List of Famous people born in United States of America
Glenn Hardin
Glenn Foster "Slats" Hardin was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Jon Korkes
Jon Korkes is an American film, stage, and television actor.
Ferris Webster
Ferris Webster was an American film editor with approximately seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for his work on Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and The Great Escape (1963).
Daniel S. Kemp
Daniel Schaeffer Kemp was an American organic chemist, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kemp's work was focused on the synthesis and conformational analysis of peptides. He developed several chemical ligation strategies and methods for templating the formation of helices and sheets. The eponymous Kemp's triacid and the Kemp elimination reaction are among his developments. He was the author of an organic chemistry textbook. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.
R. S. Lull
Richard Swann Lull was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock presumed "genetic drives" that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes.
Rayka Zehtabchi
Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American filmmaker best known for her 2018 Academy Award-winning documentary short Period. End of Sentence. Her previous film, Madaran, was an Iranian-language short about an Iranian mother who must decide whether to spare the life of her son's killer. Zehtabchi is the first Iranian-American woman to win an Academy Award.
Richard Artschwager
Richard Ernst Artschwager was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism.
Colin John McRae
Colin J. McRae was an American politician who had served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
Ephraim F. Morgan
Ephraim Franklin Morgan was a Republican politician who served as the Governor of West Virginia from 1921 to 1925. He was born on a farm near Forksburg, Marion County, West Virginia, a descendant of the first white settler of western Virginia, Morgan Morgan, and his son David Morgan. He studied at Fairmont State Normal School and graduated from the West Virginia University law school in 1897. After establishing a law practice in Fairmont, Morgan enlisted in the First West Virginia Infantry during the Spanish–American War. Following the war, he became the Fairmont city attorney. He served as a judge of the Marion County Intermediate Court from 1907 to 1912 and as a member of the West Virginia Public Service Commission from 1915 to 1920. In 1902, he married Alma Bennett.
Tim de Zarn
Tim deZarn is an American actor who has appeared in film and television. Alternately credited as Tim DeZarn, Tim DeZarn, Tim deZarn, and Tim Dezarn, deZarn is often cast in supporting roles in the horror, crime, and science fiction genres.