List of Famous people born in United States of America
Lester Cole
Lester Cole was an American screenwriter. Cole was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted for their refusal to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.
Leslie Graves
Leslie Marie Graves was an American actress.
Tommy Bond
Thomas Ross Bond was an American actor. Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies. Also, he is noted for being the first actor to appear onscreen as "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen, having portrayed the character in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).
James McLamore
James Whitman McLamore was the founder and first CEO of the Burger King fast food franchise, along with David Edgerton. He also created the Whopper sandwich. After selling Burger King to the Pillsbury Company in 1967, he remained CEO for 5 years. After retiring, he served on the board of several large corporations, was Chairman of the University of Miami, chaired the United Way and was a member and Chairman of the Orange Bowl Committee. He invested in the Miami Dolphins for several years and reinvested in the educational institutions that impacted him at Northfield Mount Hermon and Cornell University. He was also a gardener, and Chairman at Fairchild Tropical Gardens.
Morrie Ryskind
Morris "Morrie" Ryskind was an American dramatist, lyricist and writer of theatrical productions and motion pictures, who became a conservative political activist later in life.
Gordon R. England
Gordon Richard England is an American politician and businessman who was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and twice as U.S. Secretary of the Navy in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Rob Thomas
Robert James Thomas is an American author, producer, director and screenwriter. He created the television series Veronica Mars, and co-created 90210 (2008–2013), Party Down (2009–2010), and iZombie (2015–2019).
Ted Tetzlaff
Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff was an Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.
Darwin Deason
Darwin Deason is an American billionaire businessman and political donor. He founded Affiliated Computer Services in 1988, and sold it to Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2010, becoming Xerox' largest individual shareholder.
Rob Woodall
William Robert Woodall III is an American attorney and politician who was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2021. The district includes most of Gwinnett County, a suburban county northeast of Atlanta. He is a Republican. Prior to being elected to Congress, he worked for his predecessor, John Linder from 1994 to 2010, eventually becoming Linder's chief of staff. Woodall announced in February 2019 that he would not seek reelection to a sixth term in Congress.