American Famous Names Starting with Letter Z

Was an American basketball player and referee.He was born 30 miles north of Pittsburgh in Ford City,

Was an American basketball player and referee.He was born 30 miles north of Pittsburgh in Ford City, Pennsylvania, and took up refereeing when officials for a high school game failed to show up. During the 1940s, the 6'1" Mihalik played professionally for the Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of American and the Youngstown Bears of the National Basketball League. He then embarked upon a long officiating career, working games for the NBA, NCAA, Summer Olympics and still finding time to ref WPIAL High School games in and around Pittsburgh[1

Is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's

Is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion.

Is a Manhattan-based artist-writer best known for Overlooked New York, a collection of interviews, p

Is a Manhattan-based artist-writer best known for Overlooked New York, a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits of diverse New York subcultures and hobbyists.

Was an American jazz pianist.Cohn played in Chicago in the late 1920s, including in Jimmie Noone's A

Was an American jazz pianist.Cohn played in Chicago in the late 1920s, including in Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra (1928-30); he recorded with Noone extensively between 1929 and 1934, especially for Vocalion Records. Many of the tunes Noone recorded w

Is an American diver who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Is an American diver who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Is a former Swiss alpine skier specialising in downhill and Super-G. Haas competed in the Calgary an

Is a former Swiss alpine skier specialising in downhill and Super-G. Haas competed in the Calgary and Albertville Winter Olympics and placed 7th and 10th respectively in the Super G. In her career she had 44 World Cup top ten finishes.

Is an American photographer.Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday and started taking pict

Is an American photographer.Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday and started taking pictures of life in the city’s marginal neighborhoods. She is a photo-based installation artist who uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. Out in the streets, Strauss typically photographs whatever strikes her interest, paying particular attention to the overlooked (or purposefully avoided) details of life.

Weizenbaum was born in Seattle, Washington to a Jewish American mother and a Chinese father, and was

Weizenbaum was born in Seattle, Washington to a Jewish American mother and a Chinese father, and was raised in the Jewish religion.[1] She grew up from the age of two in Amherst, Massachusetts. For years African Dance was her primary love. She also enjoyed being part of Amherst's local musical theatre productions. She was called for an audition for Missing in America after someone saw her perform in a local production of Peter Pan. Since finishing this movie, she has also had principal roles in 12 and Holding, directed by Michael Cuesta, and in Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall. Weizenbaum attended Amherst Regional High School for her freshman year before she decided to go to Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School where she is currently a student.

Is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theo

Is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theory of Computation (McGraw Hill, 1974; reprinted Dover, 2003), one of the first texts to provide extensive coverage of the mathematical concepts behind comp

Was Secretary of State of Texas from 1957 to 1962 and a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1962

Was Secretary of State of Texas from 1957 to 1962 and a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1962 to 1981.Steakley returned to Austin and served as assistant attorney general under Grover Sellers from 1945 to 1946. He then went into law practice in Aus

Is an Australian fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Is an Australian fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Is an American actress, musician and singer. Deschanel made her film debut in 1999's Mumford and soo

Is an American actress, musician and singer. Deschanel made her film debut in 1999's Mumford and soon became known for memorable, deadpan supporting roles in films such as Almost Famous (2000), The New Guy (2002), Big Trouble (2002) and The Good Girl (2002). She then began playing lead roles, including All the Real Girls (2003), Elf (2003), Winter Passing (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), and Bridge to Terabithia (2007).Since 2001, Deschanel has performed in the jazz cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies with fellow actress Samantha Shelton. She has sung in several of her films, and her debut album Volume One (recorded with M. Ward under the moniker She & Him) was released on March 18, 2008.

Is a musician, painter and professional wrestling personality. Zoogz Rift booked the UWF (Universal

Is a musician, painter and professional wrestling personality. Zoogz Rift booked the UWF (Universal Wrestling Federation) in 1993. He left the promotion in March 1994, but returned in May 1995 to become Vice-President, alongside founder Herb Abrams. After

Was an American heavyweight boxer. Born in Dallas, Texas, he moved with his family to Chandler, Ariz

Was an American heavyweight boxer. Born in Dallas, Texas, he moved with his family to Chandler, Arizona in 1942, where he grew up playing baseball. Upon joining the U.S. Army in 1948, he entered the boxing ring, and won the 6th Army championship within a

Was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the

Was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Is an American Blues singer. She is a distant relative of Howlin' Wolf.Young's family moved to Chica

Is an American Blues singer. She is a distant relative of Howlin' Wolf.Young's family moved to Chicago at age seven and sang gospel at the Greater Harvest Baptist Church. As an adult she began singing blues and R&B music, and over the course of her career

Is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is currently a member of the Euroleague club CSKA M

Is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is currently a member of the Euroleague club CSKA Moscow. He is also a member of the Croatian national basketball team.

Is a Hungarian-born American actress and socialite.Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school, Gab

Is a Hungarian-born American actress and socialite.Following studies at a Swiss boarding-school, Gabor won the Miss Hungary beauty contest in 1936. On a trip to Vienna in the same year, she was discovered by the famous tenor Richard Tauber and was invited to sing the soubrette rôle in his new operetta Der singende Traum ("The Singing Dream") at the Theater an der Wien, her first stage appearance. Gabor reportedly had a romance with a composer named Willi Schmidt-Kentner, according to the 1960 "bio-autobiography" Zsa Zsa Gabor, by Gerold Frank. Her initial fame came from her work as an actress, and grew from her public appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.

She is a member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, having been elected on

She is a member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, having been elected on July 26, 2007. She is also a chess writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech University.On the Jul

Is a Canadian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. but has re

Is a Canadian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. but has represented them in six ICC Intercontinental Cup matches, 12 List A matches, the 2004 ICC Americas Championship and the 2005 ICC Trophy. He has a highest fir

Is a professional heavyweight boxer best known to score a few notable wins over famous boxers but n

Is a professional heavyweight boxer best known to score a few notable wins over famous boxers but never reaching contender status. Notable wins include upsetting the comeback trail of Jameel McCline after McCline's second heavyweight title loss and being

Is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, sh

Is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Her given name is Zuwena (Swahili for "good"), but "After a while of teachers mispronouncing my name and everyone else in the world, I began introducing myself as ZZ, and it just kind of stuc