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

Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony is an American cardinal and retired prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011. Before his appointment as Los Angeles archbishop, he served as Auxiliary Bishop of Fresno from 1975 to 1980 and as Bishop of Stockton from 1980 to 1985. Mahony played an instrumental part in covering up the sexual abuse of many young people within the Church.

Armen John Chakmakian born in Glendale, California) is an Armenian-American musician, composer, recording artist, and producer. Formerly the keyboardist for the GRAMMY® award-winning band Shadowfax, their 1992 CD, Esperanto was nominated for a Best New Age Album GRAMMY® Award. He has released two solo albums on his label TruArt Records: Ceremonies (1998); Caravans (2004). Two tracks from Ceremonies, "Gypsy Rain" and "Distant Lands", also appear on the famed "Buddha Bar" and "Buddha Bar IV" compilation albums, respectively.

Marianna Hill is a retired American actress who predominantly worked in American television and is known for her starring role in the feature western film High Plains Drifter (1973) as well as many roles on television series in the 1960s and 1970s. She was sometimes credited as Mariana Hill.

Charles Correll Jr. was an American television director and cinematographer. The son of Charles Correll Sr. of the sitcom Amos & Andy, his brother is Richard Correll, a former child actor and later a television director.

John Clark "Jack" Okey was an American art director.

Matthew Dillon is an American software engineer known for Amiga software, contributions to FreeBSD and for starting and leading the DragonFly BSD project since 2003.

Khamani Griffin is an American actor, who is best known for playing Bobby James in the series by UPN/The CW, All Of Us, and Tolee the Koala in Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. He starred as Ben Hinton in Daddy Day Care (2003) and had a role in Norbit (2007). He has also appeared in Grey's Anatomy, ER, and My Name Is Earl. He has been nominated for three Young Artist Awards, for Daddy Day Care and All of Us.

Jeff Russo is an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, vocalist and music producer, and one of the two founding members of American rock band Tonic. He is also a founding member of acoustic rock band Low Stars.

Anthony James Sly was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the front man of the punk rock band No Use for a Name. In his later years he also gained attention for his acoustic solo work, with two acoustic split albums he released with Lagwagon front man Joey Cape and two solo albums.

John Foster Pomeroy is an American animator who has worked for several major studios, including Walt Disney Animation Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios. He has also worked as producer, and screenwriter on several animated feature films.