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Citizenship of the United States of America can be acquired in different ways, one of those being naturalization.

Art and literature

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Authors

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Jackie Collins – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1960.[1]

Thomas B. Costain – Born in Canada. Became an American citizen in 1920.

Immaculée Ilibagiza – Born and raised in Rwanda. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[2]

Klaus Mann – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.

David Morrell – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1993.[3]

Gerda Weissmann Klein – Born and raised in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1948.

Architect

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Esra Akcan - Born and raised in Turkey.

César Pelli – Born and raised in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 1964[4]

I. M. Pei - Born and raised in China.

Friedrich St. Florian - Born and raised in Austria.

Journalists

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Masih Alinejad – Born and raised in Iran. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[5]

Cecilia Alvear – Born in Ecuador. Became a U.S. citizen in 1984.

Piotr Domaradzki – Born and raised in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1996.

Veronique Peck – Born in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1976.

Cornelius Ryan - Born and raised in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1951.

Hari Sreenivasan – Born in India. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[6]

Painters

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José Bernal – Born in Cuba. Became an American citizen in 1980.

Janice Biala – Born in Poland. Became an American citizen in 1929.

Dorothy Brett – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938

Rudolf Cronau – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1901.

Marcel Duchamp – Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955.[7]

Pál Fried – Born and raised in Hungary. Emigrated to the U.S. in 1946 becoming a citizen in 1953.[8]

Charles Hoffbauer – Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1941.

Tania Marmolejo - Born and raised in Dominican Republic.

Mark Rothko – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938.[9]

Sculptors

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Louise Bourgeois – Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1951.

Luigi Del Bianco - Born and raised in Italy.

Enrico Cerracchio – Born in Italy, emigrated to the U.S. in 1900 becoming a citizen in 1905.[10]

Anthony de Francisci – Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1913.[11]

Arturo Di Modica - Born and raised in Italy.

Writers

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Isabel Allende - Born in Chile. Became an American citizen in 1993.

Svetlana Alliluyeva - Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1978.

Flavio Alves – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010.

Isaac Asimov – Born in Russia, moved to the U.S. at the age of 3 becoming a citizen at the age of 8 in 1928.[12][13]

Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte – Born in Azerbaijan and raised between there, Armenia and the United States. Became a U.S. citizen in 1997.[14]

W. H. Auden – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.[15]

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vicki Baum – Born and raised in Austria. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938.

Saul Bellow – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1941.

Helena Blavatsky – Born and raised in Russia (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 1878

Joseph Brodsky - Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1977.

Carlos Castaneda – Born in Peru. Became a U.S. citizen in 1957.

James Clavell – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1963.

Bernard Cornwell

Ève Curie – Born and raised in France before becoming an American citizen in 1958

Junot Díaz

Anu Garg – Born in India. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[17]

Olga Grushin - Born and raised in Russia. Became an American citizen in 2002.

Claude McKay – Born in Jamaica. Became a U.S. citizen in 1940.

Walter Mehring

Vladimir Nabokov – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

Otto Plath

Ayn Rand – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1931.[18]

David Rakoff - Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Erich Maria Remarque – Born and raised in Germany. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1939 and became a citizen in 1947.[19]

Elie Wiesel

Frances Wright - Born in Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1825.

Business

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Education

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Benjamin Akande

Dieter Cunz - Born and raised in the German Empire (modern day Germany). Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Lorraine Eden

Jaime Escalante

Entrepreneur

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Steve Chen

Jawed Karim

Iqbal Quadir – Born and raised in Bangladesh. Became a U.S. citizen later in life.

Fashion

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Fashion designer

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Oleg Cassini

Tan France – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 2020.[20]

Diane von Fürstenberg

Carolina Herrera – Born in Venezuela. Became an American citizen in 2009.[21]

Oscar de la Renta

Ferdinando Sarmi - Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1959.

Models

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Heidi Albertsen – Born and raised in Denmark. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[22]

Camila Alves – Born in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[23]

Alessandra Ambrosio - Born and raised in Brazil. She became a U.S. Citizen in 2020.[24]

Moran Atias – Born and raised in Israel. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.

Xenia Deli

Heidi Klum – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[25][26]

Karolína Kurková – Born and raised in Czechoslovakia (modern day Czech Republic). Later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[27]

China Machado

Paulina Porizkova

Claudia Romani - Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.

Anne Vyalitsyna – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[28]

Inventors

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Itzhak Bentov – Born and raised in Czechoslovakia (modern day Slovakia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1962.[29]

George Garrett – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1902.

Alexander Graham Bell - Born in Scotland. Became a U.S. Citizen in 1882.

Leo Gerstenzang - Born in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1919.

James Hillier – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

Francis F. Lee – Born and raised in China. Became an American citizen in 1954.

Fritz Karl Preikschat – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1962.

Nikola Tesla – Born in the Austrian Empire (modern day Croatia) to a family from Serbia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1891.

Arthur Wynne

Media tycoons

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Rupert Murdoch

Real estate

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Mark Taper

Frederick Trump - Born in the Kingdom of Bavaria (Modern day Germany). Became a U.S. citizen in 1892.

