List of Famous people born in United States of America
Robert A. Frosch
Robert Alan Frosch FREng, was an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.
Scott Stuber
Scott Stuber is an American film producer and head of original films at Netflix.
Marc Davis
Marc Davis is an American Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Davis received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1973 and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992). Davis taught for a year at Princeton, 1973–74, then served on the Astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1975 to 1981. Since 1981 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
Charlie Barnet
Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
Davis Cleveland
Davis Richard Cleveland is an American actor. He is known for his role as Flynn Jones on the Disney Channel original series Shake It Up. Cleveland starred as Manny in the 2016 Nickelodeon Original Movie Rufus and its 2017 sequel Rufus 2.
Eric Nylund
Eric S. Nylund is an American novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.Sc. in chemical physics from the University of California, San Diego. He lives in North Bend, Washington with his wife, Syne, and his son, Kai Nylund.
Johnny Burke
John Francis Burke was a lyricist, successful and prolific between the 1920s and 1950s. His work is considered part of the Great American Songbook.
Samuel Mockbee
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama.
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology. His research in neural networks and computational neuroscience has been pioneering.