List of Famous people born in District of Columbia, United States of America
Henry Rollins
Henry Lawrence Garfield, better known as Henry Rollins, is an American musician, singer, actor, presenter, comedian, and activist. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.
Brune Poirson
Brune Poirson is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 until 2020.
Emmet G. Sullivan
Emmet Gael Sullivan is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Karen Handel
Karen Christine Handel is an American businesswoman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. A Republican, Handel worked in business before entering politics. She served as chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006, and was thereafter elected Georgia's Secretary of State.
Ana Gasteyer
Ana Kristina Gasteyer is an American comedian, actress and singer. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002. She has since starred in such sitcoms as ABC's Suburgatory, Netflix's Lady Dynamite, and TBS's People of Earth.
Regina Hall
Regina Lee Hall is an American actress. She has appeared in various television series, including Ally McBeal (2001–2002), Law & Order: LA (2010–2011), and Black Monday (2019–present). Her film roles include starring in the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006), The Best Man (1999) and its 2013 sequel, Think Like a Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, About Last Night (2014), Vacation (2015), Girls Trip (2017), The Hate U Give (2018), and Little (2019).
Tipper Gore
Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore is an American social issues advocate who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. From 1970 to 2010, she was married to Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States.
JC Chasez
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and occasional actor. He started out his career as a cast member on The Mickey Mouse Club before rising to stardom with *NSYNC, and by writing and producing for music acts such as Girls Aloud, Basement Jaxx, David Archuleta, and Matthew Morrison. He also served as a judge for America's Best Dance Crew.
Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Anne Doudna is an American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, for which she was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.
Norah O'Donnell
Norah Morahan O'Donnell is an American television journalist, the anchor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for 60 Minutes. She is the former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News, and a substitute host for CBS's Sunday morning show Face the Nation.