* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

* Paul, Joel Richard " Unlikely Allies, How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution " ( Copyright 2009, Riverhead Books, Penguin Group )

With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the " Playwright of the Midwest ".

Odets was the subject of a critically acclaimed biography by psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, wife of playwright William Gibson: Clifford Odets – American Playwright – The Years from 1906 – 1940.

* 2001 – PEN / Laura Pels Master American Playwright Award

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

* John Laurence Seymour, University of California Berkeley, Alpha Chapter, American Composer and Playwright

* Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright

* 1943 – Ken Norton, American boxer

* 1989 – Ken Baumann, American actor and author

* 1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor

* 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

* 1943 – Ken Johnson, American professional wrestling manager

* 2007 – Ken Hendricks, American businessman ( b. 1941 )

* 1965 – Ken Hill, American baseball player

* 1935 – Ken Hall, American football player

* 1948 – Ken Foree, American actor

* 1949 – Ken Anderson, American football player

* 1964 – Ken Shamrock, American martial artist

* 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American writer ( d. 2003 )

* 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1957 – Ken Ober, American comedian, actor, and game show host ( d. 2009 )

* 1934 – Ken McElroy, American criminal and murder victim ( d. 1981 )

* 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor

* 1910 – Ken Lynch, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1935 – Ken Kercheval, American actor

* 1946 – Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge

Kabir ’ s has had extensive roles on American television-primetime and daytime, series and miniseries-including Hallmark ’ s African epic Forbidden Territory, and Ken Follett ’ s On Wings of Eagles and also Red Eagle.

* 1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver

* 1955 – Ken Salazar, American politician

* 1974 – Ken Jennings, American game show contestant, computer scientist, and author, 74-time Jeopardy!

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

With the ascendance of rock and roll, a watershed moment occurred between 1962 and 1964 when the Surfaris released " Wipe Out ," and when Ringo Starr of The Beatles played his Ludwig kit on American television ; events that motivated legions to take up the drums.

Ludwig Erhard ( 1897 – 1977 ) was in charge of economic policy as economics director for the British and American occupation zones and was Adenauer's long-time economics minister.

Murray Rothbard, a student of Ludwig von Mises, combined the Austrian school economics of his teacher with the absolutist views of human rights and rejection of the state he had absorbed from studying the individualist American anarchists of the 19th century such as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker.

* 1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig, American businessman ( d. 1992 )

* 2010 – Gene Ludwig, American pianist ( b. 1937 )

Among the students who attended his workshops were Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack ( German / Australian ( 1893 – 1965 ), Hans Friedrich Grohs ( German 1892-1981 ) and Margarete Koehler-Bittkow ( German / American, 1898 – 1964 ).

* 1992 – Alexander Ludwig, American actor

* Pico de Paperis, an Italian name for Ludwig von Drake, a character in the American Walt Disney cartoon series

The schools with the most-lasting effect in founding the modern versions of thermodynamics are the Berlin school, particularly as established in Rudolf Clausius ’ s 1865 textbook The Mechanical Theory of Heat, the Vienna school, with the statistical mechanics of Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Gibbsian school at Yale University, American engineer Willard Gibbs ' 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances launching chemical thermodynamics.

* Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven, an American rock band

Ludwig had already been living in England for some years, and Margaret ( Gretl ) was married to an American.

The earliest settler apparently was Ludwig Bitting, former Hessian soldier in British General Cornwallis's army, who liked the area when passing through and returned after the American Revolution to settle.

" The German piano teacher Ludwig Deppe advised American pianist Amy Fay to watch carefully how Rubinstein struck his chords: " Nothing cramped about him!

Pettibon ’ s work is included in the collection of many museums and institutions worldwide including: The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL ; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas ; Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal ; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France ; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland ; Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany ; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA ; Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany ; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI ; Museion, Bolzano, Italy ; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria ; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA ; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO ; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA ; Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland ; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ; WIMNAM / CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and American Ruth Goodrich, from California.

The American Crow was described by Christian Ludwig Brehm in 1822.

The Ludwig von Mises Institute ( LvMI ), based in Auburn, Alabama, is an American libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and, political economy.

The Seagram Building, the company's American headquarters office tower at 375 Park Avenue in New York City, was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson.

Llewellyn Harrison " Lew " Rockwell, Jr. ( born July 1, 1944 ) is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman / CEO of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

* American politician Gary Hart ( born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936 ), who served as a United States Senator ( 1974 – 1980 ) and was a two-time candidate for President of the United States ( 1984, 1988 ), was raised as a member of the Church of the Nazarene ; married Oletha Ludwig, the daughter of the General Secretary of the denomination ; and also graduated from Southern Nazarene University ;

Two early conflict theorists were the Polish-Austrian sociologist and political theorist Ludwig Gumplowicz ( 1838 – 1909 ) and the American sociologist and paleontologist Lester F. Ward ( 1841 – 1913 ).

Ludwig made her American debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Dorabella in Così fan tutte in 1959.

April 24, 2008 marked the North American Live to Projection debut of Fellowship of the Ring, with the score performed live by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludwig Wicki.

Danger Mouse was the first British cartoon to break into the American TV market ( since the animated shorts Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, Ludwig, and Paddington Bear being shown in the 1970s ) following syndication on 4 June 1984, where, it garnered a tremendous fan following that still exists.