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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ontario, California
| settlement_type = [[List of municipalities in California|City]]
| named_for = [[Ontario]], Canada
| image_skyline = {{Photomontage
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Ontario was inhabited by the [[Tongva]] people for over 1,000 years.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA4vBQAAQBAJ&q=images+of+america+california |title=Early Ontario |publisher=Arcadia |year=2014 |isbn=9781467132404}}</ref> Their country is now known as [[Tovaangar]]. The Ontario area was connected to the village of [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Cucamonga]], whose location is not now precisely known.
=== Spanish Empire (1771–1822) ===
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==== 1800s ====
The new Californian administration soon began a war of extermination against the Tongva, which came to be known as being part of the [[California genocide]].<ref name=":0" /> 1850's [[Act for the Government and Protection of Indians]] ensured that slavery of the people it covered remained legal.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yLbNA_3CdcQC&dq=%22Act+for+the+Government+and+Protection+of+Indians%22&pg=PA822 '''Compiled laws of the State of California: containing all the acts of the Legislature of a public and general nature, now in force, passed at the sessions of 1850-51-52-53''', Benicia, S. Garfeilde, 1853. pp. 822-825 An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians]</ref>
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*[[Eudora Stone Bumstead]] (1860–1892), poet, hymnwriter
*[[Henry Bumstead]], [[Academy Award]]-winning cinematic art director and designer
*[[Beverly Cleary]], author and [[Newbery Medal]]-winning novelist (1984), ''The Luckiest Girl'' and memoir ''My Own Two Feet''
*[[Andy Clyde]], actor, married in Ontario in 1932
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*[[William De Los Santos]], poet, screenwriter and film director
*[[Joseph Dippolito]], former underboss of the [[Dragna crime family]]
*[[Landon Donovan]], former [[Los Angeles Galaxy]] and USMNT player; born in Ontario, raised in [[Redlands, California|Redlands]]
*[[Prince Fielder]], baseball player for the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], [[Milwaukee Brewers]], and [[Detroit Tigers]]
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