Dean in the Hailey Dean Mystery TV film series (2016–present).
Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He played a major role in escalating the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
Derek Jones
Derek Jones was an American guitarist, best known as the rhythm and lead guitarist and often co-lead vocalist for the American post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse. He was also previously the guitarist of the American band A Smile From the Trenches until his departure in 2010.
Cam
Cam is an American country music singer and songwriter. She began her career as a songwriter, composing material for several artists including Sam Smith and Miley Cyrus. In 2010, she released her debut studio album Heartforward on an independent record label. Signing with Sony Music Entertainment, she released her debut major label EP in March 2015, Welcome to Cam Country, followed by the studio album Untamed later that same year. Her third album was The Otherside, released on Triple Tigers in 2020. Her second single "Burning House" is her most commercially successful, peaking at the number two position on Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay. Spurred by airplay on The Bobby Bones Show, the song received widespread acclaim, including a Best Country Solo Performance nomination at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and a Double Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Cam's music is defined by country pop stylings.
Sid Mallya
Sidhartha Vijay Mallya is an Indian-American actor and model. He registered with the Screen Actors Guild as Sid Mallya, saying he chose the stage name to try to avoid being typecast in stereotypical roles. He appeared in a sex comedy film entitled Brahman Naman. He has also hosted an online video show, appeared as a guest judge and host on the Kingfisher Calendar Girl selection show, and worked as a model.