List of Famous people born in United States of America
Kurt Coleman
Kurt Coleman is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.
Cullen Jones
Cullen Andrew Jones is an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist who specializes in freestyle sprint events. As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won silver medals in the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay and the 50-meter freestyle, as well as the gold in the 4 x 100-metre medley.
Tyler Bey
Tyler Tarik Bey is an American basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Long Island Nets of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Colorado Buffaloes.
Johnny Sequoyah
Johnny Sequoyah Friedenberg is an American actress, best known for her role as Bo Adams on the NBC television series Believe.
Mike Leake
Michael Raymond Leake is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has pitched in Major League Baseball(MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Bobby Coleman
Robert Moorhouse "Bobby" Coleman III is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Martian Child, as the title character, and The Last Song.
Raymond St. Jacques
Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor, director and producer. He was the first Black American actor to appear in a regular role on a western series, playing Simon Blake on Rawhide.
Mike Kafka
Michael John Kafka is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). After attending St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago, Illinois, he played college football for Northwestern, where he received second-team All-Big Ten Conference honors as a senior. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft, and spent six seasons in the NFL as a journeyman quarterback. Kafka became the quarterbacks coach for the Chiefs in 2018, and Patrick Mahomes, the starting quarterback for the Chiefs, earned the NFL Most Valuable Player award that season. Kafka helped the team win Super Bowl LIV the following season.
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Negro National Anthem.
Chuck Williams
Charles Edward "Chuck" Williams was the American founder of Williams Sonoma and author and editor of more than 100 books on the subject of cooking. Williams is credited for playing a major role in introducing French cookware into American kitchens through his retail and mail-order business. He became a centenarian in October 2015 and died two months later on December 5, 2015 in San Francisco, California.