List of Famous people born in United States of America
Adrian Scott
Robert Adrian Scott was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and later blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses.
Endicott Peabody
Endicott "Chub" Peabody was an American politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat, he served a single two-year term as the 62nd Governor of Massachusetts, from 1963 to 1965. He is probably best known for his opposition to the death penalty, his many electoral failures, and for signing into law the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Heidi Lenhart
Heidi Noelle Lenhart is an American actress best known for her lead role in the Au Pair film series and the sitcom California Dreams.
George Bent
George Bent, also named Ho—my-ike in Cheyenne, was a Cheyenne who became a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War and waged war against Americans as a Cheyenne warrior afterward. He was the mixed-race son of Owl Woman, daughter of a Cheyenne chief, and the American William Bent, founder of the trading post named Bent's Fort and a trading partnership with his brothers and Ceran St. Vrain. Bent was born near present-day La Junta, Colorado, and was reared among both his mother's people, his father and other European Americans at the fort, and other whites from the age of 10 while attending boarding school in St. Louis, Missouri. He identified as Cheyenne.
William F. Harrah
William Fisk Harrah was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos, now part of Caesars Entertainment.
Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
Evelina "Eva" Palmer-Sikelianos was an American woman notable for her study and promotion of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music. Palmer's life and artistic endeavors intersected with numerous noteworthy artists throughout her life. She was both inspired by or inspired the likes of dancers Isadora Duncan and Ted Shawn, the French literary great Colette, the poet and author Natalie Barney and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. She would go on to marry Angelos Sikelianos, a Greek poet and playwright. Together they organized a revival of the Delphic Festival in Delphi, Greece. Embodied in these festivals of art, music and theater she hoped to promote a balanced sense of enlightenment that would further the goals of peace and harmony in Greece and beyond.
Newton Steers
Newton Ivan Steers Jr., was a U.S. Congressman who represented Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1979.
Oliver Brown
Watson Brown
Watson Brown was a son of the abolitionist John Brown and his second wife Mary Day Brown, born in Franklin Mills, Ohio. He was married to Isabell [sic] "Belle" Thompson Brown, and they had a son Frederick W., who died of diphtheria at age 4, and is buried in North Elba.
William Bayer
William Bayer [pronounced “byer”]is an American novelist, the author of twenty-one books including The New York Times best-sellers Switch and Pattern Crimes.