List of Famous people born in United States of America
Harvey Catchings
Harvey Lee Catchings is an American former professional basketball player.
Leah Wood
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy and Registered Nurse who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She has published over 40 novels, as well as collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on multiple series.
Parris Glendening
Parris Nelson Glendening is an American politician who served as the 59th Governor of Maryland from January 18, 1995 to January 15, 2003. Previously, he was the County Executive of Prince George's County, Maryland from 1982 to 1994 as a member of the Democratic Party.
Louise Brough
Althea Louise Brough Clapp was an American tennis player. In her career between 1939 and 1959, she won six Grand Slam singles titles as well as numerous doubles and mixed-doubles titles. At the end of the 1955 tennis season, Lance Tingay of the London Daily Telegraph ranked her world No. 1 for the year.
Nicholas Pryor
Nicholas Pryor is an American actor. He has appeared in various television series, films, and stage productions.
Stacy Woodard
Stacy Robert Woodard was a producer, cinematographer, and editor of nature films, who with his brother Horace Woodard edited Frank Buck's film Fang and Claw.
John Chamberlain
John Angus Chamberlain was an American sculptor. At the time of his death he resided and worked on Shelter Island, New York.
Bart Johnson
Barton Robert Johnson, is an American actor, best known for his role as Coach Jack Bolton in the High School Musical film series. He was exposed to the TV and film industry at a young age and began his career in the mid-1990s. His film debut was My Family in 1995. He has also appeared in recurring roles on TV shows Hyperion Bay, Lifetime's The Client List, and Hawaii Five-0. He is married to actress Robyn Lively, with whom he has appeared in Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street. He also appeared in the 2018 adaptation of Little Women.
John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe, is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. He has worked at the University College London for his entire career, but also held a part-time chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at the behest of his Norwegian collaborators, the Mosers.