List of Famous people born in United States of America

Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer, a founding member of the popular Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967, Ballard tried an unsuccessful solo career with ABC Records before she was dropped from the label at the end of the decade. Ballard struggled with alcoholism, depression, and poverty for three years. She was making an attempt at a musical comeback when she died of a heart attack in February 1976 at the age of 32. Ballard's death was considered by one critic as "one of rock's greatest tragedies". Ballard was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes in 1988.

Blu Hunt is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Inadu/The Hollow in The CW supernatural drama series The Originals (2017) and as August Catawnee in the Netflix science fiction drama series Another Life (2019–present).

Paul Bateson is an American convicted murderer and former radiographer. He appeared as a radiological technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year. The scene, with a considerable amount of blood onscreen, was, for many viewers, the film's most disturbing scene; medical professionals have praised it for its realism.

Ramón Luis Estévez, sometimes billed as Ramón Sheen, is an American actor and director who runs Estevez Sheen Productions.

Maureen Walsh is a Republican Party American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Senate from 2017 to 2021. She represented the 16th District of Walla Walla, Washington. Prior to her 2016 election to the Senate, she served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 2005 through 2017.

Danielle Marie Campbell is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck, Simone Daniels in the 2011 Disney film Prom, Davina Claire in the 2013 CW television drama series The Originals and Kayla Powell and Olivia Moon in the 2018 CBS All Access television psychological thriller series Tell Me a Story.

Peter Palandjian is the CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, a company his father founded. He was a collegiate and professional tennis player prior to his business career.

Thomas Daniel Friedkin is an American billionaire, the CEO of The Friedkin Group and the CEO of his subsidiary Gulf States Toyota Distributors, which was founded by his father, Thomas Hoyt Friedkin, president and CEO of the Friedkin Companies and owner and president of Serie A club A.S. Roma.

Heidi Cheryl Shepard is an American actress based in Germany. She gained fame through her role in German television series Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast between 1997 and 2000. From 2003 to 2015, she appeared in hospital drama In aller Freundschaft.

Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974), "Let Me Know " (1979), and "I Am What I Am" (1983).