List of Famous people born in United States of America
Duncan Robinson
Duncan McBryde Robinson is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in York, Maine to Elisabeth and Jeffery Robinson. He played college basketball for the NCAA Division III Williams College Ephs and the NCAA Division I Michigan Wolverines. He transferred to Michigan from Williams after leading the NCAA Division III Williams Ephs to the 2014 NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Tournament championship game. He was the 2014 Division III Rookie of the Year and a Division III All-American.
Ted Yoho
Theodore Scott Yoho is an American politician, veterinarian, and businessman who served as the U.S. Representative from Florida's 3rd congressional district from 2013 until 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Terri Irwin
Terri Irwin is an American–Australian naturalist, conservationist, author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. Born in Oregon, United States, she began working for an independent animal rehabilitation center for injured predator mammals at the age of 22 while working for her family's trucking business.
Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American musician, singer and songwriter.
Daniel Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2010 until his death. Until the inauguration of Kamala Harris as vice president in 2021, Inouye was the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in U.S. history. Inouye also chaired various Senate Committees, including those on Intelligence, Commerce and Appropriations.
Merritt Wever
Merritt Carmen Wever is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime miniseries Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020. Also In 2020 receiving a Peabody award for Unbelievable http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable.
Justin Prentice
Justin Wright Prentice is an American actor. He is best known for playing Bryce Walker, the main antagonist in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Max Copeland is an American multimillionaire televangelist and author associated with the charismatic movement, worth an estimated $300 million to $760 million. His organization, Kenneth Copeland Ministries, is based in Tarrant County, Texas.
Alan B. Krueger
Alan Bennett Krueger was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, nominated by President Barack Obama, from May 2009 to October 2010, when he returned to Princeton. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013. He was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics.
Kyle Wright
Kyle Hardy Wright is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at Vanderbilt University. The Braves selected Wright with the fifth overall selection of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft. He made his major league debut in 2018.