List of Famous people born in United States of America
Linda Keen
Linda Jo Goldway Keen is a mathematician and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Since 1965, she has been a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College of The City University of New York and a Professor of Mathematics at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Rick Wohlhuter
Rick Wohlhuter is a retired American middle-distance runner.
Mark O'Donnell
Mark O’Donnell was an American writer and humorist.
John Roddick
John Roddick is an American former professional tennis player and the current director of tennis and head men's tennis coach at the University of Central Florida.
John Corigliano
John Paul Corigliano is an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.
Charles Russell Bardeen
Charles Russell Bardeen was an American physician and anatomist and the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sid Ganis
Sidney (Sid) Ganis is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee, Bang: The Bert Berns Story and Olympia.
Hettienne Park
Hettienne Park is an American actress and writer, best known for her role as Beverly Katz on the television series Hannibal. She was born in Boston, grew up in Wayland, Massachusetts, and studied acting at the William Esper Studio in New York City.
Andrew Joseph McDonald
Andrew Joseph McDonald was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Little Rock from 1972 to 2000. He spent his retirement at the St. Joseph Home for the Elderly in Palatine, Illinois, and died there on April 1, 2014.