List of Famous people born in United States of America
Robert Horry
Robert Keith Horry is an American former professional basketball player and current sports commentator. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning seven championships, the most of any player not to have played on the 1960s Boston Celtics. He is one of only four players to have won NBA championships with three teams; he won two with the Houston Rockets, three with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the San Antonio Spurs. He earned the nickname "Big Shot Rob", because of his clutch shooting in important games; he is widely considered to be one of the greatest clutch performers and winners in NBA history. Horry now works as a commentator on Spectrum SportsNet for the Lakers.
Clarence Williams III
Clarence Williams III is a retired American actor. He best known for playing the character "Linc Hayes" in the "hippie" cop show The Mod Squad from 1968 to 1973.
Christine Collins
Christine Ida Collins was an American woman who made national headlines during the late 1920s and 1930s after her nine-year-old son, Walter Collins, went missing in 1928. During the Trial Testimony of Gordon Northcott, the State of California concluded that Christine Collins's son had been murdered in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders led by a man named Gordon Stewart Northcott, who was executed at San Quentin in 1930. Her search for the whereabouts of her son was chronicled in the 2008 Clint Eastwood film Changeling, in which she was portrayed by Angelina Jolie. Jolie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Collins.
Marc Maron
Marc David Maron is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, and actor.
Sean Gunn
Sean Gunn is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) and Kraglin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He is the younger brother of director James Gunn and often appears in his brother's films.
Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz is an American politician serving as the 41st governor of Minnesota since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL).
Josh Jacobs
Joshua Jacobs is an American football running back for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Alabama and was drafted by the Raiders in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Frank Vincent
Frank Vincent Gattuso Jr. was an American actor, musician and author, best known for roles in the HBO series The Sopranos and in several Martin Scorsese films, namely Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995).
Antoinette Frank
Antoinette Renee Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the family who ran the establishment, and fellow New Orleans Police Department officer Ronald A. Williams II. She was aided by an accomplice, a drug dealer and probable lover, Rogers Lacaze. Frank is the only woman on death row in Louisiana, at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.