Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.