List of Famous people born in United States of America
Mildred Gale
Mildred Gale (1671–1701), born Mildred Warner in the Colony of Virginia, was the paternal grandmother of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Jane Henson
Jane Ann Henson was an American puppeteer and the wife of Jim Henson.
James Earl Carter, Sr.
James Earl Carter Sr. was an American politician, businessman, and farmer. He was the father and namesake of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
Mary Harrison McKee
Mary Scott Harrison McKee was the only daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline Scott Harrison. After her mother died in 1892, McKee served as her father's de facto First Lady for the remainder of his term.
Matthew Bronfman
Matthew Bronfman is an American businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A member of the Bronfman family, he is the son of prominent businessman and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
George Prévost
Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who is most well known as the "Defender of Canada" during the War of 1812. Born in New Jersey, the eldest son of Genevan Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and was commander of St. Vincent from 1794 to 1796. He became Lieutenant-Governor of Saint Lucia from 1798 to 1802 and Governor of Dominica from 1802 to 1805. He is best known to history for serving as both the civilian Governor General and the military Commander in Chief in British North America during the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.
Sophia Hawthorne
Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne was an American painter and illustrator as well as the wife of author Nathaniel Hawthorne. She also published her journals and various articles.
Donald Nixon
Francis Donald Nixon was a younger brother of United States President Richard Nixon.
Frank Shields
Francis Xavier Alexander "Frank" Shields Sr. was an amateur American tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s and an actor known for Hoosier Schoolboy (1937).
Tom Flynn
Thomas W. Flynn was an American author, journalist, novelist, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal Free Inquiry. He was also director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum and the Freethought Trail.