List of Famous people born in United States of America
Michael C. Burgess
Michael Clifton Burgess is an American physician and politician serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 26th congressional district. The district is anchored in Denton County, a suburban county north of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Sarah Burns
Sarah Burns is an American author, public speaker, and filmmaker. She is the author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding. She is also the co-producer and director for the documentary film The Central Park Five which she co-produced and directed with her husband David McMahon and her father Ken Burns.
John Byrum
John Byrum is an American film director, and writer known for The Razor's Edge, Heart Beat, Duets and Inserts.
Elois Jenssen
Elois Jenssen was an American film and television costume designer. She earned Academy Awards nominations for design work in the Cecil B. DeMille production Samson and Delilah (1949) and for her work on the Walt Disney Studios film Tron (1982).
Jeff Sutton
Jefferson Howard Sutton was an American author who wrote 23 books of science fiction, war, political and juvenile fiction.
Thomas Akers
Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Rosa Smith Eigenmann was an American ichthyologist, as well as a writer, editor, former curator at the California Academy of Sciences, and the first librarian of the San Diego Society of Natural History. She "is considered the first woman ichthyologist in the United States." Eigenmann was also the first woman to become president of Indiana University's chapter of Sigma Xi, an honorary science society. She authored twelve published papers of her own between 1880 and 1893, and collaborated with her husband, Carl H. Eigenmann, as "Eigenmann & Eigenmann" on twenty-five additional works between 1888 and 1893. Together, they are credited with describing about 150 species of fishes.
William A. Bardeen
William Allan Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the son of John Bardeen and Jane Maxwell Bardeen.
Harvey Friedman
Harvey Friedman, sometimes credited as Harvey Friedmann, is an American film, television and theatre actor.
C. Gordon Fullerton
Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft.