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

Clarence G. Badger was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His films include It and Red Hair, more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two features starring Raymond Griffith, Paths to Paradise and Hands Up!

Robert William Meusel was an American baseball left and right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was best known as a member of the Yankees' championship teams of the 1920s, nicknamed the "Murderers' Row", during which time the team won its first six American League (AL) pennants and first three World Series titles.

Charles Lamont was a prolific filmmaker, directing over 200 titles and producing and writing many others. A California native, Lamont was born in San Francisco and died in Los Angeles.

Milton Carruth was an American film editor and, for a period in the 1930s, film director. Among the 129 films he edited are All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadow of a Doubt, Pillow Talk, and Imitation of Life. His career as an editor spanned nearly four decades, from 1929 through 1966 (The Pad and How to Use It.

Glen MacWilliams, was an American cinematographer.

Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films, Phantom of the Opera (1943), the Francis the Talking Mule series and created the talking-horse TV series Mister Ed. A prominent director for Universal Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, he is perhaps best known today as the man who gave Clint Eastwood his first contract in film.

Helen Ware was an American stage and film actress.

Charles Brady King was an American engineer and entrepreneur remembered as an automotive pioneer, artist, etcher, musician, poet, architect, mystic, industrialist and inventor.

Louie John Horvitz is an American television director and producer. He has won seven Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated 20 times. Horvitz is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the older brother of voice actor Richard Steven Horvitz.

David Butler was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director.