List of Famous people born in United States of America
Wallace F. Bennett
Wallace Foster Bennett was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1951 to 1974. He was the father of Bob Bennett, who later held his seat in the Senate (1993–2011).
Tina Brooks
Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was an American hard bop, blues, and funk tenor saxophonist and composer.
Harlan Mathews
Harlan Mathews was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1993 to 1994. He had previously served in the executive and legislative branches of state government in Tennessee for more than 40 years beginning in 1950.
William Alland
William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates the meaning of "Rosebud" in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941).
Peter Gerety
Peter Gerety is an American actor. He is best known as Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire (2002-2008).
Jack Smight
John R. Smight was an American theatre and film director.
Dame Grease
Damon Blackman, better known by his stage name Dame Grease, is an American hip hop record producer from Harlem, New York. Born in The Bronx, raised in Harlem he began his musical career as a producer and has since added rapper, record executive, creative director and fashion designer, to his repertoire. In 1996 he gained recognition in the hip hop industry, through his work with Bad Boy Records and The Lox. He also established himself as a prominent New York Producer while working with East Coast rapper DMX and the Ruff Ryders Entertainment record label.
Maury Laws
Maury Laws was an American television and film composer from Burlington, North Carolina.
Clair Engle
Clair Engle was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from California. He is best remembered for participating in the vote breaking the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the US Senate while partially paralyzed and unable to speak, shortly before his death from a brain tumor.
Richard Lloyd
Richard Lloyd is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.