California Transplants
- Juan Bautista de Anza – Spanish explorer
- Samuel Brannan – newspaper publisher
- Ashlynn Brooke – pornographic actress
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo – Spanish explorer
- César Chávez – labor leader
- Dr. Dre – rapper and producer
- Lawrence Ellison – co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- John C. Frémont – Military Governor of California
- Domingo Ghirardelli – chocolateer (Ghirardelli Chocolate Company)
- Chick Hearn – National Basketball Association announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers
- William Redington Hewlett – co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- Bob Hope – actor, singer, comedian
- Steve Jurvetson – venture capitalist (a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
- James Lick – real estate baron
- Steve Martin – actor, author, comedian and director
- Johnny Mathis – singer ("Chances Are")
- Thomas Mesereau – criminal defense lawyer
- Joe Montana – National Football League quarterback
- John Muir – naturalist
- Joshua A. Norton – British self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
- Buck Owens – country music performer
- Gaspar de Portolà – Spanish explorer
- Ronald Reagan – actor and 40th President of the United States
- Jackie Robinson – Baseball Hall of Famer who broke Major League Baseball's 20th-century color line
- Carlos Santana – Mexican musician
- Michael Savage – author, political commentator and radio host
- Charles M. Schulz – cartoonist
- Vin Scully – announcer for Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers
- Glenn T. Seaborg – chemist
- Junipero Serra – Spanish missionary
- Steven Spielberg – director
- Leland Stanford – railroad baron, Governor of California, founder of Stanford University
- Ken Starr – lawyer, university law dean
- Levi Strauss – Bavarian clothing manufacturer
- John Sutter – Swiss real estate baron
- Marjorie Thompson – British peace activist
- Mark Twain – humorist and author
- Sarah Winchester – heiress, eccentric, builder of the Winchester Mystery House
- Charles Wood – musical theatre performer (original Hortensio in Cole Porter's 1948 Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate)
- Chuck Yeager – US Air Force test pilot
- Ace Young – singer
- Steve Young – National Football League quarterback
- Lars Ulrich – musician (Metallica)
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“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)