Editing Placerville, California (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|Category:People from Placerville, California}}
Over the years many influential people had shops in Placerville, mostly along the now historic Main Street.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gemp.edcgov.us/MainStreetPlacerville/index.html |title=Historic Main Street, Placerville. |access-date=March 7, 2016 |archive-date=March 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313013302/http://gemp.edcgov.us/MainStreetPlacerville/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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* [[Horace Bell]] (1830–1918), lawyer, journalist, historian<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WoLeQYNz6gC|title=Reminiscences of a Ranger: Early Times in Southern California|date=January 1, 2000|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3152-8|pages=iiv|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Amy Bruni]], [[Ghosthunters (TV series)|Ghost Hunters]] television series, investigator.
* [[T. J. Caystile]] (1848–1884), newspaperman, printer<ref name="LAT194209052">{{Cite news|date=September 5, 1942|title=Mrs. Kate Boruff Succumbs at 82|page=6|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41243940/kate-caystile-boruff-obituary/}}</ref>
*[[Dan Crary]] (born 1939), bluegrass flat-picking guitarist, retired PhD professor of communications at Cal State Fullerton.
* [[John Thomas Dunlop]] (1914–2003), politician, born in Placerville{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* [[Oliver Gagliani]] (1917–2002), photographer, born in Placerville<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oliver Gagliani|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/oliver-gagliani-1714|access-date=June 8, 2021|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Toby Hall]] (born 1975), [[baseball]] player
* [[Henry Hooker]] (1829–1907), cattle baron<ref name="hooker">{{cite book|author1=Edward Hooker|url=https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog|title=The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908|author2=Margaret Huntington Hooker|publisher=Harvard University|year=1909|pages=[https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog/page/n260 221]–222, 360–361|access-date=January 27, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Mark Hopkins Jr.]] (1813–1878), railroad financier and businessman, lived in Placerville in the 1850s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mark Hopkins, American businessman|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Hopkins-American-businessman|access-date=June 8, 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Kinkade]] (1958–2012), painter<ref name="The Thomas Kinkade Story">{{cite book|author=Thomas Kinkade and Rick Barnett|title=The Thomas Kinkade Story, A 20 Year Chronology of the Artist|publisher=Bulfinch Press|year=2003|isbn=0-8212-2858-7}}</ref>
* [[John William Kelley]] (born 1963), serial killer
* [[Bevo LeBourveau]] (1896–1947), baseball player, later a policeman in Placerville
* [[Edwin Markham]] (1852–1940), poet, member of the Placerville [[Masonic Lodge]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
*[[Alexander Howison Murray Jr.]] (1907–1993), also known as "Sandy Murray," mayor
*[[Nello Olivo]] (1879–?), winemaker
* [[Ziba Peterson]] (?–1849)— early American [[Latter Day Saint]], [[sheriff]] during the 1849 hanging.
* [[John Augustus Raffetto]] (1864–1954), hotelier and banker, founded the First National Bank of Placerville.<ref name="history">{{cite book|last=Wooldridge|first=Jesse Walton|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/elraff.htm|title=History of Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2|publisher=Pioneer Historical Publishing Company|year=1931|pages=419–420}}</ref>
*[[Michael Raffetto]] (1899–1990), radio star, born in Placerville.<ref>{{cite web|date=June 9, 1990|title=Michael Raffetto, 91, Former Radio Actor|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19900609/1076238/michael-raffetto-91-former-radio-actor|newspaper=Seattle Times}}</ref>
*[[Vladimir Sabich|Spider Sabich]] (1945–1976), [[Alpine skiing|ski racer]] from [[Kyburz, California|Kyburz]] - buried in Placerville
* [[Levi Strauss]] (1829–1902), businessman and clothing maker.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* [[John Studebaker]] (1833–1917), auto maker.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* [[Pregnant (band)|Daniel Trudeau]] (born 1986), musician, artist
*[[Ralph Taeger]] (1936–2015), actor; operated Taeger's Firewood Company in Placerville
*[[Jerome R. Waldie]] (1925–2009), [[List of United States Representatives from California|U.S. Representative from California]]
* [[Jesse Yarnell]] (1837–1906), newspaperman, established the Daily News in Placerville.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
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