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

Paul Steven Bostaph is an American heavy metal drummer, best known as a member of the thrash metal band Slayer, initially from 1992 to 2001 and again from 2013 to 2019. His drumming career began in 1984, when he was 20 years old, and other than Slayer, he has worked with other bands such as Forbidden, Exodus, Systematic, Testament, and BlackGates. Metal-Rules.com describes Bostaph as "a true professional and one of the best drummers on today's metal music scene."

Samuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.

William Patrick "Parry" O'Brien was an American shot put champion. He competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals and one silver medal (1960). In his last Olympic competition (1964) he placed fourth. For all of these accomplishments, O'Brien was inducted into the IAAF and U.S. Olympic halls of fame.

Derrin Lee Ebert is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also been a coach in MLB and Minor League Baseball (MiLB) and is a current MiLB manager.

Michael Hughes Kenny was a 20th-century bishop in the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Juneau in the state of Alaska from 1979 to 1995.

Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.

Fred Asparagus was an American comedian and film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the "Bartender" in the 1986 film Three Amigos!.

Tod David Brown is an American bishop and retired prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in Idaho and southern California. He served as Bishop of Boise from 1989 to 1998 and as Bishop of Orange from 1998 to 2012.

Colin Todd Gerard Woodell is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Rick Betancourt on The Purge on USA Network and Matias in the 2018 film Unfriended: Dark Web. He played Aiden in the CW series The Originals, Tyler Richmond on Designated Survivor, Ronald Sturgis on Masters of Sex (2013–2016), and Buckley on the HBO series The Flight Attendant (2020). Other film credits include Unsane, Searching, the Netflix original film XOXO, and The Call of the Wild.