List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Taryn Power
Taryn Stephanie Power was an American actress.
Zach Hill
Zachary Charles Hill is an American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist. He is best known as the drummer and co-producer of the group Death Grips and as the drummer of math rock band Hella.
Andre McGee
Andre Jerome McGee is a former American basketball coach and player who was most recently assistant coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). McGee played college basketball at Louisville under Rick Pitino and one year professionally in Germany before returning to Louisville as an assistant, first a graduate assistant then director of operations.
Pamela Des Barres
Pamela Des Barres is a rock and roll groupie, writer, musician, and actress. She is best known as a member of the experimental Frank Zappa-produced music group the GTOs. Her 1987 memoir, I'm with the Band, details her experiences in the Los Angeles rock music scene of the 1960s and 1970s.
Marla Sokoloff
Marla Lynne Sokoloff is an American actress. She is known for playing Lucy Hatcher on the legal drama television series The Practice, and Gia Mahan on Full House and Fuller House. She has also appeared in films True Crime (1996), Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Sugar & Spice (2001) and Love on the Side (2004).
Dennis Berry
Dennis Charles Berry is an American film director, actor and screenwriter. Berry was born in Hollywood. He is the son of director John Berry.
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was an American politician and jurist who served as Governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The "Warren Court" presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, which has been recognized by many as a "Constitutional Revolution" in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and Loving v. Virginia (1967). Warren also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is the last Chief Justice to have served in an elected office before entering the Supreme Court, and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States.
Sam Fatu
Samuel Larry Anoa'i Fatu is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names The Tonga Kid and Tama and with World Championship Wrestling as The Samoan Savage.
John Molina, Jr.
John Molina Jr. is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2019. He challenged twice for world titles; the WBC lightweight title in 2012 and the unified WBC and WBO light welterweight titles in 2016.
Alexander Massialas
Alexander Massialas is an American foil fencer, team silver medallist in the 2014 World Fencing Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil and earned a silver medal; he also earned a bronze medal in Men's team foil.