Famous people from the United States

Ryan Leonard (ice hockey)

Ryan Leonard is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected eighth overall by the Capitals in the 2023 NHL entry draft. He played college ice hockey at Boston College.

Marsha Blackburn

Mary Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Blackburn was a state senator from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, during which time the National Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.

Julian Strawther

Julian Lee Strawther-Cordero is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Derrick Jones Jr.

Derrick Labrent Jones Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels. He is nicknamed "Airplane Mode" because of his dunking ability.

Shemar Moore

Shemar Franklin Moore is an American actor. His notable roles include Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless, Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds (2005–17), and the lead role of Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson on S.W.A.T. (2017–25)—all on CBS. In film, he is known for playing G.U.N. Agent Randall Handel in the second and third films of the Sonic the Hedgehog film series. Moore was also the third permanent host of Soul Train from 1999 to 2003.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

Emayatzy Corinealdi is an American actress. She starred in the Ava DuVernay 2012 drama film Middle of Nowhere, for which she won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer and received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination. Corinealdi later starred in the films Miles Ahead (2016) and The Invitation (2015). On television, she played the role of Belle in the 2016 remake of Roots. She also starred in Hand of God (2014–2017), Ballers (2017–2019), and The Re...

Dean Stockwell

Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor and collage artist, whose career in film and television spanned 70 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), The Secret Garden (1949), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway play Compulsion and its 1959 film version; and in 1962, he played E...

Chet Holmgren

Chet Thomas Holmgren is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A consensus five-star recruit and the top-ranked player of the 2021 class, he played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs and was drafted second overall by the Thunder in the 2022 NBA draft. After missing the 2022–23 season due to an offseason injury, Holmgren returned to earn NBA All-Rookie First Team honors in 2024. In his second season, his t...

Chandra Wilson

Chandra Danette Wilson is an American actress and director best known for her role as Dr. Miranda Bailey in Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and two NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She also played the character of Bailey on Private Practice and Station 19. She made her New York stage debut in 1991 and began to land guest spots on a variety of prime-time televisi...

Griffin Jax

James Griffin Jax is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins. Jax is also an officer in the United States Air Force Reserve.

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Matthew Knies

Matthew Michael Knies is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Knies was drafted 57th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2021 NHL entry draft.

Luke Hughes (ice hockey)

Luke Warren Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey for two years with the University of Michigan of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), reaching the Frozen Four both seasons. He was selected fourth overall by the Devils in the 2021 NHL entry draft.

Matt Boldy

Matthew Edward Boldy is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 12th overall by the Wild in the first round of the 2019 NHL entry draft.

Kyle Nelson (gridiron football)

Kyle Nelson is an American–Canadian professional football long snapper. He played college football at New Mexico State University. He was signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2011.

Kyle Whittingham

Kyle David Whittingham is an American college football coach and former player, currently the head football coach at the University of Michigan. Whittingham previously served as the head coach at the University of Utah from 2005 until 2025, and is the all-time leader in wins for the program. He served as defensive coordinator of the Utes for ten seasons prior, having spent 32 consecutive seasons with the program. Whittingham won AFCA Coach of the Year and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award after le...

James Austin Johnson

James Austin Johnson, is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live, which he joined as a featured player for the show's 47th season in 2021. Known for his skills as an impressionist, he has impersonated both sitting U.S. Presidents during his time on SNL and SNL UK, playing both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Johnson was promoted to a repertory player in 2023.

Tony Bradley (basketball)

Tony Lee Bradley Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina (UNC). A 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) center, Bradley was a primary substitute for the Tar Heels' 2017 NCAA championship team.

Joshua Furnas

Joshua Furnas is an American former football player, social advocate, and co-founder of Selfless Tee.

Michael Forest

Gerald Michael Charlebois, better known as Michael Forest, was an American actor who provided the voices for many animated titles, and played the god Apollo on Star Trek.

Joe Lando

Joseph John Lando is an American actor, known for playing Jake Harrison on daytime's One Life to Live (1990–1992) and Byron Sully on the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998).

Leon Robinson

Leon Preston Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer, who began professional acting as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim, singer David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, and Little Richard in the 2000 film Little Richard.

Travis Greene

Travis Montorius Greene is an American gospel musician and the founding senior pastor of The Forward City Church.

Jack Quinn (politician)

John Francis Quinn Jr. is a retired American politician and academic administrator from the state of New York. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, and went on to serve as president of Erie Community College (ECC) from 2008 to 2017.

Tony Dungy

Anthony Kevin Dungy is an American former professional football safety and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts. His teams became perennial postseason contenders under his leadership, missing the playoffs only twice with Tampa Bay. He led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI, making him the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl.