List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Ernie Adams
Ernie Adams was an American actor and writer.
Leron Lee
Leron Lee is a former left fielder. He played 8 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was the inspiration for the 1992 film Mr. Baseball, as Leron was the first Major League player to move to Japan at the height of his career and to wed a Japanese woman. His nephew Derrek Lee also played in the MLB.
Carl Steven
Carlo Steven Krakoff, professionally known as Carl Steven, was an American former child actor. He's best known for showing up on Out of This World and Weird Science. He played as a young Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). He voiced Fred Jones in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. He retired from acting in 1996. He died at the age of 36 due to a heroin overdose while in Tucson, Arizona on July 31, 2011.
Donald De Line
Donald De Line is an American film producer. He was formerly the head of production at Paramount Pictures. He began his career as a studio executive at Walt Disney Productions and its Touchstone Pictures division in 1985, eventually serving as Disney's vice-president of production. He is a native of La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. His well-known films have included Pretty Woman (1990), The Italian Job (2003), and Body of Lies (2008).
MC Eiht
Aaron Tyler, better known by his stage name MC Eiht, is an American rapper and actor. Many of his songs are based on his life in Compton. His stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's name. He chose Eiht for its links to "hood culture", including Olde English 800 and .38 caliber firearms. He is the de facto leader of West Coast hip hop group Compton's Most Wanted, which also included fellow Compton-based rappers Boom Bam, Tha Chill, DJ Mike T, DJ Slip and Ant Capone. He is also known for his role as A-Wax in the 1993 film Menace II Society, as well as voicing the character Ryder in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Amro Tarek
Amr Tarek Abdel-Aziz is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a defender for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Tarek has also been capped for the Egyptian national team.
Indigo
Indigo is an American actress and DJ. She is best known for her roles as Rona, one of the vampire slayer potentials, in the final season of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Vaneeta on the Showtime series Weeds, in which she was nominated for the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Dan Inosanto
Daniel Arca Inosanto is a Filipino-American martial arts instructor who is best known as a training partner of Bruce Lee. Inosanto is an authority on Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Martial Arts including Eskrima and Pencak Silat.
Edgar Dearing
Edgar Dearing was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.
Darryl Chan
Darryl M. Chan is an accomplished Hollywood stuntman, martial artist, and actor of Chinese descent. He grew up in San Francisco as the second of four boys. His career spans from the early 1980s to the present. Chan has worked with virtually all the leading Asian actors and filmmakers, and counts Brandon Lee as one of his closest friends at the time of Lee's death. Darryl is also a sports medicine specialist, and has trained many of the entertainment industry's actors and musicians to prepare for roles and world tours.