Artists
Isamu Noguchi sculptor, Los
Angeles
Athletics & Sports
Marcus Allen football player
San Diego
Joe DiMaggio baseball player,
Martinez
Richard Pancho Gonzales tennis
player, Los Angeles
Jeff Gordon car racer, Vallejo
Mark McGwire baseball player,
Pomona
Dominique Moreanir gymnast,
Hollywood
Serena & Venus Williams tennis
players, Lynwood
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods golfer,
Cypress
Authors
Gertrude Atherton author, San
Francisco
Robert Frost
poet;
Bret Harte writer;
Helen Hunt
Jackson writer;
Robinson Jeffers poet;
Jack London author, San
Francisco
William Saroyan author, Fresno
Upton Sinclair
novelist;
Lincoln Steffens journalist,
author, San Francisco
John Steinbeck author, Salinas
Entertainment
David Belasco playwright and
producer, San Francisco
Shirley Temple Black actress,
ambassador, Santa Monica
Dave Brubeck musician, Concord
Julia Child chef, television,
Pasadena
Coolio rap artist, Los Angeles
Leonardo DiCaprio actor
Hollywood
Isadora Duncan dancer, San
Francisco
Robert Frost poet, San
Fancisco
Jerry Garcia guitarist, singer,
San Francisco
Mariel Hemingway actress, Mill
Valley
Sidney Howard playwright,
Oakland
George Lucas filmmaker,
Modesto
Marilyn Monroe
actress;
Emma Nevada opera singer,
Alpha
Frank Norris
novelist;
Kathleen Norris novelist;
Robert Redford actor, Santa
Monica
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor,
Hollywood
Myra Wilson actress, Burbank
Economy & Financial
Henry George economist;
Collis Potter Huntington financier;
Leland
Stanford railroad magnate;
Explorer & Historic
John Frémont explorer, San
Francisco
James W.
Marshall first discovered gold;
Johann Sutter pioneer;
Inventors
Luis Walter Alvarez inventor,
San Francisco
Robert Bower inventor, Santa
Monica
Frederick G. Cottrell inventor,
Oakland
Charles P. Ginsburg inventor,
San Francisco
Theodore Harold Maiman inventor,
Los Angeles
Medicine & Science
Luther Burbank horticulturalist;
George E. Hale astronomer;
John Muir naturalist;
Sally K. Ride astronaut,
Encino
Military
James H. Doolittle air force
general, Alameda
Politics & News
Shirley Temple Black actress,
ambassador;
William Randolph Hearst
publisher, San Francisco
Anthony M. Kennedy jurist,
Sacramento
Richard M. Nixon U.S. president,
Yorba Linda
George S. Patton, Jr. general,
San Gabriel
Adlai Stevenson statesman, Los
Angeles
Earl Warren jurist, Los
Angeles
Religious
Aimee Semple McPherson evangelist;
Junípero Serra missionary;
