List of Famous people born in Florida, United States of America
Laura McKeeman
Laura Rutledge is a reporter and host for ESPN and the SEC Network. She is an American beauty pageant titleholder from St. Petersburg, Florida, who was named Miss Florida 2012.
MC Jin
Jin Au-Yeung, known professionally as MC Jin, is a Chinese American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Jin is the first Asian American solo rapper to be signed to a major record label in the United States.
Mario Díaz-Balart
Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 25th congressional district. He was elected in 2002, and his current district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County, including the city of Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
Stephanie Abrams
Stephanie Abrams is an American television meteorologist who has worked for The Weather Channel (TWC) since 2003. She currently co-hosts AMHQ with Jen Carfagno and Jim Cantore early weekday mornings.
Brianna Rollins-McNeal
Brianna Rollins-McNeal is an American track and field athlete, who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She is the 2016 Olympic champion and the 2013 World champion in the 100 meter hurdles. Her time of 12.26 is tied as the fourth-fastest run in history.
Austin Carlile
Austin Robert Carlile is an American musician and baseball coach from Pensacola, Florida. He achieved prominence as formerly the lead vocalist of Attack Attack! and Of Mice & Men. After leaving Of Mice & Men, he began coaching youth baseball in Costa Rica. A high school athlete, multiple surgeries from Marfan syndrome during his teenage years turned him towards music. In December 2016, Carlile departed from Of Mice & Men due to the impact that his vocal performances were having on his body with Marfan syndrome.
Ian Desmond
Ian Morgan Desmond is an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers. Desmond is a three-time Silver Slugger Award winner and a two-time MLB All-Star. While primarily a shortstop early in his career, Desmond began playing primarily left field, center field, and first base starting in 2016.
Nadine Sierra
Nadine Sierra is an American soprano. She is most well known for her interpretation of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, and Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Currently performing in leading roles in the top opera houses around the world, she received the 1st Prize and People's Choice Award 2013 at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018. Her debut album on the Universal Music Group label, There's a Place for Us, was released on August 24, 2018.
Nick Martínez
Nicholas Andres Martinez is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Trick Daddy
Maurice Samuel Young, better known by his stage name Trick Daddy, is an American rapper from Miami's Liberty City.