List of Famous people born in United States of America
Anthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. He notably served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms and homemade grenades. In 2008, he began serving an additional sentence for subsequent convictions for other crimes, including racketeering and wiretapping. Several other people were also convicted of crimes associated with their involvement with his illegal activities, including his actress girlfriend Sandra Will Carradine, film director John McTiernan, Beverly Hills police officer Craig Stevens, Los Angeles police sergeant Mark Arneson, and attorney Terry Christensen.
Tom Reed
Thomas W. Reed II is an American attorney and politician who serves as the U.S. Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district. A Republican, Reed first joined the U.S. House after winning a special election to replace Democrat Eric Massa in 2010. Reed previously served one term as the Mayor of Corning, New York.
Jackie Cruz
Jackie Cruz is a Dominican–American actress, singer and former model. She is known for her role as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, and currently stars in a recurring role on NBC's Good Girls.
David Valadao
David Goncalves Valadao is an American politician and dairy farmer who is the U.S. Representative for California's 21st congressional district. In 2020, Valadao defeated TJ Cox to reclaim the seat he held from 2013 to 2019. Before being elected to Congress, he served one term in the California State Assembly, representing the 30th district. He is a member of the Republican Party. After the 2020 elections, Valadao, Michelle Steel, and Young Kim became the first Republican congressional candidates since 1994 to unseat incumbent House Democrats in California.
Deborah Walley
Deborah Walley was an American actress noted for playing the title role in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and in several Beach Party films.
Betty Aberlin
Betty Aberlin is an American actress, poet, and writer. She is best known as Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a role she played for the entirety of the show's 33-year run.
Jedd Fisch
Jedd Ari Fisch is an American football coach who is the currently the head coach at the University of Arizona. Fisch previously served as the quarterbacks coach for the New England Patriots and as an assistant offensive coordinator and senior offensive assistant for the Los Angeles Rams. In addition, Fisch served as the interim head football coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the final two games of the 2017 season. He was the quarterbacks coach, wide receivers coach, and passing game coordinator under head coach Jim Harbaugh at the University of Michigan from 2015 to 2016. Fisch has served several stints as an assistant coach in both the professional and college ranks.
Tony Hinchcliffe
Tony Hinchcliffe is an American comedian and writer. He has been on the writing staff of the Comedy Central Roast series. He also appeared as a roaster on the All Def Digital Roast of Snoop Dogg that aired on Fusion in 2016.
Kara Hultgreen
Kara Spears Hultgreen was a lieutenant and naval aviator in the United States Navy and the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when her F-14 Tomcat crashed into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln.
Peter George Peterson
Peter George Peterson was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973, under the Richard Nixon administration. Before serving as Secretary of Commerce, Peterson was chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, and served as chairman. Peterson was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being named chairman emeritus. In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion. He was also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting fiscal austerity.