List of Famous people born in United States of America

Benjamin Melniker

First Name Benjamin
Last Name Melniker
Born on May 25, 1913
Died on February 26, 2018 (aged 104)

Benjamin Melniker was an American film producer. He was an executive producer with Michael E. Uslan on the Batman film series and other DC Comics films. Melniker was also at one time a studio executive at MGM.

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Philip La Follette

First Name Philip
Last Name Follette
Born on May 8, 1897
Died on August 18, 1965 (aged 68)

Philip Fox La Follette was an American politician. He was the 27th Governor of Wisconsin and 29th Governor of Wisconsin, as well as one of the founders of the Wisconsin Progressive Party.

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Charles Carroll of Annapolis

First Name Charles
Last Name Annapolis
Born on January 1, 1702
Died on January 1, 1782 (aged 80)

Charles Carroll II (1702–1782) known as Charles Carroll of Annapolis to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and lawyer. His father was Charles Carroll the Settler,, (1661–1720), an immigrant to Maryland who had arrived in the colony in 1689 with a commission as Provincial Attorney General, and had accumulated a vast fortune, emerging as Maryland's wealthiest citizen. Charles Carroll of Annapolis inherited and extended his father's fortune but, as a Roman Catholic, was barred from participation in Maryland politics. It would fall to his son, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, (III), (1737–1832), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, to see religious toleration restored to Maryland and many political and scientific/technological advances in the newly independent state.

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Todd McCaffrey

Todd Johnson
First Name Todd
Last Name McCaffrey
Born on April 27, 1956 (age 70)

Todd J. McCaffrey is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.

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Frankie Gaye

First Name Frankie
Last Name Gaye
Born on November 15, 1941
Died on December 30, 2001 (aged 60)

Frances "Frankie" Gaye was an American recording artist and brother of American recording artist Marvin Gaye. Gaye's recollections of his tenure in the Vietnam War inspired Marvin's song "What's Happening, Brother," from the album What's Going On.

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Cecily Adams

First Name Cecily
Born on February 6, 1958
Died on March 3, 2004 (aged 46)

Cecily April Adams was an American actress, casting director, and lyricist.

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Jenna Stern

First Name Jenna
Born on September 23, 1967 (age 59)

Jenna Louise Stern is an American actress. Having played 11 characters across the Law & Order franchise, she currently recurs on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Elana Barth, in addition to voicing commercials, books and documentaries.

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Karen Anderson

June Millichamp Kruse
First Name Karen
Last Name Anderson
Born on September 16, 1932
Died on March 17, 2018 (aged 85)

Karen Anderson published fiction and essays solo and in collaboration with her husband and others.

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Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

First Name Eliza
Last Name Scidmore
Born on October 14, 1856
Died on November 3, 1928 (aged 72)

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856–1928) was an American author, geographer, and photographer, who became the first woman to sit on the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society. She visited Japan many times between 1885 and 1928.

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Buck Baker

First Name Buck
Last Name Baker
Born on March 4, 1919
Died on April 14, 2002 (aged 83)

Elzie Wylie Baker Sr., better known as Buck Baker, was an American stock car racer. Born in Richburg, South Carolina, Baker began his NASCAR career in 1949 and won his first race three years later at Columbia Speedway. Twenty-seven years later, Baker retired after the 1976 National 500.

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