United States
People of this nationality
William Henry Letterman
1832 – 1881
physician
David E. Sweet
1933 – 1984
scientist
Garry Wills
b. 1934
cultural historian
Roberta Spear
1948 – 2003
poet
Kamar Baldwin
b. 1997
basketball player
Charles Herrold
1875 – 1948
radio personality
Pete Cote
1902 – 1987
baseball player
Dennis Marks
1932 – 2006
voice actor
John Gendron Palmer Capers
1866 – 1919
journalist
Bryan Lopez
b. 1988
association football player
Jesse A. Adams
1876 – 1940
politician
Robin Kanarek
physiological psychologist
Hal Goldsmith
1898 – 1985
baseball player
Marc Behm
1925 – 2007
screenwriter
Ted de Corsia
1903 – 1973
actor
Ma Rainey
1886 – 1939
street artist
Eldon Tharp
1908 – 1979
American football player
Leon Pescheret
1892 – 1971
etcher
Michael Gibbons
b. 1978
boxer
Clela Rorex
1943 – 2022
clerk
Lucy Davis
b. 1992
equestrian
Ada Bessie Swann
1887 – 1963
cookbook writer
Margaret Moser
1954 – 2017
journalist
Brent Alexander
b. 1971
American football player
Dee Martin
b. 1949
American football player
Martin P. Mullen
1921 – 1996
politician
Destiny Smith-Barnett
b. 1996
sprinter
Michael I. Yarymovych
b. 1933
inventor
Patty Duke
1946 – 2016
television actor
John Washington
1633 – 1677
politician
Jerry Belson
1938 – 2006
film director
Lucilius A. Emery
1840 – 1920
lawyer
Gelsey Kirkland
b. 1952
ballet dancer
Robert E. Glover
1896 – 1984
engineer
Glen Chin
1948 – 2018
actor
John Lothrop Motley
1814 – 1877
historian
Kenneth A. Farley
b. 1964
geochemist
Colleen Houck
b. 1969
writer
George Tuttle
1905 – 1986
American football player
Hovey E. Copley
1869 – 1946
farmer
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
b. 1958
writer
Henry Augustus Homes
1812 – 1887
librarian
Adriana Marines
1992 – 1997
Olivia Troye
b. 1976
lawyer
Duke Sedgwick
1898 – 1982
baseball player
Walter B. Jones
1943 – 2019
politician
Chris Carson
b. 1994
American football player
Steve Hall
b. 1973
American football player
John Thornton
1965 – 2025
Albert Wilfred Barbelle
1887 – 1957
artist
Curtis Johnson
b. 1952
politician
Jason Nieh
b. 1953
computer scientist
Ethel Levey
1880 – 1955
actor
Blakesley Burkhart
astronomer
Jim Ray
1934 – 1987
basketball player
Jim Banks
b. 1979
politician
Slim Jones
1913 – 1938
baseball player
Heather Lieberg
b. 1979
athletics competitor
Dudley Baldwin Bonsal
1906 – 1995
lawyer
Max Sherman
b. 1935
lawyer
Jim Hickey
1920 – 1997
military officer
William Wellman, Jr.
b. 1937
screenwriter
Robert Marshall Root
1863 – 1937
artist
Woody Abernathy
1908 – 1961
baseball player
Braulio Dueño Colón
1854 – 1934
composer
Yarimar Bonilla
b. 1975
academic
George Stutz
1893 – 1930
baseball player
Alvin S. White
1918 – 2006
aircraft pilot
Ivor van Heerden
b. 1950
meteorologist
Pepper Petrella
1920 – 1991
military personnel
Charles E. Hazlett
1838 – 1863
Patricia Roy
1938 – 2017
baseball player
Ben Hulse
1894 – 1961
politician
Turtel Onli
1952 – 2025
comics artist
Jessica Eye
b. 1986
mixed martial arts fighter
Parmenio Adams
1776 – 1832
politician
William Hoffman
1925 – 2009
novelist
Richard Oriani
1920 – 2015
chemical engineer
Peter Nowalk
b. 1953
screenwriter
R. S. Mason
1795 – 1875
Hugh Morrow III
1931 – 1975
politician
Henry Marchmore Shaw
1819 – 1864
politician
Sarah Buss
philosopher
Tom Sullivan
1906 – 1944
baseball player
Harvey Willson Harkness
1821 – 1901
botanist
Manuel Johnson
b. 1986
American football player
Brian Head
b. 1964
composer
Marjorie McKenzie Lawson
1912 – 2002
lawyer
T. J. Watt
b. 1994
American football player
Dempsey Burges
1751 – 1800
politician
Thomas Lewinski
1800 – 1882
architect
Maurice Stern
b. 2000
musician
George Christensen
1909 – 1968
American football player
Samuel P. Morrill
1816 – 1892
politician
Bernard L. Kowalski
1929 – 2007
film director
Isidore Mankofsky
1931 – 2021
cinematographer
Solomon Juneau
1793 – 1856
politician
Lynn Stucky
b. 1958
veterinarian
Alvin C. Voris
1827 – 1904
politician
Jack Fina
1913 – 1970
bandleader