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

Lars Erik Frederiksen is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, as well as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and the Old Firm Casuals. In addition, he currently plays guitar in Oxley's Midnight Runners, Stomper 98, and The Last Resort. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991. He joined Rancid in 1993 after the band was searching for a second guitar player and was present on their second album Let's Go. He has produced albums for bands such as Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, The Business, Swingin Utters, Marky Ramone and the Intruders, Anti-Heros, Pressure Point, The Forgotten among others. He mixed GBH's 2010 album entitled Perfume and Piss, as well as Cock Sparrer's 2007 album "Here We Stand" both alongside Michael Rosen.

Derrick Paul Brown is an American professional basketball player who last played for Crvena zvezda of the ABA League and the EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he plays at the power forward position.

Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Synyster Gates, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny Christ, and drummer Brooks Wackerman.

Randall Glenn Johnson is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He played three full seasons in the Majors, from 1982 through 1984, for the Atlanta Braves. He also played two seasons in Japan, 1987 and 1988, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. He served as the minor league field coordinator for the San Diego Padres from 2010-2015. He is now a major league scout for the Detroit Tigers and is in his 40th year in professional baseball.

Tremmell Lequincy Dushun Darden is an American professional basketball player for Riesen Ludwigsburg of the Basketball Bundesliga. Standing at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he plays at the small forward and shooting guard positions.

Eugene Gu is an American former resident physician and social media personality who was a part of a successful lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump. While Gu was in medical school, he founded a company called Ganogen to develop methods to use fetal tissue implants in organ transplantation. Work at Ganogen had ceased when he started his residency in 2015, but in 2016 he was subpoenaed as CEO of the company by the United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood following the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy.

William Esco Moerner is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules. He is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in condensed phases, along with his postdoc, Lothar Kador. Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Flora Jean "Flo" Hyman was an American athlete who played volleyball. She was an Olympic silver medalist and played professional volleyball in Japan.

Ryan Michael Bollinger is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Rakuten Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). He previously played for the Fubon Guardians of the CPBL. In 2018, he was promoted to the major leagues by the New York Yankees, but he did not appear in a game.

Forrest Wheeler is an American actor. In 2014, he was cast as Emery Huang, a series regular on the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat.