List of Famous people born in United States of America

George Hearst was an American businessman, miner, and politician. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1879 he listed it on the New York Stock Exchange, and went on to other pursuits. The mine operated continuously, producing gold until 2001.

Cortrelle Javon "C. J." Anderson is an American football coach and former running back who is currently a volunteer coach at Cal. He previously played in the National Football League for seven seasons, primarily with the Denver Broncos. After playing college football at Cal, he was signed by the Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2013, where he made one Pro Bowl selection and was part of the team that won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl 50. Anderson also played in Super Bowl LIII with the Los Angeles Rams. Following his NFL retirement, he rejoined Cal as a volunteer assistant in 2020.

Jaime King is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime—the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.

Frank Anthony Grillo is an American actor known for his roles in films such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). He had his first leading role in the action horror film The Purge: Anarchy (2014), portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes, a role he reprised in The Purge: Election Year (2016). He plays the Marvel supervillain Brock Rumlow / Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and amoral mercenary Big Daddy in the Chinese action film Wolf Warrior 2 (2017), the highest-grossing non-Hollywood film of all time. Also in 2017, he played the main role in the Netflix film Wheelman as a getaway driver in a botched bank heist. Hulu plans to release the time loop film Boss Level starring him in 2021. Grillo's television work includes recurring roles in the series Battery Park (2000), For the People (2002–2003), The Shield (2002–2003), Prison Break (2005–2006), Blind Justice (2005), and The Kill Point (2007). He has also starred as Hart Jessup in the soap opera Guiding Light (1996–1999), Nick Monohan in the sci-fi series The Gates (2010), and between 2014 and 2017, he played Alvey Kulina in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom.

Corey Miller, better known by his stage name C-Murder, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, author, and convicted murderer. He initially gained fame in the mid-1990s as a part of his brother Master P's label No Limit Records, primarily as a member of the label's supergroup, TRU. Miller went on to release several solo albums of his own through the label including 1998's platinum Life or Death. C-Murder has released nine albums altogether on six different labels, No Limit Records, TRU Records, Koch Records, Asylum Records, RBC Records and Venti Uno.

Tyquian Terrel Bowman, better known by his stage name Quando Rondo, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He is signed to Never Broke Again and Atlantic Records. He initially gained attention with the release of his song "I Remember" featuring Lil Baby in January 2018. He would then go onto releasing three mixtapes, Life B4 Fame (2018), Life After Fame (2018), and From the Neighborhood to the Stage (2019). His song "Motivation" was featured on the popular YouTube channel WorldStarHipHop.

William Frederick Gibbons is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known as the guitarist and primary lead vocalist of American rock band ZZ Top. He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks, who recorded Flash (1968) and opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in early 1971. He is also known as The Reverend Billy F. Gibbons.

Jason Scott Lee is an American actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for his roles as Bruce Lee in the 1993 martial arts film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live action adaptation of The Jungle Book.

Michael Edward Shanahan is a former American football coach, best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to 2008. During his 14 seasons with the Broncos, he led the team to consecutive Super Bowl victories in XXXII and XXXIII, including the franchise's first NFL title in the former. His head coaching career spanned a total of 20 seasons and also included stints with the Los Angeles Raiders and Washington Redskins. He is the father of San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan. He is a Denver Broncos Ring of Famer.

Megan Boone is an American actress. She is best known for her role as FBI agent and profiler Elizabeth Keen on the NBC drama series The Blacklist. She was a regular on Law & Order: LA and Blue Bloods and has appeared in films such as My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) and Step Up Revolution (2012).