List of Famous people born in United States of America
Adam Stockhausen
Adam Stockhausen is an American production designer. Stockhausen, along with set decorator Anna Pinnock won the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Previously he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave together with set decorator Alice Baker. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2015 film Bridge of Spies along with set decorators Bernhard Henrich and Rena DeAngelo.
Xochitl Torres Small
Xochitl Liana Torres Small is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district from 2019 to 2021. The district is the nation's largest by area that does not comprise an entire state, covering New Mexico's southern half, including Roswell, Carlsbad, Las Cruces, and southern Albuquerque. Torres Small is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2020, Republican Yvette Herrell defeated her in a rematch of the 2018 congressional race.
Edward Kienholz
Edward Ralph Kienholz was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and fifth wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Throughout much of their career, the work of the Kienholzes was more appreciated in Europe than in their native United States, though American museums have featured their art more prominently since the 1990s.
Andrea Seastrand
Andrea Heidi Seastrand is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
Jeremy Larner
Jeremy Larner is an author, poet, journalist and speechwriter. He won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate.
Robert Axelrod
Robert Marshall Axelrod is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. His current research interests include complexity theory, international security, and cyber security. His research includes innovative approaches to explaining conflict of interest, the emergence of norms, how game theory is used to study cooperation, and cross-disciplinary studies on evolutionary processes.
Jenny Johnson Jordan
Jennifer A. Johnson-Jordan is an American female beach volleyball player. She won the silver medal at the 1999 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Marseille, alongside Annett Davis.
Jennifer Warren
Jennifer Warren is an American actress and film director.
Winston Hibler
Winston Murray Hunt Hibler was an American screenwriter, film producer, director and narrator associated with Walt Disney Studios.
Ernest Lehman
Ernest Paul Lehman was an American screenwriter. He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win. At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his achievements and his influential works for the screen. He was the first screenwriter to receive that honor. The award was presented to him by Julie Andrews, a friend and star of The Sound of Music.