List of Famous people born in United States of America
Richard Scheller
Richard H. Scheller is the former Chief Science Officer & Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989, the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997, won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman, and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Sudhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Thalmus Rasulala
Thalmus Rasulala was an American actor with a long career in theater, television, and films. Noted for starring roles in blaxploitation films, he was also an original cast member of ABC's soap opera One Life to Live from its premiere in 1968 until he left the show in 1970.
Sereno Watson
Sereno Watson was an American botanist. Graduating from Yale in 1847 in Biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist. Appointed by Asa Gray as assistant in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1873, he later became its curator, a position he maintained until his death. Watson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1889.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg — known as Barry Blumberg — was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 6, 1830, to April 21, 1844.
Stanley R. Greenberg
Stanley R. Greenberg (1927-2002) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was an important pioneer in the format of docudrama.
Henry George Fischer
Henry George Fischer was an American Egyptologist and poet.
James A. Bell
James Aaron Bell is a retired American executive of The Boeing Company.
Marsha Milan Londoh
Marsha Milan Londoh is a Malaysian singer and actress. She gained fame for being a contestant in the third season of the Malaysian reality show contest Akademi Fantasia, in which she won the fourth place.
Glen Mazzara
Glen Mazzara is an American television producer and writer. He is most well known for his work on The Shield, The Walking Dead and Damien.