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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 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
first to publicize the California Gold Rush, and California's first millionaire: Juana Briones de Miranda: c. 1802 – 1889 Villa de Branciforte (modern day Santa Cruz), California Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, merchant founding mother of San Francisco, California, and Mayfield, California (now Palo Alto, California) [4] [5] R. C ...
List of people from San Jose, California; List of people from San Pedro, Los Angeles; List of San Pedro artists; List of people from Santa Ana, California; List of people from Santa Barbara, California; List of people from Santa Cruz, California; List of people from Santa Monica, California; List of people from Santa Rosa, California
This category is for people from the United States state of California Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : California Also: Countries : United States : States : California : People
Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days, destroying about 28,000 buildings. As a result of the quake and fires, over 3,000 people died [6] and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.
Historians specializing in the study of the history of California. Pages in category "Historians of California" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 ...
During the Mexican–American War, he was a major in the U.S. Army and took control of a portion of California north of San Francisco from the short-lived California Republic in 1846. During this time, he led several massacres against indigenous peoples in California as part of the California genocide .