List of people from the United States

Some famous people from the United States of America, alphabetically within categories:

Table of contents

1 Artists 2 Entrepreneurs 3 Filmmakers 4 Inventors 5 Military leaders 6 Military leaders who were also politicians 7 Music 8 Politicians 9 Scientists 10 Writers 11 Other Notables

Artists

• Ansel Adams
• Edward Hopper
• Jackson Pollock
• John Singer Sargent
• Andy Warhol

Entrepreneurs

• John Jacob Astor
• Andrew Carnegie
• William C. Durant
• Henry Ford
• Bill Gates
• H. L. Hunt
• J. P. Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Filmmakers

• Frank Capra
• Walt Disney
• Max Fleischer
• John Frankenheimer
• William Friedkin
• John Ford
• David Wark Griffith
• Ron Howard
• Stanley Kramer
• George Lucas
• Steven Spielberg
• Orson Welles
• Billy Wilder

Inventors

• David Bruce -- Pivotal typecaster 1838
• George E. Clymer -- Columbian Printing Press 1813
• Thomas Edison -- phonograph, many others
• Philo Farnsworth -- Television
• Benjamin Franklin
• Buckminster Fuller-- Dymaxion house
• Cyrus McCormick -- Mechanical reaper
• Samuel F. B. Morse -- Telegraph
• Eli Whitney -- Cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• A. Baldwin Wood -- Pumps
• Wright brothers -- Airplane

Military leaders

• Omar Bradley
• George Armstrong Custer
• Robert E. Lee
• Douglas MacArthur
• George Patton
• Oliver Hazard Perry -- war of 1812 naval officer "We have met the enemy and they are ours"
• John J. Pershing
• William T. Sherman

Military leaders who were also politicians

• P.G.T. Beauregard
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William Henry Harrison
• Sam Houston
• Andrew Jackson
• Colin Powell
• Zachary Taylor
• George Washington

Music

• Louis Armstrong
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Dave Brubeck
• Karen Carpenter
• Van Cliburn
• Nat King Cole
• Miles Davis
• Duke Ellington
• Stephen Foster
• Aretha Franklin
• Jerry Garcia
• George Gershwin
• Benny Goodman
• Lionel Hampton
• 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
• John Philip Sousa
• Frank Sinatra
• Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
• Teddy Wilson

Politicians

• Hattie Caraway
• Henry Clay
• Benjamin Franklin
• Barry Goldwater
• Hubert Humphrey
• Thomas Jefferson
• Jack Kemp
• John F Kennedy
• Abraham Lincoln
• Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Daniel Webster

Scientists

• Robert Oppenheimer
• Linus Pauling
• Jonas Salk

Writers

• Isaac Asimov
• Orson Scott Card
• Tom Clancy
• Michael Crichton
• Emily Dickinson
• T.S. Eliot
• William Faulkner
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Robert Frost
• Allen Ginsberg
• Emily Hahn
• Jack Kerouac
• Francis Scott Key -- wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
• Ken Kesey
• Stephen King
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ernest Hemingway
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Herman Melville
• Arthur Miller
• Sylvia Plath
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Anne Rice
• J.D. Salinger
• William Saroyan
• Upton Sinclair
• John Steinbeck
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Henry David Thoreau
• John Kennedy Toole
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Ezra Vogel
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Walt Whitman
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tennessee Williams

Other Notables

• Susan B. Anthony
• Daniel Boone
• John Brown (abolitionist)
• George Washington Carver
• Noam Chomsky
• Davy Crockett
• Melvil Dewey
• Frederick Douglass
• W. E. B. DuBois
• Isadora Duncan
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Robert Ingersoll
• Bernard Kerik
• Martin Luther King Jr
• Cotton Mather
• Rosa Parks
• Paul Revere
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth)
• Benjamin Spock
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Booker T. Washington
• Noah Webster
• Malcolm X

See also: List of African-Americans, List of Italian-Americans, List of people, List of people by nationality, List of people by U.S. state