List of people associated with the California Gold Rush
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People listed here should be known to have been in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855.
- James "Grizzly" Adams
- Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold.
- Henry Bigler, one of the first people to note the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill
- Samuel Brannan
- Frederick Catherwood
- Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
- Charles Crocker
- Alonzo Delano
- Charles S. Fairfax
- Thomas Fallon
- Joseph Libbey Folsom
- John C. Frémont
- John White Geary
- Domingo Ghirardelli
- Daniel Govan
- Ulysses Grant
- O. C. Hackett
- Albert W. Hicks
- John Wesley Hillman
- Sherman Otis Houghton
- William B. Ide
- Frank James
- Seth Kinman
- James Lick
- Heinrich Lienhard
- James Marshall, discoverer of the first gold
- Richard Barnes Mason
- John Templeton McCarty
- James McClatchy
- Ross McCloud
- Benjamin McCulloch
- George McKnight, discovered gold at Gold Hill near Grass Valley, California in 1850
- Joaquin Miller
- Joaquin Murietta
- Isaac Murphy
- Joshua Norton, a.k.a. His Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
- Lester Allan Pelton Inventor of the "Pelton Runner" - Considered to be the "Father of Hydroelectric Power"
- Benjamin B. Redding
- Charles E Sexey
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Claus Spreckels
- Stephen Staats, nearby at the first discovery of gold.
- Leland Stanford
- Elijah Steele
- Levi Strauss
- John Sutter
- Matthew Turner
- Mark Twain
- Maríano Guadalupe Vallejo
- William Waldo
- Bela Wellman
- Edwin B. Winans
