List of Famous people born in United States of America

Daniel Read Anthony was an American publisher, women’s suffragist, and abolitionist. He moved to Kansas, where he published the Leavenworth Times in Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as other newspapers in the area. He was a leader of leader of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He was a younger brother of activist Susan B. Anthony.

Howard Daniel Pfeiffer is an American podcaster and Obama White House staffer. He was the Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama for Strategy and Communications from 2013 to 2015.

Theodore Thomas Puck was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Chicago public schools and obtained his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. His PhD work was on the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom and his doctoral adviser was James Franck. During WW II Puck stayed at the University of Chicago. There he worked in the laboratory of Oswald H. Robertson on the study of how bacteria and viruses can spread through the air and on dust particles. After a postdoc position in the laboratory of Renato Dulbecco, Puck was recruited in 1948 to establish and chair the University of Colorado Medical School's department of biophysics. He retired from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1995 as professor emeritus, but continued to do laboratory work there until a few weeks before his death.

Tricia Sullivan is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith.

Taryn Simon is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance.

Richard Denning was an American actor who starred in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957). Denning also appeared in the film An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and on radio with Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy.

Amy Hempel is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at Stony Brook Southampton.

Arthur Middleton Manigault was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Kenneth A. Minihan is a former United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the director of the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, retiring on May 1, 1999.

Lester Eugene Asheim was an American librarian and scholar of library science. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina and held positions in the American Library Association (ALA). He was included among the "100 most important leaders we had in the 20th century" by the American Library Association.