List of Famous people born in United States of America
Mark Ulano
Mark Ulano is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three in the same category. He has worked on more than 120 films since 1975.
Lawrence Kip
Lawrence Kip was an American soldier, author, and sportsman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.
Karol J. Bobko
Karol Joseph "Bo" Bobko, , is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former USAF and NASA astronaut. Bobko was the first graduate of the US Air Force Academy to travel in space.
Noah Hershkowitz
Noah Hershkowitz was an American experimental plasma physicist. He was known for his pioneering research on the understanding of plasma sheaths, solitons and double layers in plasmas, as well as the development of the emissive probe which measures the plasma potential.
Richard Pearson
Richard Pearson is an American film editor who is mainly associated with action films. Pearson, with Clare Douglas and Christopher Rouse, received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film United 93 (2006).
Arthur E. Arling
Arthur E. Arling, A.S.C. was a Hollywood cameraman and cinematographer. His early work included 1939's Gone with the Wind and 1946's The Yearling, for which he won a joint Oscar which he shared with Charles Rosher and Leonard Smith. He was nominated for an Oscar for the 1955 Lillian Roth biopic I'll Cry Tomorrow. Arling, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during World War II, is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
Gilbert Price
Gilbert Price was an American operatic baritone and actor.
Barry Morrow
Barry Morrow is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for Rain Man. He is the father of Emmy Award-winning animator, writer, and storyboard artist, Clay Morrow, and father-in-law of animator and storyboard artist, Cindy Morrow.
Michael O'Shea
Michael O'Shea was known as an American character actor who appeared in feature films and later in television and whose career spanned the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.