American Famous Girl Names with Letter A

Is an American figure skater.

Is an American figure skater.

She attended Saint Ann's School alongside her Bringing Rain (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. Alexis

She attended Saint Ann's School alongside her Bringing Rain (2003) costar, Paz de la Huerta. Alexis spent many of her summers, growing up, in a small South New Jersey shore town, Sea Isle City. Also, during high school, she attended some classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in a number of plays there.[2] In 2005, she played Lolita (a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita), a teenage girl, in Broken Flowers, in which she appeared fully nude in front of Bill Murray's character. She played Kira Underlay in ABC's Invasion. She made her acting debut in TNT's Witchblade.

Was a folk singer-songwriter. She led the Alexis Shepard Band, also including John Rapoza, Jerry O'H

Was a folk singer-songwriter. She led the Alexis Shepard Band, also including John Rapoza, Jerry O'Hare, and Mike Aiello. She was hit by a truck and died while riding her bicycle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This occurred just before the planned recording

Was a Canadian actress.Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith shares a birt

Was a Canadian actress.Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith shares a birthname with actress Mary Pickford. Later in life she would say she preferred New York, while her husband of 49 years, actor Craig Stevens, favored California. She was quite tall, standing at least 5'9", and to fit her, the long, stylish dresses that former Warner Brothers star Kay Francis had worn were allotted to her. Besides Smith and Francis, actress Ingrid Bergman was the only other tallest leady lady at that time. After being noticed in a play, Smith was signed to a contract by Warner Brothers Studios. Her earliest film roles were uncredited bit parts and it took several years for her career to gain momentum, but her appearance in The Constant Nymph was well received and led to bigger parts. During the 1940s she appeared opposite some of the most popular male stars of the day, including Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim (1942) and San Antonio (1945) (in which she sang a special version of the popular ballad Some sunday morning), Humphrey Bogart in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947), Cary Grant in a sanitized, fictional version of Cole and Linda Porter's life in Night and Day (1946), and Bing Crosby in Here Comes the Groom (1951)..

Is an American professional snowboarder based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. She learned to snowboard

Is an American professional snowboarder based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. She learned to snowboard when she was 12 years old near her hometown of Seattle. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Alexis Waite learned to snowboard at loca

Is an up and coming singer-songwriter and vocalist also known as a Gemini Award-winning Canadian act

Is an up and coming singer-songwriter and vocalist also known as a Gemini Award-winning Canadian actress for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star, where her performances have been three times nominated for a Gem

With an outgoing personality, Alexz moved into acting, where she excelled, landing auditions for com

With an outgoing personality, Alexz moved into acting, where she excelled, landing auditions for commercials and a showcase for a pilot called "Most Talented Kids". She auditioned for the Disney television series So Weird which, for the final season of the show, was looking for a lead actress who could also sing. Alexz was offered the job immediately after her audition.

Was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.Alfonsina was born

Was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.Alfonsina was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist living in Switzerland for a few years. There, Alfonsina learned to speak Italian. After t

Is a female wrestler who earned a bye in women's freestyle wrestling qualifying her to compete again

Is a female wrestler who earned a bye in women's freestyle wrestling qualifying her to compete against 2004 bronze medal-winner Katie Downing, whom she defeated in two matches at the 2008 qualifying match in Las Vegas; that feat earned her a spot to compe

From 2001 to 2002, Shawkat starred as Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom State of Grace, aired

From 2001 to 2002, Shawkat starred as Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom State of Grace, aired in the United States on the cable television channel Fox Family (renamed ABC Family in 2001), where she starred opposite Mae Whitman, who later appeared with Shawkat on Arrested Development. She was a regular cast member of the Fox Network series Arrested Development for the entire run of the show from 2003 to 2006. She played Maeby Fünke.Shawkat also appeared in the feature films Rebound, Three Kings and the television movie The Trial of Old Drum. She has made guest appearances in the television series JAG, Without a Trace, and Veronica Mars. She appeared in a Lifetime movie original Not Like Everyone Else, based on the true story of Brandi Blackbear.

