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

Jake Browning is an American football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies and signed with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2019.

Stephanie Hym Bell, better known by her ring name Mia Yim, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand as a member of the stable Retribution under the ring name Reckoning.

Spencer Gray Dinwiddie is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Colorado Buffaloes and earned first-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 as a sophomore in 2013. He missed most of his junior year after injuring his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Dinwiddie recovered and was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 2014 NBA draft. After two seasons with the Pistons, he joined the Nets in December 2016. In December 2018 he signed a three-year contract extension with the Nets.

Maximillion Drake Thieriot is an American actor and director. He made his acting debut in the 2004 adventure comedy film Catch That Kid. Thieriot has since appeared in the action comedy The Pacifier (2005), the mystery comedy Nancy Drew (2007), the sci-fi Jumper (2008), the supernatural horror My Soul to Take (2010), the erotic thriller Chloe (2010), the drama Disconnect (2012), the psychological horror-thriller House at the End of the Street (2012), and the action-thriller Point Break (2015).

Adam Carolla is an American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the "most downloaded podcast" as judged by Guinness World Records in 2011.

Jonathan Ryan Pardi is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his neotraditional style. Signed to Capitol Nashville, he has released three studio albums, one extended play, and eleven singles, ten of which have charted on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts.

David Joseph Carpenter, a.k.a. The Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. Carpenter killed at least ten individuals, with two attempted victims, Steven Haertle and Lois Rinna, the mother of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna, surviving. He used a .38 caliber handgun in all but one of the killings; a .44 caliber handgun was used in the killing of Edda Kane on Mount Tamalpais.

Michael Glenn Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011.

Athena Bass is an American musician, drummer and actress. She is the younger sister of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.

Johnny Sheffield was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, played Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played Bomba the Jungle Boy.