List of Famous people born in United States of America

Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer."

Delwen Lowell Jensen is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Barry Cook is an American film director who has worked in the animated film industry since the 1980s. Cook and Tony Bancroft directed Mulan (1998), for which they won the 1998 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. Cook was also the co-director for Arthur Christmas (2011), directed by Sarah Smith. Cook also directed Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) with Neil Nightingale.

Thomas Vincent Learson was IBM's chairman and chief executive officer from June 1971 through January 1973. He was succeeded by Frank T. Cary. Both the previous chairman Thomas Watson Jr. and senior project manager Fred Brooks regarded Learson as the driving force behind the IBM System/360 project, which was huge and risky but whose success ensured IBM's dominance of the mainframe computer market.

Douglas Aarniokoski is an American television director and producer.

John Stewart Dalrymple III is an American politician and businessman who served as the 32nd Governor of North Dakota from 2010 to 2016. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 2000 until 2010, when Governor John Hoeven resigned after his election to the United States Senate and Dalrymple succeeded him.

Joseph Frank Bianco is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was formerly a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Thomas Jay Ryan is an American stage and film actor. He may be best known for his starring role in the 1997 film Henry Fool.

Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and author.