List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Charles R. Breyer
Charles Roberts Breyer is an American attorney and jurist serving as a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Andrew W. Marlowe
Andrew W. Marlowe is an American screenwriter. Marlowe lives in Los Angeles with wife and fellow screenwriter Terri Edda Miller; she has two children from her first marriage.
Jeff Gerstmann
Jeffrey Michael Gerstmann is an American video game journalist. Former editorial director of the gaming website GameSpot and the co-founder/editor of the gaming website Giant Bomb, Gerstmann began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot when GameSpot split PC and console games into separate areas. He shared his thoughts on a variety of other subjects every Monday on his GameSpot blog before his controversial dismissal from GameSpot in 2007 following a review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Complex magazine named Gerstmann in their top 25 biggest celebrities in the video game industry.
Jared S. Gilmore
Jared Scott Gilmore is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the series Once Upon a Time as Henry Mills.
Lance Acord
Lance Acord A.S.C. is an American cinematographer.
Roger Linn
Roger Linn is an American designer of electronic musical instruments and equipment. He is the designer of the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and the MPC sampler, which had a major influence on the development of hip hop. Roger Linn is also a member of the Dead Presidents Society, a group of innovators in the field of electronic music.
Robert Rutledge
Robert Rutledge was an American sound editor who won Best Sound Editing at the 1985 Academy Awards. He won for Back to the Future, which was shared with Charles L. Campbell.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.
Robert Hall
Robert Ernest "Bob" Hall is an American economist and a Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is generally considered a macroeconomist, but he describes himself as an "applied economist".
Robert Butler
Robert Butler is an American film and Emmy Award-winning television director. He is best known for his work in television, where he directed the pilots for a number of series including Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes and Hill Street Blues.