List of Famous people born in United States of America

Viña Delmar was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publication of her suggestively titled novel, Bad Girl, which became a bestseller in 1928. Delmar also wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy, The Awful Truth, for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1937.

Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.

Bradford Alexander Mehldau is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

George Dekle Busbee Sr., was an American politician who served as the 77th Governor of the State of Georgia from 1975 to 1983, and a senior partner at King & Spalding thereafter.

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar is an American television director, with directing credits on four Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah. He directed the episode "Ultra Woman" in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

E. Mason Hopper was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 76 films between 1911 and 1935.

Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

Loren Hal Bouchard is an American animator, writer, producer, television director, and composer. He is the creator of several animated TV shows such as Bob's Burgers and Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil. He is also the co-creator of Home Movies with Brendon Small.

Judd Winick is an American comic book, comic strip and television writer/artist and former reality television personality. Winick first gained fame for his 1994 stint on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, before finding success with his work on comic books such as Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Pedro and Me, his autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with Real World castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora. He also created the animated TV series The Life and Times of Juniper Lee for Cartoon Network, which ran for three seasons. For DC Comics, he wrote the Batman storyline Under the Hood, which resurrected Jason Todd following his murder by the Joker in the storyline A Death in the Family, in which he became the anti-heroic Red Hood following the "Infinite Crisis" storyline. He would also write a prequel miniseries Red Hood: The Lost Days, detailing the exact nature of Jason's resurrection. He would also write the animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood, which adapted his original story.

George Loane Tucker was an American actor, silent film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.