List of Famous people born in Florida, United States of America
Hampton Catlin
Hampton Lintorn-Catlin is an American computer programmer, programming language inventor, gay rights advocate, and author, best known as the creator of the Sass and Haml markup languages. Hampton was a Vice President of Engineering at Rent the Runway, and has previously held similar roles at Moovweb, Wordset, and at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Michael Milhoan
Michael Milhoan is an American actor.
Brandon Harris
Brandon Harris is an American football coach and former cornerback who is currently the cornerbacks coach at Florida International University. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He has also played for the Tennessee Titans and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at the University of Miami.
Robert Gant
Robert Gant is an American actor. He rose to prominence through his role as Ben Bruckner on the Showtime series Queer as Folk.
Troy Gentile
Troy Gentile is an American actor best known for his role as Mark in Hotel for Dogs and Barry Goldberg on the comedy series The Goldbergs (2013–present), and for playing the young version of Jack Black in Nacho Libre and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Nicholas Peterson is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League and United Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft, playing eight seasons for Chicago. Then he played for the Virginia Destroyers in the UFL. He is an alumnus of Georgia Southern University, where he set numerous school, conference, and NCAA Division I-AA records, as well winning two 1-AA National Championships and receiving the Walter Payton Award for most outstanding player in 1-AA football.
Ben Davis
Ben Jerome Davis is an American former professional basketball player who played with the NBA's Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks. Davis attended Oak Hill Academy, Kansas University, the University of Florida, Hutchinson Community College, and the University of Arizona and played collegiately at all, except for Florida. In his one season at Hutchinson in 1994, Davis led team to the NJCAA championship.
Brian Marshall
Brian Aubrey Marshall is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and real estate broker best known as the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge.
Alan Stephenson Boyd
Alan Stephenson Boyd was an American attorney and transportation executive who led several large corporations and also served the U.S. Government in various transportation-related positions. He was the first United States Secretary of Transportation, appointed by Lyndon Johnson. Additionally, he served in executive positions with the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a president of Amtrak.
Samuel T. Durrance
Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.