List of Famous people born in United States of America

Forrest Landis is an American actor, skateboarder, producer and writer. He is perhaps best known for his roles of Mark Baker in Cheaper by the Dozen and Rhett Loud in Flightplan. He has one sister named Lauren Landis. Landis has not acted in twelve years and has taken up skateboarding.

Brian Shimer is an American bobsledder who competed from 1985 to 2002. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002.

Robert J. Sherwood Jr., known professionally as Bobby Sherwood, was a guitarist, trumpeter, bandleader, and radio host.

Fred V. Murphy II A.S.C. is a New York-based cinematographer who has worked on over 50 movies, among them such films as Hoosiers, The Dead, Secret Window, Auto Focus and The Mothman Prophecies. In 2006 he shot the US boxoffice hit RV, starring Robin Williams, and in 2007 the indie thriller Anamorph with Willem Dafoe. He worked as a gaffer for commercials before becoming a cinematographer.

Harold Clark Simmons was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist whose banking expertise helped him develop the acquisition concept known as the leveraged buyout (LBO) to acquire various corporations. He was the owner of Contran Corporation and of Valhi, Inc.,. As of 2006, he controlled five public companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange: NL Industries; Titanium Metals Corporation, the world's largest producer of titanium; Valhi, Inc., a multinational company with operations in the chemicals, component products, Waste Control Specialists, titanium metals industries; CompX International, manufacturer of ergonomic products, and Kronos Worldwide, leading producer and marketer of titanium dioxide.

Gordon Douglas Brickner was an American film director and actor, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.

Paul Jones Fannin was an American businessman and politician. A Republican, he served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1965 to 1977. He previously served as the 11th Governor of Arizona from 1959 to 1965.

Travis Lee Hafner is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter and first baseman. A left-handed hitter, Hafner played for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees. His nickname, "Pronk", was given to him by former teammate Bill Selby during spring training of 2003 when people sometimes referred to him as "The Project" and other times "Donkey" for the way he looked when running the bases. He has the most home runs for a player born in North Dakota, and shares the MLB-record for grand slams in one season, with six.

John Brown was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He was mostly in Western films.