List of Famous people born in United States of America
Don Laws
Don Laws was an American figure skater and coach.
Donald Evans
Donald Louis Evans is an American businessman. He was the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Bush and sworn into office on January 20, 2001. On November 9, 2004, the White House announced that Evans intended to resign by the end of January 2005.
Charles Band
Charles Robert Band is an American film producer and director, known for his work on horror comedy movies. His most famous films are those in the Puppet Master franchise and the Subspecies series, made by his company Full Moon Features. Before Full Moon Features, his earlier company Empire Pictures made films like Ghoulies and the cult classic Re-Animator. One of the few non-horror films he worked on was the Prehysteria! trilogy, which was made by his family-oriented company Moonbeam Entertainment.
Russell Earl Marker
Russell Earl Marker was an American chemist who invented the octane rating system when he was working at the Ethyl Corporation. Later in his career, he went on to found a steroid industry in Mexico when he successfully made semisynthetic progesterone from chemical constituents found in Mexican yams in a process known as Marker degradation. This eventually led to the development at Syntex of the combined oral contraceptive pill and synthetic cortisone – and to the development of the Mexican barbasco trade.
Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. is an American politician, author and businessman from Michigan. He served for five terms as a Representative and for three terms as a Senator in the U.S. Congress.
Donald Montrose
Donald William Montrose was the Bishop of the Diocese of Stockton in northern California from 1986 to 1999.
Felton Perry
Felton Perry is an American actor. He is most notable for his roles as Deputy Obrah Eaker in the 1973 movie Walking Tall, and as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series. Felton's other well-known role is in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop as Donald Johnson, an executive at the corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP). He reprised his role as Johnson in the sequels RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993).
Rusty Jacobs
Rusty Jacobs is an American former film actor. Jacobs is known for appearing in films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Taps.
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft industrialist and engineer.
Russell Gewirtz
Russell Gewirtz is an American screenwriter, best known for writing the screenplay for Spike Lee's Inside Man.