Crime figures

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Ralph Capone

Frank Costello – Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1925.

Tommy Lucchese

Patrick Nee

William Obront

Santo Sorge

William Tocco

Entertainment

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Actors

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Michael Allinson – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1964 after immigrating there in 1958.[31]

Robbie Amell – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[32]

Naveen Andrews

Desi Arnaz

Dan Aykroyd

Conrad Bain – Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 1946.

Christian Bale

Jamie Bamber

John Barrowman - Born and raised in United Kingdom. Become an American citizen in 1985.

Brian Bedford

Demián Bichir

Diego Boneta - Born in Mexico and raised between Mexico and U.S. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010. (Also a Spanish citizen).

Stephen Boyd – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Northern Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1963.

Charles Boyer – Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.[33]

Pierce Brosnan - Born and raised in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.

Yul Brynner - Born in Far Eastern Republic (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.

Jim Carrey – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.[34]

Maxwell Caulfield – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 1991.[35]

Tommy Chong – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in the 1980s.

Andy Clyde – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 1943.[36]

Alec Craig – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.[37]

Daniel Craig - Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 2019.[38]

Hume Cronyn

Alan Cumming – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Scotland. Became an American citizen in 2008.[39]

Helmut Dantine – Born and Raised in Austria. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.[40]

Alexander D'Arcy - Born in Egypt. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.

Wheeler Dryden – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 1936.

Alejandro Edda

Maurice Evans

Nathan Fillion – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1997.[41]

James Finlayson – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.[42]

Errol Flynn – Born and raised in Australia. Became an American citizen in 1942.[43]

Glenn Ford – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.[44]

Michael J. Fox

Andy García

George Gaynes – Born in the Russian Empire (modern day Finland). Became a U.S. citizen in 1948.

Daniel Goddard – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[45]

Lev Gorn

Cary Grant – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 1942.[46]

Jason Gray-Stanford – Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2019.[47]

Mickey Hargitay

Anthony Hopkins – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.[48]

Aharon Ipalé

Makoto Iwamatsu - Born and raised in Japan. Became a U.S. citizen in 1956.

Jason Jones – Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2014.[49]

Werner Klemperer

Kurt Kreuger

Charles Laughton – Born and raised in the United Kingdom, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1950.

Peter Lawford – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1960.[50]

John Leguizamo

Gene Lockhart – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939

Alexander Lockwood

John Loder

Daniel Logan - Born and raised in New Zealand. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

Peter Lorre – Born and raised in Hungary (modern day Slovakia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1941.[51]

Bela Lugosi – Born and raised in Hungary. Became an American citizen in 1931.[52]

Keye Luke - Born in China. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.

Dolph Lundgren - Born and raised in Sweden. Became an American citizen in 2024.[53][54][55]

Patrick Macnee

James Mason

Peter Mayhew – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 2005.[56]

David McCallum – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1999.[57]

Eric McCormack – Born and raised in Canada. Received U.S. citizenship in 1999.[58]

Roddy McDowall – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Got U.S. citizenship in 1949.[59]

Kevin McKidd – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Scotland. Got U.S. citizenship in 2015.[60]

Julian McMahon

Peter McRobbie

Wentworth Miller - Born in United Kingdom but raised in United States. Became a U.S. citizen in childhood.

Alfred Molina – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.[61]

Liam Neeson – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Northern Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2009.[62]

Leslie Nielsen

Soon-Tek Oh

Jason O'Mara – Born and raised in Ireland. Earned American citizenship in 2009.[63]

Dan O'Herlihy – Born and raised in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1983.

David Oyelowo - Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[64][65]

Hal Ozsan

Nathan Parsons

Barry Pepper

Walter Pidgeon – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.[66]

Jürgen Prochnow – Born and raised in Germany. Became an American citizen in 2004.[67]

Ke Huy Quan

Anthony Quinn – Born in Mexico to Irish immigrants. Became a U.S. citizen in 1947.[68]

Claude Rains – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.

Roger Rees – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Wales. Became an American citizen in 1989.

Duncan Renaldo

Michael Rennie

Alejandro Rey

Ryan Reynolds – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[69]

Paul Rodriguez

Tristan Rogers

José Ruben - Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1920.

Sabu - Born and raised in British India. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Horatio Sanz – Born in Chile. Became an American citizen in 2018.[70]

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Born and raised in Austria. Became a U.S. citizen in 1983.

Ignacio Serricchio

Martin Short

Harry Shum Jr. - Born in Costa Rica but raised in United States.

Sebastian Stan – Born in Romania. Became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

James Stephenson - Born and raised in United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938.

Lee Strasberg

Gregg Sulkin – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[71]

Francis L. Sullivan

Carlos Valdes

Steve Valentine

Goran Višnjić - Born and raised in Yugoslavia (modern day Croatia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.

Arnold Vosloo – Born and raised in South Africa becoming a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1988.

