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

Josiah Royce was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his version of personalism, defense of absolutism, idealism and his conceptualization of God.

Arthur Tavares (1884–1954) was an American actor and film editor. He was born as Arturo Tavares in San Francisco in 1884. During the 1910s Tavares appeared as an actor in silent films in Hollywood. During the 1920s he switched to become an editor. At the beginning of the sound era, Tavares worked on Spanish language versions of American films. He also made a number of films in Britain, including The Wrecker, The First Born and Song of Freedom.

Walter Leland Catlett was an American actor. He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards.

Clyde Adolf Bruckman was an American writer and director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema. Bruckman collaborated with such comedians as Buster Keaton, W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, and Harold Lloyd.

Verna Felton was an American actress who was best known for providing many voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Pearl Slaghoople in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones (1962–1963).

James Blanco Martin (born July 21, 1961, in Hayward, California, a city in the East Bay Area, known professionally as Big Jim Martin, is an American guitarist best known for his membership in the rock band Faith No More from 1983 to late 1993. Martin also played guitar with the groups EZ-Street, Vicious Hatred, Agents of Misfortune, Recluse, and Pigs of Death.

Diana Marie Lynn was an American actress.

Theodore Roberts was an American film and stage actor.

Herman Theobald Glass was an American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.