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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“But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)