List of Famous people born in United States of America
Kati Székely
Jenette Kahn
Jenette Kahn is an American comic book editor and executive. She joined DC Comics in 1976 as publisher, and five years later was promoted to president. In 1989, she stepped down as publisher and assumed the title of editor-in-chief while retaining the office of president. After 26 years with DC, she left the company in 2002.
Jay Penske
Jay Penske is an American media and publishing entrepreneur and racecar team owner. He is the Chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation, a digital media and publishing company he founded in 2004.
John L. Burton
John Lowell Burton is an American politician and attorney. He served as Chairman of the California Democratic Party from April 2009 until May 2017. A professor of California Politics at San Francisco State University, he served in the California State Assembly (1965–74), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1974–1983), in the State Assembly again (1988–1996), and in the California State Senate (1996–2004). He was appointed to the San Francisco Port Commission in October 2020.
Patri Friedman
Patri Friedman is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.
Doris Hart
Doris Hart was a tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in singles. She was the first of only three players to complete the career "Boxed Set" of Grand Slam titles, which is winning at least one title in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. Only Margaret Smith Court and she achieved this during the amateur era of the sport.
Kenneth Ribet
Kenneth Alan Ribet is an American mathematician working in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He is known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem, which were key ingredients in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, as well as for his service as President of the American Mathematical Society from 2017 to 2019. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Ardo Hansson
Ardo Hillar Hansson is an Estonian economist. He was the Governor of Bank of Estonia from 2012 to 2019.
Martha Smith
Martha Anne Smith is an American actress, model and real estate broker. Smith attended Michigan State University, where she acquired fluency in French and Italian.