List of Famous people born in United States of America
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an early American statesman and lawyer, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.
Kenny Clarke
Kenneth Clarke Spearman, nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. A major innovator of the bebop style of drumming, he pioneered the use of the ride cymbal to keep time rather than the hi-hat, along with the use of the bass drum for irregular accents.
Henry Selick
Charles Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer, and writer who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Coraline (2009), and his upcoming stop-motion film Wendell and Wild (2022) with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key. He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel. In April 2019, Diego Molano, creator of Victor and Valentino, called Selick one of his "animation idols." Selick is best known for his collaborations with voice actor and artist Joe Ranft.
Dwayne Wayans
Dwayne Howell Wayans is an American writer and film score composer. He is a member of the Wayans family.
Susan McCaw
Susan Rasinski McCaw is a businesswoman, former diplomat and philanthropist. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (2005-2007) and is currently President of SRM Capital Investments, a private investment firm. Previously, she was President of COM Investments and a Principal at Robertson Stephens & Co., a San Francisco-based investment bank. McCaw also worked as an Associate in Robertson Stephens Venture Capital Group. McCaw started her career as a Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company in New York and Hong Kong.
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the "Diehard" wing of the party.
Hopper Penn
Jeanne Martin
Walter J. Kohler, Jr.
Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. was a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin and was the 33rd Governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1951 to 1957. He was a leading figure in state and national Republican Party activities. His role in the clash between Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 has interested historians for decades. Kohler was for many years a sales executive at the Kohler Company and served as president at The Vollrath Company. He was also a distinguished Naval officer in World War II. He had two children—a son, Terry Jodok Kohler, and daughter, Charlotte Nicolette Kohler.