List of Famous people born in United States of America

Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video, installation, and performance as her medium. Using multimedia, she "appropriates, rearranges, and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent". Hayes's work addresses themes such as romantic love, activism, queer theory, and politics. She incorporates texts from found speeches, recordings, songs, letters, and her own writing into her practice that she describes as “a series of performatives rather than performance.”

Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.

Edward Rutledge was an American politician and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.

Commodore Shelton Cochran was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Kyle Newman is an award-winning filmmaker and a New York Times Bestselling, Hugo-nominated author. He is known for directing Fanboys, a Star Wars-themed comedy, and the action-comedy Barely Lethal.

Pyper America Holder is an American fashion model, actress and musician, a bassist in an alternative rock band called The Atomics.

William Charles Cole Claiborne was an American politician, best known as the first non-colonial governor of Louisiana. He also has the distinction of possibly being the youngest member of the United States Congress in U.S. history, although reliable sources differ about his age.

Shelby Grant was an American actress whose credits included Our Man Flint, Fantastic Voyage, and Medical Center.

James Terry Sanford was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the 65th Governor of North Carolina (1961–1965), a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator (1986–1993). Sanford was a strong proponent of public education and introduced a number of reforms and new programs in North Carolina's schools and institutions of higher education as the state's governor, increasing funding for education and establishing the North Carolina Fund. From 1969 to 1985, Sanford was President of Duke University.