Anton Yelchin - Born in Soviet Union (modern day Russia) but raised in United States. Became a U.S. citizen in childhood.

Actresses

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Christine Adams – Born and raised in England before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2019.[72]

Neile Adams

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Anna Maria Alberghetti – Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1961.[73]

Malin Akerman – Born in Sweden, raised in Canada becoming a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 2018.[74]

Ana Alicia

Pamela Anderson – Born and raised in Canada became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2004.[75]

Fernanda Andrade

Evelyn Ankers – Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1946 after growing up between South America and Europe.

Ann-Margret - Born in Sweden. Became a U.S. citizen in 1949.

Gabrielle Anwar – Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008.[76]

Jayne Atkinson

Morena Baccarin

Olga Baclanova – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1931.

Yetide Badaki – Born in Nigeria. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[77]

Jacinda Barrett – Born in Australia. Became an American citizen in 2009.[78]

Wendy Barrie – Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1942.[79]

Mischa Barton - Born in United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.

Frances Bay

Stephanie Beatriz – Born in Argentina. Moved to the U.S. at the age of 2 becoming a naturalized Citizen at the age of 18.[80]

Catherine Bell

Alma Beltran

Ingrid Bergman – Born in Sweden. Became a U.S. citizen in 1945.[81]

Emily Blunt – Born and raised in the United Kingdom before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2015.[82]

Sônia Braga – Born in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.[83]

Antoinette Bower

Lesley-Ann Brandt - Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S citizen in 2023.

Natalie Burn – Born and raised in Ukraine. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

Saffron Burrows – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2009.[84]

Annette Carell – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Madeleine Carroll – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.

Kim Cattrall

Loan Chabanol – Born in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[85]

Charo – Born in Spain. Became a U.S. citizen in 1977.

Joan Chen – Born in China. Became a U.S. citizen in 1989.

Emmanuelle Chriqui – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[86]

Mady Christians

Claudette Colbert

Lili Darvas – Born and raised in Hungary becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944.

Ludmila Dayer

Olivia de Havilland

Emilie de Ravin

Portia de Rossi – Born and raised in Australia becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2011.[87]

Yvonne De Carlo

Kate del Castillo

Marlene Dietrich – Born and raised in Germany becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1939 while renouncing her German citizenship.

Diana Douglas

Deanna Durbin – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1923.

Marie Dressler

Minnie Driver – Born in the United Kingdom raised in Barbados before becoming a U.S. citizen in 2017.[88]

Samantha Eggar

Alice Eve - Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically England. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[89]

Geraldine Fitzgerald – Born and raised in Ireland becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1955.[90]

Nina Foch

Megan Follows

Joan Fontaine – Born in Japan to English parents raised in the United Kingdom. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943.[91]

Eva Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Greta Garbo – Born and raised in Sweden. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951.[92]

Greer Garson – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1951.[93]

Judy Geeson

Melissa George - Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[94]

Jessalyn Gilsig

Shenae Grimes – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[95]

Julie Gonzalo - Born in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 2011.

Emily Hampshire – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[96]

Joanna Hausmann

Salma Hayek

Tricia Helfer – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2011.[97]

Zulay Henao

Sitara Hewitt

Claire Holt – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[98]

Milla Jovovich

Caroline Lagerfelt

Stana Katic

Violet Kemble-Cooper

Diane Kruger – Born and raised in West Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[99]

Mila Kunis

Hedy Lamarr – Born and raised in Austria. Became a U.S. citizen in 1953.

Elsa Lanchester

Vicky Lane

Angela Lansbury - Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. Citizen in 1951.

Eva Le Gallienne – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1927.

Anna Lee

Ruta Lee

Rachelle Lefevre

Eugenie Leontovich – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1929.

Margarita Levieva

Bai Ling – Born and raised in China. Became a U.S. citizen in 1999.[100]

Kathleen Lockhart

Celia Lovsky

Camilla Luddington

Ida Lupino – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1948.[101]

Nola Luxford

Sheila MacRae – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1959.[102]

Mercedes Mason – Born in Sweden to parents from Iran. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.

Pamela Mason

Ilona Massey – Born and raised in Hungary. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.

Ivana Miličević

Marta Milans – Born in Spain. Became an American citizen in 2020.[103][104][105]

Kristine Miller – Born in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.[106]

Juliet Mills – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1975.[107]

Helen Mirren - Born and raised in England. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.

Poppy Montgomery

Anya Monzikova

Carrie-Anne Moss

Alla Nazimova

Pola Negri – Born in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1951.

Sylvia O'Brien

Una O'Connor – Born and raised in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1952.[108]

Catherine O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara – Born and raised in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946

Sandra Oh – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[109][110]

Maureen O'Sullivan – Born in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1947.[111]

Ann-Margret Olsson – Born in Sweden. Became an American citizen in 1949.

Jessica Oyelowo – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[112]

Bar Paly – Born in Russia raised in Israel. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[113]

Katina Paxinou - Born in Greece. Became a U.S. citizen in 1951.

Mary Pickford

Christina Pickles

Sasha Pieterse - Born in South Africa and raised in United States. Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.

Nathalia Ramos – Born in Spain. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[114]

Italia Ricci – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[115]

Natasha Richardson

Lyda Roberti

Elisabeth Röhm - Born in Germany but raised in United States. Became a U.S. citizen in childhood.

Olesya Rulin

Elena Satine

Caterina Scorsone

Izabella Scorupco – Born in Poland, raised in Sweden. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[116]

Jane Seymour – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became an American citizen in 2005.[117]

Norma Shearer

Jean Simmons – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1956.[118]

Marina Sirtis

Alexis Smith – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.

Cobie Smulders – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.

Anna Sten

Tammin Sursok – Born in South Africa,raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[119][120][121]

Jessica Tandy – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1952.

Holly Taylor

Charlize Theron – Born in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.[122]

Emeraude Toubia - Born in Canada but raised in United States.

Tracey Ullman – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[123]

Angélica Vale – Born and raised in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[124]

Diana Van der Vlis

Nia Vardalos

Sofía Vergara – Born and raised in Colombia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[125][126]

Vanessa Villela – Born in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[127]

Sonya Walger – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[128]

Rachel Weisz – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2011.[129]

May Whitty

Fay Wray – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1933.

Comedians

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Samantha Bee - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.

Michael Blackson – Born and raised in Liberia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2021.[130]

Selma Diamond

Bob Hope

Tyler Labine

John Oliver – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.

Yakov Smirnoff - Born in the Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 1986.

Dancers

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Mikhail Baryshnikov – Born and raised in Soviet Union (modern day Latvia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1986.[131]

Artem Chigvintsev – Born in The Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[132]

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Sasha Farber – Born in Russia, grew up in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[133]

Gonzalo Garcia – Born in Spain. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[134]

Alexander Godunov – Born in the Soviet Union (Modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1987.

José Limón – Born in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.

Peta Murgatroyd – Born in New Zealand. Raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[135]

Gleb Savchenko

Christine Shevchenko

Emma Slater – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[136]

Karina Smirnoff – Born in The Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen shortly after immigrating in 1993.

Tamara Toumanova – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.[137]

Louis Van Amstel – Born and raised in The Netherlands. Became a U.S. citizen in 1999.[138]

Directors

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Frank Capra – Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1920.

Michael Curtiz – Born and raised in Austria-Hungary (modern day Hungary). Became an American citizen in 1933.[139]

John Farrow – Born in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1947.[140]

Alejandro Gómez Monteverde

Alfred Hitchcock - Born and raised in England. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955.

Anatole Litvak

Otto Preminger

Gottfried Reinhardt

Alik Sakharov

Producers

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Dino De Laurentiis – Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1986.[141]

Bruce Lansbury – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1954.

Edgar Lansbury – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1954.

Lorne Michaels

WWE

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Alberto Del Rio – Born in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[142]

Law enforcement

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Joaquín "Jack" García

John Timoney

Media figures

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Social media

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Hila Klein – Born in Israel. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[143][144]

Television

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Peter Arnett

Mariana Atencio – Born and raised in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.

Jillian Barberie – Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2011.[145]

David Frum

Brad Goreski

Yolanda Hadid – Born and raised in The Netherlands. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[146]

Peter Jennings

Alex Trebek – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1998.[147]

Laura Trevelyan

Richard Wolffe

Military

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Ming Chang – Born in China. Became a U.S. citizen after joining the U.S. navy.

Louis Cukela

Florent Groberg – Born in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.[148]

Khalifa Haftar

Mian Ghulam Jilani – Born and raised in Pakistan. Became a U.S. citizen in 1981.

No Kum-sok – Born in modern-day North Korea. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1954 and later became a citizen.

Henry Landau – Born in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 1933.

James I. Mestrovitch

Thomas R. Sargent III – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1930.

John Shalikashvili

Michael Strank - Born in Czechoslovakia (modern day Slovakia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1935.

Peter Tomich

Lauri Törni – Born and raised in Finland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1957.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen following the American Revolutionary War.

Musicians

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Lina Abarbanell

Josh Beech – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[149]

Bleona - Born and raised in Albania. Became an American citizen in 2011.

Igor Butman

David Byrne - Born and raised in Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2012.

David Coverdale - Born and raised in England. Became an American citizen in 2007.

Celia Cruz

Sheena Easton - Born and raised in Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1992.

Atilla Engin

Flea

Lita Ford

Selim Giray

Gregory Alan Isakov

Tomo Miličević - Born in Yugoslavia (modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina). Became a U.S. citizen in the 1990s.

French Montana – Born in Morocco. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[150][151]

Joon Park

Neil Peart

Trevor Rabin – Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 1991.

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

Carlos Santana - Born in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 1965.

Gene Simmons

Slash – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1996.[152]

Yma Sumac – Born and raised in Peru. Became an American citizen in 1955.

