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

Mary Jane Lee, known professionally as Jennie Lee, was an American actress of the stage and screen.

Jill Remez is an American actress known for her acting work in several films and television programs as well as her skill at puppetry, having been one of the puppeteers behind Miss Piggy for The Jim Henson Company. She portrayed Juanita Vasquez on the television soap opera Passions.

Artie Ortego was an American actor. He appeared in more than 245 films between 1912 and 1955. Ortego portrayed cowboys, henchmen and American Indians in a large number of westerns and performed horse riding stunts. He was also a stunt double for Ramón Novarro in The Barbarian (1933), which is set in Cairo and also stars Myrna Loy.

Aubrey Scotto was an American film director and editor.

Stevie Wermers-Skelton is a Disney story artist and director. Together with Kevin Deters she co-directed the traditionally animated shorts How To Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007) and The Ballad of Nessie (2011), and the computer-animated television specials Prep & Landing (2009), Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa (2010), and Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2011) for ABC. In 2011 it was reported that Wermers-Skelton is preparing a new Prep & Landing holiday special. However, as of 2015, it has not materialized.

Sherri Lynn Stoner is an American actress, animator, and writer. She also voiced Slappy in the children’s television series Animaniacs.

Brian Elwin Haner Jr., better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician, best known for being the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. He ranks No. 9 on Guitar World's best metal guitarists of all time. Gates was voted as Best Metal Guitarist in the World by Total Guitar in 2016 and once again in 2017.

Riley A. Thomson Jr. was an American animator and comics artist who spent most of his career working with Walt Disney films and characters. He directed six Disney short films including The Nifty Nineties and Symphony Hour.