List of people from the United States |
Some famous people from the United States of America, alphabetically
within categories:
Artists
Entrepreneurs
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
Military leaders who were also politicians
Music
See also List of United States
musicians
Performers
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
Psychologists
Scientists
Sports Persons
Writers
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
- 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), sciece 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
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