List of Famous people born in United States of America
Bill Henderson
William Randall Henderson was an American jazz singer and actor in television and film.
Florence Sally Horner
Florence Sally Horner was a girl abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in 1948. It is possible that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his famous novel Lolita.
Kelli Garner
Kelli Brianne Garner is an American actress who has appeared in a variety of independent and mainstream films, television, and theater.
Nadine Girault
Nadine Girault is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Bertrand as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.She is a member of cabinet as Minister of International Relations.
Jose M. Hernandez
José Moreno Hernández is a former NASA astronaut and American engineer.
D. W. Griffith
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie.
Janice E. Voss
Janice Elaine Voss was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Voss received her B.S. in engineering science from Purdue University, her M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT, and her PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. She flew in space five times, jointly holding the record for American women. Voss died in Arizona on February 6, 2012 from breast cancer.
Jason Rogers
Jason Douglas Rogers is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Olmecas de Tabasco of the Mexican League. He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball.
Lynn Hill
Carolynn Marie Hill is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she is famous for making the first free ascent of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, and for repeating it the next year in less than 24 hours. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers of all time. One of the first successful women in the sport, Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for sex equality. Hill has publicized climbing by appearing on television shows and documentaries and writing an autobiography, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World.
William Campbell
William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions, and also starred in several low-budget B-movies and horror films.