Writers from California

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his musical achievements broke American racial barriers and made him a dominant figure worldwide. Through his songs, concerts, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music, popularizing street dance moves such as the moonwalk, the robot, and the anti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest entertainer of all time.

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.

president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

American actor (1925–2010)

American novelist (1935–2001)

American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)

American musician

American actress, model, writer, DJ and musician; former pornographic actress (born 1988)

Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)

American actor (1931–2012)

American actor (1957–2025)

American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)

American science fiction novelist (born 1951)

American author, political commentator

Richard Wayne Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. His work spans screen and stage, and his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and then the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. He was recognized as a Disney Legend in 1998. He has been honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020.

Spanish sociologist

American radical feminist and author (1936-1988)

American politician, Secretary of Defense 2011–2013

American fiction writer (1917–1994)

American actress (1910–1999)

American pornographic actress

American actress (1946–2023)

American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944–2024)

American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist

American commercial airline pilot

American author (1893-1961)

American artificial intelligence researcher

American computer interface expert (1943-2005)

fiction writer, memoirist (b. 1945)

American science fiction writer and actor (born 1952)

American author and philosopher (born 1950)

actor, writer, activist

Indian-American writer (1940-2017)

American actor (1926–2016)

Rohit "Ro" Khanna is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic representative Mike Honda in the 2016 general election, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011.

American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)

American mountaineer

American writer

American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

American actress

American science fiction writer and critic (born 1940)

novelist, short story writer

American classicist and military historian

American film critic and author

American investigative journalist (1955–2004)

American lawyer and true crime writer (1934–2015)

American philosopher and politician (1918–2011)

American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform

American spiritual writer

American journalist

American writer (1929-1967)

American politician (1819-1900)

son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1907-1991)

American environmentalist (1949–1997)

Robert James Rallison (born May 14, 1996), known online as TheOdd1sOut, is an American YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, author, and voice actor. He is known for producing storytime animations on his YouTube channel and co-creating, starring in, and executive producing the Netflix animated series Oddballs.

American writer (1898–1988)

American science fiction writer (1917–1983)

American political scientist (1931–2010)

American writer