List of Famous people born in United States of America
Dan Jansen
Daniel Erwin Jansen is a retired American speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he broke a ten-year Olympic jinx when he won a gold medal in his final race, which was the 1,000 meters in the 1994 Winter Games.
Dana Brunetti
Dana Brunetti is an American media executive, film producer, entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Cavalry Media.
John Sutherland
John Sutherland was an American film producer.
Dan Shor
Daniel Shor is an American actor, director, writer, and teacher with a career spanning over 30 years. His most recognized roles include Enoch Emery in John Huston's Wise Blood, Ram in Tron (1982) and Billy the Kid in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).
Dale T. Mortensen
Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist and Nobel laureate.
Wink Davenport
Winthrop "Wink" Davenport Jr. is an American former lead volleyball official, former college basketball player, former National team volleyball player. He is best remembered as the most prominent volleyball official in the United States, arising from his frequent service as a volleyball referee officiating the nation's most important matches. He is a holder of U.S.A. Volleyball's 1996 Wilbur H. Peck Referee – Emeritus Award.
Charles Marquis Warren
Charles Marquis Warren was an American motion picture and television writer, producer, and director who specialized in Westerns. Among his notable career achievements were his involvement in creating the television series Rawhide and his work in adapting the radio series Gunsmoke for television.
John Ridgely
John Ridgely was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits.
John Rich
John Rich was an American film and television director. He directed Colonel Humphrey Flack, I Married Joan, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Hogan's Heroes, Where's Raymond?, Mister Ed, The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, Barney Miller, Newhart, Benson, The Brady Bunch, and Gilligan's Island. His feature film credits include Wives and Lovers, Boeing Boeing, The New Interns, Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go. He also participated in the live telecast of the opening-day ceremonies of Disneyland in 1955.
William P. Murphy
William Parry Murphy was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia.