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Some famous people from the United States of America, alphabetically within categories:
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- John Jacob Astor
- Andrew Carnegie
- Henry Ford
- Bill Gates
- H. L. Hunt
- J. P. Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 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
- 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
- Louis Armstrong
- Miles Davis
- Duke Ellington
- Stephen Foster
- George Gershwin
- Benny Goodman
- Jimi Hendrix
- Buddy Holly
- Scott Joplin
- Charlie Parker
- Elvis Presley
- Henry Clay
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Daniel Webster
- 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
- 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
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