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

Hadda Brooks was an American pianist, vocalist and composer. Her first single, "Swingin' the Boogie", which she composed, was issued in 1945. She was billed as "Queen of the Boogie". She sang at Hawaii's statehood ceremony in 1959 and was asked for a private audience by Pope Pius XII.

Robert Alan Wall better known as Bob Wall is an American actor and martial artist.

Takayo Fischer is an American stage, film and TV actress, as well as voice-over actress and singer.

Jeanne Bal was an American actress and model who worked primarily in 1960s television.

James Wesley Horne was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later.

James Gurney is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York, in the Hudson Valley of New York State. Gurney is also a confirmed paleoartist who depicts and restores in his paintings extinct fauna such as both avian and non-avian dinosaurs.

Francis Thomas Hurley was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Anchorage from 1976 to 2001.

Peter Edward Berger was an American film editor with about fifty feature and television film credits. He is known for editing films such as Mommie Dearest (1981), four films in the Star Trek series, Fatal Attraction (1987), and Coach Carter (2005). His last credit was for the television biopic Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009). It was his sixth collaboration with director Thomas Carter. With Michael Kahn, Berger won the 1989 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Fatal Attraction, and they were nominated for the Academy Award and the American Cinema Editors Eddie for the film.

Peter Alexander was an American artist who was part of the Light and Space artistic movement in southern California in the 1960s. He is notable for his resin sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s.

Zackary Arthur is an American child actor, best known for playing Sammy Sullivan in The 5th Wave and Zack Novak in the series Transparent. He currently has a recurring role as a young Jeff Piccirillo on the Showtime series Kidding.