Famous people from the United States

Philip Kotler

American marketing author, consultant, and professor

Robert Metcalfe

American electrical engineer

Jerry Yang

founder of Yahoo!

Leslie Lamport

American computer scientist

Larry Niven

American writer (born 1938)

Lois McMaster Bujold

American novelist (born 1949)

Anne Tyler

American novelist

Michael Cunningham

American novelist and screenwriter

Thomas L. Friedman

American journalist and author

Daniel Goleman

American psychologist and journalist

Gary Snyder

American poet (born 1930)

Junot Díaz

author

Shing-Tung Yau

American mathematician from Hong Kong

Sylvia Earle

American oceanographer

Macky Carden

Lonnie Mack "Macky" Carden is an American former college football and collegiate wrestling coach. He serve as head football at Elon University from 1984 to 1988, compiling a record of 34–17. Carden also served as the wrestling coach at Elon. He was inducted into the Elon Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet Kaur Dhillon is an American lawyer who has served as the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she is the former vice chair of the California Republican Party and a former Republican National Committeewoman for California.

Phillip Swagel

Phillip Lee Swagel is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the 2008 financial crisis. He was recently a professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Instit...

Raphael Warnock

Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American politician and Mainline Protestant minister in the Baptist tradition serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.

Tom Emmer

Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who has served as majority whip in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2015. During his tenure in Congress, he has been known as a strong advocate for the crypto industry.

Josh Cameron (American football)

Josh Cameron is an American professional football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Baylor Bears and was selected by the Jaguars in the sixth round of the 2026 NFL draft.

Jeremiah Trotter Jr.

Jeremiah Trotter Jr. is an American professional football linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Eagles in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL draft. He is the son of former Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

Parker Washington

Christopher Parker Washington is an American professional football wide receiver and punt returner for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was drafted by the Jaguars in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft.

Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst is an American actress and member of the Hearst family. She is the granddaughter of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst.