List of people from the United States

Artists

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

Entrepreneurs

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

Filmmakers

• Walt Disney
• Max Fleischer
• John Ford
• David Wark Griffith
• Orson Welles

Inventors

• David Bruce -- Pivotal typecaster 1838
• George E. Clymer -- Columbian Printing Press 1813
• Thomas Edison -- incandescent lamp, phonograph, many others
• Benjamin Franklin
• Buckminster Fuller
• Cyrus McCormick -- Mechanical reaper
• Samuel F. B. Morse -- telegraph
• Eli Whitney -- cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• A. Baldwin Wood -- pumps

Military leaders

• 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
• Sam Houston
• Colin Powell
• George Washington

Music

• Louis Armstrong
• Miles Davis
• Duke Ellington
• Stephen Foster
• George Gershwin
• Benny Goodman
• Jimi Hendrix
• Buddy Holly
• Scott Joplin
• Charlie Parker
• Elvis Presley

Politicians

• Henry Clay
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin Delano 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
• 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
• Upton Sinclair
• John Steinbeck
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Henry David Thoreau
• John Kennedy Toole
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Ezra Vogel
• Walt Whitman
• Tennessee Williams

Other Notables

• 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
• Andrew Hartzell[?]
• Robert Ingersoll[?]
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Cotton Mather
• Rosa Parks
• Paul Revere
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth)
• Benjamin Spock
• 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