List of Famous people born in United States of America

Ted Shawn, originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating the Denishawn School with former wife Ruth St. Denis he was also responsible for the creation of the well-known all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement, he was one of the most influential choreographers and dancers of his day. He was also the founder and creator of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, and "was knighted by the King of Denmark for his efforts on behalf of the Royal Danish Ballet."

John Ro Myung is a Korean American bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater.

Ted Griffin is an American screenwriter whose credits include Ravenous, Matchstick Men, and Ocean's Eleven.

Jamila Wideman is an American lawyer, activist, and former professional basketball player. She is the daughter of author John Edgar Wideman.

Ted Berman was an American film director, animator, and screenwriter, known for his work with Disney, including Bambi, Fantasia, and The Black Cauldron.

John Ralph Ragazzini was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering.

Richard Price was co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962 and a veteran of the Beat Generation. He ran Esalen in Big Sur for many years, sometimes virtually single-handed. He developed a practice of hiking the Santa Lucia Mountains and developed a new form of personal integration and growth that he called Gestalt Practice, partly based upon Gestalt therapy and Buddhist practice.

Tawny Moyer, born March 30, 1957 to Neil and Harlene Moyer, is an American actress who starred in film and television. She is likely best known for her role as Jill Franco, the nurse in the 1981 horror film Halloween II. Her first feature role was in the 1978 film California Suite. She is married to actor Patrick St. Esprit.

Randy Wayne Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.

Helen Magill White was an American academic and instructor. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in the United States.