List of Famous people born in United States of America
John N. Bahcall
John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
John A. McCone
John Alexander McCone was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.
Anna Karen Morrow
Anna Karen Morrow was an American model turned film and television actress.
Terry Davis
Terry Raymond Davis is an American former professional basketball player who was a power forward and center for the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards, and Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Paul Holmgren
Paul Howard Holmgren is an American former professional ice hockey player and former general manager and President of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is currently a Senior Advisor to Dave Scott, Comcast Spectacor Chairman and CEO and Governor of the Flyers. He played 10 NHL seasons for the Flyers and Minnesota North Stars. After his playing career ended he moved into coaching, serving as head coach of the Flyers and Hartford Whalers, and later went into management.
Terence Jay
Terence Jay is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Jeremy Van Holden in the 2005 film Green Street, playing alongside Elijah Wood, and for writing and performing several songs on the film's soundtrack, including the one played during the film's final sequence, "One Blood". He also played as Zane in the 2007 supernatural horror film Buried Alive in which he is shown playing the guitar and singing. In 2016 Terence Jay formed the company Nirvana Handpan, a business that fabricates custom steel musical instruments called Handpans. His current work can be seen and heard at www.NirvanaHandpan.com
Michael Potter
Michael Potter was an American physician and immunologist. He won the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for outstanding contributions to medical research in 1983, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1984, for "his fundamental research in the genetics of immunoglobulin molecules and for paving the way for the development of hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies".
Connie Mack IV
Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy, popularly known as Connie Mack IV, is a politician and lobbyist. He is the former U.S. Representative for Florida's 14th congressional district, serving from 2005 to 2013. A Republican, he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, losing to Democrat Bill Nelson. He subsequently began a career in lobbying and currently represents Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, among others. He has been paid more than $2.5 million to lobby on behalf of Orban's regime. He is the son of former Republican U.S. Senator Connie Mack III and the great-grandson of legendary baseball manager Connie Mack.
Alec MacKaye
Alec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition. In the mid-1990s Alec joined the band The Warmers as a vocalist and guitarist. Mondo James Dean, an anthology of poetry and short-fiction edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, was dedicated to MacKaye.
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer. Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. As of February 28, 2018, she is the President of the PEN America Center. Egan lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.