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

Gary A. Trousdale is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. He is known for directing films such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn.

Brandis Kemp was an American actress best known for her appearances in Fridays and AfterMASH from the years 1980 to 1985. She then appeared in a wide variety of films and TV shows as a character actress for the remainder of her career.

Thomas Martin Dumont is an American guitarist and producer. Dumont is a member of third wave ska band No Doubt, and during the band's hiatus, he began Invincible Overlord as a side project and produced Matt Costa's Songs We Sing.

Cole Chase Hudson, also known as Lil Huddy, is an Internet celebrity known for his relationship with Charli D’Amelio and as one of the co-founders of the TikTok collective known as the Hype House. According to Billboard, he is one of the top 10 music influencers on TikTok, with over 20 million followers, and one of the most influential people on the platform. Hudson is known for popularizing the e-boy style.

Bryce Davison is an American-Canadian pair skater. With former partner Jessica Dubé, he is a three-time Canadian national champion, the 2008 World bronze medalist and the 2009 Four Continents silver medalist.

Joseph Jon Bruno was the sixth Episcopal Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

Karl Gajdusek is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. He was the showrunner for the first season of the Netflix series Stranger Things and the co-creator of the TV series Last Resort with Shawn Ryan. They were both also executive producers for the series. Gajdusek also wrote for the series Dead Like Me and wrote the film Trespass (2011). He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion, and The November Man, which was released in 2014.

Joseph Martin Sartoris is an America prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Sartoris served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1994 to 2002.

Justin Lee is an American actor known for his role as Annyong (Hel-loh) Bluth in the Netflix sitcom Arrested Development.

Victor Hugo Benioff was an American seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.