- Leandro Aragoncillo
Leandro Aragoncillo (born 1959) is a naturalized Filipino-American and a retired Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He worked as a security specialist at the White House for 31 months from 1999 to 2001, first under Vice President Al Gore and then under Vice President Dick Cheney. Aragoncillo was hired to work at the Army's Ft. Monmouth base in New Jersey in July 2004 and began sending classified information and documents in January 2005, … - Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974) is a Canadian and naturalized American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She is recognized for creating one of the highest selling albums in the history of the music industry, and has won seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a child recorded two dance-pop albums, "Alanis" and "Now Is the Time", under MCA Records. - Dorothy Stang
Dorothy Mae Stang was an American-born, Brazilian sister of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order, who was murdered in Anapu, a city in the state of Pará, in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Stang was outspoken in her efforts on behalf of the poor and the environment, and had previously received death threats from loggers and land owners. - Dave Matthews
David John Matthews (born January 9 1967) is a South African, now naturalized American, Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. He has also worked as a solo artist and with other musicians such as Josh Groban, most often with Tim Reynolds. An occasional actor, he has appeared in two feature films. - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - Antonio Naelson
Antônio Naelson Matias, also known simply as Zinha, is a Brazilian-Mexican football player, who is currently playing as midfielder for Club Toluca, where he is often called "El Toñito". Naelson stands at 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) and weighs 67 kg (147 lb) and is often the shortest player on the football field. He was part of the Mexican 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, … - Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke KBE (November 20, 1908 - March 30, 2004) was a British-American journalist and broadcaster. Born in England, he became a naturalized American citizen, and lived in New York City with his family for most of his adult life. - Guillermo Franco
Guillermo Luis Franco Farcuason (born on November 3, 1976 in Corrientes, Argentina) is an international Argentine- Mexican football striker, who currently plays for Spanish club Villarreal CF in La Liga - Alex Trebek
George Alexander Trebek (born as Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek on July 22, 1940) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host who's best known as the host of the game show "Jeopardy!" since September 10, 1984. He has hosted numerous game/quiz shows and has appeared in television series, usually as himself. Though a native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. - Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated African actor, dancer and fashion model. - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Gao Zhan
Gao Zhan is a researcher who worked at the American University in Washington, DC. In 2001, the government of the People's Republic of China detained her for 166 days on the grounds that she was spying for Taiwan. At that time, she was widely regarded as a political dissident. Upon her release through medical parole, she was scheduled to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, but the ceremony was quickly cancelled. - Chai Vang
Chai Soua Vang (born September 24, 1968) is a a naturalized U.S. citizen and a Hmong immigrant from Laos. While hunting, Vang shot eight deer hunters in northern Wisconsin on November 21, 2004. Eventually, six of the hunters died and two were left wounded. According to court proceedings prior to his conviction, Vang acknowledged shooting the hunters, including one woman, … - Mike Feghali
Mike Feghali (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the supervisor of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish desks of the Washington, D.C. field office, upon which FBI agents nationwide rely for translating documents and audio recordings from those languages into English. Feghali, who has worked for the FBI for several years, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He holds several degrees in foreign languages. - David Regis
David Regis (born December 2, 1968), is a former French-American soccer defender, who played for the United States at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and was an unused substitute at the 2002 World Cup. Regis began his pro career in 1988 with Valenciennes and played there until 1993. He then transferred to Strasbourg in 1993, Lens in 1996, and Karlsruhe in 1997. That last move was designed to get noticed by the French national team by playing in Germany's Bundesliga, … - Louis Adamic
Louis Alojzi Adamic was a Slovenian-American author and translator. Adamic was born at the Praproče castle in Blato (literally, "Mud") near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia. He came from a peasant family. His meager childhood education was obtained from the local schools and in Ljubljana where he was expelled at age 15 for taking part in student demonstrations against the ruling Austrians. - Noshir Gowadia
Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia is a former design engineer at Northrop Corporation. He was involved in the creation of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and has been accused of selling classified information about the B-2 Spirit to foreign governments, including the People's Republic of China, Israel, Iran, India, Germany, and Switzerland. Gowadia was born in India, but immigrated to the United States and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. - Lauchlin Currie
Lauchlin Bernard Currie was a Canadian-born economist from New Dublin, Nova Scotia, Canada, a U.S. economist, and an alleged Soviet Agent. As a naturalized American citizen, Currie served as White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II (from 1939 to 1945). From 1949 to 1953, he directed a major World Bank mission to Colombia and related studies, and became a Colombian citizen after the United States refused to renew his passport in 1954. - Lorenzo da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano. He was the first faculty member to have been born a Jew, and also the first to have been ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. In 1828, at the age of 79, da Ponte became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Another distinction shared by him with Mozart is the fact his place of burial is unmarked. Da Ponte was originally buried in a Catholic cemetery in Manhattan near Old Saint Patrick's Cathedral. - Maria Irene Fornes
