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State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. 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 following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are otherwise closely associated with the city or county of Los Angeles, California. Those not born in Los Angeles have their places of birth listed instead. Los Angeles natives are also referred to as Angelenos / æ n dʒ ɪ ˈ l iː n oʊ ...
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It turns out that the vast majority of brands named after real people are — of course — named after the company's founder. But each of these founders has a unique and oftentimes fascinating story.
JuJu Harris – food-affordability activist [107] Kamala Harris – politician, U.S. Senator, first female African-American attorney general of California; first female, African-American, and Asian-American vice president of the United States; born at Kaiser hospital in Oakland but lived and attended school in Berkeley [108]
It was named after a real guy named Count Stroganov. Heck, even the Kentucky Hot Brown, an open-faced sandwich, was named after J. Graham Brown, the owner of the hotel where it was invented.
George Olah, Nobel Prize chemist, professor University of Southern California; Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, peace activist, Caltech; Roger Revelle (1909-1991), founder of University of California, San Diego, father of concept of global warming; William Shockley (1910-1989), Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech professor, inventor of ...
Veal Sinatra – a veal stuffed with a buttery cream sauce, vegetables, meat and/or seafood named after the famous jazz singer Frank Sinatra; Soubise sauce – the onion purée or béchamel sauce with added onion purée is probably named after the 18th-century aristocrat Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, and Marshal of France.