List of Famous people born in United States of America
Bob Burns
Robin "Bob" Burns was an American musical comedian, who appeared on radio and in movies from 1930 to 1947. Burns played a novelty musical instrument of his own invention, which he called a "bazooka". During World War II, the US Army's handheld anti-tank rocket launcher was nicknamed the "bazooka".
Guila Bustabo
Guila Bustabo was a prominent American concert and recital violinist.
Fontella Bass
Fontella Marie Bass was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965.
George Stephen Morrison
George Stephen Morrison was a United States Navy rear admiral and naval aviator. Morrison was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Doors, who died in July 1971.
Michelle Burke
Michelle Burke is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jodi Kramer in the 1993 Richard Linklater film Dazed and Confused and as Connie Conehead in the 1993 movie Coneheads. She also appeared in the 1994 sequel to Major League, Major League II.
Abigail Hawk
Abigail Hawk is an American actress known for playing Samantha Bonner in the 1995 TV series Reality Check, Detective Abigail Baker in Blue Bloods, Riley Thomas in the 2016 holiday TV movie, A Christmas in Vermont, and Ellie in Domenica Cameron-Scorsese's 2017 directorial debut, Almost Paris. For her performance in Almost Paris, Hawk won the "Best Actress" award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria.
Rachel Morrison
Rachel Morrison is an American cinematographer and director. For her work on Mudbound (2017), Morrison earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, making her the first woman ever nominated in that category. She has twice worked with director Ryan Coogler, first on Fruitvale Station (2013) then on Black Panther (2018).
Suze Rotolo
Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, known as Suze Rotolo, was an American artist, and the girlfriend of Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1964. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein. In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She discussed her upbringing as a "red diaper" baby—a child of Communist Party USA members during the McCarthy Era. As an artist, she specialized in artists' books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Nastassja Bolívar
Nastassja Isabella Bolívar Cifuentes is a Nicaraguan-American actress, TV host and beauty queen who won Nuestra Belleza Latina 2011 and was crowned Miss Nicaragua 2013 and represented Nicaragua at Miss Universe 2013.