List of Famous people born in United States of America

Elinor Isabel Agnew was the Second Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973. She was the wife of the 39th Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, who had previously served as Governor of Maryland and Baltimore County Executive. Although Judy Agnew attempted to avoid political discussion during her tenure as Second Lady, preferring to cultivate her image primarily as a wife and mother, her dismissive remarks about the women's liberation movement were quoted by media.

Aliy Zirkle is a champion of sled dog racing.

Michael Wayne Young is an American retired professional basketball player. He had a 15-year playing career spent in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas. He was most recently the director of basketball operations and performance enhancement at the University of Houston, his alma mater.

Eugene David Commins was a professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987. He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Bartram was an early Anglo-American colonial botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career. Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natural botanist in the world."

Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, biographer, playwright, and gay rights activist. Duberman is Professor of History Emeritus at Herbert Lehman College in the Bronx, New York City.

Judy Grahn is an American poet and author.

Michael Lantieri went to school in Los Angeles, California with actor-director Ron Howard, wanting to be in films from an early age though as a director. However, he went to work in the special effects department of Universal Studios, staying for ten years and working on television series such as Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica before branching out on his own. Lantieri also worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and has provided effects for video games. He directed his own film, called Komodo, and has worked on numerous films with Steven Spielberg. One of his most famous films was Mars Attacks! where he had the job of creating lifelike animations. In addition, Lantieri developed special effects for Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He was also part of the destruction of the Steve Bartman baseball.

Dean P. Baquet is an American journalist. He has been the executive editor of The New York Times since May 14, 2014. Between 2011 and 2014 Baquet was managing editor under the previous executive editor Jill Abramson. He is the first Black person to be executive editor.