List of Famous people born in United States of America

Harold Abraham Scheraga was an American biophysicist and the George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor Emeritus in the chemistry department at Cornell University. Scheraga is regarded as a pioneer in protein biophysics and has been especially influential in the study of protein solvation and the hydrophobic effect as it relates to protein folding.

Dorothy Hyson, Lady Quayle was a successful American film and stage actress who worked largely in England. During World War II, she worked as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

Ashley Hinshaw is an American actress and model. She is known for her leading role in the 2012 film About Cherry, and for her role in the 2016 Crackle television series StartUp. Since 2017 she has been credited using her married name Ashley Grace.

Joseph John "Joe" Arlauckas is an American retired professional basketball player of Lithuanian descent. He played at the power forward position. Arlauckas is well-known for holding the record for the most points scored in a modern-era single EuroLeague game, including only games played since the 1991–92 season. He scored 63 points in a FIBA European League (EuroLeague) game, while playing for Real Madrid, against Virtus Bologna, during the 1995–96 season, on February 26, 1996. Radivoj Korać holds the all-time EuroLeague single-game scoring record, at 99 points scored, counting all games played since the competition began during the 1958 season.

Joe Adler is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Zart in The Maze Runner and Jason Wylie in The Mentalist.

Alfred Oerter Jr. was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Oerter is an inductee of the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Ezra Feivel Vogel was an American academic who became the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He wrote prolifically on modern Japan, China, Korea, and other topics related to Asia.

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker was an American pioneer computer designer. He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.

Charmian Kittredge London was an American writer and the second wife of Jack London.