List of Famous people born in United States of America
Rollen Stewart
Rollen Fredrick Stewart, also known as Rock'n Rollen and Rainbow Man, is a man who was a fixture in American sports culture best known for wearing a rainbow-colored afro-style wig and, later, holding up signs reading "John 3:16" at stadium sporting events around the United States and overseas in the 1970s and 1980s. He was convicted of multiple kidnapping charges following an incident in 1992 and is now serving three life sentences in Mule Creek State Prison.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the homosexual male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A 1989 exhibition of Mapplethorpe's work, titled Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States.
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Matt Breida
Matthew John Breida is an American football running back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia Southern and signed with the 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2017.
Frank Deford
Benjamin Franklin Deford III was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program.
Nate Ebner
Nathan Ebner is an American football safety and special teamer for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), and a rugby sevens player for the United States national rugby sevens team.
José Benavidez
José Luis Benavidez Jr. is an American professional boxer, currently fighting at welterweight. He is the son of boxing trainer José Benavidez Sr. of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico.
Sunny Suljic
Sunny Suljic is an American child actor and skateboarder. He is known for his roles as Bob in Yorgos Lanthimos's 2016 drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer and as the voice and motion capture actor for Atreus, the son of Kratos in the 2018 video game, God of War for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game. Suljic had his first lead role in Jonah Hill's film Mid90s, also in 2018.
Lucas Reiner
Lucas Joseph Reiner is an American painter, printmaker, photographer and filmmaker. He is most known for painting series that mix elements of representation, narrative and symbolism, and abstraction, and explore subjects such as the collision between organic growth and urban life, the atmospheric effects of fireworks and skies, and spiritual themes. His work belongs to the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, among others, and a monograph of his paintings, drawings and photographs, Los Angeles Trees (2008), was selected as one of the Los Angeles Times "Favorite Books of 2008." That paper's critic, David Pagel, wrote that his "paintings of trees trimmed to within inches of their lives have the pathos of circus freaks and the stubbornness of survivalists." Reiner has exhibited in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Mexico, at institutions including Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Museo de la Estampa. He is based in Los Angeles and Berlin, and married to Maud Winchester.
Morgan Beck
Morgan Miller is an American professional beach volleyball player and model.