List of Famous people born in United States of America
Christopher C. Miller
Christopher Charles Miller is an American government official who served as Acting United States Secretary of Defense from November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021. He previously served as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center from August 10 to November 9, 2020. Prior to serving in civilian leadership at the Department of Defense, Miller was a Green Beret, commanding 5th Special Forces Group in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a defense contractor.
Chandra Levy
Chandra Ann Levy was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001. She was presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002. The case attracted attention from the American news media for several years.
Roberto Aguayo
Roberto Jose Aguayo is an American football placekicker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Florida State University, where he was the most accurate kicker in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) history and third in NCAA history. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
Elgin Baylor
Elgin Gay Baylor is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals. Baylor was a gifted shooter, strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, Baylor regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots. The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and a 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players. In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Allison Stokke
Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler is an American track and field athlete and fitness model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting. Images of her at age seventeen were widely shared on the Internet, resulting in her becoming an internet phenomenon. Her unsought sex symbol status was covered nationally and internationally, and informed debate on the sexualization of sportswomen and of young women in general via the Internet.
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Jo Perlman is an American actress and writer. She played head-waitress Carla Tortelli in the sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for ten Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress – winning four times – and was nominated for a record seven Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also appeared in films, including Canadian Bacon (1995), Matilda (1996), The Sessions (2012), and Poms (2019).
Dante Bichette
Alphonse Dante Bichette Sr. is an American former professional baseball player and current Major League Coach for the Toronto Blue Jays. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder for the California Angels (1988–1990), Milwaukee Brewers (1991–1992), Colorado Rockies (1993–1999), Cincinnati Reds (2000), and Boston Red Sox (2000–2001). He was also the hitting coach for the Rockies in 2013. He batted and threw right-handed.
Lucas Hedges
Lucas Hedges is an American actor. Born to the filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Jamaal Charles
Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles is a former American football running back. He played college football for the University of Texas, and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
Bonnie Aarons
Bonnie Aarons is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her roles as the bum in Mulholland Drive (2001), Baroness Joy von Troken in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), and the demon nun known as Valak in The Conjuring 2 (2016) and its subsequent spinoff, The Nun (2018). She appeared in the 2018 movie Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets.