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

Alicia "Alice" Armendariz, known professionally as Alice Bag, is an American punk rock singer, musician, author, educator and feminist archivist. She is the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, one of the first wave of punk bands to form in the mid-1970s in Los Angeles. Her first book Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage is the story of her upbringing in East Los Angeles, her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. This bilingual former elementary school teacher continues as an author, outspoken activist, feminist and a self-proclaimed troublemaker.

Martin Paul Cohan, credited as Marty Cohan, was an American television producer and screenwriter. He co-created the sitcom Who's the Boss?, which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992, with business partner, Blake Hunter. Cohan is also credited with creating Silver Spoons, which ran on NBC from 1982 to 1987 and launched the career of actor Ricky Schroder.

Christopher Beau Landon is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for writing the thriller Disturbia (2007) and found-footage films Paranormal Activity 2 (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), and Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), directing the horror comedy Happy Death Day, and both writing and directing Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, the sequel Happy Death Day 2U, and Freaky, which were also horror films, most of them with comedic elements. Landon is the son of late actor Michael Landon. He wrote and made his directorial debut on the satirical thriller film Burning Palms (2010).

David M. Weisbart was an American film editor and producer.

Gary Robert McFarland was an American composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist, prominent on Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s, when he made "one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz".

Belinda Balaski is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her large supporting role as Terri Fisher in Joe Dante's The Howling (1981), and has continued to appear in most of Dante's films, including Piranha, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Matinee and Small Soldiers, as well two segments that Dante directed for Amazon Women on the Moon. She also co-starred in The Food of the Gods and Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, both featuring Marjoe Gortner, and in Cannonball! as a navigator in a cross-country car race.

Clifford John Bole was a director of a number of American and Canadian television programs. He directed episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Vega$, Charlie's Angels, V: The Series, Baywatch, The X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager among others. The Star Trek alien race called the Bolians is named after him.

Robert Newman is an American actor, primarily appearing on television.

Cassandra Gava is an American actress and producer best known for her performance as the witch in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian, and as the slave woman Alessa in High Road to China. She appeared in 21 films between 1979 and 1998. She also appears on the cover of the Jefferson Starship album Spitfire, and is credited as "dragon princess" in the liner notes. Gava appeared in Taxi as Desiree in the 1981 episode "Vienna Waits".