List of Famous people born in United States of America
Peter Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberroth is an American sports and business executive known for his involvement in the Olympics and in Major League Baseball. A Los Angeles-based businessman, he was the chairman of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee which brought the games to Los Angeles in 1984. After the conclusion of the games, he was named as the sixth Commissioner of Baseball, a role he held from 1984 to 1989. He later served as the chairman of the United States Olympic Committee from 2004 to 2008.
Teo Macero
Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years. Macero produced Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, and Dave Brubeck's Time Out, which are two of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all time. Although the extent of his role has been disputed, he also has been associated with the production of Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling record.
Luis Fernando Ochoa
Luis Fernando Ochoa is an American musician, composer, record producer, art producer, sound engineer, arranger and backing vocalist known for his works with artists such as Shakira, Chayanne, and Ricky Martin.
Dorothy Jordan
Dorothy Jordan was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929.
Ray Patterson
Raymond Patterson was an American animator, producer, and director. Patterson was born in Hollywood, California, and was the younger brother of animator Don Patterson.
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz.
Philip Berrigan
Philip Francis Berrigan was an American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest. He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested. He married a former nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; both were subsequently excommunicated by the Catholic Church. Eleven years of their 29-year marriage were separated by one or both serving time in prison.
Robert Bogue
Robert Timothy Bogue is an American actor, who played A.C. Mallet on Guiding Light from 2005 until the soap's ending in 2009. He also voiced FIB Agent Steve Haines in Grand Theft Auto V in 2013 and main protagonist Red Harlow in Red Dead Revolver in 2004.
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and radical feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed".
Andrew Goudelock
Andrew Darius Goudelock is an American professional basketball player for Rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the Basketball Champions League. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he plays the shooting guard position. He played college basketball for the Charleston Cougars and was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year in 2011.