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

Jimmy Lennon Jr. is an American boxing ring announcer who is employed primarily by Showtime and Fox Sports as ring announcer for their Showtime Championship Boxing and Premier Boxing Champions, also by Bob Arum's Top Rank on ESPN events. Lennon was also employed by Fox Sports when it previously had rights to professional boxing and was the ring announcer for Don King Promotions' fights that aired on various networks. He is best known for his catchphrase, "It's show time!" but the catchphrase is not spoken during Fox's fight coverage.

Bradin Carl Hagens is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Rakuten Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Jonathan Kos-Read, also known as Cao Cao, is an American film and television actor based in the People's Republic of China. While well known in China, his work is little-known in the United States. Kos-Read uses the stage name Cao Cao, which is also the name of the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a historical figure well-known to most Chinese people.

Ronald Welty is an American musician and the former drummer for the American punk rock band The Offspring. Of all the band's drummers, Welty's tenure was the longest, surpassing current drummer Pete Parada, who has been a member of The Offspring for 14 years. His tenure in the band marks for most fans the classic years of the band's history.

Arturo R. Molina Jr., better known as Frost, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Los Angeles. He charted in the 1980s with his first four albums: Hispanic Causing Panic, East Side Story, Smile Now, Die Later and When Hell.A. Freezes Over. His most successful single is "La Raza" which hit number 6 on the rap songs chart in August 1990. His 1990 debut album is credited as the first Chicano rap album.

Eugene "Pooh" Jeter III is an American-born naturalized Ukrainian professional basketball player for BC Dnipro of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. A 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) tall point guard, he is a naturalized player for the Ukraine national basketball team with his naturalized name being Yudzhin Dzheter.

Vanessa Blue is an American pornographic actress and director. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2013.

David Gregory Huff is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles Angels. Huff has also played for the LG Twins of the KBO League and for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Carmelita Jeter is a retired American sprinter, who specialized in the 100 meters. She was the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 m and a three-time Olympic medallist.

James Carson Yun is an American entrepreneur, actor and retired professional wrestler best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment in the late 1990s and 2000s under the ring names Jimmy Yang, Akio and Jimmy Wang Yang.