Pinar Toprak

Alex Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen

Singers

[edit]

Paul Anka – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1990.[153]

Alex Boyé – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2012.[154]

Camila Cabello – Born in Cuba. Became an American citizen in 2008.[155]

Gloria Estefan – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 1974

Billy Idol – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[156]

John Lydon – Born in the United kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[157]

Dave Matthews – Born and raised in South Africa. Became an American citizen in 1980.[158]

Alanis Morissette – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2005.[159]

Tinka Milinović – Born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Became a U.S. citizen at the age of 18.

Carly Smithson – Born in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[160]

Yoo Seung-jun – Born and raised in South Korea. Became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

Keith Urban

Neil Young

Composers

[edit]

Irving Berlin

Monte Carlo - Born and raised in Denmark. Became a U.S. citizen in 1914.

Sansan Chien

Percy Faith – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

Loris Ohannes Chobanian

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Born in Austria-Hungary (modern day Czech Republic). Became a U.S. citizen in 1943.

Miklós Rózsa – Born in Austria-Hungary (modern day Hungary). Became an American citizen in 1946.

Kike Santander - Born and raised in Colombia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.

Lalo Schifrin – Born and raised in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 1969.

Arnold Schoenberg

Karl Weigl - Born and raised in Austria. Became an American citizen in 1943.

Pianist

[edit]

Fahir Atakoğlu

Victor Borge – Born and raised in Denmark. Became a U.S. citizen in 1948.

Vladimir Horowitz - Born and raised in the Russian Empire (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Mischa Levitzki

Rene Paulo

Arthur Rubinstein – Born in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.

Nina Svetlanova

George Tremblay

Politics

[edit]

Activists

[edit]

Rushan Abbas

Carlos Arredondo – Born in Costa Rica. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[161]

Greta Beer – Born in Romania. Became a U.S. citizen in 1956.[162]

Ada Bello – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 1969.

Pamela Harriman – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1971.

Maria L. de Hernández

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Diplomats

[edit]

Zbigniew Brzezinski – Born in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1958.[163]

Political science

[edit]

Yascha Mounk

Adam Ulam

Politicians

[edit]

Katcho Achadjian – Born in Lebanon to parents from Armenia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1982.

Madeleine Albright – Born in Czechoslovakia (modern day Czech Republic). Became a U.S. citizen in 1957.[164][165]

John Peter Altgeld

Rudy Boschwitz

Joseph Cao

Salud Carbajal

Peter Angelo Cavicchia

Elaine Chao – Born in Taiwan. Became an American citizen at the age of 19.[166]

Fernando Cheung

Robert Dale Owen – Born in Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1825.

John N. Dempsey

Lincoln Díaz-Balart

William P. Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Granholm – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1980.[167]

Pramila Jayapal – Born in India. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

Henry Kissinger – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1943 while serving in the U.S. army

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Tom Lantos – Born in Hungary. Became a U.S. citizen in 1954.[168]

Mel Martínez

Paul O'Dwyer – Born in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1930.

William O'Dwyer

Victoria Spartz – Born in the Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[169][170]

Leland Yee

Religious figures

[edit]

Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz

Evangeline Booth

Frances Xavier Cabrini – Born in the Austria Empire (modern day Italy). Became a U.S. citizen in 1909.

Bhante Dharmawara

Oscar C. Eliason – Born in Sweden. Became an American citizen in 1915.

Gavriel Holtzberg

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Paramahansa Yogananda – Born and raised in India. Becamea U.S. citizen in 1949.

Science and academia

[edit]

Astronomy

[edit]

Bart Bok – Born and raised in The Netherland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938.[171]

Margaret Burbidge – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1977.

Betül Kaçar

Janet Akyüz Mattei

Feryal Özel

Otto Struve – Born in Russian Empire (modern day Ukraine). Became an American citizen in 1927.

Biology

[edit]

Ivet Bahar

Salvador Luria – Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1947.

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil

Ahmet Yıldız

Chemistry

[edit]

Nihat Berker

Albert Chan

Basudeb DasSarma - Born in India (modern day Bangladesh). Became a U.S. citizen in 1972.

Aziz Sancar

Economics

[edit]

Abhijit Banerjee

W. Michael Blumenthal - Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1952.

Michele Boldrin

John Kenneth Galbraith - Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 1937.

Faruk Gül

Asim Ijaz Khwaja

Murat Iyigun

Naci Mocan

Franco Modigliani – Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.

Salih Neftçi

Tayfun Sönmez

Engineering

[edit]

Roma Agrawal

Ali Akansu

Ilkay Altintas

Viktor Belenko – Born and raised in Russia. Became an American citizen in 1980.

Lodewijk van den Berg - Born and raised in The Netherlands. Became a U.S. citizen in 1975.

Burcin Becerik-Gerber

Wernher von Braun - Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955.[172]

Zeynep Çelik-Butler

Philip K. Chapman – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in the late 1960s.

Kalpana Chawla – Born in India. Became an American citizen in 1991.

Ali Erdemir

Okan Ersoy

Walter Haeussermann – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1954.

Pınar Keskinocak

Alexey Pajitnov

Thuan Pham

Jesco von Puttkamer – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1967.

