List of Famous people born in United States of America
Coi Leray
Coi Leray Collins is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. After quitting her job, Leray began posting music to SoundCloud, releasing her breakout single "Huddy" and her debut mixtape Everythingcoz in 2018. After signing a record deal with 1801 Records and Republic Records, she released her second mixtape, EC2, in 2019, and her debut extended play, Now or Never, in 2020. In 2021, her single "No More Parties" gave Leray her first Billboard Hot 100 entry after peaking in the top 40 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Rodney Hudson
Rodney Hudson is an American football center for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Florida State University, and was a two-time All-American. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft.
Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff
Countess Tessa June von Walderdorff, also known by her married name Tessa Hilton, is an American socialite, model, and real estate broker. She previously worked as an actress in short films, a free-lance disc jockey, and was a writer for the German fashion and lifestyle magazine I Love You.
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
Ben Gibbard
Benjamin Gibbard is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with which he has recorded nine studio albums, and as one half of the electronica act the Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives, in 2012, and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009) with Jay Farrar.
Brian Forster
Brian A. Forster is an American former child actor. He is best known as the second actor to play the role of Chris Partridge in the television series The Partridge Family.
Leigh Taylor-Young
Leigh Taylor-Young is an American retired actress who has appeared on stage, screen, podcast, radio and television. The most famous films in which she had important roles include I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Horsemen (1971), The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Soylent Green (1973), and Jagged Edge (1985).
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was an American woman who was best known for her affair with future US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ryann O'Toole
Ryann Ashley O'Toole is an American female professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour and the Futures Tour.
Carl Wilkens
Carl Wilkens is an American Christian missionary and the former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the Rwandan genocide began.