List of Famous people born in United States of America
Zaevion Dobson
Zaevion William Dobson was a school football player at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. He became the recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, for shielding three girls from gunfire.
Keri Hilson
Keri Lynn Hilson is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, vocal arranger and actress. She was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists. By the age of 14, Hilson had secured a record deal with the girl group D'Signe, which later disbanded. She attended Oxford College of Emory University in Georgia while she continued writing songs for artists including Britney Spears, The Pussycat Dolls, and Mary J. Blige, with the production and songwriting team The Clutch. In 2006, Hilson signed with American rapper and producer Timbaland's record label Mosley Music. Her breakthrough came in 2007 after appearing on Timbaland's single "The Way I Are", which topped charts around the world.
Wes Brown
James Wesley "Wes" Brown is an American actor.
Rico Rodriguez
Rico Rodriguez is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Manny Delgado in the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family. In 2012, he wrote a book titled Reel Life Lessons... So Far.
Taylor Marie Hill
Taylor Marie Hill is an American model and actress. She has been a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2015.
Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing was the daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and his mistress, Nan Britton. Harding and Britton, who both lived in Marion, Ohio, began their affair when he was a U.S. senator and it continued until his sudden death during his presidency.
Lucy Bacon
Lucy Angeline Bacon was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes. She studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. She is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was an African-American artist notable for celebrating Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20th century, she had achieved a reputation as a well-known sculptor in Paris, before returning to the United States. Warrick was a protégée of Auguste Rodin, and has been described as "one of the most imaginative Black artists of her generation." Through adopting a horror-based figural style and choosing to depict events of racial injustice, like the lynching of Mary Turner, Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans.
Paul Lynde
Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian, voice artist, game show panelist and actor. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely closeted homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie, and as a regular "center square" panelist on the game show The Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981. He also voiced animated characters for four Hanna-Barbera productions.
Landry Shamet
Landry Michael Shamet is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers.