List of Famous people born in United States of America
Myron Rolle
Myron L. Rolle is a Bahamian American neurosurgery resident and retired football safety. He played college football at Florida State, and was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He attended the Florida State University College of Medicine and is a neurosurgery resident at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.
Thomas Midgley
Thomas Midgley Jr. was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (Tetraethyllead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the USA by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned due to concerns about their impact on human health and the environment. He was granted more than 100 patents over the course of his career.
Cameron Champ
Cameron Mackray Champ is an American professional golfer from Sacramento, California.
Leslie Carter
Leslie Barbara Carter Ashton was an American singer best known as the sister of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter.
Lil Durk
Durk Derrick Banks, better known by his stage name Lil Durk, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead member and founder of his own collective and record label, Only the Family.
Heath Slater
Heath Wallace Miller is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling under the ring name Heath. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Heath Slater.
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles is an American-Canadian actor, comedian, and producer whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his work on the original British series and American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for his role as Lewis Kiniski on The Drew Carey Show. He also played Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.
William Calley
William Laws Calley Jr. is an American war criminal and a former United States Army officer convicted by court-martial for the premeditated killings of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the Mỹ Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Calley was released to house arrest under orders by President Richard Nixon three days after his conviction. A new trial was ordered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit but that ruling was overturned by the United States Supreme Court. Calley served three years of house arrest for the murders. Public opinion about Calley was divided.
Maude Apatow
Maude Apatow is an American actress and the elder daughter of filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann. She stars as Lexi Howard in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–present).
Carolyn Franklin
Carolyn Ann Franklin was an American singer-songwriter. Besides her own musical success, Franklin was best known as the daughter of prominent Detroit preacher and civil rights activist C. L. Franklin and the younger sister of American singer/musician Aretha Franklin.