This is a list of musicians from California. Bands are listed alphabetically by name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.

See also Music of California.

• The Adolescents
• Agent Orange
• Bad Religion
• The Bags
• Beach Boys
• Beck
• Beth Hada
• Big Brother & the Holding Company
• Black Flag
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Blue Cheer
• Pat Boone
• Jackson Browne
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Byrds
• John Cage
• Cake
• Captain Beefheart
• The Chantays
• Christian Death
• The Cramps
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Mike Curb Congregation
• Dead Kennedys
• The Descendents
• Eric Dolphy
• The Doors
• Dr. Dre
• The Eagles
• Eazy-E
• Faith No More
• The Flamin' Groovies
• Kim Fowley
• The Germs
• The Grateful Dead
• Green Day
• Hazerfan
• Hole
• Ice Cube
• Ice-T
• Jane's Addiction
• Jefferson Airplane
• Less
• Love
• Metallica
• Mötley Crüe
• The Minutemen
• Murat Bayhan
• Nervous Gender
• No Doubt
• NOFX
• N.W.A.
• Operation Ivy
• Pansy Division
• Phranc
• Poco
• Poison
• Possessed
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Quiet Riot
• Rage Against the Machine
• Rancid
• Redd Kross
• The Runaways
• Santana
• The Screamers
• Sinombre
• Slayer
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Snoop Doggy Dogg
• Social Distortion
• Sta Prest
• The Standells
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Sublime
• System of a Down
• The Surfaris
• Thollem
• Tool
• Tribe 8
• Tupac Shakur
• Tom Waits
• War
• Warren G
• X
• Frank Zappa