List of people associated with the California Gold Rush

See also Category:People of the California Gold Rush

This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855.

Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold
 * Samuel Brannan
 * R. C. Chambers
 * Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
 * William D. Bradshaw
 * Charles Crocker
 * Alonzo Delano
 * George Washington Dennis
 * Charles S. Fairfax
 * Thomas Fallon
 * Joseph Libbey Folsom
 * John C. Frémont
 * John White Geary
 * Domingo Ghirardelli
 * Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
 * Daniel Govan
 * Ulysses Grant
 * Alvinza Hayward
 * Albert W. Hicks
 * John Wesley Hillman
 * Sherman Otis Houghton
 * William B. Ide
 * Frank James
 * Seth Kinman
 * Peter Lester
 * James Lick
 * Heinrich Lienhard
 * James Marshall, discoverer of the first gold
 * Richard Barnes Mason
 * John Templeton McCarty
 * James McClatchy
 * Benjamin McCulloch
 * 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"
 * Addison Pratt
 * Benjamin B. Redding
 * John Howell Sears, arrived by boat in 1850 to San Francisco.
 * William Tecumseh Sherman
 * Claus Spreckels
 * Leland Stanford
 * Elijah Steele
 * Levi Strauss
 * John Sutter
 * A. A. Townsend
 * George Treat
 * Matthew Turner
 * Mark Twain
 * Maríano Guadalupe Vallejo
 * William Waldo
 * Bela Wellman
 * Luzena Wilson
 * Edwin B. Winans
 * Phillip D Armour started his meat packing business with funds from success in the Gold Fields
 * George Hearst used slight mining knowledge from Missouri to succeed in 1850s gold rush investment
 * John Studebaker built wheelbarrows in Placerville, CA in the early 1850s and contributed his earnings to the family Studebaker Wagon Corporation.