List of Famous people born in United States of America
Jeff LaBar
Jeffrey Philip LaBar was an American guitarist most famous for playing in the glam metal band Cinderella, in which he replaced original guitarist Michael Schermick.
Alan Ruck
Alan Douglas Ruck is an American actor, best known for portraying Cameron Frye, Ferris Bueller's best friend, in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Kickin' It Old Skool (2007); Stuart Bondek, a lecherous, power-hungry member of the mayor's staff in the ABC sitcom Spin City; and Connor Roy, the eldest son of a media magnate, in the HBO series Succession. His other notable parts include those in Bad Boys (1983), Three Fugitives (1989), Young Guns II (1990), Speed (1994), and Twister (1996). In 2016, he co-starred with Geena Davis in an updated Fox TV adaptation of William Peter Blatty's best-selling novel The Exorcist.
Rob Patterson
Rob Patterson is an American guitarist and composer.
Danika Yarosh
Danika Yarosh is an American actress. She appeared in the Showtime series Shameless and in the NBC series Heroes Reborn. She starred opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).
Taylor Hawkins
Oliver Taylor Hawkins is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters. Prior to joining the band in 1997, he was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette as well as the drummer in a progressive experimental band Sylvia. In 2004, Hawkins formed his own side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he plays drums and sings. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the United Kingdom drumming magazine Rhythm.
Paige Davis
Mindy Paige Davis, known professionally as Paige Davis, is an American television personality and actress. She is best known as the host of the TLC home improvement reality television program Trading Spaces from 2001 until 2008, and hosted the morning talkshow Home and Family on Hallmark Channel in 2012. She returned as host of Trading Spaces when TLC revived the popular series in 2018.
John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
Terri Schiavo
The Terri Schiavo case was a right-to-die legal case in the United States from 1998 to 2005, involving Theresa Marie Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery, and in 1998 elected to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo's parents disputed her husband's assertions and challenged Schiavo's medical diagnosis, arguing in favor of continuing artificial nutrition and hydration. The highly publicized and prolonged series of legal challenges presented by her parents, which ultimately involved state and federal politicians up to the level of President George W. Bush, caused a seven-year delay before Schiavo's feeding tube was ultimately removed.
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released eight solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Academy Award and Grammy Award nominations.
Christine Cavanaugh
Christine Josephine Cavanaugh was an American voice, film, and television actress, who had a distinctive speaking style and provided the voice for a large range of cartoon characters. She starred as the original voice of Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon's Rugrats and the voices of Gosalyn Mallard in Darkwing Duck, Bunnie Rabbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday-morning cartoon on ABC, Oblina in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and the titular characters from Babe and Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory.