List of Famous people born in United States of America
Antonio Allen
Antonio Allen is a former American football free safety. Allen was drafted by the New York Jets in the seventh round, 242nd overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina.
Tim Ream
Timothy Michael Ream is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for Championship club Fulham and the United States national team.
Frank Eugene Corder
Frank Eugene Corder was an American truck driver. He stole a Cessna 150 late on September 11, 1994 and crashed the stolen aircraft onto the South Lawn of the White House early on September 12, 1994, attempting to land the plane on the south lawn of the White House; he was killed, and was the sole casualty.
Thomas R. Pickering
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Alma Levant Hayden
Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s. Hayden graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in chemistry, and became an expert in spectrophotometry, the measurement of how substances absorb light. She published work on infrared and other techniques for analyzing chemicals in a range of journals. Hayden was appointed Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, and may have been the first African-American scientist at the FDA. Hayden came to national attention in 1963 when she led the team that exposed the common substance in Krebiozen, a long-controversial alternative and expensive drug promoted as anti-cancer.
Steve Hofstetter
Steven Ira Hofstetter is an American stand-up comedian. As of Sep 22, 2020, his YouTube channel has accumulated over 637k subscribers and 171,000,000 views. Hofstetter starred in the FS1 special Finding Babe Ruth, has been a regular panelist on MLB Now on MLB Network, and was the host and executive producer of Laughs on Fox television stations.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph Alfred McNeil is a retired major general in the United States Air Force who is best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four; a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler was an American character actor and voice actor. His career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio. Among his best-known roles are the nervous Juror #2 in 12 Angry Men (1957); the benign-seeming gentleman who tries to prevent the Younger family from moving into a whites-only neighbourhood in A Raisin in the Sun (1961); the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions; Vinnie, one of Oscar's poker cronies in the film The Odd Couple (1968), and Mr. Emil Peterson, the hen-pecked milquetoast husband on The Bob Newhart Show.
Micah Fowler
Micah D. Fowler is an American actor with cerebral palsy. He is most known for his roles in Labor Day and JJ DiMeo in the television series Speechless. Fowler has also had minor roles in Blue's Clues and Sesame Street.
William Ruckelshaus
William Doyle Ruckelshaus was an American attorney and government official.