List of Famous people born in United States of America

Don Most is an American actor and singer, best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.

Lisa Ann Spoonauer was an American former character actress best known for the role of Caitlin Bree in Clerks, which she reprised for an episode in Clerks: The Animated Series.

Allen Stone is an American soul and R&B singer and musician.

Leslie Marian Uggams is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool (2016) and in a recurring role on Empire.

James Arthur Ray is a self-help businessman, motivational speaker, and convicted felon. In 2011 James Arthur Ray was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide, after his February 3, 2010 arrest for causing the deaths of three participants in one of his New Age retreats. He served two years in Arizona state prison and was released under supervision on July 12, 2013.

Redmond "Red" Gerard is an American snowboarder and a 2018 Winter Olympics gold medalist of the 2018 United States Olympic team. Gerard was born and raised in Ohio, but lives in Silverthorne, Colorado where he has his own miniature snowboarding park in his backyard with a rope tow.

Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in more than 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.

Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Frances Arnold is a director of Alphabet Inc. since December 2019.

Samuel Houston was an American soldier and politician. An important leader of the Texas Revolution, Houston served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas, and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. He also served as the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas, the only American to be elected governor of two different states in the United States.

James Wallace Langham II is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Phil the Head Writer on the groundbreaking HBO series The Larry Sanders Show. He also played the role of David Hodges in the American crime drama television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.