List of Famous people born in United States of America
Eli Noyes
Eli Noyes is an American animator most noted for his stop animation work using clay and sand.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.
Robert D. Cabana
Robert Donald Cabana is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1994 to 1997. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps.
Albert Charles Smith
Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist.
Verna Harrah
Verna Rae Harrah was an American film producer. She was the widow of William F. Harrah, the hotel and casino magnate. She contributed to many charities and philanthropic causes.
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
Michael A. Baker
Michael Allen Baker is a retired captain in the United States Navy, former NASA astronaut, and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations, at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He is responsible for the coordination of program operations, integration and flight crew training and support activities with the International Partners.
Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mideastern United States coastline. Originally an army engineer, he later became Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, and built it into the foremost scientific institution in the country before the Civil War.
Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Arthur Hornblow Jr. was an American film producer.
William S. McArthur
William Surles McArthur Jr. is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule.