List of Famous people born in California, United States of America

Karen Chen is an American figure skater. She is a two-time CS U.S. Classic bronze medalist, the 2015 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist, the 2017 U.S. national champion, and a three-time U.S. national bronze medalist. Chen competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, placing 11th. She has also competed at six ISU Championships, achieving her best result, fourth, at the 2017 World Championships.

Elsie Fisher is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role in comedy-drama film Eighth Grade (2018), for which she earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Fisher is also known for voicing characters in the animated films Despicable Me (2010), Despicable Me 2 (2013), and The Addams Family (2019).

Dana Hill was an American actress and voice artist. As a live-action actress, she was known for playing Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation, and also known for her roles in Shoot the Moon and Cross Creek. As a voice actress, she was known for her work as Max Goof in Goof Troop. Hill had diabetes that affected physical growth, which meant that she often played children into adolescence and beyond.

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers is an American-Italian actress. She is known for her role as the titular character in the children's series, Mia and Me, and also as Tyene Sand in Game of Thrones.

Lisa J. Ling is an American journalist, television personality, and author. She is currently the host of This Is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN. Previously, she was a reporter on Channel One News, a co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View (1999–2002), the host of National Geographic Explorer (2003–2010), and a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling later hosted Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN from 2011 to 2014.

Sarah Jude Sutherland is a Canadian-American actress known for her role as Catherine Meyer in Veep.

Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron was an American actor, comedian, painter, and playwright.

Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. A member of the Carradine family, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his brother David's TV series, Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne and Roscoe Lee Browne. Carradine also portrayed fraternity president "Lewis Skolnick" in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films.

Samin Nosrat is an American chef, TV host and food writer. She is the author the James Beard Award–winning New York Times Bestselling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat and host of a Netflix docu-series of the same name. Until February 2021, she was a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.

Odette Juliette Annable is an American actress and model. She is known for various roles in film and television, including her starring role as Dr. Jessica Adams in the Fox medical drama series House, Beth McIntyre in the monster film Cloverfield, Aubrey Diaz in the ABC drama series October Road, Samantha Arias/Reign in Supergirl, and Nola Longshadow in Banshee.