List of Famous people born in United States of America
Tony Bennett
Anthony Guy Bennett is an American former NBA basketball player and the head men's basketball coach at the University of Virginia since March 31, 2009. Bennett is one of just three former NBA players to have won the NCAA Championship as a head coach and, as of 2020, the only one who is an active NCAA coach. Bennett is also the only active coach to have won the Henry Iba Award for national coach of the year three times, and is a four-time ACC Coach of the Year. Known for coaching defensive intensity, Bennett has been ranked the top defensive coach in college basketball by ESPN Insider and a CBS Sports poll of head coaches. The style of basketball he teaches has often been compared to a boa constrictor choking out opponents, and his teams are known for their unselfish play, defense-first philosophy, and tempo control.
Colin Cassady
William Morrissey is an American professional wrestler who performs on the independent circuit under the ring name CaZXL. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Big Cass, a shortened version of his previous name Colin Cassady.
Jack Del Rio
Jack Louis Del Rio Jr. is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a linebacker at the University of Southern California before being drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 1985 NFL Draft. He also played for four other NFL teams before retiring in 1996.
Darren McGavin
William Lyle Richardson, known professionally as Darren McGavin, was an American actor.
Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball, basketball, and elections. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight and a Special Correspondent for ABC News.
Black Rob
Robert Ross, known professionally as Black Rob, is an American rapper who was formerly signed to Bad Boy. He is best known for the 2000 hit single "Whoa!", which reached the Billboard Hot 100.
Hari Nef
Hari Nef is an American actress, model, and writer. Nef's breakthrough role was Gittel in the Amazon original series Transparent, for which she was nominated for a SAG award in 2016. She made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week Spring 2015, walking for both Hood By Air and Eckhaus Latta, and subsequently became the first openly transgender woman signed to IMG Models. She became the first openly transgender woman to appear on the cover of a major British magazine. Nef has written on a breadth of topics from fine art and film to sex, gender, and trans identity. She lives and works in New York City.
Scott Walker
Noel Scott Engel better known by the stage name Scott Walker, was an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. Walker was known for his baritone voice and an unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s teen pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK from 1965 and became a UK citizen in 1970.
John Clem
John Lincoln Clem, famously known as Johnny Shiloh, was a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1915, having attained the rank of brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps; he was at that time the last veteran of the American Civil War still on duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, although others similarly aged and experienced such as Albert A. Michelson rejoined the military after World War I started. By special act of Congress on August 29, 1916, he was promoted to major general one year after his retirement.
Barry Zito
Barry William Zito is an American former professional baseball pitcher and musician. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants. His pitching repertoire consisted of a curveball, a four-seam fastball, a two-seam fastball, a circle changeup, and a cutter–slider.