Ben Rich

Andy Thomas - Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1986.

Mehmet Toner

Mathematics

[edit]

Asuman Aksoy

Asuman Aksoy

Lamberto Cesari – Born and raised in Italy. became an American citizen in 1976.

Bang-Yen Chen

Samuel Eilenberg

Ernst Hellinger – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Mark Kac - Born in the Russian Empire (modern day Ukraine). Became an America citizen in 1943.

Leonid Khachiyan – Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

Emil Leon Post

John von Neumann – Born and raised in Hungary. Became an American citizen in 1937.

Albert Nijenhuis – Born and raised in the Netherlands. Became a U.S. citizen in 1959.

Ida Rhodes

Ayşe Şahinr

Sema Salur

Halil Mete Soner

Stanisław Ulam - Born in Austria-Hungary (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 1941.

Medicine

[edit]

Gertie F. Marx - Born and raised in Germany. Emigrated to New York in 1937 and became a U.S. citizen sometime after.

Meteorology

[edit]

James Murdoch Austin – Born and raised in New Zealand. Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.[173]

Philosophy

[edit]

Hannah Arendt

Max Black – Born in Azerbaijan raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1948.

Physics

[edit]

Ilesanmi Adesida

Qanta A. Ahmed - Born and raised in the United Kingdom (specially England). Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.

Ernest Ambler - Born and raised in the United Kingdom (specially England). Became an American citizen in 1957.

Muzaffer Atac

Bülent Atalay

Felix Bloch – Born and raised in Switzerland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.

Asım Orhan Barut

Ernest Courant

F. J. Duarte

Robley Dunglison – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1838.

Taner Edis

Albert Einstein – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1940.

Federico Faggin - Born and raised in Italy. Became an American citizen in 1968.

Enrico Fermi - Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

André Frédéric Cournand – Born and raised in France. Became an American citizen in 1941.

Jim Yong Kim

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil

Bennet Omalu – Born and raised in Nigeria. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[174]

Yuri Orlov – Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1993.[175]

Benjamin B. Rubinstein – Born in Finland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1957.

Wolfgang Pauli – Born and raised in Austria-Hungary (modern day Austria). Became a U.S. citizen in 1946.

Horst Ludwig Störmer

Leana Wen – Born in China. Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Emil Wolf

Xiaoxing Xi

Psychology

[edit]

Ozlem Ayduk

Carola B. Eisenberg – Born in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 1949.

Erik Erikson

Peter Harzem

Boris M. Levinson – Born in the Russian Empire (modern day Lithuania). Became a U.S. citizen in 1930.

Renee Rabinowitz

Douglas G. Stuart - Born in Australia. Became an American citizen in 1961.

Max Wertheimer

Sports

[edit]

Morten Andersen

Gunther Cunningham – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010.[176]

L. P. Ladouceur – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[177]

Arthur Mosse – Born in Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1937.

Christian Okoye

Igor Olshansky

Fuad Reveiz – Born in Colombia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1986.[178]

Jan Stenerud

Athletics

[edit]

Abdihakem Abdirahman – Born in Somalia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.[179]

Haydar Aşan

Gretel Bergmann – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.

Hillary Bor - Born and raised in Kenya. Became a U.S. citizen after joining the U.S. military.

Paul Chelimo – Born in Kenya. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014 while serving in the U.S. army.[180]

Kerron Clement – Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.

Colleen De Reuck – Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

Sandra Farmer-Patrick

Weini Kelati – Born in Eritrea. Became a U.S. citizen in 2021.[181]

Benard Keter

Khalid Khannouchi – Born in Morocco. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

Shadrack Kipchirchir

Sally Kipyego – Born and raised in Kenya. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[182]

Leonard Korir

Bernard Lagat - Born and raised in Kenya. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.

Lopez Lomong – Born and raised in Sudan (modern day South Sudan. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

Guor Marial

Sydney Maree

Nadia Prasad – Born in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.[183]

Stanisława Walasiewicz - Born in the Russian Empire (modern day Poland). Became a U.S. citizen in 1947.

Futsum Zienasellassie - Born in Eritrea. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.

Baseball

[edit]

Jason Bay – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2009.[184]

Orlando Cabrera – Born in Colombia. Became an American citizen in 2011.[185]

Robinson Canó – Born and raised in The Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2012.[186]

Carlos Carrasco – Born and raised in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[187]

Aroldis Chapman – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[188]

Eduardo Escobar – Born and raised in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2023.[189]

Yunel Escobar – Born and raised in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[190]

José Fernández – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[191][192]

Ozzie Guillén – Born and raised in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[193]

Félix Hernández – Born in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[194]

José Iglesias – Born in Cuba. Became an American citizen in 2018.[195]

Leonys Martín – Born and raised in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[196]

Oscar Mercado – Born in Colombia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

David Ortiz – Born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[197][198]

Eddie Pérez – Born and raised in Venezuela. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[199][200]

Tony Pérez – Born and raised in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 1971.[201]

Plácido Polanco – Born in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.

