List of Famous people born in United States of America

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.

Roy Thinnes is an American television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967–68 television series The Invaders.

Amos Edward Joel Jr. was an American electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems.

William L. Kruer is an American physicist, specializing in plasma physics.

Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.

Edward Randolph Emberley is an American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.

Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.

Philip J. Davis was an American academic applied mathematician.

Barry Martin Simon is an American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 400 publications on mathematics and physics.