List of people from the United States Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is a list of people from the United States who are famous or notable, alphabetically within categories:

This list in incomplete.

Table of contents

1 Artists 2 Entrepreneurs 3 Filmmakers 4 Inventors 5 Military leaders 6 Military leaders who were also politicians 7 Music 7.1 A-G 7.2 H-W 8 Performers 9 Philosophers 10 Politicians 11 Psychologists 12 Scientists 13 Sports Persons 14 Writers 15 Other Notables 16 Related topics

Artists

• Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer
• Edward Hopper (1882-1967), painter
• Rick Law (b. 1969), illustrator
• Waldo Peirce (1884-1970), painter
• Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
• John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), painter
• Drew Struzan, painter
• Andy Warhol (1928-1987), "pop artist"
• J. Alden Weir (1850-1919), painter

Entrepreneurs

• John Jacob Astor (1763-1848)
• Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), Scottish-born
• William C. Durant (1861-1947)
• Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of the Ford Motor Company
• Bill Gates (b. 1955), Microsoft Corporation
• William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
• H. L. Hunt (1889-1974), oil tycoon
• J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), banker and financier
• John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)
• Earl Tupper (1907-1983), inventor of Tupperware
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)

Filmmakers

• Eric B. Borgman (b. 1975), The Deserter, The Man in the Movie
• Mel Brooks (b. 1926), Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles
• Tim Burton (b. 1958), Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow
• Frank Capra (1897-1991)
• Walt Disney (1901-1966)
• Max Fleischer (1883-1972)
• John Frankenheimer (1930-2002)
• William Friedkin (b. 1935), The Exorcist, The French Connection
• John Ford (film director) (1894-1973)
• David Wark Griffith (1875-1948)
• Ron Howard (b. 1954)
• David Lynch(b. 1946)
• Howard Kazanjian, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi
• Stanley Kramer (1913-2001)
• George Lucas (b. 1944), Star Wars, Indiana Jones
• Michael Moore (b. 1954), Roger & Me;, Bowling for Columbine
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Steven Spielberg (b. 1946), Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan,
• Orson Welles (1915-1985)
• Billy Wilder (1906-2002), Polish-born
• Robert Zemeckis (b. 1952), Back to the Future, Forrest Gump,

Inventors

• David Bruce -- Pivotal typecaster 1838
• George E. Clymer (1752-1834), Columbian Printing Press 1813
• Thomas Edison (1847-1931), phonograph, improved on lightbulb
• Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971), Television
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), bifocals, lightning rod
• Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Dymaxion house
• Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884), Mechanical reaper
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), Telegraph
• Eli Whitney (1765-1825), Cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• A. Baldwin Wood (1879-1956), Pumps
• Wright brothers, Airplane

Military leaders

• Omar Bradley (1893-1981)
• George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
• Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
• Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
• George Patton (1885-1945)
• Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), war of 1812 naval officer
• John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
• Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr (b. 1934)
• William T. Sherman (1820-1891)

Military leaders who were also politicians

• P.G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
• William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
• Sam Houston (1793-1863)
• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
• Colin Powell (b. 1937)
• Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)
• George Washington (1732-1799)

Music

See also List of United States musicians

A-G

• Louis Armstrong
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Garth Brooks
• Dave Brubeck
• Karen Carpenter
• Johnny Cash
• Van Cliburn
• Kurt Cobain
• Nat King Cole
• Aaron Copland
• Miles Davis
• Kenny Drew
• Duke Ellington
• Stephen Foster
• Aretha Franklin
• Jerry Garcia
• George Gershwin
• Benny Goodman

H-W

• Lionel Hampton
• Sophie B. Hawkins
• Fletcher Henderson
• Jimi Hendrix
• Buddy Holly
• Robert Johnson
• Scott Joplin
• Gene Krupa
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Meade "Lux" Lewis
• Glenn Miller
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Charlie Parker
• Elvis Presley
• Trent Reznor
• John Philip Sousa
• Duncan Sheik
• Frank Sinatra
• Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
• Bruce Springsteen
• Teddy Wilson

Performers

• Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
• Marlon Brando (1924-2004)
• Ellen Burstyn (b. 1932)
• Charles Chaplin (1889-1977)
• Robert De Niro (b. 1943)
• Jodie Foster (b. 1962)
• Clark Gable (1901-1960)
• Tom Hanks (b. 1956)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
• Paul Newman (b. 1925)
• Sidney Poitier (b. 1927)
• Robert Redford (b. 1937)
• Julia Roberts (b. 1967)
• Susan Sarandon (b. 1946)
• Al Pacino (b. 1940)

