List of Famous people born in United States of America

[[Image: (1941).jpg|210px|thumb|Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1941]] Charles Dean Dixon was an American conductor.

Zach S. Staenberg, A.C.E. is an American film editor best known for his work on action films and the Matrix Trilogy. Staenberg won an Academy Award and two ACE Eddie Award for the editing of The Matrix (1999) and for HBO's Gotti (1996) for which he was also nominated for an Emmy. The Matrix films were written and directed by the Wachowskis, with whom Staenberg has had an extended collaboration dating from 1996. He is a frequent collaborator of director Andrew Niccol.

William Howard Peter Wisher Jr. is an American screenwriter, known for his work with long-time friend James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Dean Zimmerman is an American film and television editor. He won an Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Outstanding Picture Editing for his work on the television program Stranger Things. Zimmerman is also a member of the American Cinema Editors.

Debbie Shapiro Gravitte is an American actress and singer.

Deborah Ruth Lurie is an American composer, arranger, and music producer. Her work has appeared in films such as Dear John, An Unfinished Life, Safe Haven, and 9. She has also been a string arranger for rock and pop performers such as Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, and The All-American Rejects. In 2015, she received the ASCAP Shirley Walker Award to honor her achievements contributing to the diversity of film and television music. She was one of the composers interviewed in Score: A Film Music Documentary. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences extended membership to her in 2016 for her contributions to motion pictures.

Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which tells the true story that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick, won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was adapted as a film in 2015.

Delilah Cotto is a Puerto Rican-American actress, dancer and model.

Terry Alexander is an American actor, who is best known for his role as John in George A. Romero's 1985 film Day of the Dead. He had a regular role on the soap opera One Life to Live in the early 1990s, as police chief Troy Nichols. He has also had numerous small roles in films and television shows, along with ads, most notably an AIDS PSA.