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SACRAMENTO

Most Famous People Born in Sacramento, United States

Notable people
682
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1967
Most distinctive
Baseball 11.9×

A Central Valley capital whose page reads less like a statehouse town than a farm club for the West Coast entertainment industry — an Actor bench at better than twice the global baseline, a surprisingly thick Screenwriter presence, and a Baseball cohort running at nearly twelve times baseline, the long tail of those dry, warm valley afternoons where scouts still come looking.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Sacramento during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 134 notable births.

What Sacramento Is Known For

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Football is Sacramento's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (108).

Sacramento over-indexes on baseball11.9× the global rate.

Sacramento under-produces writer — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Football108
  2. Baseball92
  3. Actor85
  4. Basket36
  5. Politician31
  6. Music25
  7. Singer18
  8. Player18
  1. Baseball9211.9×
  2. Golf1311.2×
  3. Guitar88.1×
  4. Songwriter97.1×
  5. Basket364.2×
  6. Screenwriter124.0×
  7. Music252.6×
  8. Actor852.4×
  1. Writer80.4×
  2. Politician310.4×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Sacramento's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0004 ACTOR

Sam Elliott

Born 1944

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0007 ACTOR

Adrienne Barbeau

Born 1945

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0026 ACTOR

Frank Silva

1949 - 1995

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0039 ACTOR

Randolph Mantooth

Born 1945

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0040 ACTOR

Sab Shimono

Born 1943

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0043 ACTOR

Chelcie Ross

Born 1942

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0059 POLITICIAN

Bob Matsui

1941 - 2005

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0073 BASEBALL

Larry Bowa

Born 1945

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0080 KILLER

Theresa Knorr

Born 1946

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0089 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Roger Fouts

Born 1943

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0090 SKIER

Spider Sabich

1945 - 1976

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0097 MUSIC

Mike Clark (jazz musician)

Born 1946

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0105 CARTOONIST

Richard Cragun

1944 - 2012

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0122 ACTOR

Daniel Truhitte

Born 1943

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0137 ASTRONAUT

Michael Coats

Born 1946

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0150 BASKET

Darnell Hillman

Born 1949

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0162 PIANIST

Bill Mays

Born 1944

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0187 ACTOR

Katherine Justice

Born 1942

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0188 BASKET

Jim Eakins

Born 1946

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0200 MUSIC

Cynthia Robinson

1946 - 2015

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0204 BASEBALL

Ken Forsch

Born 1946

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0267 MISSING

Michael K. Young

Born 1949

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0296 FOOTBALL

Bill Munson

1941 - 2000

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0302 BASEBALL

John Vukovich

1947 - 2007

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0319 SWIMMER

John Ferris (swimmer)

1949 - 2020

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0340 SPORT

Mike Lange

Born 1948

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0352 SINGER

Mary Love

1943 - 2013

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0354 BASEBALL

Bill McNulty

Born 1946

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0391 ENSEIGNANT

William Schnabel

Born 1949

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0422 WRITER

Marlena Spieler

Born 1949

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0443 AIR FORCE

Robert F. Hale

Born 1947

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0449 DRIVER

Jack Sellers

1944 - 2016

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0451 POLITICIAN

Bill Kennemer

Born 1946

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0457 BASEBALL

Lowell Palmer

Born 1947

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0460 BASEBALL

Rich Chiles

Born 1949

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0473 ECOLOGIST

James A. Estes

Born 1945

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0482 POLITICIAN

Alan Nakanishi

Born 1940

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0505 OFFICER

John F. Goodman

Born 1945

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0545 POLITICIAN

Diana Dierks

Born 1944

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0548 MUSIC

Mel Martin (Musiker)

1942 - 2017

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0576 SCHOLAR

Susan Westerberg Prager

Born 1942

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0588 REPUBLICAN

Kurt Olson

Born 1948

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0590 BASEBALL

Jim Quick

Born 1943

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0597 PHYSICIST

Clifford Surko

Born 1941

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0600 BASEBALL

Curtis Brown (baseball)

Born 1945

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0601 POLITICIAN

Monty Pearce

Born 1948

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0612 EXPLORED

Mark Dubois

Born 1949

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0630 OFFICER

Alexandra Uteev Johnson

1946 - 2002

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0647 POLITICIAN

Lloyd Connelly

Born 1945

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0665 MISSING

Jeffrey D. Baker

1941 - 1999

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0675 AUDITOR

Robert Bunting

Born 1945

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0681 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alan C. Swedlund

Born 1943

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