Philosophers

• Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), Analytic philosopher, political philosopher, linguist
• Daniel Dennett (b. 1942) Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science
• John Dewey (1859-1952), Pragmatist
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Transcendentalist
• William James (1842-1910), Pragmatist
• Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), Pragmatist
• John Searle (b. 1932) , Analytic philosopher, linguist
• W. V. Quine (1908-2000), Pragmatist, logician
• Ayn Rand (1905-1982), "Objectivist"
• John Rawls (1921-2002), political and moral philosopher
• Richard Rorty (b. 1931), Postmodernist, Pragmatist
• George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-born
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Transcendentalist

Politicians

• Hattie Caraway (1878-1950)
• Henry Clay (1777-1852)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
• Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Jack Kemp (b. 1935)
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
• Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
• Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

Psychologists

• B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)

Scientists

• Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)
• Richard Axel (b. 1946)
• Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980)
• Linda B. Buck (b. 1947)
• William H. Calvin (b. 1939)
• Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920)
• Gerald Edelman (b. 1929)
• Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• Joseph Henry (1797-1878)
• George William Hill (1838-1914)
• Eric R. Kandel (b. 1929)
• Kary Mullis (b. 1944)
• Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
• Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
• Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
• Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
• James D. Watson (b. 1928)
• Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929)

Sports Persons

• Andre Agassi, tennis player, (b. 1970)
• Lance Armstrong, cyclist (b. 1971)
• Don Gambril - swimming coach
• Jesse Owens - athlete, (1913-1980)
• Michael Jordan - basketball player (b. 1963)
• Richard Quick - swimming coach
• Mike Tyson - boxer (b. 1966)
• Serena Williams - tennis player (b. 1981)
• Venus Williams - tennis player (b. 1980)
• Tiger Woods - golfer (b. 1975)

Writers

• Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
• Ray Bradbury; Fahrenheit 451
• Orson Scott Card (b. 1951), science fiction writer; Ender's Game,
• Tom Clancy (b. 1947), military writer; The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears,
• Michael Crichton (b. 1942), science fiction writer
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet
• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, dramatist, literary critic
• William Faulkner (1897-1962), novelist; The Sound and the Fury,
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), novelist; The Great Gatsby, The Love of the Last Tycoon
• John M. Ford (1957- ), science fiction and fantasy writer
• Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), poet
• Emily Hahn (1905-1997)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), novelist, short story writer; The Scarlet Letter,
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), novelist; The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms
• Henry James (1843-1916), novelist, dramatist
• Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), novelist, artist;
• Ken Kesey (1935-2001), novelist; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Stephen King (b. 1947), novelist and horror writer; The Green Mile, Carrie
• Jack London (1876-1916), novelist, playwright
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet
• Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist, poet, essayist; Moby Dick
• Arthur Miller (b. 1915), playwright
• Hayford Peirce (b. 1942), science-fiction and mystery writer
• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet, essayist
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), poet, literary critic, novelist, short story writer; The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart
• Anne Rice (b. 1941), horror/fantasy writer; Interview with the Vampire
• J.D. Salinger (b. 1919), novelist; The Catcher in the Rye
• William Saroyan (1908-1981), playwright, novelist
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), novelist
• Susan Sontag, essayist
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968), novelist; The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), novelist and abolitionist
• John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969), novelist
• Mark Twain (1835-1910), novelist, humourist, lecturer, journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Ezra Vogel
• Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922), novelist, essayist, playwright, satirist, graphic artist; Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet, humanist
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), novelist
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright; Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Other Notables

• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
• Howard Baskerville (1885-1909)
• Naomi Betts
• Lorena Bobbitt
• Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
• John Brown (abolitionist) (1800-1859)
• George Washington Carver (1860-1943)
• Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
• Melvil Dewey (1851-1931), inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
• W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963)
• Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
• Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
• Michael Johns (b. 1964)
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
• Bernard Kerik (b. 1956)
• Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
• Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
• Paul Morphy (1837-1884)
• Rosa Parks (b. 1913)
• Paul Revere (1735-1818)
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
• Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth) (1895-1948)
• Benjamin Spock (1903-1998)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
• Rev. Richard S. Storrs
• Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• Noah Webster (1758-1843)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
• Malcolm X (1925-1965)

Related topics

• List of African-Americans
• Lists of citizens of nations on the American continents
• List of Chinese Americans
• List of Indian Americans
• List of Italian-Americans
• List of Japanese Americans
• List of Korean Americans
• List of Native Americans
• List of Norwegian-Americans
• List of people
• List of people by nationality
• List of people by U.S. state

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