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Born American

It was originally supposed to star Chuck Norris but he backed out when filming was delayed by funding problems and his son, Mike Norris, landed the lead instead.


Tongsun Park

In 1992 he was approached by Samir Vincent, an Iraqi-born American who was lobbying unofficially on behalf of the Saddam Hussein regime, to try to create a program that would bypass the United Nations-approved economic sanctions of Iraq that had started in 1991.


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January 29Thomas Paine, British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. 1809)

Adisa

Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954), Jamaican-born American poet and academic

Altdorf, Switzerland

There are several paintings here by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) whose family came from Hospental, including portraits of Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Merry del Val, the artist's father Alois Muller, his uncle Domherr Josef Muller, and a large allegorical work Alpenrose und Edelweiss.

Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948 in Udine) is an Italian-born American percussionist and composer of minimal music.

Ansara

Michael Ansara (1922–2013), Syrian-born American actor and voice actor

Aubrey J. Kempner

Aubrey John Kempner (22 September 1880, Greater London, England – 18 November 1973, Boulder, Colorado) was an English-born American mathematician, known for the Kempner function and the Kempner series.

Bonaventura Cerretti

In the summer of 1930 in Rome he was painted by his friend the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947).

Bronisława Wajs

Zoli, the fourth novel of the Irish-born American writer Colum McCann follows the life of Marienka Novotna, nicknamed "Zoli", a fictional Slovak Romani woman.

David Dunbar

David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929), Scottish-born American inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company

David Epstein

David Eppstein (born 1963), English-born American mathematician and professor of computer science

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.

Gary Pomerantz

The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20s and the darkness of the Depression when a suave and cunning Russian-born American named Ely Culbertson became the Barnum of a bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Kansas City.

George C. Howard

George C. Howard (1818–1887) was a Nova Scotian-born American actor and showman who is credited with staging the first theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

George E. Hibbard

George E. Hibbard (1924–1991) was a Saint Louis-born American art collector, and renowned expert on Tibetan art and culture.

George Gibson

George Ernest Gibson (1884–1959), Scottish born American nuclear chemist

Gregory Rose

Gregory G. Rose (born 1955), Australian-born American cryptographer

Hagel

Otto Hagel (1909–1973), German-born American photographer and filmmaker

Haslinger

Paul Haslinger (born 1962), Austrian-born American composer and musician

Herbert Drury

Herb Drury (1895–1965), Canadian-born American ice hockey player

Hinrichs

Gustav Hinrichs (1850–1942), German-born American composer and conductor

Hyuk

Hyuk Shin (born 1985), South Korean-born American music producer

Ian Tattersall

--(born October 5, 1945)--> is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York.

Jacob Churg

Jacob Churg, born 16 July 1910 Daŭhinava, Belarus, died 27 July 2005 NYC, was a Russian-born American pathologist.

James Braidwood

James Braidwood (engineer) (1832–1879), Scottish-born American mining engineer and minor industrialist, namesake of Braidwood, Illinois

John Llewellyn

John Anthony Llewellyn (1933–2013), British-born American scientist and NASA astronaut

LUH

Bor S. Luh (1916-2001), a Chinese-born American food scientist

Malkiel

Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998), Russian-born American etymologist and philologist

Mekas

Jonas Mekas (born 1922), Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator

Noga Nir-Kistler

Noga Nir-Kistler (May 18, 1979) is an Israeli born American Paralympic swimmer and table tennis player who won 2 silver medals at the 2007 Parapan American Games for table tennis singles and doubles.

Peter Berger

Peter L. Berger (born 1929), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian

Pol Plançon

During the winter of 1896–1897, the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury painted a portrait of him for the wealthy operetta composer Emma Marcy Raymond, which was subsequently exhibited in March 1897 at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New York.

Raymond Rodgers

Raymond Spencer Rodgers (1935–2007), British-born American educator and futurist

Rene Enriquez

René Enríquez, Nicaraguan-born American television actor of the 1970s and 1980s

Rimša

Filip Jan Rymsza (born 1977), Polish-born American filmmaker and writer

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg (4 July 1889 - 1 May 1983), a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer

Sara Ellis

Sara Lee Ellis (born 1969), Canadian-born American federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois

Shelley Malil

Shelley Mathew Malil (born in Kerala, India; December 23, 1964) is an Indian-born American actor.

Soyer

Isaac Soyer (1902–1981), Russian-born American social realist painter who often portrayed working-class people of New York City

Stanhope Wood Nixon

In 1902 or 1903 he was painted as a boy by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) full-length dressed in Scottish costume (Private Collection, New Jersey).

Stephen Birch

During his lifetime, he avoided publicity and seldom gave interviews or had his picture taken, though he did have his portrait painted in 1911 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury.

Szcześniak

Alina Surmacka Szczesniak (born 1925), Polish-born, American food scientist

Tadeusz Kassern

Among Kassern's well known students was the Italian-born American composer Dalmazio Santini (1923-2001).

Takako Akasaka

Her women's world record for hot dog eating was bested by Sonya Thomas, a Korean-born American.

Thomas Watt Gregory

His portrait was painted in 1917 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), and hangs in the Department of Justice in Washington DC.

Van der Pol

Anneliese van der Pol (born 1984), Dutch-born American actress and singer

Van Vliet

Carolyne M. Van Vliet (born in Dordrecht), Dutch-born American physicist

William Coe

William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist

William Hope

Bob Hope (William Henry Hope), British-born American comedian and actor

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by Russian-born American filmmaker Elena Beloff.