List of Famous people born in United States of America

Edward Lawrence Kitsis is an American television writer and producer, best known for his work with his writing partner Adam Horowitz on the popular ABC drama series Lost and Once Upon a Time.

Armand Paul Alivisatos is an American chemist who serves as the 14th president of the University of Chicago. Alivisatos is a scientist of Greek descent who has been hailed as a pioneer in nanomaterials development and is an internationally recognized authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in biomedical and renewable energy applications. He was ranked fifth among the world's top 100 chemists for the period 2000–2010 in the list released by Thomson Reuters. In February 2021, he was named the next president of the University of Chicago.

Clifford Tobin DeYoung is an American actor and musician.

Leslie Robert Burks, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer known for being proficient in virtually every genre, equally at home with black-and-white or color, and for his many collaborations with the celebrated film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Monte Cook is an American professional tabletop role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons.

Peter Lind Hayes was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor.

Charles Frohman was an American theatre manager and producer, who discovered and promoted many stars of the American stage. Notably, he produced Peter Pan, both in London and the US, the latter production starring Maude Adams who would be strongly identified with the part.

Carl F. Nathan is the chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine and dean of the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University. Some of his most notable work has been in the characterization of IFNγ, TGF-β, and TNFα in immunology. The Nathan lab studies the immune response to M. tuberculosis.

Geoffrey Michael Petrie is an American retired basketball player. A native of Pennsylvania, he played professional basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers where he won NBA Rookie of the Year in 1971. After retirement as a player he entered management, and was the President of Basketball Operations for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA until June 2013.

Warren Vanders was an American character actor on television and in films. He was initially a substitute teacher for the Montebello Unified School District. He was also a substitute mathematics teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera California. Mr. Vanders was also a well-regarded substitute teacher at La Serna High School in Whittier CA in the 1960s.