List of Famous people born in United States of America
Helene Costello
Helene Costello was an American stage and film actress, most notably of the silent era.
Edie Adams
Edie Adams was an American comedienne, actress, singer and businesswoman. She was a Tony Award winner and an Emmy Award nominee.
John Whitney
John Hales Whitney, Sr. was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation.
Lisa Roberts Gillan
William Churchill deMille
William Churchill deMille, also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films.
Taryll Jackson
Davis Phinney
Davis Phinney is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States. He won 328 races in the 1980s and '90s, a record for an American, including two Tour de France stages. He has worked in media since retiring as a racer. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 40.
Tim McCarthy
Timothy J. McCarthy is a former United States Secret Service agent best known for defending President Ronald Reagan during the assassination attempt on Reagan's life on Monday, March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C.
Lana Wachowski
Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women.
Ron O'Neal
Ron O'Neal was an American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as Youngblood Priest, a New York cocaine dealer, in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972) and its sequel Super Fly T.N.T. (1973). O'Neal was also a director and writer for the sequel, and for the film Up Against the Wall.