List of Famous people born in United States of America
James Jones
James Fitzgerald Jones is an American college basketball coach and the current basketball coach at Yale University.
Margaret Moser
Margaret Moser, or Margaret Moser Malone, was an American journalist, music enthusiast, critic and historian, groupie, and backup singer. She was best known for her work as the director of the Austin Music Awards (AMA) in the South by Southwest festival and for her career in music journalism and criticism, which lasted more than thirty years. Moser also supported young artists, helping them get started and finding appropriate venues where they could play. She has been called the "patron saint of Austin music" by the Paramount Theatre.
Lorraine Collett
Lorraine Collett Petersen was an American model hired to promote a corporate trademark as the "Sun-Maid Girl".
Michael D’Antonio
Michael D'Antonio is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. His book Mortal Sins was a 2014 Edgar Award nominee.
Jasiel Correia
Jasiel F. Correia II is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party, and a former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts. He was arrested twice on charges related to fraud and extortion while in office. Defeated in the November 2019 mayoral election, his term expired on January 6, 2020. In April 2020, Quibi released a short documentary series about Correia titled "Run This City".
Dave Kushner
David Kushner is an American musician perhaps best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro's solo band, Sugartooth, Zilch while he has also recorded with Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko and more recently collaborated with Scars on Broadway guitarist Franky Perez releasing songs under the pseudonym of DKFXP, a combination of the initials of Perez and Kushner, as well as working with Indian singer and actress Shruti Haasan.
Harry Landers
Harry Landers was an American character actor. He was born in New York City.
Jon Kitna
Jon Kelly Kitna is a football coach at Burleson High School. He is also a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1996. He played college football at Central Washington University.
Kenny Saief
Kenneth "Kenny" Hasan Saief is a American-born Druze-Israeli professional soccer player who plays as a left midfielder for Polish club Lechia Gdańsk on loan from Belgian club Anderlecht and the United States national team. Born in the United States, Saief is of Druze descent; he represented Israel internationally at senior level, before switching allegiance to the United States.
Gil Scott-Heron
Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues."