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

Blair Tefkin is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

Carl Edward Washington is an American actor, writer, producer.

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh is an American animator, writer, director, producer, and voice actor associated with several animated television series, most notably as an executive producer and the voice of Major Monogram for Disney's animated series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law, both of which he co-created with Dan Povenmire. Marsh was born in Santa Monica, California, where he grew up with a heavily blended family dynamic. Marsh has been and continues to be a driving force behind several animation projects, working for over six seasons on the animated television series The Simpsons. Marsh continued to work on other animated television series, including King of the Hill and Rocko's Modern Life, before moving to England in 1996.

Larry Kaplan is an American video game designer and programmer best known for the 1981 Atari 2600 game Kaboom!, and for helping to found Activision.

Richard Paul Russo is an American science fiction writer.

Steven (Steve) Bramson is a professional composer who has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, and has won one Daytime Emmy Award and three ASCAP Awards. He has written music to George Lucas' Young Indiana Jones and the CBS series JAG. Bramson's music has been played in New York City, London and Vienna. He is currently writing a musical titled Shimmy. The lyrics are being credited to Pamela Phillips Oland. Although he once considered being an economist, Steve is also an excellent jazz pianist, who has backed up major jazz stars and once played in the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Zaryn Dentzel is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He founded Tuenti in 2006. Dentzel was robbed of millions in Bitcoins in 2021. Dentzel was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1983. He moved to Spain in the 1990s.

Stephen James Taylor is an American composer best known for his film and TV scores with four Emmy nominations, two Annie nominations, and a DVD-X Award on "Best Original Score to date ('05). His style is a blend of pop, classical, jazz, world music and experimental surround sound genres.

Cameron Thor is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, acting coach, and convicted sex offender. He is best known for his appearances in the films Jurassic Park and Hook. In 2016, he was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.