Yasiel Puig – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[202]

Albert Pujols – Born in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.[203]

Hanley Ramírez – Born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[204]

Manny Ramirez – Born in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2004.[205]

Mariano Rivera – Born and raised in Panama. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[206]

Chico Ruiz – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 1972.

Carlos Santana – Born in the Dominican Republic. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[207]

Fernando Valenzuela – Born and raised in Mexico. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[208]

Basketball

[edit]

Kristine Anigwe – Born in the United Kingdom to parents from Nigeria. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[209]

Geno Auriemma – Born in Italy. Became an American citizen in 1994.[210]

Hank Beenders

Rolando Blackman

Bohdan Blyzniuk

Brandon Clarke

James Donaldson

Patrick Ewing

Adonal Foyle - Born and raised in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.[211]

Olga Firsova – Born in the Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[212]

Ernie Grunfeld – Born in Romania. Became a U.S. citizen in 1976.

Adnan Hodžić

Zydrunas Ilgauskas – Born and raised in Lithuania. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[213]

Enes Kanter Freedom - Born in Switzerland raised in Turkey. Became a U.S. citizen in 2021.[214]

Andrei Kirilenko – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2011.[215]

Damir Krupalija

Tom Meschery

Sean Marks – Born and raised in New Zealand. Became an American citizen in 2007.

Dikembe Mutombo

Hakeem Olajuwon - Born and raised in Nigeria. Became a U.S. citizen in 1993.

Ticha Penicheiro – Born and raised in Portugal. Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.[216]

Juan Ignacio Sánchez

Goran Suton - Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[217]

Mychal Thompson

Tristan Thompson - Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2020.[218]

Boxing

[edit]

Eduardo Garcia

Kid Kaplan

Dmitry Salita

Climbing

[edit]

Fritz Wiessner – Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1935.

Figure skating

[edit]

Rafael Arutyunyan – Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Georgia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[219][220]

Daniil Barantsev

Nina Bates

Tanith Belbin White - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

Jane Bugaeva – Born in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

Alexandr Chichkov

Oleg Fediukov

Mathew Gates

Kyoko Ina

Rena Inoue - Born and raised in Japan. Became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

Chuen-Gun Lee

Gustave Lussi – Born in Switzerland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1927.

Alexandr Kirsanov

Ksenia Makarova – Born in Russia. Became an American citizen in 2013.

Denis Petukhov - Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

Larisa Selezneva – Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.

Gorsha Sur

Peter Tchernyshev – Born and raised in the Soviet Union (modern day Russia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.

Golf

[edit]

Tommy Armour – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1942.[221]

Bobby Cruickshank

Harry Cooper

Jim Ferrier – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1944.

Jenny Lidback – Born in Peru to parents from Sweden. Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Pearl Sinn – Born in South Korea. Became a U.S. citizen at the age of 14.

Macdonald Smith – Born and raised in the United Kingdom specifically Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1918.[222]

Annika Sörenstam - Born and raised in Sweden. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[223]

Gymnastics

[edit]

Svetlana Boginskaya

Nadia Comăneci – Born and raised in Romania. Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.[224]

Annia Hatch – Born in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.

Irina Kazakova

Olga Korbut – Born and raised in The Soviet Union (modern day Belarus). Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.[225][226]

Anna Kotchneva

Valeri Liukin – Born in The Soviet Union (modern day Kazakhstan). Became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

Henrietta Ónodi – Born and raised in Hungary. Became a U.S. citizen later in life.

Elena Piskun

Ice hockey

[edit]

Joseph Barss - Born in British India raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1930.

Martin Biron – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[227]

Martin Brodeur – Born and raised in Canada. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009

Valeri Bure – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2001.

Bill Clement – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010.

Tony Esposito - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1981.

Ruslan Fedotenko

Mike Fisher – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[228]

Wayne Gretzky

Arthur Kaliyev

Tom Karalis - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen following Ice Hockey retirement.[229]

Darius Kasparaitis

Ian Laperrière – Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2011.[230]

Claude Lemieux – Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2009.[231]

Mario Lemieux

Joel Quenneville - Born and raised in Canada. Became an American citizen in 2011.[232]

Chico Resch

Ulf Samuelsson

Joe Thornton - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2009.

Bryan Trottier

Mixed martial arts

[edit]

Rafael dos Anjos – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.[233]

Andrei Arlovski

Vitor Belfort – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[234]

Cris Cyborg – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2016.

Alp Ozkilic

Anderson Silva – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2019.

Glover Teixeira – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[235]

Kamaru Usman

Sodiq Yusuff – Born in Nigeria. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.

Motor sports

[edit]

Aldo Andretti

Mario Andretti - Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1964.

Luigi Chinetti - Born and raised in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1950.

