List of Famous people born in United States of America
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Sam Houston Johnson
Samuel Houston Johnson was an American businessman. He was the younger brother of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Ben Roy Mottelson
Ben Roy Mottelson is a Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.
Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and full Professor at Stockholm University.
Henry Skillman Breckinridge
Henry Skillman Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family and served as the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1913 to 1916. During the Lindbergh kidnapping trial he served as Charles Lindbergh's attorney and was the only serious opponent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic primaries.
Betsy Brantley
Betsy Brantley is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, plays and televisions shows since the early 1980s. Her breakout role was in the 1982 film Five Days One Summer with Sean Connery.
Adam Bilzerian
Adam J. Bilzerian is an American-born Nevisian poker player and writer.
Neal Marlens
Neal Marlens is an American television producer and writer. He is known for work on the television series Growing Pains, The Wonder Years and Ellen, all with his wife, fellow television producer/writer Carol Black.
Kay Johnson
Catherine Townsend Johnson was an American stage and film actress.
Ronny Hallin
Ronelle "Ronny" Marshall Hallin is an American television producer and actor, and sister of Penny Marshall and Garry Marshall,. She is best known for her work on the television shows Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, and Step by Step.