page_title: List of people from California
section_title: California transplants
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from California / California transplants
caption_attribution_description: English: 51st Munich Security Conference 2015: From left: Prof. Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija (Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Founding Chair, R20 Regions of Climate Action; former Governor of California) and Wolfgang Ischinger (Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference).
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity. The list is in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Samuel Brannan – newspaper publisher
  Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo – Spanish explorer
  César Chávez – labor leader
  Juan Bautista de Anza – Spanish explorer
  Gaspar de Portolà – Spanish explorer
  Larry 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, and 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")
  Fritz Maytag – former owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco; Chairman of the Board of the Maytag Dairy Farms
  Thomas Mesereau – criminal defense lawyer
  Joe Montana – National Football League quarterback
  Joe Morgan – baseball player
  John Muir – naturalist
  Joshua A. Norton – British self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico"
  Buck Owens – country music performer
  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, radio host
  Charles M. Schulz – cartoonist
  Arnold Schwarzenegger – Governor of California, actor, and bodybuilder
  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, and founder of Stanford University
  Ken Starr – lawyer and university law dean
  Levi Strauss – Bavarian clothing manufacturer
  John Sutter – Swiss real estate baron
  Mark Twain – humorist and author
  Lars Ulrich – musician (Metallica)
  Sarah Winchester – heiress, eccentric and 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 – U.S. Air Force test pilot
  Ace Young – singer
  Steve Young – National Football League quarterback
caption: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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