List of Famous people born in United States of America
Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
Thomas Knoll
Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer who created Adobe Photoshop. He initiated the development of image processing routines in 1988. After Knoll created the first core routines, he showed them to his brother, John Knoll, who worked at Industrial Light and Magic. John liked what he saw, suggested new features, and encouraged Tom to bundle them into a package with a graphical user interface. In 1988, John sold the distribution license for Photoshop to Adobe Systems and later on March 31, 1995 he sold the rights to the program to Adobe for $34.5 million.
Frankie Thorn
Frankie Lou Thorn is an American actress best known for her role as "The Nun" opposite Harvey Keitel in Abel Ferrara's controversial 1992 film Bad Lieutenant.
Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns, is an American businesswoman. She was the chair and CEO of VEON from late 2018 to early 2020, a senior advisor to Teneo, and a non-executive director of Diageo since April 2018. She is a member of the board of directors of Uber.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Champ Clark
James Beauchamp Clark was an American politician and attorney who represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919.
Eddie Antar
Elizabeth Chambers
Elizabeth Chambers is an American television personality and entrepreneur. Best known as the founder of the Texas-based Bird Bakery retail chain, she has filmed holiday cooking on The Cooking Channel, Today, and The Food Network. She is also known for a film role in The Game Plan and appeared in television series Shark and Criminal Minds.
Dudley Bradley
Dudley Leroy Bradley is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA.
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard Harkin is an American politician, lawyer and author who served as a United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. Representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985.