List of Famous people born in United States of America
Neal Adams
Neal Adams is an American comic book artist who helped design the DC Comics characters Batman and Green Arrow. He is the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and is a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Wesley Rose
Wesley Rose was an American music industry executive and record producer.
Robert Eisenman
Robert Eisenman is an American biblical scholar, historian, archaeologist, and poet. He is currently professor of Middle East religions, archaeology, and Islamic law and director of the Institute for the Study of Judaeo-Christian Origins at California State University Long Beach.
Albert Charles Schaeffer
Albert "Al" Charles Schaeffer was an American mathematician who worked on complex analysis.
Jerry Demings
Jerry L. Demings is an American politician and former law enforcement officer serving as Mayor of Orange County, Florida, in office since 2018. A Democrat, he previously served as Sheriff of Orange County, Florida, from 2009 to December 2018, and served as Chief of the Orlando Police Department and Director of Public Safety for Orange County, Florida. He was elected to become Mayor of Orange County in August 2018, becoming the first Democrat and first African American to be elected to that office.
Ralph S. Phillips
Ralph Saul Phillips was an American mathematician and academic known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms. He served as a Professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He made major contributions to acoustical scattering theory in collaboration with Peter Lax, proving remarkable results on local energy decay and the connections between poles of the scattering matrix and the analytic properties of the resolvent. With Lax, he coauthored the widely referred book on scattering theory titled Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions. Phillips received the 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Nathan Isgur
Nathan Isgur was a theoretical physicist from the U.S. and Canada.
Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and previously Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
John B. Taylor
John Brian Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Michael Dean Woodford
Michael Dean Woodford is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist who currently teaches at Columbia University.