List of Famous people born in Florida, United States of America
Natalie Morales
Natalie Morales is an American actress. She starred in the ABC Family series The Middleman and had a main role on the first season of the USA Network series White Collar. In 2010, she appeared in the feature films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Going the Distance. Morales also had a starring role in the Fox comedy series The Grinder, the NBC sitcom Abby's, and a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Morales appears in a recurring role in the Netflix series Dead to Me.
Cody Parkey
Cody Parkey is an American football placekicker for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Auburn and was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He has also been a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, and Tennessee Titans. He is known for having a potential game winning kick deflected during a Chicago Bears playoff game, the Double Doink against his former team, the Eagles.
Pete Alonso
Peter Morgan Alonso, nicknamed "Polar Bear", is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut during the 2019 season and broke the major league record for the most home runs by a rookie with 53. He was also the first Mets player to hit 50 or more home runs in a season, setting the Mets' single-season home run record in the process.
Chevie Kehoe
Chevie O'Brien Kehoe is an American white supremacist and convicted murderer. He is serving three consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of William Mueller and his family. His accomplice, Daniel Lewis Lee, was sentenced to death for the murders, and was executed on July 14, 2020.
Raheem Mostert
Dominique Raheem Mostert is an American football running back for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Purdue.
Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda is an American tennis player. He won the junior title at the 2018 Australian Open, 20 years after his father won senior Australian Open. Korda has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 88 achieved on February 1, 2021.
Danielle Collins
Danielle Rose Collins is an American professional tennis player. She played collegiate tennis at the University of Virginia and won the NCAA singles title twice, 2014 and 2016, during her sophomore and senior years. Collins finished her career at Virginia in 2016 as the top-ranked collegiate player. Having first established her place on the WTA Tour when she reached the semifinals of the 2018 Miami Open as a qualifier, Collins' big breakthrough came at the 2019 Australian Open, where she reached the semifinals, defeating world No. 2 Angelique Kerber in the fourth round. She was also a quarterfinalist at the 2020 French Open in singles and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships in doubles, and has won one WTA 125K and four ITF singles titles. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 23 in singles on January 28, 2019 and No. 86 in doubles on March 2, 2020.
Kelley O'Hara
Kelley Maureen O'Hara is an American soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, and Olympic gold medalist. She currently plays as a defender for the Washington Spirit in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States women's national soccer team. She previously played professionally for FC Gold Pride, Boston Breakers, Sky Blue FC, and Utah Royals FC.
Pamela Smart
Pamela Ann Smart is an American woman who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, witness tampering and accomplice to first degree murder. In 1990, at age 22, Smart was accused of conspiring with her underaged sex partner, then 15-year-old William "Billy" Flynn, and three of his friends to have her 24-year-old husband Greggory Smart killed in Derry, New Hampshire. She is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison in Westchester County, New York.
Stitches
Phillip Nickolas Katsabanis, better known by his stage name Stitches, is an American rapper. He is known for the song "Brick in Yo Face". Prior to adopting the name Stitches, he was known as Lil Phill. He released his first mixtape, No Snitching Is My Statement, in 2014, followed by a debut album in 2015, titled For Drug Dealers Only.