List of Famous people born in United States of America
Shay Carl
Shay Carl Butler, known professionally as Shay Carl, is an American vlogger, author and YouTube personality. Butler has three YouTube channels, two of which have over three million subscribers. Butler and Corey Vidal developed a documentary called Vlogumentary on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly from his viewers. Vlogumentary was released on April 20, 2016. Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 The New York Times featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.
Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid 1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
George Skakel
George Skakel was an American businessman and the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, part of SGL Carbon.
Terry Gannon
Terrance Patrick Gannon is a sportscaster for NBC Sports and the Golf Channel, currently announcing golf and figure skating. Gannon has announced a wide variety of sporting events and has been called one of the "most versatile" announcers in TV sports and "the man who knows every game".
Derrick Gragg
Derrick Gragg is an American college athletics administrator. He is the athletic director at the University of Tulsa, a position he has held since 2013. He previously spent seven years, 2006 to 2013, as the athletic director at Eastern Michigan University and six years, 2000 to 2006, as senior associate athletic director at the University of Arkansas. Gragg played college football at Vanderbilt University, lettering as a wide receiver for the Commodores for four seasons, 1988 to 1991.
Eric Rowe
Nelson Eric Rowe Jr. is an American football safety for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Utah.
Sonny Fox
Irwin "Sonny" Fox was an American television host and broadcaster who was the host of the children's television program, Wonderama. Through his career he had hosted other children's educational and entertainment shows including Let's Take a Trip, Just for Fun and On Your Mark, in addition to family shows including The $64,000 show. He was also a producer of movies including And Baby Makes Six, Mysterious Two and Brontë. He served as the chairman of Populations Communication International, a non profit advocating for a change in attitudes toward family planning.
Ron Santo
Ronald Edward Santo was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1960 through 1973 and the Chicago White Sox in 1974. In 1990, Santo became a member of the Cubs broadcasting team providing commentary for Cubs games on WGN radio and remained at that position until his death in 2010. In 1999, he was selected to the Cubs All-Century Team. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.
Tyler Myers
Tyler Paul Myers is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round, 12th overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Myers won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best rookie. Standing at 6 feet 8 inches tall, he is nicknamed "The Big Easy" or "Big Tex" because he was born in Houston, Texas.
John Torchetti
John Torchetti is a former American ice hockey player and coach. Torchetti has been an interim head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Florida Panthers, the Los Angeles Kings, and Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League (NHL).