List of Famous people born in United States of America

John Hopkin Nuckolls is an American physicist who worked his entire career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is best known for the development of inertial confinement fusion, which is a major branch of fusion power research to this day. He was also the lab's director from 1988 until 1994, when he resigned to become an Associate Director at Large. He was awarded the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1969, the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1981 and the Edward Teller Award in 1991.

Howard Earle Skipper was a noted American oncologist. He grew up in Sebring, Florida and received his science degrees from the University of Florida.

Patrick Pinney is an American television, film and voice actor.

Karyn Kiyoko Kusama is an American filmmaker. She made her directorial and writing feature film debut with the acclaimed sports drama Girlfight (2000) for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

Edward Higgins White was a United States Air Force general who served in the United States Army Air Forces Budget Office during World War II and commanded the 1503rd Air Transport Wing in the Korean War.

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and an associate professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.

Wesley Lavon Person is an American former professional basketball player who played in the NBA. After his playing career, Person became a women's basketball assistant coach and then the head men's basketball coach at Enterprise-Ozark Community College. He was fired from the latter position in 2010.

Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Further classical–disco fusions followed, such as "Flight '76", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor", "Bolero", and "Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful.

Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Daniel Joshua Goor is an American comedy writer and television producer. He has written for several comedy talk shows including The Daily Show, Last Call with Carson Daly and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He also worked as a writer, producer, and director for NBC primetime series Parks and Recreation, and is executive-producer and co-creator of the award-winning Fox/NBC series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.