List of Famous people born in California, United States of America
Eva LaRue
Eva Maria LaRue is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles as Dr. Maria Santos on All My Children and Det. Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami.
Colin Trevorrow
Colin T. Trevorrow is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed the indie film Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) and the blockbuster film Jurassic World (2015). He co-wrote the latter and its sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). He later co-wrote and directed the Jurassic World short film Battle at Big Rock (2019), and the film Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). He was also originally slated to write and direct Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), titled Duel of the Fates at the time, but he left the project and received a story credit, replaced by J.J. Abrams, and the title was changed.
Rhonda Ross Kendrick
Rhonda Ross is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and public speaker. She is the daughter of singer/actress Diana Ross. She was born in Los Angeles and raised by Ross and her first husband, Robert Ellis Silberstein. Her biological father is Motown Records founder Berry Gordy.
Zoey Tur
Hanna Zoey Tur is an American broadcast reporter and commercial pilot who created Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then-wife Marika Gerrard.
Roddy Ricch
Rodrick Wayne Moore, Jr., known professionally as Roddy Ricch, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame in 2018 with the single "Die Young", which peaked at number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ricch's first two mixtapes, Feed Tha Streets (2017) and Feed Tha Streets II (2018), also received widespread acclaim. In 2019, Ricch was featured on Nipsey Hussle's single "Racks in the Middle", which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, and on Mustard's Grammy-nominated single "Ballin'", which reached the top 20 of the Hot 100.
Howie Hawkins
Howard Gresham Hawkins is an American trade unionist and environmental activist from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nominee in the 2020 presidential election. His primary campaign issues included enacting an eco-socialist version of the Green New Deal, which he first proposed in 2010, and building a viable, independent working-class political and social movement in opposition to the Democratic and Republican parties and capitalism in general.
Graham Phillips
Graham David Phillips is an American actor and singer. Beginning his acting career at the age of nine, Phillips is known for a variety of film, stage and television roles; as Jordan Baxter in the Universal Pictures feature film Evan Almighty, Evan Goldman in the Broadway musical 13, Ben Tennyson in Ben 10: Race Against Time, Zach Florrick on the CBS television series The Good Wife, Ethan Shaw in the Netflix Original XOXO, Nick St. Clair in Riverdale, and Austin in Blockers.
Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician. He is most well-known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption, and has won an Academy Award and three Golden Globes for his roles in the films Mystic River (2003), Short Cuts (1993) and The Player (1992).
Sabrina Ionescu
Sabrina Elaine Ionescu is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. She is the NCAA all-time leader in career triple-doubles, the Pac-12 Conference all-time leader in assists, and the only NCAA Division I basketball player to record 2,000 points, 1,000 assists, and 1,000 rebounds in a career.
Phil Nevin
Phillip Joseph Nevin is an American former professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the third base coach for the New York Yankees of MLB. He spent twelve seasons as a player in MLB, appearing in 1,217 games played between 1995 and 2006 for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Anaheim Angels, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins.