List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Austin Carr
Austin Durant Mozée Carr is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football at Northwestern. He played for New Canaan High School where he was first team All-FCIAC in both football and field hockey.
Jan Svendsen
Jan Svendsen is an American athlete. She competed in the women's shot put at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
John Jaso
John Edward Jaso is an American former professional baseball first baseman. Jaso mostly served as a designated hitter and catcher throughout his career, but had to stop catching due to concussion issues. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Jeff Garcia
Jeffrey Jason Garcia is a former gridiron football quarterback. After attending high school and junior college in Gilroy, California, Garcia played college football at San Jose State University.
Harve Presnell
George Harvey Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States.
Janet Evans
Janet Beth Evans is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics.
R. Prophet
Kenneth Ryan Anthony better known by his stage name R. Prophet, is an American rapper. He was formerly in the Kentucky-based sextet alternative southern rap group Nappy Roots. He attended Western Kentucky University with the present Nappy Roots members.
Rami Jaffee
Rami Jaffee is an American musician. He is best known as the keyboardist for the rock band Foo Fighters, whom he initially joined in a touring and session capacity in 2005. Jaffee has contributed to five of the band's studio albums, and in 2017 was added to the core line-up of the band.
Daniele Donato
Daniele Donato-Briones is an American television personality. She was a contestant on Big Brother 8, Big Brother 13 and Big Brother 22. Donato was married to Big Brother 13 cast member Dominic Briones, whom she began a relationship with shortly after the 13th season.
Jay Rock
Johnny Reed McKinzie Jr., better known by his stage name Jay Rock, is an American rapper and songwriter from Watts, California. Rock signed to the independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) in 2005. In 2007, alongside TDE, Rock secured a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records and later Asylum Records, but mergers fell through and Rock ended up leaving the label shortly after. He then signed with Tech N9ne's Strange Music, in a joint-venture record deal. Apart from his solo career, Rock is also known for being a member of the hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, alongside fellow West Coast rappers and TDE label-mates Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul. In 2019, Jay Rock received a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance for "King's Dead".