List of Famous people born in United States of America
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). He has been called "the doyen of American business historians".
Richard Easterlin
Richard Ainley Easterlin is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He is best known for the economic theory named after him, the Easterlin paradox. Another of his contributions is the Easterlin hypothesis about long waves of baby booms and busts.
Zephaniah Platt
Zephaniah Platt was an American politician and lawyer, and founder of the U.S. town of Plattsburgh, New York.
Dan Burton
Danny Lee Burton is an American politician. Burton is the former U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district, and previously the 6th district, serving from 1983 until 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Tea Party Caucus.
Michael Tolan
Michael Tolan was an American actor.
Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson is an American businessman and is the current Chairman of Apple Inc. and CEO of Calico. He is the former chief executive officer and chairman of Genentech.
Shane Kinsman
Margaret Kuhl Kelly
Tammy Murphy
Tammy Murphy is an American banker who previously worked for Goldman Sachs. She is the wife of the 56th Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy, currently First Lady of New Jersey, since 2018. Murphy has taken on a public role as First Lady, with a policy portfolio and an office down the hall from her husband.
David Pilkey
David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American cartoonist, author and illustrator of children's literature. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series Captain Underpants, the children's graphic novel series Dog Man, and the children’s book series “Cat Kid Comic Club.”