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List of people from Sacramento, California

This is a list of notable people from the U.S. city of Sacramento, California.

Artists

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Acting, television and filmmaking

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Broadcasting and journalism

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Music

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Writing

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Other

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Athletes

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Baseball

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Inactive

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Basketball

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See also: Sacramento Kings

Boxing

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Football

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Active (NFL)

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Arena Football League and Canadian Football League

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Inactive

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Golf

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Martial arts

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Olympians

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Soccer

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Other

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Business

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Government and civics

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Military

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Academics and science

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Crime

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References

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    • a "...although I was born in Sacramento and I actually took my first acting class in third grade at the Sacrament Music Circus." — 01:32-01:40.
  3. ^ Buchalter, Gail (April 7, 1980). "Former Playmate Barbi Benton Is Heels Over Head in Love with Tycoon George Gradow". People. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "She grew up in Sacramento, where her father was a gynecologist and her mother worked as an investment counselor." — ¶ 9.
  4. ^ Stark, John (November 20, 1989). "Friends—and Her Doctor—say AIDS, Not Cancer, Killed Gunsmoke's Amanda Blake". People. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "...three months after her death in Sacramento, Calif." — ¶ 1.
    • b "her closest friend, Pat Derby, who, with her husband, Ed Stewart, runs a preserve in Sacramento." — ¶ 1.
    • c "Derby coaxed the unwilling Blake to seek treatment from Nishimura in Sacramento." — ¶ 3.
  5. ^ Lee, Elyssa (February–March 2012). "LeVar Burton Q&A". Sactown magazine. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a 'You live in LA now, but Sacramento comes up regularly in your tweets.' "-It’s my hometown, my home base. It’s where I grew up. I was born in Landstuhl, Germany in ’57, came to Sacramento in ’59—we lived in Glen Elder—then went back to [Germany] in ’64, then [returned to Sacramento] in ’66. [Burton’s father was a photographer in the Army.] My parents split up during that second tour of duty when I was in the third or fourth grade. So my mom, my sisters and I settled in West Sacramento, in Broderick. Then we moved to South Sacramento when I was in the sixth grade—St. Anne’s Elementary." — ¶ 15.
  6. ^ Crowder, Marcus (January 20, 2012). "Looking back at 20 years of B Street Theatre". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "...(starting with my moving to Sacramento and starting Fantasy Theatre in 1986)." — ¶ 5.
  7. ^ "Oscar-Nominated Actress Started On Path To Stardom At El Camino High". CBS. January 11, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
    • a "From Sacramento to Hollywood star..." — ¶ 1.
    • b "Jessica went to Sacramento City College after El Camino high." — ¶ 10.
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    • a "Born on August 6, 1971, in Sacramento, California..." — Pg. 125, ¶ 3.
    • b "After graduating from Rio Americano High School in 1989..." — Pg. 126, ¶ 3.
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    • a "Birthplace: Sacramento, California, USA" — ¶ 1.
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    • a "Jack Gallagher is one of Sacramento's best-known artistic exports..." — ¶ 4.
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    • a "Born January 14, 1915 in Sacramento, CA." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "Growing up in Sacramento." —¶ 4.
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    • a "Colin Hanks: I was born and raised in Sacramento, California, which most people don’t know is where Tower started and was based until the end." — ¶ 4.
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    • a "Born March 13, 1898 in Sacramento, CA." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "Born in Ojai, Linville moved to Sacramento and graduated from El Camino High School." — ¶ 2.
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    • a "...Lynch, a 38-year-old Sacramento man confined to a wheelchair, and a 10-year regular caller to the Stern Show." — ¶ 8.
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    • a "After the war, Morita's family tried to repair their finances by operating a Sacramento restaurant. It was there that Morita first tried his comedy on patrons." — ¶ 11.
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    • a "When the Sacramento-born performer isn't making cameos on shows like Californication..." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "Yet this Sacramento bred comedian..." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "BeBe: I’m from the Sacramento, California area as are you, and we did a production of ’Oliver’ together (as a part of Fagin’s gang) at Sacramento State University once upon a time." — ¶ 14.
    • b "BeBe: With my experience in knowing you from way back when in the theaters of our hometown of Sacramento, I was not of course surprised with this release from you knowing your roots in jazz with your Dad...— ¶ 34.
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    • a "Born and reared in Sacramento, Shimono first tasted public acclaim through a political forum, when he won the election for student body president of Sacramento High School." — ¶ 2.
  31. ^ Steinberg, Jacques (June 15, 2006). "Brenda Song Turns Warrior in Disney's 'Wendy Wu'". New York Times. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
    • a "whose family (including two brothers) relocated from Sacramento to Los Angeles when she was 6 to support her nascent acting career." — ¶ 6.
    • b "Her father is Hmong and was raised in a tribe that traversed the mountains of Thailand and Laos. Her mother was born Thai but adopted into a Hmong family. They met, Ms. Song said, as adults in Sacramento." — ¶ 14.
    • c "Ms. Song's path to children's television stardom began on a stroll through a Sacramento mall when she was 3." — ¶ 19.
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    • a "For much of the past two decades—in which he had appeared in nearly 30 Hollywood films—Wong had lived in Midtown Sacramento." — ¶ 3.
    • b "Unlike most Hollywood actors, Wong eschewed the fast life and glamour of Los Angeles and continued to live humbly in his unassuming Midtown Sacramento residence where he could be close to his children. — ¶ 23.
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    • a "John Lloyd, as he prefers, was born on the Fourth of July in Sacramento." — ¶ 4.
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    • a "Though he loves life in Sacramento, he commutes to L.A. and New York two times every Month, on assignment..." — ¶ 5.
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    • a "Atkinson, who still lives in Sacramento..." — Pg. 8, ¶ 9.
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    • a "Honed his skills as a disc jockey and performer in 1970 at KXOA in Sacramento, CA." — ¶ 2.
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    • a "My adopted hometown, Sacramento, California. I moved there in October of 1984, and I was there barely three and a half years and then moved to New York to start the EIB Network. Those three and a half years in Sacramento were as deep and meaningful as any three-year span in my career. Those three and a half years... I felt like I'd lived there ten...Sacramento was the first place I actually became a practicing member of the community, actually had roots there." — ¶ 1.
    • b "Sacramento, my adopted hometown..." — ¶ 2.
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    • a "She attended California State University, Sacramento, and became a news anchor at Channel 3 (KCRA)." — ¶ 2.
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    • a "Syler was born at Scott AFB, Ill., and grew up in Sacramento, Calif. She graduated from California State University at Sacramento in 1987 with a degree in psychology." — ¶ 5.
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    • a "The hip-hop duo's Sacramento friendship goes back even further to their days at John F. Kennedy High School in the late '80s." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "How does a Sacramento Bee columnist come to write a novel..." — ¶ 1.
    • b "He likes Sacramento, where his boss is an old friend from Florida." — ¶ 7.
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    • a "Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California. Didion spent most of her childhood in Sacramento, except for several years during World War II, when she traveled across the county with her mother and brother to be near her father, who served in a succession of posts as an officer in the Army Air Corps." — ¶ 1.
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    • a "While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year..." — ¶ 3.
    • b "He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992." — ¶ 4.
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    • a "Mr. Schwab was born in Sacramento in 1937." — ¶ 3.
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