List of Famous people born in United States of America
Jen Hudak
Jen Hudak is an American freestyle skier, specializing in the halfpipe event. Her professional skiing career began in 2004, when she won the US Free Skiing Open. In 2005 and 2006, Hudak won the Junior National and U.S. National Halfpipe Championship, respectively. She tore her ACL in 2012. She graduated in 2017 from the University of Utah with her bachelor's degree in psychology.
Harvey Miller
Harvey Skolnik was an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Original Screenplay for the film Private Benjamin. He also was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Comedy Series for his work on The Odd Couple and Love, American Style.
Brandon Douglas
Brandon Douglas is an American actor. He first came to prominence in the television series Falcon Crest, in which he played Ben Agretti during the 1988–1989 season. He is best known for playing Wayne Jones in the TV series Northern Exposure. He is also known for playing Dr. Andrew Cook in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Other credits include 21 Jump Street, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, and JAG. He also costarred as Cameron Frye in the sitcom Ferris Bueller.
Dave Pirner
David Anthony Pirner is an American songwriter, singer, and producer best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
Trazana Beverley
Trazana Beverley is an American stage and film actress as well as a lecturer in acting. She received a BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, D.C., correspondent, and also as host of Nickelodeon's Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Her work on NBC News Overnight was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Linda Joyce Bloodworth-Thomason is an American writer, director, and television producer. She is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the series Designing Women and Evening Shade. She and her husband, Harry Thomason, are also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton, and the role they played in his election campaigns.
Joseph Brown Pike
Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy, the latter of which came to constitute the main focus of his work at Princeton University in the 1960s. He subsequently came to reject the tradition of philosophy according to which knowledge involves correct representation of a world whose existence remains wholly independent of that representation.
Christian Finnegan
Fletcher Christian Finnegan, better known as Christian Finnegan, is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City.