Rugby

[edit]

Takudzwa Ngwenya

Skateboarding

[edit]

Letícia Bufoni – Born and raised in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2021.[236]

Bob Burnquist

Freddy Adu – Born in Ghana. Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Juan Agudelo

Osvaldo Alonso – Born and raised in Cuba. Became a U.S. citizen in 2012.[237]

Vlatko Andonovski – Born in modern-day North Macedonia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[238]

Hadji Barry – Born and raised in Guinea. Became a U.S. citizen in 2018.[239]

Fernando Clavijo – Born in Uruguay. Became a U.S. citizen in 1987.

Jeff Cunningham – Born in Jamaica. Became an American citizen in 2001.

Emmanuel D'Andrea - Born in Venezuela, raised in Puerto Rico. Became a U.S. citizen at the age of 10.

Mix Diskerud

Benny Feilhaber

Elena Gracinda Santos

Baggio Hušidić - Born and raised in Yugoslavia (modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina). Became a U.S. citizen while in college.[240]

Donna-Kay Henry

Dema Kovalenko

Sydney Leroux

Carlos Llamosa – Born in Colombia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1998.

Catarina Macario – Born in Brazil. Became a U.S. citizen in 2020.[241]

Kekuta Manneh – Born in Gambia. Became an American citizen in 2016.[242]

Mick McDermott

Janusz Michallik – Born in Poland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1991.

Darlington Nagbe – Born in Liberia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2015.[243]

Teresa Noyola

Brian Quinn

Andrew Parkinson

Hugo Pérez - Born in El Salvador. Became a U.S. citizen as a kid.

Preki - Born in Yugoslavia (modern day Serbia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1996.[244]

Tab Ramos

David Regis – Born in Martinique. Became a U.S. citizen in 1998.

Havana Solaun

Roy Wegerle – Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 1991.

Gedion Zelalem – Born in Germany to parents from Ethiopia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.[245]

Kia Zolgharnain – Born in Iran. Became a U.S. citizen in 1994.

Swimming

[edit]

John Davies – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1960.

Mariya Koroleva

Lenny Krayzelburg - Born and raised in Ukraine. Became an American citizen in 1995.

Jay Litherland - Born and raised in Japan. Became a U.S. citizen while in high school.

Philip Scholz - Born and raised in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.

Darian Townsend - Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.

Arkady Vyatchanin – Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2017.[246]

Otto Wahle - Born in Austrian empire (modern day Austria). Became a U.S. citizen in 1906.

Alberto Zorrilla – Born and raised in Argentina. Became a U.S. citizen in 1954.

Tennis

[edit]

Alex Bogomolov Jr. - Born and raised in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

Kevin Curren – Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen 1985.[247]

Mariaan de Swardt – Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.

Amer Delić - Born and raised in Yugoslavia (modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina). Became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Edward Dewhurst – Born and raised in Australia. Became a U.S. citizen in 1924.

Cliff Drysdale - Born and raised in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen following retirement of tennis career.

Tommy Haas – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010.[248]

Liezel Huber – Born in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 2007.[249]

Anna Kournikova – Born in Russia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2010.[250][251]

Johan Kriek – Born in South Africa. Became a U.S. citizen in 1982.

Denis Kudla - Born in Ukraine but raised in United States. Became a U.S. citizen during his childhood.

Varvara Lepchenko – Born in The Soviet Union (modern day Uzbekistan). Became an American citizen in 2012.[252]

Ivan Lendl – Born and raised in Czechoslovakia (modern day Czech Republic). Became a U.S. citizen in 1992.[253]

Tetiana Luzhanska - Born and raised in Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine). Became a U.S. citizen in 2012.

Molla Mallory - Born and raised in Norway. Became a U.S. citizen in 1919.

Martina Navratilova – Born and raised in Czechoslovakia (modern day Czech Republic). Became an American citizen in 1981.

Alex Olmedo – Born in Peru. Became a U.S. citizen later in life.

Bernarda Pera - Born and raised in Yugoslavia (modern day Croatia). Became a U.S. citizen in 2013.

Fred Perry – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1939.

Monica Seles – Born in Yugoslavia (modern day Serbia). Became a U.S. citizen in 1994.

Anna Tatishvili – Born in the country of Georgia. Became a U.S. citizen in 2014.

Volleyball

[edit]

Bojana Todorović

Weightlifting

[edit]

Mike Karchut

Richard Tom

Walter Zagurski

Winter Sports

[edit]

Kaillie Humphries - Born and raised in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 2022.

Wrestling

[edit]

Edwin Bibby – Born and raised in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1900.

Drew McIntyre - Born and raised in Scotland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2023.

Ildar Hafizov - Born and raised in Uzbekistan. Became a U.S. citizen after enlisting in the U.S. Army in 2015.

Rocky Johnson - Born and raised in Canada.

Becky Lynch - Born and raised in Irland. Became a U.S. citizen in 2024.

References

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Works cited

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Carlson, W. Bernard (2013). Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-4655-9.

Gotthelf, Allan; Salmieri, Gregory, eds. (2016). A Companion to Ayn Rand. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-8684-1.

Lachman, Gary (2012). Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. ISBN 978-1-58542-863-2.

Meade, Marion (1980). Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth. New York: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-12376-4.