List of Famous people born in United States of America
Margaret Colin
Margaret Colin is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Margo Hughes on As the World Turns and as Eleanor Waldorf-Rose on Gossip Girl.
Brandon Knight
Brandon Emmanuel Knight is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A two-time Gatorade National Player of the Year, Knight played one season of college basketball for Kentucky before being selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 2011 NBA draft. After two seasons with the Pistons, he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. He spent a season and a half in Milwaukee before being traded to the Phoenix Suns in February 2015. In August 2018, he was traded to the Rockets. At the 2019 trade deadline, he was traded to the Cavaliers before being traded back to the Pistons at the 2020 trade deadline.
Doug Savant
Douglas Peter Savant is an American actor, known for his roles as Matt Fielding in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–97), and Tom Scavo in ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–12).
Rudy Youngblood
Rudy Youngblood, is a Native American Latino actor, musician, dancer, and artist. He was born in Belton, Texas. Youngblood is of Comanche, Yaqui, and Mexican ancestry.
Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby was an American actor, singer, voice artist, and comedian. He was known for his roles in City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, and Donnie Brasco. He voiced Reginald Stout in Stuart Little.
Teri Moïse
Teri Moïse was a Haitian-American French singer.
James Henry Fetzer
James Henry Fetzer is a former professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier. In the late 1970s, Fetzer worked on assessing and clarifying the forms and foundations of scientific explanation, probability in science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science, especially artificial intelligence and computer science.
Reuel Colt Gridley
Reuel Colt Gridley was an American storekeeper who gained nationwide attention in 1864, when he repeatedly auctioned a plain sack of flour and raised over $250,000 for the United States Sanitary Commission, which provided aid to wounded American Civil War soldiers.
Lindsay Mendez
Lindsay Michelle Mendez is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in American musical theatre.
Tom Landry
Thomas Wade Landry was an American professional football player and coach. He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. During his coaching career, he created many new formations and methods, such as the now popular 4–3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the Doomsday Defense squads he built during his tenure with the Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years from 1960 to 1988 as the coach of one team is an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons, which is considered to be his most impressive professional accomplishment.