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

Rickey D'Shon Collins is an American television, film and voice actor, most notable for providing the voice of Vince LaSalle in Disney's hit show Recess. He also voiced Tucker Foley in the Nickelodeon show Danny Phantom.

Rick Nowels is a Grammy and Ivor Novello award winning American songwriter. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles and his songs have appeared on albums which have sold over 200 million copies. In 2020, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Richard Pearce is an American film director, television director and cinematographer. In addition to feature films, he has directed made-for-TV movies and TV series.

Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 in Sacramento. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Derek Sherinian is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, KISS, and Joe Bonamassa. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994 to 1999, is the founder of Planet X and also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion and Sons of Apollo. He has released eight solo albums that have featured a variety of prominent guest musicians, including guitarists Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Lukather, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Sheehan, Zakk Wylde and Al Di Meola.

Raymond Saharath Persi is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has directed many episodes of The Simpsons, including "Mobile Homer", "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", "The Monkey Suit", "Little Big Girl", "24 Minutes", "Love, Springfieldian Style" and the Emmy-award winning "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". Persi went on to work as a sequence director for The Simpsons Movie (2007).

Raymond Benedict McCarey was an American film director, brother of director Leo McCarey.