List of Famous people born in United States of America
David McKenna
David McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplays for American History X (1998), Blow (2001) and S.W.A.T. (2003). He is also a film professor at Columbia University and Barnard College.
David Petrarca
David Petrarca is an American director and producer of theatre, television and film.
Dick Anthony Williams
Richard Anthony Williams was an American actor. Williams is best known for his starring performances on Broadway in The Poison Tree, What the Wine-Sellers Buy and Black Picture Show. Williams also had notable roles in 1970s blaxploitation films such as The Mack and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.
Samuel King Allison
Samuel King Allison was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war, he returned to the University of Chicago to direct the Institute for Nuclear Studies and was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons.
Leonard Blumenthal
Leonard Mascot Blumenthal was a Jewish American mathematician.
Deshazor Everett
Deshazor Dontee’ Everett is an American football strong safety and special teamer for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas A&M. He signed as an undrafted free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2015 before joining Washington that same year.
Marvin Albert
Marvin H. Albert was an American writer of mystery, crime and adventure novels including ones featuring Pete Sawyer, a French-American private investigator living and working in France.
Bob Bingham
Robert Bingham is a retired American actor and singer. Bingham is best known for playing the role of Caiaphas in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in the original Broadway cast and in the 1973 film version.
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Austin Rodgers is an American professional baseball infielder for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted third overall by the Rockies in the 2015 MLB draft.
Diane Thomas
Diane Renee Thomas was an American screenwriter who wrote the 1984 film Romancing the Stone.