Worldwide Wednesday: The 25 Hottest California Women

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: Katie Cassidy is hopping around CW shows like nobody's business. From Supernatural, to Melrose Place, to Gossip Girl, it's safe to assume she'll have a job as long as the network is around. So, for about five more years. Five more golden years, surely.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: Look out for her starring role in the new ABC family original movie From Prada to Nada next year. Wait, it's being theatrically released? And Wilmer Valderrama is in it too? We feel mocked.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: As the "She" of She and Him, Zooey plays all the girlie instruments, like the tambourine, and bounces around in cute, little sundresses. But we're not fooled! We saw (500) Days of Summer. We'd recognize that deceitful charm anywhere.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: Her original claim would have to be as Summer Roberts in a Wonder Woman costume with a lasso in a dimly lit room on the Chrismukkah episode of The O.C., Season 1. She's since had a bunch of other projects, but you never forget the first time.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: She deserves a Supporting Actress Academy Award for being Mark Zuckerberg's only friend in The Social Network. C'mon, actually liking the dude was remarkable in and of itself.

Hometown: San Diego

Claim to fame: As Lenore Case in The Green Hornet, Diaz has hitched a ride on the super-awesome superhero bandwagon because the Tom Cruise bandwagon dropped her off on Mediocre Lane just before Has Been St.

Hometown: Salinas

Claim to fame: Her intimate photographic self-portraits were too taboo for Disney to address. But, by 2011, that'll all be in the past as everyone will just be buzzing about her leading roles in Beastly and Sucker Punch...OK, no, it won't.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: Saving the world, one future Benetton model at a time.

Hometown: Oakland

Claim to fame: Let's recount her criminal past: she starred in Kick-Ass, stabbed a man in the eye in Hot Tub Time Machine, and is currently drop-kicking dudes in Nikita. Maybe her upbringing in Raider Nation has something to do with her penchant for aggressive roles.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: To L.A. folk, she was probably just your friend, but to the rest of the nation she's the hot Victoria's Secret runway model whose ad you ripped and taped to your ceiling. But don't let her accessibility fool you, she's engaged to Kings of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill. Of course, she would be.

Hometown: Panorama City

Claim to fame: Almost every movie involving a dance-off. Wait—also something about music videos. And getting screamed on by Big Perm—we mean Big Worm.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: In the upcoming 127 Hours, Lizzy will play Aron Ralston's sister, whom we meet in his hallucinations. No fair, we never meet a hot girl in our hallucinations! They're usually just stupid little bunnies and gnomes...

Hometown: Sacramento

Claim to fame: Crossing from porn fare like Cum Buckets! 8 to Roots videos, Entourage and Steven Soderbergh movies. So, really, a lot like George Clooney.

Hometown: Hollywood

Claim to fame: Playing a good girl on Mad Men and Community and a and bad (meaning good) girl nudist for Complex.

Hometown: San Francisco

Claim to fame: She ditched Diddy and Danity Kane for a short stint in Vegas' Peep Show and her own reality show on Oxygen, the network for women in their forties and beyond who will probably wonder what the hell she's doing on their channel. Yeah, we'll say she played her cards right.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: A lead role in Cloverfield, and something about one of the hottest movie posters of all time.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: She's a chick with loose lips and done the town. Ah geez, you've got a dirty mind. She's in Gossip Girls as well as The Town. Why's everything gotta be about sex with you, huh?

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: You haven

Hometown: Pomona

Claim to fame: Putting the

Hometown: Santa Barbara

Claim to fame: The girl born and bred in the beach party city of Cali rightfully wrote, from the heart, the summer anthem of 2010. Plus, it just wouldn't make sense if the chick who sang "California Gurls" was from Ohio.

Hometown: San Francisco

Claim to fame: A Real World alum who's actually made something out of her 15 minutes of fame. And, not surprisingly, an FOC.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: PP is Mrs. Thick (and also Mrs. Thicke), a certified MILF, and the star of next year's Mission: Impossible IV. She's also a patriot! OK, that's just a link to our interview with her, but we certainly wouldn't complain if she wrapped herself in the flag (and nothing else).

Hometown: Santa Cruz

Claim to fame: Surfer girl, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, all around down-ass chick, and new face (and bod) of the NFL. Also the most famous M&M who doesn't spend time finding words to rhyme with "orange."

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive of 2010 is Leighton Meester's roommate; well, only in her upcoming horror film, The Roommate. In real life, she's shacking up with Derek Jeter. But we don't like talking about that.

Hometown: Los Angeles

Claim to fame: It really would be a low blow if we created a list specifically for her that she didn't top. It would be like getting your kid a cake and having the neighbor's snotty kid blow the candles out. But this isn't out of kindness; Kim deserves to have her cake and eat it, too.