List of Famous people born in United States of America

William King was an American merchant, shipbuilder, army officer, and statesman from Bath, Maine. A proponent of statehood for Maine, he became its first governor when it separated from Massachusetts in 1820.

Daniel John Willard Ferry is an American retired professional basketball player. He most recently served as interim general manager of the New Orleans Pelicans.

Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another ten. He has worked on more than 70 films since 1991.

Ethel Clayton was an American actress of the silent film era.

Norman Earl Steenrod was an American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.

Louis Vincent "Lou" Gerstner Jr. is an American businessman, best known for his tenure as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December. He is largely credited with turning IBM's fortunes around.

Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His best known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke.

Robert Serber was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him “the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb.”

John Alfred Williams was an African-American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West.

Brian Kerwin is an American actor who has starred in feature films, on Broadway, and television series and movies.