List of Famous people born in United States of America

Charles Taylor Sherman was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Cotton Mather was a New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. One of the most important intellectual figures in English-speaking colonial America, Mather is remembered today chiefly for his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) and other works of history, for his scientific contributions to plant hybridization and to the promotion of inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox and other infectious diseases, and for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692–3. He also promoted the new Newtonian science in America and sent many scientific reports to the Royal Society of London, which formally elected him as a fellow in 1723. A controversial figure in his own day, he sought unsuccessfully the presidency of Harvard College, which had been held by his father Increase, another important Puritan intellectual.

Ellen Ware Geer is an American actress, professor, and theatre director.

Odessa Cowan, known professionally as Ina Ray Hutton, was an American singer, bandleader, and the half-sister of June Hutton. She led one of the first all-female big bands.

Pat Francis O'Rourke was an American businessman and politician based in El Paso, Texas. He is the father of politician Beto O'Rourke.

Domenica Cameron-Scorsese is an American actress, producer and director.

Isabel Merrick Morgan was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe.

Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since the 1970s.

Michael Damien Sweetney is an American professional basketball player who last played for Urunday Universitario of the Liga Uruguaya de Basketball. He is now the assistant coach of the Yeshiva University Men's basketball team and head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at New York's Ramaz School.