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

Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It was given: "For their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems."

Craig Hill was an American film actor from Los Angeles, California.

Frederick Ried Roos is an American film producer.

Robert Isaac "Beto" de la Rocha is an American painter, graphic artist, and muralist. He was part of the Chicano art collective Los Four for a few years. De la Rocha was also influential in re-establishing the traditional Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead in Los Angeles. He is the father of Rage Against the Machine vocalist and lyricist Zack de la Rocha.

Kenneth Levine is an American writer, director and producer in the television and film industry, and an author. Levine has worked on a number of television series, including M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, Everybody Loves Raymond, Becker and Dharma and Greg. Along with his writing partner David Isaacs, he created the series Almost Perfect.

Ena Shibahara is a Japanese–American tennis player.

Darryl Gerard Hickman is an American film and television actor, voice artist, screenwriter, television executive, and acting coach. He is the older brother of actor Dwayne Hickman. He started his career as a child actor in films and as an adult has appeared in numerous TV series.

Laurie R. King is an American author best known for her detective fiction.

Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.