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

John Estill Vickery is an American stage and film actor known for his work in Babylon 5 and Star Trek.

John Dotson Lee Jr. was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Br'er Rabbit in Disney's Song of the South (1946) and as the clownish, cringing, tremulous-voiced shyster pseudo-lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS Amos 'n' Andy TV and radio comedy series in the early 1950s. Much of his career was spent in vaudeville, but he also performed in motion pictures, on recordings and in television. He released a record in July 1949 called "You Can't Lose A Broken Heart", with backup vocals by The Ebonaires. Lee also starred in an all-black musical comedy called "Sugar Hill" in 1949 at Las Palmas Theatre in California.

William Arms Fisher was an American composer, music historian and writer.

Candace Kita is an American actress.

George Robinson (1890–1958) was an American cinematographer. At the beginning of his career he acted in several short films before switching to work behind the camera. He was employed by Vitagraph and later by Universal Pictures.

Ted Key, was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon panel Hazel, which was later the basis for a television series of the same name, and also the creator of Peabody's Improbable History.

Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Hugh Wynn (1897–1936) was an American film editor. He was employed by the Hollywood studio MGM from 1924 until his sudden death in 1936.

Chester Mortimer Franklin was an American film director and actor active mainly in the silent era. Born in San Francisco, he was the brother of Sidney A. Franklin. In the late 1910s he co-directed with his brother Sidney several films with all-children casts for William Fox. He directed two silent horror films, the 1924 Behind the Curtain and the 1927 The Thirteenth Hour.