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

Harry Bernard was an American actor and comedian best remembered for his appearance in numerous comedy films by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach.

John Grey was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 60 films between 1917 and 1933. Grey was born in San Jose, California and died in Hollywood, California.

Carmel Myers was an American actress who achieved her greatest successes in silent film.

Greg Berg is an American voice actor, best known for his work in cartoons, video games and in films as a voice match for certain male Hollywood actors.

Fred Guiol was an American film director and screenwriter. Guiol worked at the Hal Roach Studios for many years, and directed Laurel and Hardy's earliest short films, as their famous comic partnership gradually developed during 1927. Along with Ivan Moffat, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the film Giant.

Jacqueline Gadsden was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F. and Jessie H. (Salter) Gadsden and is probably best known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle It. She married William Harry Dale (1900–1975) about 1924. In a number of films she was billed as Jacqueline Gadsdon and made two films under the name Jane Daly in 1929, her final year in film. She died in the San Diego County city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday.

Eddie Boland was an American film actor. He appeared in 112 films between 1912 and 1937, mostly in comedic supporting roles. Among his best-known roles were "The Obliging Gentleman" in F. W. Murnaus silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and a criminal showman in the Harold Lloyd comedy The Kid Brother (1927). He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Santa Monica, California from a heart attack.

Jack McDonald was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 71 films between 1912 and 1930. He was born in San Francisco, California.

John P. McCarthy, also known as J.P. McCarthy or simply as John McCarthy, was an American director and screenwriter of the 1920s through 1945. He began in the film industry in front of the camera, as an actor in silent films and film shorts during the 1910s, before moving behind the camera in 1920. He usually directed his own screenplays. Although he directed the occasional drama or comedy, his specialty was the Western, which make up 28 of his 38 filmography entries.

Charles Belknap Henderson was an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as United States Senator from Nevada.