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

Kenneth Block is a professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block is also one of the co-founders of DC Shoes. Over the years, he has also competed in many action sports events including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross. Since selling his ownership of DC Shoes, Block has shifted his business focus to Hoonigan Industries, an apparel brand for auto enthusiasts. He is currently the co-owner and "Head Hoonigan In Charge" (HHIC) at the company.

Daniel Smart Fante was an American author and playwright. He was born in Los Angeles.

Brett Halsey is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Montgomery Ford. He had a prolific career in B pictures and in European-made feature films. He originated the role of John Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Liliana Berry Davis Mumy is an American television, film and voice actress. Between 2002 and 2006, she appeared as Jessica Baker in the two Cheaper by the Dozen movies, Lucy Miller in two films of The Santa Clause trilogy and performed the voice of Mertle Edmonds in the Lilo & Stitch franchise.

Hunter Carson is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and director. He is the son of actress Karen Black and film director L. M. Kit Carson. In 1986, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Starring Performance by a Young Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in Paris, Texas (1984).

Brandon Spencer Lee Call is an American former television and film actor as a child and adolescent. He played Hobie Buchannon in the first year of Baywatch, and J.T. Lambert over a period of seven seasons on the TV series Step by Step.

William Estes Nipper is an American actor known for his role on CBS police drama Blue Bloods as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York Police Department officer and the youngest son of the police commissioner, played by Tom Selleck. Previously, he starred as J.J. Pryor, on the NBC drama American Dreams.

Leonard Thomas Lake, also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases, was an American serial killer. During the mid-1980s, he and accomplice Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco. After his arrest in 1985 on illegal weapons, auto theft, and fraud charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing, and died four days later. Human remains, videotapes, and journals found at the cabin later confirmed Ng's involvement, and were used to convict Ng on eleven counts of capital murder.

Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.

Gerald George Martinson, was an American Jesuit missionary, television personality and broadcast executive in Taiwan.