List of Famous people born in United States of America
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer. He is the creative director of the fashion house Moschino and the sole owner of his namesake label. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture’s most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".
Yvie Oddly
Jovan Bridges, known by the stage name Yvie Oddly, is an American drag queen, performer, fashion designer, rapper, and recording artist from Denver, Colorado who came to international attention in 2019 when she won the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Oddly has been on the worldwide Werq the World drag concert tour since 2019. In addition to music videos and performances, she explores what she sees as a transformative power of drag by making thrift store finds into wearable art in Yvie Oddly’s Oddities series on WOW Presents Plus.
Spencer Lee
Spencer Richard Lee (born October 14, 1998) is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms. In freestyle, he was the '19 US National champion and a three–time age–group World Champion, once as a cadet and twice as a junior. As a folkstyle wrestler, Lee is a James E. Sullivan Award and Dan Hodge Trophy winner, a three-time NCAA Division I National Champion and a two-time Big Ten Conference champion out of the University of Iowa. He was also the top-recruit as a high school wrestler at the time of his commitment. Lee is often considered as one of the most dominant athletes in college athletics.
Dean Heller
Dean Arthur Heller is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 15th Secretary of State of Nevada from 1995 to 2007 and U.S. Representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district from 2007 to 2011. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Brian Sandoval and elected to a full term in the 2012 election. Heller ran for a second term in 2018, but was defeated by Democrat Jacky Rosen. He was the only Republican U.S. Senator to lose re-election in the 2018 midterm elections.
C. Alan Lawson
Charles Alan Lawson, known professionally as Alan Lawson, is an attorney and jurist from Florida. He has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2016, when he was appointed by Governor Rick Scott. He previously was a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal.
Caleb Porter
Caleb Porter is an American soccer coach who is the head coach of Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew. He was previously head coach of the Portland Timbers from 2013 until 2017, winning MLS Cup in 2015 and 2020, of the United States U-23 team in 2011–12, and of the University of Akron men's team from 2006 to 2012, winning the NCAA title in 2010.
Derek Anderson
Derek Anderson is an American mixed martial artist, currently signed to Bellator MMA, competing in the Welterweight division. As of April 6, 2021, he is #6 in the Bellator Welterweight Rankings.
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp was an American mathematician known for his work in computer science, coding theory and combinatorial game theory. He was a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley.
Don Haskins
Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed "The Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M. He was the head coach at Texas Western College from 1961 to 1999. His greatest triumph occurred in 1966, when his team won the NCAA Tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game initiated the end of racial segregation in college basketball.
John Paul Vann
John Paul Vann was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War. Although separated from the military before the Vietnam War reached its peak, he returned to service as a civilian and by the waning days of the war was the first American civilian to command troops in regular combat there. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was the only civilian in Vietnam to receive the Distinguished Service Cross. He died in a helicopter crash in 1972 at 47 years old.