List of Famous people born in United States of America
Donald E. Williams
Captain Donald Edward Williams was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. He logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space.
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard, affectionately known as Sandro, was an architect, interior designer, furniture designer, industrial designer, and a textile designer.
Rini Mariani Soemarno Soewandi
Rini Mariani Soemarno is an Indonesian economist and was the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises in President Joko Widodo's Working Cabinet. She graduated from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1981. She served as Minister of Trade and Industry in Megawati Sukarnoputri's Mutual Assistance Cabinet from 2001 to 2004.
Mark Yi En Tuan
Mark Tuan, known mononymously as Mark, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and model based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Got7 formed under JYP Entertainment.
James Wilson
James Wilson was the first maker of globes in the United States.
Harrison Dillard
William Harrison "Bones" Dillard was an American track and field athlete, who is the only male in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in both the 100 meter (sprints) and the 110 meter hurdles, making him the “World’s Fastest Man” in 1948 and the “World’s Fastest Hurdler” in 1952.
Dale Midkiff
Dale Alan Midkiff is an American actor, best known for playing Louis Creed in the horror film Pet Sematary (1989) and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series Time Trax.
Yusuke Hatano
Yusuke Hatano is a Japanese composer, arranger, and pianist best known for his work on the soundtracks for films and games.
Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Mary Jo White
Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002, and remains the only Senate-confirmed woman. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. In 2014, she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.