Maria Irene Fornes (born 1930) is a Cuban-American playwright. Fornes was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 15. She became a naturalized citizen in 1951. Her first publicly performed play, "Tango Palace", was produced in 1963. She gained prominence in avant-garde circles and became friendly with such prominent figures of 1960s and 1970s culture in New York as the now deceased Joseph Papp and Susan Sontag, … - Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902 - December 26, 1986 in Woodland Hills, California) was an Oscar-nominated English character actress who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton. She is best remembered for her role as the monster's wife in "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935). - Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein was an accomplished, and award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing "Two Arabian Knights" (1927), "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), "The General Died at Dawn" (1936)"Of Mice and Men" (1940), "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). Milestone was born in Kishinev (Bessarabia, Imperial Russia, now — Chişinău, Moldova), … - Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 - December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia (ruled at that time by imperial Russia) to an Armenian family, Rouben relocated to England and started directing plays in London in 1922. He moved to America the next year to teach in Eastman School of Music and was involved in directing opera and theatre. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Jim Graham
Jim Graham is a politician from Washington, D.C. He is currently a Democratic member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where has served as an elected councilmember for Ward 1 since 1999. Jim Graham is an openly gay, naturalized immigrant from Scotland. - Shawn Redhage
Shawn Redhage (born January 21, 1981 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American basketballer currently playing in the National Basketball League for the Perth Wildcats. In the United States, Redhage was awarded Nebraska Player of the Year award in 1998/99 after a stunning senior year with Lincoln East High School. After high school, Redhage began studying and playing for Arizona State University. During his time with the Arizona State Sun Devils, … - Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond is a Hungarian-American cinematographer. He was born in Szeged, Hungary, and studied cinema at the State Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Budapest. Together with his friend and fellow student László Kovács, he filmed the events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest and then smuggled the film out of the country shortly afterwards. In 1962 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year. - Alexander Godunov
Aleksandr Borisovich Godunov (Russian: Александр Борисович Годунов, 28 November, 1949, Sakhalin, USSR — 18 May, 1995, Los Angeles, California) was a Russian ballet dancer and actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the USA and the USSR. He joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 1971 and rose to become premier dancer before defecting to the USA in 1979. After briefly dancing with the American Ballet Theatre, … - Jacques Tourneur
Jacques Tourneur (November 12, 1904-December 19, 1977) was a French film director. Born in Paris, France, he was the son of noted director Maurice Tourneur. As a young man, Jacques went to live in New York City and proceeded to Hollywood with his father. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1919. He is famous for directing three atmospheric "horror" movies (in fact, … - Paul Henreid
Paul Georg Julius Hernried Freiherr von Wassel-Waldingau, (January 10, 1908 - March 29, 1992), known professionally as Paul Henreid, was an actor and film director probably best known for his roles in "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager". Born in Trieste, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Henreid was the son of an aristocratic Viennese banker. - Martin Buser
Martin Buser (b. March 29, 1958 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a champion of sled dog racing. Martin Buser began mushing at age seventeen in Switzerland. In 1979, Buser moved to Alaska to train and raise sled dogs full time. His training operation, Happy Dogs Kennels, is located in Big Lake, Alaska. He entered his first Iditarod in 1980, and has run every race since 1986, his third Iditarod. In twenty Iditarods, Buser has won the event four times, in 1992, 1994, 1997, … - Gabriel Caballero
Gabriel Esteban Caballero Schiker is an Mexican footballer. Caballero started playing in his native Argentina's Central Córdoba in 1989, and in 1993 he transferred to Chilean Antofagasta. In 1995 he arrived in Mexico, and has played for Mexican teams such as Santos Laguna, Pachuca, Atlas and Puebla, winning 6 championships (Santos Laguna, Pachuca), most recently with Pachuca on May 27, 2007. Caballero became a naturalized Mexican on December 11, 2001, … - Ruy Ramos
is a Brazilian-born football (soccer) player, who became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 1989. He was one of the first foreign players in Japanese professional soccer, joining Yomiuri FC (later Verdy Kawasaki, now Tokyo Verdy 1969) in 1977 at the age of 20. He was an important member of the Japanese national team during their unsuccessful 1994 World Cup qualification, eventually retiring from the game in 1998 at the age of 41. - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazza, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 26, 1852 - September 14, 1905) was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized French. With the backing of the Société de Géographique de Paris, he opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in Central Africa. - Svetlana Alliluyeva
Svetlana Alliluyeva Stalina (born February 28, 1926, Svetlana Iosifovna Dzhugashvili) is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. A writer and naturalized United States citizen, Alliluyeva caused an international furor by defecting to the United States in 1967. Like most children of high-ranking Soviet officials, Svetlana was raised by a nanny and only occasionally saw her parents. - Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper, born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (Dec 7 1905, Harenkarspel (Tuitjenhorn) - Dec 23 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch American astronomer who became a naturalized citizen of the United States and lived most of his life in his new homeland. Kuiper, the son of a tailor in a rural village in North Holland, had an early interest in astronomy. He was blessed with an extraordinarily sharp eyesight, … - Dumarsais Simeus
Dumarsais Mécène Siméus was born in 1939, is a Haitian-born and U.S. naturalized businessman from Texas. Simeus has returned to Haiti to be a candidate in the first presidential election since the ouster of Jean Bertrand Aristide. - César Pelli
César Pelli is a noted architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His firm has its headquarters and employs about 100 architects in New Haven, Connecticut. He is known for his extensive use of curved facades and metallic elements in his designs. Pelli emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1964. After studying architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, … - Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophüls. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950. - Solomon Adler
Solomon Adler (or Sol Adler was born in Great Britain and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1936, when he obtained employment in the United States Department of the Treasury. Adler also was a Soviet spy who supplied information to the Silvermaster espionage ring. Adler served in China and shared a house with Chi Ch’ao ting and "China hand" John S. Service.
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