Flashcards: People with acquired American citizenship

Eric Clifford 'Cliff' Drysdale (born 26 May 1941, Nelspruit, South Africa) is a former top-ranked professional tennis player of the 1960s and early 1970s who became a well-known tennis announcer.

Edgar Wikner Percival (23 February 1897 – 21 January 1984) was a noted Australian aircraft designer and pilot whose aircraft were distinguished by speed and grace.

Bala Krishna "Beekay" Srinivas, born Bindiganavale Krishniengar Srinivas, is an Indian American and the former mayor of Hollywood Park, Texas, in the United States of America.

Loris Ohannes Chobanian (born April 17, 1933 to Armenian parents in Mosul, Iraq) is an Armenian-American composer of classical music, conductor, and guitar and lute teacher and performer.

Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian American former racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport.

Martin Pierre Brodeur (French pronunciation: ​[maʁtɛ̃ bʁɔdœʁ]; born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender and the assistant general manager of the St.

Jack Shaindlin (April 14, 1909 – September 22, 1978) was a Ukrainian-American musician, composer, arranger, conductor, and music director.

Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born 28 June 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981.

Michael Allinson (30 December 1920 – 30 December 2010) was a British-American stage and film actor.

Kurt Kreuger (July 23, 1916 – July 12, 2006) was a Swiss-reared German actor.

Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (Konkani: दिनेश जोसफ डिसूज़ा; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American political commentator, author, and filmmaker.

Reverend Phillip Jun Buck is a Korean-American Christian missionary for Assemblies of God Korean District and an advocate for human rights in North Korea.

Greta Zimmer Friedman (born Margarete Zimmer; June 5, 1924 – September 8, 2016) was an Austrian-born American who was photographed being sexually assaulted by a sailor on V-J Day 1945 by Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Tania Marmolejo (born September 5, 1975) is a Dominican born, Dominican Swedish American painter.

William Bruce Mageean Lansbury (born 12 January 1930) is an award-winning British-American television producer.

John Ivan Simon (born May 12, 1925) is an American author and literary, theater, and film critic.

John Francis Timoney (July 2, 1948 – August 16, 2016) was an American policeman and law enforcement executive.

Jose Pimentel (born November 8, 1984), also known as Muhammad Yusuf, is a naturalized U.

Pamela Mason (10 March 1916 – 29 June 1996), also known as Pamela Kellino, was an English-American actress, author, and screenwriter, known for being the creative partner and first wife of English actor James Mason.

Peter Paul O'Dwyer (June 29, 1907 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish-born American politician and lawyer and the younger brother of Mayor William O'Dwyer and father to New York City lawyer Brian O'Dwyer.

Joseph Heco (born Hikozō Hamada (浜田彦蔵 Hamada Hikozō) September 20, 1837 – December 12, 1897) was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper.

Tristan Rogers (born 3 June 1946, Melbourne) is an Australian American actor.

Franz Schulz (born 22 March 1897 in Prague, Austria-Hungary, died 4 May 1971, in Muralto, Tessin, Switzerland) was a playwright and screenwriter who worked from 1920 through 1956.

George Trofimoff was born in Berlin, Germany on March 9, 1927.

Lo Ta-yu (simplified Chinese: 罗大佑; traditional Chinese: 羅大佑; pinyin: Luó Dàyòu; born July 20, 1954), also known as Luo Dayou and Law Tai-yau, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter who, during the 1980s, affected Chinese pop and rock music with his melodic lyrics, his love songs, and his witty social and political commentary that he infused in his more political songs, often to the point that some of his songs were suppressed in Taiwan and China during the 1980s.

William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890 – November 24, 1964) was the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.

Evelyn Felisa Ankers (August 17, 1918 – August 29, 1985) was a British-American actress born in Valparaiso, Chile.

Dina Babbitt (née Gottliebová; January 23, 1923, Brno, Czechoslovakia – July 29, 2009, Felton, California) was an artist and Holocaust survivor.

Fadi Chehadé (Arabic: فادي شحادة) (born 1962) is an information technology executive, founder of RosettaNet and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICANN.

Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901–March 30, 1990) was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA).

Nora Lam (September 4, 1932 – February 2, 2004) was a Chinese Protestant Christian minister to China, and founder of Nora Lam Ministries International (NLMI).

Xue Feng (Chinese: 薛峰; pinyin: Xuē Fēng; born February 6, 1965), a naturalized American citizen, is a geologist who worked for IHS Inc.

Ian Laperrière (born January 19, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Oleg Cassini (April 11, 1913 – March 17, 2006) was an American fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry.

Ulf Bo Samuelsson (born March 26, 1964) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman and currently the head coach for the Charlotte Checkers.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛv bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyev bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] ; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B.

