List of Famous people born in United States of America

Orra White Hitchcock was one of America's earliest women botanical and scientific illustrators and artists, best known for illustrating the scientific works of her husband, geologist Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), but also notable for her own artistic and scientific work.

Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that ²³⁵U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry.

Julie Michelle McCullough is an American model, actress and stand-up comedian. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986, and played the role of Julie Costello on Growing Pains in 1989–90.

June Carroll was an American lyricist, singer and actress.

David Opatoshu was an American actor. He is best known for his role in the film Exodus (1960).

Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize.

Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the mid 1980s.

Waldo Miller Salt was an American screenwriter who won Academy Awards for both Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.

John Gregory Dunne was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.