List of Famous people born in Florida, United States of America
Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
Isaac Charles Singleton Jr. is an American actor and voice actor. He is best recognized for portraying the irate air marshal in Anger Management and the pirate Bo'sun in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He has also voiced the villainous Thanos in the television series Avengers Assemble and Guardians of the Galaxy as well as several video games, Sagat in the Street Fighter series and Soundwave in Transformers video games.
Desmond Child
John Charles Barrett, known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. He is the son of Joseph Marfy and of songwriter Elena Casals.
Alex Ochoa
Alex Ochoa is a Cuban-American former professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.
George LeMieux
George Stephen LeMieux is an American former politician who was a United States Senator from Florida from 2009 to 2011. He is chairman of the Florida-based law firm of Gunster Yoakley & Stewart and was chief of staff to Governor Charlie Crist. He was the Deputy Florida Attorney General and is credited with spearheading Crist's successful campaign for governor. On August 28, 2009, Crist announced he would appoint LeMieux as U.S. Senator to replace Mel Martínez, who weeks earlier had announced he would resign as soon as Crist announced his successor. On April 5, 2011, LeMieux formally announced that he would run against incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2012, but dropped out of the race in June 2012.
Alfred Lawson, Jr.
Alfred James Lawson Jr., is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Florida's 5th congressional district, serving since 2017. The district stretches across most of the border with Georgia, including most of the majority-black areas between Tallahassee and Jacksonville.
Will Hunt
William Martin Hunt is an American drummer, who has played for many bands, including Evanescence, Skrape, Dark New Day, Black Label Society, Device, Crossfade, Rival City Heights, and as a touring member for Staind and Static-X.
Martin Holley
Martin David Holley is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee, from 2016 to 2018, when he was removed by Pope Francis for financial mismanagement of the diocese. Holley previously served an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., from 2004 to 2016.
Daniel Greene
Daniel Greene, born in 1960, is an American actor, best known for his role as Dwayne Cooley in the television series Falcon Crest, and as Paco Queruak in the 1986 action–sci fi movie Vendetta dal futuro.
J. Hyatt Brown
J. Hyatt Brown is an American billionaire businessman and politician in the state of Florida.