List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Frank Marshall
Frank Wilton Marshall is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy. With Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company which has a contract with Amblin Partners. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal. Marshall has consistently collaborated with directors Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, and Peter Bogdanovich. He received the Irving G. Thalberg award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018, awarded to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production."
Dave McCoy
David McCoy was an American skier and businessman who founded the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in 1942.
Tina Marie Jordan
Tina Marie Jordan is an American glamour model and actress. Jordan is the Playmate of the Month for March 2002 and a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.
Miye Oni
Olumiye "Miye" Oni is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Yale Bulldogs. Listed at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) and 206 pounds (95 kg), he plays the shooting guard position. Oni was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2019 and is a three-time All-Ivy League selection.
Roger Ver
Roger Keith Ver is an early investor in bitcoin, bitcoin-related startups and an early promoter of bitcoin. He has been known as "Bitcoin Jesus" for his promotion of bitcoin. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash.
Chloe Flower
Chloe Won who is known professionally as Chloe Flower is an American-born composer, writer, producer and classical pianist. She studied at Manhattan School of Music Pre-College and later at The Juilliard School.
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
Eugene Sidney Patton Sr., also known as Gene Patton and more widely known by his stage name Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, was a television personality, dancer and stagehand who worked at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. Patton was the first African-American member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Local 33.
Nick Simmons
Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons is an American writer, musician, reality television personality and voice-over actor. The son of musician Gene Simmons, he is best known for starring in the A&E reality television series Gene Simmons Family Jewels from 2006 to 2012. He wrote and created the limited comic book series Incarnate, which was published by Radical Comics in 2009. In 2017, Simmons worked as a writer for The Huffington Post.
Barbara S. Jones
Barbara Sue Jones is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Roy Price
Roy F. Price is a former American entertainment executive and the former president of Amazon.com's media development division, Amazon Studios. As of 2017 he runs an art consultancy firm in Hong Kong.