List of Famous people born in United States of America
Raquel Alessi
Raquel Nazzerena Alessi is an American former actress and model who starred on the FOX series Standoff and the film Ghost Rider. She portrays the title character in the 2009 film Miss March, alongside Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore from the comedy troupe Whitest Kids U Know.
Robert Wexler
Robert Ira Wexler is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He is the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Wexler was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Florida's 19th congressional district, from 1997 until his resignation on January 3, 2010.
Paul Rudnick
Paul M. Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and essayist. His plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world, and Ben Brantley, when reviewing Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told in The New York Times, wrote that, "Line by line, Mr. Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the United States today."
Bruce Shelley
Bruce Campbell Shelley is a board and video game designer. He is primarily associated as the co-designer of the video games Railroad Tycoon and Civilization with Sid Meier, and later the Age of Empires series.
Al Hinkle
Al Hinkle was a childhood friend of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady who was the inspiration for the character of Ed Dunkle in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In December 1948 Hinkle contributed $100 to the down payment on the 1949 Hudson automobile that Cassady drove across the United States, the journey memorialized in Kerouac’s novel. He was also the real life inspiration for characters in two other Kerouac books: Slim Buckle in Visions of Cody and Ed Buckle in Book of Dreams.
Bill Catching
Donald DiFrancesco
Donald Thomas DiFrancesco is a former American Republican politician. He was President of the New Jersey Senate from 1992 until 2002 and by virtue of this office succeeded Christine Todd Whitman as Governor of New Jersey after her resignation to become Administration of the Environmental Protection Agency. He served from January 2001 to January 2002.
Brunson Green
Brunson Green is a film producer and president of Harbinger Pictures, an American feature film production company based in Los Angeles. On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie The Help.
Samuel Noordhoff
Sumner Byron Myers
Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specializing in topology. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he was graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University (1934–1936) before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan, where an award for outstanding students of mathematics has been named in his honor. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan–Army football game at Michigan Stadium.