List of Famous people born in United States of America

Paul Vario was an American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew of mobsters in Brooklyn, New York. Following the testimony of Henry Hill, Vario was convicted in 1984, of fraud, and sentenced to four years in prison, followed by extortion in 1985, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died on May 3, 1988, of lung failure in prison.

David Leroy Wood is an American former professional basketball player, who most notably played in the NBA.

Neal Jones is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Marilyn Buferd was crowned Miss America in 1946 after being crowned Miss California. She appeared in several minor films in the 1950s as well as several foreign language films, including Touchez pas au grisbi opposite Jean Gabin (1954).

Brandon Spencer Lee Call is an American former television and film actor as a child and adolescent. He played Hobie Buchannon in the first year of Baywatch, and J.T. Lambert over a period of seven seasons on the TV series Step by Step.

Gerald George Martinson, was an American Jesuit missionary, television personality and broadcast executive in Taiwan.

Lamon Tajuan Brewster is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2010. He held the WBO heavyweight title from 2004 to 2006, and is best known for scoring an upset knockout victory over Wladimir Klitschko to win the vacant title. He was ranked as the world's No.8 heavyweight by BoxRec at the conclusion of 2004. As an amateur, Brewster won the U.S. national championships in 1995, and a silver medal at that year's Pan American Games, both in the heavyweight division. Following his retirement from the sport in 2011, he became an entrepreneur and founded a consulting business.

William Estes Nipper is an American actor known for his role on CBS police drama Blue Bloods as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York Police Department officer and the youngest son of the police commissioner, played by Tom Selleck. Previously, he starred as J.J. Pryor, on the NBC drama American Dreams.

Justin Meram is an Iraqi-American professional footballer who plays as a forward for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer and the Iraq national team. Meram qualifies to represent Iraq through his parents, who were both born there.

Leonard Thomas Lake, also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases, was an American serial killer. During the mid-1980s, he and accomplice Charles Ng raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to 25 victims at a remote cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco. After his arrest in 1985 on illegal weapons, auto theft, and fraud charges, Lake swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing, and died four days later. Human remains, videotapes, and journals found at the cabin later confirmed Ng's involvement, and were used to convict Ng on eleven counts of capital murder.