List of Famous people born in United States of America
Micheal Ray Richardson
Micheal "Sugar" Ray Richardson is an American former professional basketball player and head coach. He most recently was head coach of London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada. Richardson played college basketball for the Montana Grizzlies. The No. 4 overall pick in the 1978 NBA draft, Richardson played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight years, for the New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors and New Jersey Nets. Richardson was a four-time NBA All-Star.
Nolan Gould
Nolan Gould is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest sibling of the Dunphy family, Luke Dunphy, on the ABC sitcom Modern Family.
Keith Carradine
Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor, singer, and songwriter who has had success on stage, film, and television. He is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's film Nashville, Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood, FBI agent Frank Lundy in Dexter, Lou Solverson in the first season of Fargo, and US President Conrad Dalton in Madam Secretary. In addition, he is a Golden Globe– and Academy Award–winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting dynasty that began with his father, John Carradine.
Spencer Grammer
Spencer Karen Grammer is an American actress best known for her roles as the voice of Summer Smith in the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright in the ABC Family college comedy-drama series Greek.
Timothy Omundson
Timothy Michael Omundson is an American actor. He is notable for his supporting roles as Sean Potter on the CBS television series Judging Amy, Eli on the syndicated series Xena: Warrior Princess, Carlton Lassiter in Psych, King Richard on the musical series Galavant, and Cain in Supernatural.
Mark O'Meara
Mark Francis O'Meara is an American professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from their debut in 1986 to 2000. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
Clarke Peters
Peter Clarke, known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director. He starred as detective Lester Freamon and Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux in the David Simon HBO dramas, The Wire and Treme, Alonzo Quinn in the CBS crime drama Person of Interest, Isaiah Page in The Divide, and Otis in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (2020).
Pat Woodell
Patricia Joy Woodell was an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Bobbie Jo Bradley from 1963 to 1965 on Petticoat Junction.
Mark Kirk
Mark Steven Kirk is an American politician who served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Kirk was previously a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 10th congressional district. Kirk calls himself a social liberal and fiscal conservative.
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie George Johnson is an African American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur whose work includes a U.S. Air Force-term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990, which has been among the world's bestselling toys ever since.