List of Famous people born in United States of America

Charles Bartlett Johnson is an American billionaire businessman, with an estimated current net worth of around $4.8 billion.

David Salzer Broder, was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years. He was also an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer.

Thomas Eugene Kurtz is a retired Dartmouth professor of mathematics and computer scientist, who along with his colleague John G. Kemeny set in motion the then revolutionary concept of making computers as freely available to college students as library books were, by implementing the concept of time-sharing at Dartmouth College. In his mission to allow non-expert users to interact with the computer, he co-developed the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time Sharing System during 1963 to 1964.

Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.

Merton Howard Miller was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Mary Shaw Shorb, a research scientist, was best known for the development of a bacteriological assay procedure for the chemical compound now known as Vitamin B12.

Robert Eugene Marshak was an American physicist, educator, and eighth president of the City College of New York.

Richard Frank Stika is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, since 2009.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist and convicted felon who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. During a short-lived alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice.

Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.