Biographies of Notable U.S. Immigrants

Biographies of Notable U.S. Immigrants

Charlize Theron, actor

• Chinua Achebe , writer
• Christiane Amanpour, TV news correspondent
• Elizabeth Arden, entrepreneur
• Desi Arnaz, actor, producer
• W. H. Auden, poet, writer
• John James Audubon, ornithologist
• Antonio Banderas, actor
• Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
• Victoria Beckham, singer
• Saul Bellow, writer
• Josephine Baker, singer and dancer
• Irving Berlin, composer
• Victor Borge, pianist, comedian
• Fernando Botero, painter, sculptor
• Charles Boyer, actor
• Anne Bradstreet, poet
• Sergey Brin, business personality, computer scientist
• Joseph Brodsky, poet
• Yul Brynner, actor
• Jose Canseco, baseball player
• Stokely Carmichael, activist
• Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist
• Jackie Chan, actor, filmmaker
• Albert Claude, biologist
• Claudette Colbert, actor
• Nadia Comaneci, gymnast
• Quentin Crisp, writer and actor
• Celia Cruz, filmmaker
• Richard Dawson, game show host
• Willem de Kooning, artist
• Oscar de La Renta, fashion designer
• Kiran Desai, writer
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist
• Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont, chemist, entrepreneur
• Albert Einstein, physicist
• Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst
• Gloria Estefan, singer
• Enrico Fermi, physicist
• Eva Gabor, actor
• Andy Garcia, actor
• Greer Garson, actor
• Khalil Gibran, poet and novelist
• Cary Grant, actor
• Audrey Hepburn, actor
• Anthony Hopkins, actor
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• Aldous Huxley, writer

• Iman, model
• Henry James, writer
• Wyclef Jean, musician, political figure
• John Paul Jones, American naval hero
• Elia Kazan, director
• Teresan Heinz Kerry, philanthropist, public figure
• Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State
• Mila Kunis, actor
• Tommy Lee, musician
• Wen Ho Lee, scientist
• John Leguizamo, actor, comedian
• John Lennon, rock musician, songwriter
• Louis Malle, director
• Thomas Mann, novelist, essayist
• Bob Marley, singer, songwriter
• Yao Ming, basketball player
• James McGreevey, singer, songwriter
• Mario Molina, chemist, Nobel laureate
• Ricardo Montalban, actor
• Van Morrison, singer, songwriter
• John Muir, writer, naturalist

• Vladimir Nabokov, writer
• Thomas Nast, cartoonist
• Martina Navratilova, tennis player
• Leslie Nielsen, actor
• John George Nicolay, writer, lawyer, government official
• Maureen O'Hara, actor
• Ann-Margaret (Olsson), actor
• Yoko Ono, artist
• Robert Dale Owen, writer, government official
• William Paterson, lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Governor, U.S. Senator
• Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, pianist, composer, conductor
• Ayn Rand, writer, philosopher
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Governor, actor, bodybuilder
• Monica Seles, tennis player
• Sammy Sosa, baseball player
• Jerry Springer, TV personality
• Miles Standish colonist
• Isaac Stern, violinist
• Lee Strasberg, theatrical teacher, director, actor
• Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, pianist

• Jessica Tandy, actor
• Charlize Theron, actor
• Alex Trebek, game show host
• Tracey Ullman, actor
• Rudolph Valentino, actor
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex advisor, TV personality
• Neil Young, rock musician, guitarist, songwriter