Notable People from California

Wayne M. Collins

American lawyer (1899-1974)

William M. Miley

American general (1897-1997)

Wilna Hervey

American silent film actress and artist (1894-1979)

Ray Moyer

set decorator (1898-1986)

Leland Fuller

art director (1899–1962)

Al Pearce

American comedian (1898-1961)

Bill James

American baseball player (1892-1971)

Bill Nestell

actor (1893-1966)

Mary Yee

American linguist

Paul R. Williams

American architect (1894–1980)

Percy Marks

American writer (1891–1956)

Frederick Cecil Mills

American economist

Ossie Vitt

American baseball player (1890–1963)

George Robinson

American cinematographer (1890–1958)

Harold von Schmidt

American artist (1893–1982)

Elmer Boeseke

polo player (1895-1963)

Fred Allen

American long jumper and child psychiatrist

Fred Allen

American film editor and film director (1896-1955)

Quinto Maganini

American conductor, composer and musicologist (1897–1974)

Stephen Dunn

American sound engineer (1894-1980)

Ruth Reeves

American textile artist (1892-1966)

Kathleen Lockhart Manning

American composer (1890–1951)

John F. Dockweiler

American politician (1895-1943)

Mary Loveless

American physician (1899-1991)

Julian Rivero

American actor (1890-1976)

Farciot Edouart

motion picture special effects artist (1894-1980)

Edward Beeson

American high jumper (1890-1971)

Ernest King Bramblett

American politician (1901-1966)

Will Hudson

Canadian-American composer, arranger, and big band leader

William H. Cannon

American film Director (1907–1990)

Wilfred M. Cline

American cinematographer (1903-1976)

Sidney Wagner

American cinematographer (1901-1947)

Milton Wexler

American psychoanalyst (1908–2007)

Chuck Plotkin

American recording engineer and producer

Robley Cook Williams

American biophysicist (1908–1995)

Andy Samuel

film actor (1909-1992)

Jerry Fairbanks

American film director and producer (1904-1995)

Jimmy O'Connell

American baseball player

Joe Funk

American artist (c. 1914 – 1981)

Karl Yoneda

Japanese American activist and trade unionist; interned at the beginning of WWII at Manzanar; served in World War II as a Japanese language specialist for the U.S. Army (1906–1999)

Dave Shade

American boxer (1902–1983)

Eric Krenz

American shot putter and discus thrower

Carl Shoup

American economist (1902-2000)

Carrie Snow

Comedian and television writer

Charles Litton, Sr.

American radio pioneer

Lester Smith

American swimmer, Olympic athlete (1902-1957)

Eugene Gardner

American physicist

Charles L. Freeman

American film editor, sound editor and special effect artist (1908-2001)

Charles M. Teague

American politician (1909-1974)

Theodore J. Conway

United States general (1909-1990)