List of Famous people born in United States of America
Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen is an American civil liberties activist who was president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from February 1991 to October 2008. A liberal feminist, she was the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Strossen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations.
Patience Bunnell
Katharine Abraham
Katharine G. Abraham is an American economist who is the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, and a professor of survey methodology and economics at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013.
Christopher Bram
Christopher Bram is an American author.
Jerry Adler
Hilliard Gerald Adler was an American harmonica player whose performances have been used in numerous film soundtracks.
Belding Hibbard Scribner
Belding Hibbard Scribner was an American physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis.
Solomon Berson
Solomon Aaron Berson was an American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry. Five years after Berson's death, Yalow received a Nobel Prize, which cannot be awarded posthumously, for their joint work on the radioimmunoassay. The Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award was created in Berson's honor by NYU School of Medicine.
Robert Creeley
Robert White Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Buffalo, and Providence, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
D. W. Moffett
Donald Warren Moffett is an American actor known for the recurring role of Joe McCoy on the NBC series Friday Night Lights, as Dean Winston on NBC/The WB series For Your Love, as John Kennish on the ABC Family series Switched at Birth and as Elliott in the TVLand sitcom Happily Divorced. He is also known for his recurring role as Cornelius Rhodes on the NBC television medical drama Chicago Med.
Jean-Jules Clamageran
Jean-Jules Clamageran was a French politician of the French Third Republic. He was briefly minister of finance in the ministry of Henri Brisson. He was made a life senator in the Senate of France in 1882.