List of Famous people born in United States of America

Gregory J. Mottola is an American film director, screenwriter, and television director.

James Prather Jontz was an American politician who represented the Indiana's 5th congressional district, comprising rural north central Indiana, centering on Kokomo and Logansport. A Democrat, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993. He was previously a member of the Indiana General Assembly. As of 2020, he was the last Democrat to represent his district in Congress.

Richard Angelo is an American serial killer and former nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York. In 1989, he was convicted of murdering several of his patients and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.

Joaquin Garay III is a former Latin child actor best known for playing the role of Paco in Herbie Goes Bananas. He later moved on to writing, acting and producing sketch comedy at the Improv at the Groundlings and the L.A. Connection in Los Angeles. Garay also appears in the Latin television show Unacceptable Behavior (2006), airing on nuvoTV.

Kenneth Mars was an American actor, voice actor and comedian, who specialized in comedic roles. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), and Shadows and Fog (1990).

Ellsworth Fredricks was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Cinematography for the film Sayonara. Fredericks died in August 1993 in San Marcos, California, at the age of 89.

Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Atari and video games for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of driving games for Midway Games in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills Inc. In 2008 Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program. His family owns the Jarvis Wines company in Napa, CA.

Stanley Glen Love, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut from Oregon.

Curtis Stigers is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.