List of Famous people born in United States of America
Kylie Rae Harris
Kylie Rae Harris was an American singer-songwriter. She was born in Wylie, Texas.
Fred Hoiberg
Fredrick Kristian Hoiberg is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach for the University of Nebraska men's basketball program. He previously served as the head coach for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2015 to 2018 and for the Iowa State University men's basketball team from 2010 to 2015. Hoiberg grew up in Ames, and played college basketball at Iowa State. He then played professional basketball for ten years and served as vice president for basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves before beginning his coaching career.
Jim Justice
James Conley Justice II is an American businessman and politician who has been serving as the 36th governor of West Virginia since 2017. With a net worth of around $1.2 billion, he is the wealthiest person in West Virginia. He inherited a coal mining business from his father and built a business empire with over 94 companies, including the Greenbrier, a luxury resort.
Samuel E. Wright
Samuel Edward Wright is an American actor and singer. He is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the lead vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway and voiced Kron the Iguanodon in Disney's 2000 CGI/live-action film Dinosaur.
Malik Beasley
Malik JonMikal Beasley is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended Saint Francis School in Alpharetta, Georgia, and played one season of college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles. Beasley was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with the 19th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. After three and a half seasons with the Nuggets he was traded to the Timberwolves.
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American military officer, attorney, judge and politician who served as a United States Senator from South Carolina from 1954 to 2003 and as the 103rd Governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Thurmond served in the United States Senate for 48 years, at first as a Southern Democrat and then, from 1964 onwards, as a Republican. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a states' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes.
William Smith
William Smith is an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 75 years, he has appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Smith is also known for films like Any Which Way You Can (1980), Conan The Barbarian (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), and Red Dawn (1984), as well as lead roles in several exploitation films during the 1970s.
Robert A. Altman
Robert A. Altman was an American business executive and lawyer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of ZeniMax Media, a video game holding company and parent company of several video game studios and companies, including publisher Bethesda Softworks. Prior to co-founding ZeniMax in 1999, he worked as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Altman also served on the Advisory Board of The George Washington University Law School.
Gwen Jorgensen
Gwen Rosemary Jorgensen is an American distance runner and former professional triathlete. She is the 2014 and 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series Champion. She has been named USA Triathlon's 2013 and 2014 Olympic/ITU Female Athlete of the Year. She was a member of the 2012 Olympic Team and again represented the United States in triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she won the USA's first ever triathlon gold medal with a time of 1 hour, 56 minutes, and 16 seconds.
Brad Wenstrup
Brad Robert Wenstrup is an American politician, U.S. Army Reserve officer, and Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, who has been the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A Republican, he upset incumbent U.S. Representative Jean Schmidt to win the 2012 Republican primary election.