List of Famous people born in United States of America

Shawn Murphy

First Name Shawn
Last Name Murphy
Born on May 16, 1948 (age 78)

Shawn Murphy is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. He has worked on more than 350 films since 1983.

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Robert P. Casey

First Name Robert
Last Name Casey
Born on January 9, 1932
Died on May 30, 2000 (aged 68)

Robert Patrick Casey Sr. was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the Democratic 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district from 1963 to 1968 and as Auditor General of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1977.

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Mike Glenn

First Name Mike
Last Name Glenn
Born on September 10, 1955 (age 71)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Michael (Mike) Theodore "Stinger" Glenn is an American former professional basketball player.

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Charles Yanofsky

First Name Charles
Last Name Yanofsky
Born on April 17, 1925
Died on March 16, 2018 (aged 92)

Charles Yanofsky was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.

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Mary Doria Russell

First Name Mary
Last Name Russell
Born on August 19, 1950 (age 76)

Mary Doria Russell is an American novelist.

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Ray Mercer

First Name Ray
Last Name Mercer
Born on April 4, 1961 (age 65)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Raymond Anthony Mercer is a retired American professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist who competed from 1989 to 2009. Best known for his boxing career, Mercer won a heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur, and later held the WBO heavyweight title from 1991 to 1992 as a professional. He was ranked as the world's No.9 heavyweight by BoxRec at the conclusion of 1990. As a mixed martial artist, he scored a notable first-round knockout win over former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia in 2009.

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John Shimkus

First Name John
Last Name Shimkus
Born on February 21, 1958 (age 68)

John Mondy Shimkus is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 15th congressional district. He served in the House from 1997 to 2021, and is a member of the Republican Party. On August 30, 2019, Shimkus announced that he would not seek re-election for his seat in 2020.

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Jan Harold Brunvand

First Name Jan
Last Name Brunvand
Born on March 23, 1933 (age 93)

Jan Harold Brunvand is a retired American folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah.

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Julie Bell

First Name Julie
Born on October 7, 1958 (age 68)

Julie Bell is an American fine artist, illustrator, photographer and bodybuilder. She is a fantasy artist and a wildlife painter. She is one of the main representatives of the heroic fantasy and fantastic realism genres. Bell has won numerous Chesley Awards and was the designer of the Dragons of Destiny series. She also has won numerous first place awards in the Art Renewal Center's International Salon and has been named as a Living Master. Julie Bell married and later divorced scientist and writer Donald E. Palumbo. During this marriage she gave birth to two sons, Anthony and David Palumbo, who subsequently also became professional artists. Later, she married artist Boris Vallejo.

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Lance L. Smith

First Name Lance
Last Name Smith
Born on September 18, 1946 (age 80)

Lance L. Smith is a retired United States Air Force general who last served as the Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation from November 10, 2005, to November 9, 2007. A highly decorated combat veteran, the general retired from active duty on January 1, 2008.

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