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Famous People Born in USA
Discover 31 famous people born in USA. Explore their birthplaces on the interactive map below.
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31 Personalities
Louisa May Alcott
(Writer) - Germantown, USA (November 29th, 1832)
Kathleen Alcott
(Novelist) - Sonoma County, USA (October 17th, 1988)
Maya Angelou
(Poet, Writer) - St. Louis, USA (April 4th, 1928)
Katherine Anne Porter
(Writer) - Indianapolis, USA (May 15th, 1890)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Writer) - Litchfield, USA (June 14th, 1811)
Rachel Carson
(scientist) - Springdale, USA (May 27th, 1907)
Willa Cather
(Writer) - Gore, USA (December 7th, 1873)
Kate Chopin
(Writer) - St. Louis, USA (February 8th, 1850)
Emily Dickinson
(Poet) - Amherst, USA (December 10th, 1830)
T. S. Eliot
(Poet) - St. Louis, USA (September 26th, 1888)
William Faulkner
(Writer) - New Albany, USA (September 25th, 1897)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer) - Saint Paul, USA (September 24th, 1896)
Garth Greenwell
(Novelist) - Louisville, USA (January 1st, 1978)
Lauren Groff
(Novelist) - Cooperstown, USA (1978)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Writer) - Salem, USA (July 4th, 1804)
Ernest Hemingway
(Writer) - Oak Park, USA (July 21st, 1899)
Andrew Jackson
(Political leader, military) - Waxhaws region (Carolinas), USA (March 15th, 1767)
Ada Limón
(Poet) - Sonoma, USA (March 28th, 1976)
Barbara McClintock
(scientist) - Hartford, USA (June 16th, 1902)
Paul Morphy
(Chess player) - New Orleans, USA (June 22nd, 1837)
Toni Morrison
(Writer) - Lorain, USA (February 18th, 1931)
Hikaru Nakamura
(Chess player, Streamer) - Lansing, USA (December 9th, 1987)
Nnedi Okorafor
(Novelist) - Cincinnati, USA (April 8th, 1974)
Julie Otsuka
(Novelist) - Palo Alto, USA (May 15th, 1962)
Annie Proulx
(Writer) - Norwich, USA (August 22nd, 1935)
Carl Sagan
(scientist) - Brooklyn, USA (November 9th, 1934)
Brandon Taylor
(Essayist, Novelist) - Birmingham, USA (June 14th, 1989)
Henry David Thoreau
(Writer) - Concord, USA (July 12th, 1817)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet) - Portland, USA (February 27th, 1807)
Alice Walker
(Poet, Writer) - Eatonton, USA (February 9th, 1944)
Walt Whitman
(Poet, Writer) - West Hills, USA (May 31st, 1819)