I don't view my hometown origin as a liability; I see it as an asset.
It plays a big part in who I am.
From Oak Park
Kevin Johnson
current Sacramento Mayor, NBA star
Diego Corrales
Boxing Champion (deceased)
From Sacramento At Large
- 7 Seconds band
- Whiskey Rebels
- Carlos Alazraqui, actor, comedian
- Lynn Anderson, country singer
- Max Baer, Jr., actor-director
- Adrienne Barbeau, TV and film actress
- Barbi Benton, actress and model
- Blackalicious, hip-hop duo
- Brenda Song, actress (mainly for Disney Channel)
- Amanda Blake, actress on television's Gunsmoke
- Brent Bourgeois, singer-songwriter
- Michael Breckenridge, actor, musician, humorist, artist
- Tylene Buck, model, wrestler
- LeVar Burton, actor
- Buck Busfield, playwright, stage director-producer
- Timothy Busfield, Emmy Award-winning television actor, stage and film actor, producer and director
- CAKE, alternative rock band
- Joe Carnahan, director
- Catfish and The Crawdaddies, blues, New Orleans, zydeco band
- Cause & Effect, electronica/synthpop band
- Craig Chaquico, Jefferson Starship guitarist
- Club Nouveau, R&B group
- Ray "Catfish" Copeland, musician
- Gregg Coffin, composer, playwright, actor
- Doris Coley, singer with the vocal group The Shirelles
- The Cramps, band
- David de Berry, composer
- Deftones, rock band
- Pete Dexter, screenwriter
- Joan Didion, screenwriter
- Sam Doumit, actress
- Morton Downey, Jr., broadcaster
- Merrin Dungey, actress
- Early Times, musician/ radio personality
- Sam Elliott, actor
- Fate Positive, band
- Giselle Fernández, TV personality
- Jack Gallagher, comedian
- Suzi Gardner, Founder of the band L7
- John Gibson, TV personality
- Mark Goodson, television producer
- Jackie Greene, singer-songwriter, blues guitarist
- Lee Greenwood, country music performer and recording artist
- Sasha Grey, pornographic actress
- Groovie Ghoulies, punk rock band
- Colin Hanks, TV and film actor
- Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning film actor, TV actor, director, and producer
- Scott Hansen, Musician (Tycho) and Graphic Artist (ISO50)
- Henry Hathaway, director
- Hella, band
- Richard Hellesen, playwright
- Hoods, Hardcore band
- James House, country music artist
- Brotha Lynch Hung, rap artist
- Don Imus, broadcaster
- Bob Devin Jones, actor and playwright
- Brie Larson, pop/rock singer and actress
- Rush Limbaugh, broadcaster
- Kool Rockin' D.J. Esef, West Coast Reggae D.J.
- Lisa Ling, TV personality
- Mary Love, R&B singer
- Joan Lunden, TV personality
- Mandisa, singer
- Tim McCord, musician
- Joyce Meadows, actress
- Megan Mills, model (height: 5'10"), fitness consultant, born July 28, 1984 in Sacramento.
- Phil Minas, Musician, Songwriter, Music Scores
- Pat Morita, actor and comedian
- Jim Meyers - writer of Her Minor Thing
- William Mylar, Singer/Songwriter/Musician
- Carter Nice, symphony orchestra conductor
- Andre Nickatina, rap artist
- May O'Donnell, modern dancer
- Tim Ocel, opera and theater director
- Oleander, alternative rock band
- Charlie Peacock, singer-songwriter, record producer
- Brian Posehn, comedian
- Ronald Reagan, actor
- Rufus Reid, jazz bassist, educator, and composer
- Molly Ringwald, film and stage actress
- Cynthia Robinson, musician
- Michael Roe, singer
- Raphael Saadiq - singer, songwriter and record producer
- Dominic Sandoval, Dancer
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor
- Larry Scott, model and face of iconic Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio advertisement
- Laymos, band, sac. hardcore band
- The Secretions, punk rock band
- Self Against City, indie-rock band
- Kevin Sharp, country music singer
- Sab Shimono film, TV, and stage actor
- James Simmons, Television Producer
- Shalendra Singh, Film, television, and 3D producer
- Jimmy Smith, jazz legend dubbed "King of the Hammond B-3 Organ"
- Smosh, viral-video makers Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox
- Brenda Song, actress
- Rene Syler, host of The Early Show
- Tesla, rock band
- Jeff Watson, musician
- Bob Wilkins, television personality
- Kenneth "Obie Dee" Van Cromphaut, blues musician
- Victor Wong, film actor
- John Lloyd Young, Tony winning actor
Notable residents
Notable people with ties to Sacramento include Rodney King, whose beating by police (caught on film) sparked the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Los Angeles public health "czar" Kim Harrison Eowan, designer architect Ray Eames, retired USMC Lieutenant General John F. Goodman, painter Wayne Thiebaud, photographer Michael Williamson, videographer Justin Carter, philosopher Cornel West, author J. Maarten Troost, astronaut Stephen Robinson, U.S. Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, record producer Charlie Peacock, war hero Colonel Greg Reilly and writer Joan Didion. Journalist Mary K. Shell, the mayor of Bakersfield from 1981–1985, and her husband, the then petroleum lobbyist Joe Shell, lived in Sacramento during the 1970s.
In addition to Huntington, Hopkins, Stanford, and Crocker, the city's more successful entrepreneurs have included Russ Solomon (Tower Records), Frank Fat, and Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson (Shakey's Pizza).
don't know these guys, but I watch it every time I get homesick- for the Sac-town I REMEMBER.
don't know these guys, but I watch it every time I get homesick- for the Sac-town I REMEMBER.
For the record though,I was never gang-affiliated- whether it was O.P. Crips, Garden Boys, Bloods, Nortenos, whatever. Rocker white girls get to bypass all that. ha.
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