The younger sister of actress and singer Lindsay Lohan and an aspiring singer and actress. Like her

The younger sister of actress and singer Lindsay Lohan and an aspiring singer and actress. Like her sister, Lohan started her career as a Ford model at age three. Lohan and her mother, Dina, star in the E! Channel reality series Living Lohan.Lohan's musical career began when she released her first single, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", which was featured on the YMC Records' Totally Awesome Christmas in 2005. She shared the bill with musical artists such as Aly & AJ, Jesse McCartney and Hilary Duff. Ali then released her debut Christmas album, Lohan Holiday, in late 2006 under the record label YMC Records. The album had three singles "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", "I Like Christmas" and "Lohan Holiday", featuring Lindsay Lohan and Christian pop singer Alicia Martinez.

Was an American philosopher, logician, and author.Alice Ambrose was born in Lexington, Illinois and

Was an American philosopher, logician, and author.Alice Ambrose was born in Lexington, Illinois and studied philosophy and mathematics at Millikin University. After completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1932, she went to Cambridge U

Is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fict

Is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered one of the finest living English-language short story writers,[citation needed] her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style.[1] Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."[2]

Is an American sculptor.Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey graduating w

Is an American sculptor.Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1968, she then went to New York where she studied for her masters at Hunter College where she was taught and supervised by Robert Morris,

Was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.She grew up in Kans

Was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled in Illinois when World War II started. She was interested in becoming an artist from an early age and choose to study art when she attended Lindenwood College for Women in Missouri and at Indiana University. She also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and lived in Paris throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. She was briefly married to painter Paul Jenkins, the union lasted from 1964 to 1968.

Was an American playwright and author.Childress was born in South Carolina, but at age nine, after h

Was an American playwright and author.Childress was born in South Carolina, but at age nine, after her parents separated, she moved to Harlem where she lived with her grandmother. Though her grandmother had no formal education, she encouraged Alice to pursue her talents in reading and writing. Alice attended public school in New York for her middle school and high school education. She became involved in theater immediately after her graduation. In the 1940's, she studied Drama in the American Negro Theatre (ANT).

Was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John Coltrane.After John

Was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John Coltrane.After John Coltrane (Sr.)'s death she continued to play with her own groups, moving into more and more meditative music, and later playing with her children. She was

Was an American writer and poet.She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published

Was an American writer and poet.She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. These were published subsequently as Are Women People?. These words became a catchphrase of

Was an American actress and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and,

Was an American actress and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris.

Was an American aviatrix, thoroughbred race horse breeder and owner, environmentalist, philanthropis

Was an American aviatrix, thoroughbred race horse breeder and owner, environmentalist, philanthropist and a member of the prominent du Pont family. In 1949, she and her husband settled on a country estate in Middleburg, Virginia where they maintained Hick

The lead vocalist and lyricist of Crystal Castles.Glass was born in 1988 in Toronto. In an NME inter

The lead vocalist and lyricist of Crystal Castles.Glass was born in 1988 in Toronto. In an NME interview, she stated that at the age of 14, she changed her name and age, and ran away from home to live in a community of punks and drug addicts[citation needed]. She claimed this move was "due to an early existential crisis. I wanted to live primitively with no money and no shelter." A week after she turned 15, she was approached by Ethan Kath who had seen her play in her noise girlband, Fetus Fatale in Toronto's Y bar. Kath was reportedly impressed by her performance, claiming at the the time he thought he had found the "missing ingredient" to his music. Kath handed her a CD with 60 instrumental tracks of which she recorded vocals for five.

Is an American attorney and politician who has represented the 14th Norfolk District in the Massachu

Is an American attorney and politician who has represented the 14th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2003. She is the current Chair of the Joint Committee on Education and a member of the Special Joint Committee on Redi

Was an American diver who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 she was eliminated in the fir

Was an American diver who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 she was eliminated in the first round of the 10 metre platform event.

Is a former professional "Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive year

Is a former professional "Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1996-2005. Had the moniker of "Feisty".

Is an artist based in Los Angeles. She works in a variety of media including sculpture made of styro

Is an artist based in Los Angeles. She works in a variety of media including sculpture made of styrofoam, candies and cardboard,[2] video and photographic collage.[3]She has shown work in many exhibitions including ‘Owl Society Part Two’ at Hudson Franklin, New York, ‘If the Hippies Cut Their Hair, I Don’t Care, I Don’t Care’ at Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna and ‘Play it as it Lays: 17 Artists from Los Angeles’ at The London Institute, London. She is represented by Shane Campbell in Chicago.