List of Famous people born in United States of America

Agnes Bruckner is an American actress and former model. She began acting in television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in several films, including The Woods, Blue Car, Murder by Numbers, Blood and Chocolate, The Anna Nicole Story and The 11th Green.

Irwin Fridovich was an American biochemist who, together with his graduate student Joe M. McCord, discovered the enzymatic activity of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD),—to protect organisms from the toxic effects of superoxide free radicals formed as a byproduct of normal oxygen metabolism. Subsequently, Fridovich's research group also discovered the manganese-containing and the iron-containing SODs from E coli and the mitochondrial MnSOD (SOD2), now known to be an essential mammalian protein. He spent the rest of his career studying the biochemical mechanisms of SOD and of biological superoxide toxicity, using bacteria as model systems. Fridovich was also Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Duke University.

Everett McGill is an American actor, who first rose to prominence for his portrayal of a caveman in Quest for Fire (1981). He went on to have prominent roles in films like Dune (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Licence to Kill (1989), The People Under the Stairs (1991) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

Jocko Sims is an American actor, best known for playing Anthony Adams in Crash and later playing Carlton Burk in the series The Last Ship.

John Michael Noah was an American ice hockey player. He won a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Steven Joel Sotloff was an American-Israeli journalist. In August 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

Nadji Anthony Jeter is an American actor, voice actor, dancer, and musician. He is best known for providing the voice and motion capture for Sam in the action-adventure video game The Last of Us (2013) and Miles Morales in the animated series Spider-Man (2017) and the video games Spider-Man (2018), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order (2019), and Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020).

Daniel Stuart Johnson is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians and Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball and for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Katie Dianne Featherston is an American actress. She is known for playing Katie in the Paranormal Activity series.

Leslie Jamison is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of the 2010 novel The Gin Closet and the 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams. Jamison also directs the non-fiction concentration in writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts.