List of Famous people born in United States of America

Bob Beemer

First Name Bob
Last Name Beemer
Born on February 8, 1955 (age 71)

Robert Joseph "Bob" Beemer is an American sound mixer who has won four Oscars.

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E. W. Scripps

First Name E.
Last Name Scripps
Born on June 18, 1854
Died on March 12, 1926 (aged 71)

Edward Willis Scripps, was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958. The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.

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Bob Haney

First Name Bob
Last Name Haney
Born on March 15, 1926
Died on November 25, 2004 (aged 78)

Robert G. Haney was an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics. He co-created the Teen Titans as well as characters such as Metamorpho, Eclipso, Cain, and the Super-Sons.

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Robert Wright

Robert Craig Wright
First Name Robert
Last Name Wright
Born on September 25, 1914
Died on July 27, 2005 (aged 90)

Robert Craig Wright, also known as Bob Wright, was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre, best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics. Kismet was one of several Wright and Forrest creations that was commissioned by impresario Edwin Lester for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. Song of Norway, Gypsy Lady, Magdalena, and their adaptation of The Great Waltz were also commissioned by Lester for the LACLO. The LACLO then exported most of these productions to Broadway.

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Les Horvath

First Name Les
Born on October 12, 1921
Died on November 14, 1995 (aged 74)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Leslie Horvath was an American football quarterback and halfback who won the Heisman Trophy while playing for Ohio State University in 1944. Horvath was the first Ohio State player to win the Heisman, an award given to the best college football player in the United States. The school retired his jersey number 22 in 2001.

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Bob Gardiner

First Name Bob
Last Name Gardiner
Born on March 19, 1951
Died on April 21, 2005 (aged 54)

James Robbins "Bob" Gardiner was a multi-talented artist, painter, cartoonist, animator, holographer, musician, storyteller and comedy writer, who invented the stop-motion 3-D clay animation technique that Will Vinton would later market as Claymation although Bob preferred the term Sculptimation for his frame-by-frame method of sculpting plasticine clay characters and sets. Closed Mondays was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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Sid McMath

First Name Sid
Born on June 14, 1912
Died on October 4, 2003 (aged 91)

Sidney Sanders McMath was a decorated U.S. Marine, attorney and the 34th governor of Arkansas (1949–1953) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.

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Ed Emshwiller

First Name Ed
Last Name Emshwiller
Died on July 27, 1990 (aged 20)

Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was an American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but sometimes used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer and others.

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James Caleb Boggs

First Name James
Last Name Boggs
Born on May 15, 1909
Died on March 26, 1993 (aged 83)

James Caleb Boggs was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont in New Castle County, Delaware. He was commonly known by his middle name, Caleb, frequently shortened to Cale.

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Richard Evans Schultes

First Name Richard
Last Name Schultes
Born on January 12, 1915
Died on April 10, 2001 (aged 86)

Richard Evans Schultes was an American biologist. He may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany. He is known for his studies of the uses of plants by indigenous peoples, especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas. He worked on entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants, particularly in Mexico and the Amazon, involving lifelong collaborations with chemists. He had charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University; several of his students and colleagues went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums, botanical gardens, and popular culture.

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