List of Famous people born in United States of America

Timothy Daniel Considine is an American former child actor of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He later became a writer, photographer, and automotive historian.

Don Winslow is an American author and political activist most recognized for his crime and mystery novels. Many of his books are set in California. Five of his novels feature private investigator Neal Carey. He has also co-written screenplays for Savages, Satori, and other adaptations of his novels with screenwriter/producer Shane Salerno.

John Hollis Bankhead II was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.

James Franklin was an American colonial author, printer, newspaper publisher, and almanac publisher. James published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers.

Jack Schwartzman was an American film producer.

Eric Foner is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African-American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. He is the author of several popular textbooks. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses.

Eric Newman is an American film and television producer and the founder of Grand Electric, an LA-based production company with a first-look deal with StudioCanal. Previously, he was a founding partner of NBC Universal-based film production company Strike Entertainment, with co-founders Marc Abraham and Thomas A. Bliss.

Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop.