- Ansel Adams
- Elsie Allen (Pomo Sage)
- Allen Allensworth
- Lilly Baker
- Arcadia Bandini Stearns Baker
- James Beckwourth
- Vitus Bering
- John Bidwell
- Tom Bradley
- Yvonne Braithwaite Burke
- Juan Cabrillo
- Edward Castillo
- Ng Poon Chew
- James Cook
- Frank Day
- Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sister Juana)
- Walter Elias “Walt” Disney
- Manuel Dominguez
- Katherine Philips Edson
- Dianne Feinstein
- Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
- S.I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa
- Eliza Steen Johnson
- Michelle Kwan
- Cindy La Marr
- Tony Quang Lam
- Dorothea Lange
- William Leidesdorff
- Allan and Malcolm Loughead (Lockheed)
- Louis B. (L.B.) Mayer
- Margaret Wentworth Owings
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- Pío Pico
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Sarah Royce
- Bernarda Ruiz de Rodríguez
- Junípero Serra
- John Steinbeck
- Levi Strauss
- Shirley Temple Black
- Toypurina
- Jerry Yang
- Maria Ontiveros Yorba