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  Biographies of Notable U.S. Immigrants       A-H | H-M | N-S | T-Z    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  A-H | H-M | N-S | T-Z  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  A-H | H-M | N-S | T-Z  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  A-H | H-M | N-S | T-Z  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  More Immigration Features  

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  • 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

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