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

Murdock MacQuarrie was an American silent film actor and director.

Carmen Beth Twillie is an American actress and singer. She is a longtime friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest contralto soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the Elton John and Tim Rice song "Circle of Life" in the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated feature film The Lion King. She provided the singing voice of Stormella in the 1998 Christmas animated film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie and she was a singer in the 1997 animated film Cats Don't Dance. She does a few of small voice roles in the 1993 stop-motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas as the Undersea Gal and the Man under the Stairs. She also appeared on the Chowder episode "Sing Beans" doing one of the voices for the sing beans alongside voice actors Jess Harnell, John DiMaggio, and Tara Strong.

Charles Belcher was an American film actor. He appeared in 17 films between years 1919 and 1928.

John Gay was an American screenwriter, born in Whittier, California.

William Price Knight was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. His last professional stops were in Japan with Hamamatsu, Osaka, Hyogo and Yamagata.

Clarence Erwin McClung was an eminent American zoologist and prairie pioneer cytologist who discovered the role of chromosomes in sex-determination.

Morgan Wallace, was an American actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1914 and 1946, including W.C. Fields' It's a Gift (1934) where he persistently asks Fields for some "Kumquats". He supported Fields again in My Little Chickadee (1940).

Matthew Kazuo "Kaz" Firpo is an American film director, screenwriter, and photographer. Along with his cousin, Ryan, he has written upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals. His debut documentary Refuge won Best Documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, while also playing at SXSW.

Gladys Buchanan Unger was an American author who also lived in England, and who wrote plays for Broadway and the West End, as well as screenplays for Hollywood.

Malcolm Danare is an American actor and voice actor, known for his role of Caesar in the 1985 film Heaven Help Us and Dr. Mendel Craven in the 1998 film Godzilla and its animated series followup. He is also known for voicing Kipling in Monster High and voicing Tiny of Ever After High.