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

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was an American artist, designer, visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation".

Donald Michael Paul is an actor, director, writer, and producer.

Barbara Garrick is an American actress. Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film.

Daniel Marx is a former American football fullback. He played college football at Stanford. He led Stanford to single-game rushing totals of 350-plus yards on three occasions over his final two seasons, blocking for Heisman runner-ups Christian McCaffrey and Bryce Love. He signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2018.

Arik Armstead is an American football defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oregon.

Gordon McChesney "Ches" Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone.

Robert Warwick was an American stage, film and television actor with over 200 film appearances.

Manu Intiraymi is a film actor, writer, director and producer. As an actor, he is known for playing the former Borg Icheb on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, and as Billy on One Tree Hill.

George Barry Purdy was a mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Purdy received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972, officially under the supervision of Paul T. Bateman, but his de facto adviser was Paul Erdős. He was on the faculty in the mathematics department at Texas A&M University for 11 years, and was appointed the Geier Professor of computer science at the University of Cincinnati in 1986.