List of Famous people born in United States of America

Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.

Jeffrey Marc Monforton is the bishop of the Diocese of Steubenville in the US state of Ohio. He was named the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Steubenville on July 3, 2012.

James Powell Kernochan was an American businessman and clubman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.

Henry Alvah Strong was an American photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company.

Louise Dorothy Ritter is an American former track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the high jump at the 1988 Olympic Games.

Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. He also studied telomeres, and his lab discovered an enzyme, TERT, which is part of the process of restoring telomeres after they are shortened during cell division. As president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he promoted science education, and he teaches an undergraduate chemistry course at the University of Colorado.

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was a businessman and American Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey.

James William Nunnally is an American professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.

Eleanor Boardman was an American film actress of the silent era, married to film director King Vidor.

Jack Arnold was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films. His most notable films are It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).