List of Famous people born in United States of America

Eleanore Deirdre O'Connell was an Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director who founded the Focus Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.

Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.

Robert Towne is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films.

Chad L. Coleman is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Dennis "Cutty" Wise on the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2004–2008), the voice of Coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), Tyreese Williams on the AMC post-apocalyptic horror series The Walking Dead (2012–2015), Mingo on the History Channel's re-imagining of Roots (2016), and Z on the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2010–2019). He later starred in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2020) as Fred Johnson and plays a recurring role as the alien Klyden on the Fox series The Orville (2017–present).

Carly Gullickson is an American former professional tennis player.

Herbert Fields was an American librettist and screenwriter.

Daniel Truett Cathy is an American businessman. He is chairman, president, and CEO of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, which was founded and expanded by his father, S. Truett Cathy. He has a net worth of $7.1 billion as of November 2020.

Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture." In 2006 he published a revised edition with new introduction and afterword, reflecting on the endurance of reading.