List of Famous people born in United States of America

Rudolf Anderson Jr. was an American and United States Air Force major and pilot, who was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and decoration for valor. The only U.S fatality by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Anderson died when his U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Cuba. He also served in Korea after the Korean War ended.

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with The Pictures Generation. Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. Kruger is a Distinguished Professor of New Genres at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Francis Alexander Shields Jr. was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York City, and he is the father of actress Brooke Shields.

Mary Berenson was an art historian, now thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings of her second husband, Bernard Berenson.

Dale L. Baer was an American character animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios and The Baer Animation Company. He was supervising animator of many characters.

Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in more than thirty languages.

Blase Joseph Cupich is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal who serves as ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Edward King was an American banker who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange and president of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.

Arthur Julius Marx was an American author, a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, and son of entertainer Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. He was named after Groucho's brother Arthur "Harpo" Marx.