List of Famous people born in United States of America
Paul J. Weitz
Paul Joseph Weitz was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first crewed Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Kathleen Rice
Kathleen Maura Rice is an American attorney, prosecutor, and the United States Representative for New York's 4th congressional district. She is a Democrat. Prior to serving in Congress, she served as the Nassau County District Attorney, and, prior to that, she served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia and as an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney's Office in New York City.
Xander Berkeley
Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as George Mason on 24, Sheriff Thomas McAllister on The Mentalist, Percy Rose on Nikita, the Man on The Booth at the End and Gregory on The Walking Dead. His film roles include Todd Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Trevor Lyle in Candyman, Ralph in Heat, Agent Gibbs in Air Force One and Dr. Lamar in Gattaca.
Lukas Haas
Lukas Daniel Haas is an American actor and musician. His acting career has spanned four decades, during which he has appeared in more than 50 feature films and a number of television shows and stage productions.
Kelvin Torve
Kelvin Curtis Torve is a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball First baseman, and current head coach of the American Legion Baseball Post 22 Hardhats in Rapid City, South Dakota. Torve batted left and threw right.
Houston Nutt
Houston Dale Nutt Jr. is a former American football player and coach. He currently works for CBS Sports as a college football studio analyst. Previously, he served as the head football coach at Murray State University (1993–1996), Boise State University (1997), the University of Arkansas (1998–2007), and University of Mississippi (2008–2011). Nutt's all-time career winning percentage is just under 59 percent.
Trent Garrett
Trent Garrett is an American actor and model best known for his role as Bowie Quinn in the Disney Channel series Andi Mack.
Pleasant Crump
Pleasant Riggs Crump was the last verifiable veteran who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Although he was survived by several other claimants in the 1950s, such as William Lundy, John B. Salling and Walter Williams, historical research has subsequently debunked these claims. Crump officially remains the last surviving veteran of the Confederate Army.
Robert Kearns
Robert William Kearns was an American engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other inventors had failed to gain any traction in manufacturing.
William Seabrook
William Buehler Seabrook was an American occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland. He began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia and later became a partner in an advertising agency in Atlanta.