Category:People of the California Gold Rush

• Women in the California Gold Rush

A

• James "Grizzly" Adams
• John Hicks Adams
• Philip Danforth Armour

B

• Lucky Baldwin
• William Barker (prospector)
• Richard H. Barter
• Prudent Beaudry
• Frederick Bee
• Tom Bell (outlaw)
• Charles H. Bennett (soldier)
• William Bernard
• Samuel Brannan
• David C. Broderick
• John Evans Brown
• Joseph Goldsborough Bruff
• John Neely Bryan

C

• Cajemé
• Frederick Catherwood
• William W. Chapman
• Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
• Joseph Chiles
• Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
• Leander Clark

D

• Nathaniel Cobb Deering
• William Downie

F

• Charles S. Fairfax
• Thomas Fallon
• John C. Frémont

G

• Domingo Ghirardelli
• Josiah Gregg

H

• William S. Hamilton
• Monroe Heath
• Hinton Rowan Helper
• John Wesley Hillman
• Alonzo Horton
• John Hotaling

J

• Cummins Jackson

K

• Seth Kinman
• Abraham Klauber

L

• James Lick

M

• William L. Manly
• James W. Marshall
• Tom McCauley
• Mary Jane Megquier
• Darius Ogden Mills
• Zachariah Montgomery
• John Morrissey
• Joaquin Murrieta

N

• Nakahama Manjirō
• Ernest Narjot

O

• Richard J. Oglesby

P

• John Patchett
• Robert H. Paul
• Vicente Pérez Rosales
• Salomon Pico
• Charles Debrille Poston

R

• Samuel Revans
• Alonzo Ridley

S

• Jim Savage
• Heinrich Schliemann
• George Byng Scott
• Robert B. Semple
• James Sheakley
• James Calvin Sly
• Royal Sprague
• Levi Strauss
• John Sutter
• John Swett

T

• Snowshoe Thompson
• James Todd (Canadian settler)
• Mark Twain

V

• James Russell Vineyard

W

• Lawrence Berry Washington
• Thomas Whaley
• Ninian E. Whiteside