List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Steve Timmons
Steve Dennis Timmons is an American former volleyball player who represented the United States at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1984, winning gold in 1984 and 1988 plus a bronze in 1992.
Troy Dumais
Troy Matthew Dumais is an American competitive diver from California. Dumais has competed for the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2012 Summer Olympics, the last which he won a bronze team medal in the synchronized 3m. He attended the University of Texas at Austin.
Abby Sunderland
Abigail Jillian Sunderland is an American former sailor who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
Austin Hooper
Austin Manuel Hooper is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford, and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the third round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
Brian Shaw
Brian Keith Shaw is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the NBA G League Ignite of the NBA G League. He could play both guard positions, but was used primarily at point guard over the course of his 14 seasons in the league.
Sammy Lee
Samuel "Sammy" Lee was an American physician and diver. He was the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving.
Bob Gunton
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley in the Daredevil television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in 24, and Noah Taylor in Desperate Housewives.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras
Lalaine Vergara-Paras, known mononymously as Lalaine, is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and bassist. She is best known for her roles on the Disney Channel as Miranda Sanchez in Lizzie McGuire and Abby Ramirez in You Wish!, as well as portraying Kate in the 1999 remake of Annie.
Larry Mathews
Larry Mathews is an American actor known for his role as Ritchie Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Elizabeth Swaney
Elizabeth Marian Swaney is a Hungarian freestyle skier. She competed for Hungary in the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe. She was unable to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics for Venezuela in both skeleton and freestyle skiing, and qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe, in which she placed last.