Elizabeta Karabolli (Karabolli was her maiden name, her married name is Elizabeta Nishica), born 1958, is an Albanian-American sport shooter, who became the 1979 European Champion in air pistol, representing Albania.

Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; 20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men.

Diane von Fürstenberg, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg (German: Diane Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg; born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin; December 31, 1946) is a Belgian-born American fashion designer best known for her iconic wrap dress.

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (/əˈlaɪʒuːˌɒn/; [olaɟuwɔ̃]; born January 21, 1963), formerly known as Akeem Olajuwon, is a Nigerian-American retired professional basketball player.

Enrique Jordá (March 24, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Spanish-American conductor.

Alexandre Sidorenko (born 18 February 1988) is a French tennis player.

Elizabeth Furse (born October 13, 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a small business owner and former faculty member of Portland State University.

Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015) was a Bermudian-born American actress.

Darius Kasparaitis (born October 16, 1972) is a Lithuanian American retired professional ice hockey defenceman.

Francis Fan Lee (李凡, born January 28, 1927) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Elaine Lan Chao (Chinese: 趙 小 蘭; born March 26, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 24th U.

Andrea Collarini (born 31 January 1992) is an Argentinian–American tennis player.

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Oleg Fediukov (Russian: Олег Федюков; born October 20, 1972) is an American former competitive ice dancer.

Olga Grushin (born 1971) is a Russian-American novelist.

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda (born 4 May 1942) is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker.

Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa (born in Lhasa in Tibet, 7 September 1943-) is a Tibetan banker, activist, writer and poet, one of the first to write in English, composing poems in this language in 1967.

Lodewijk van den Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn dɛm ˈbɛrx]; born March 24, 1932) is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Nee is an Irish-American mobster.

Mahmoud Reza Banki (Persian: محمود رضا بانکی; born 1976) is an Iranian-American scientist and management consultant.

Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering.

Hans von Holstein, better known as Monte Carlo (14 July 1883 — 9 June 1967), was a Danish-born American Broadway composer and author.

Nicholas Yang Wei-hsiung (Chinese: 楊偉雄, born 22 April 1955 in Taiwan) is the Secretary for Innovation and Technology of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since November, 2015, who has also served as the Executive Vice President of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President (Crown, June 2009) and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (Crown, November 2010).

Celia Lovsky (February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979) was an Austrian American actress.

Dominic Habsburg-Lothringen, also known as Dominic von Habsburg (born 4 July 1937, Sonnberg, Lower Austria) is a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, also known by his ancestral titles as Archduke Dominic of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany.

Philip Murray (May 25, 1886 – November 9, 1952) was a Scottish-born steelworker and an American labor leader.

James Hillier, OC (August 22, 1915 – January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-American scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938.

Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903 – 19 November 1956) was an English film and stage actor.

Ferdinand Kramer (January 22, 1898, Frankfurt, Germany– November 4, 1985, Frankfurt) was an important German architect and functionalist designer.

Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker.

Anita Kert Ellis (born Anita Kurt; April 12, 1920, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian-born American singer and actress.

Diana Van der Vlis (June 9, 1935 - October 22, 2001) was a Canadian-American stage, screen and television actress best known for her characters ‘Dr.

Douglas G. Stuart (born October 5, 1931) is a Regents' professor emeritus of Physiology at the University of Arizona.

Mary-Louise Hooper (June 12, 1907 – August 14, 1987) was a wealthy American heiress and civil rights activist and anti-apartheid activist, whose brief imprisonment in Johannesburg, South Africa and subsequent exclusion from South Africa in 1957 was a cause célèbre both in South Africa and the USA.

Sergio Franchi (April 6, 1926 – May 1, 1990), born Sergio Franci Galli, was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s.

Alex Boyé (born 1970) is a British-born British-American singer and actor.

Arthur St. Leger "Texas" Mosse (March 29, 1872 – January 8, 1956) was an American football player and coach and the 9th head football coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers and the 13th head football coachfor the University of Kansas Jayhawks.

Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas, AO (born 18 December 1951 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian-born American aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut.

Raimundo Lida (1908–1979) was an Argentine philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist.

Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Yoruba Nigerian descent.

Ivor Thord-Gray (April 17, 1878 – August 18, 1964) was a Swedish-born adventurer, soldier, ethnologist, writer and linguist.

James Murdoch Austin (May 25, 1915 – November 26, 2000) was a New Zealand American meteorologist.

Janice Biala (September 11, 1903 – September 24, 2000) was an artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France and the United States.

Sansan Chien (Chinese: 簡郁珊; July 1, 1967 – October 24, 2011) was a composer of contemporary classical music well known in Taiwan for her teaching of music theory and composition.