* 1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker ( d. 2001 )

On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

* Bob Diamond ( banker ), an American banker

* Cyrus S. Eaton, American banker, investor, and philanthropist

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

* 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, banker and philanthropist, founded the First Hawaiian Bank ( b. 1822 )

* 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman

* 1935 – Hugh McColl, American banker

* 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founder of H & R Block

* John M. Walker ( 1909 – 1990 ), American physician and investment banker

* 1885 – Charles Merrill, American investment banker ( d. 1956 )

Head of operations at OSS Istanbul was a banker from Chicago named Lanning " Packy " Macfarland who maintained the cover story as a banker for the American lend-lease program.

* 1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker ( d. 1948 )

* 1867 – J. P. Morgan, Jr., American banker and philanthropist ( d. 1943 )

** Waite Phillips, American oil man, banker and real estate investor ( b. 1883 )

* March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker ( b. 1837 )

** Eugene R. Black, Sr., American banker, former president of the World Bank ( b. 1898 )

* August 27 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker and U. S. Secretary of the Treasury ( b. 1855 )

* June 12 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist

* August 13 – Julius Freed, American inventor and banker ( d. 1952 )

* October 31 – William Woodward, Jr., American banker and horse breeder, shot to death by his wife ( b. 1920 )

* June 2 – James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker ( b. 1849 )

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

** North American Mycological Association ( list of amateur organizations in North America )

* 1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer ( b. 1855 )

But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.

Oscar Mathisen, five-time ISU world champion and three-time European champion, renounced his amateur status in 1916 and travelled to America, where he won many races but was beaten by Bobby McLean of Chicago, four-time American champion, in one of the races.

* December 9 – Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist

* June 15 – Charles Hazelius Sternberg, American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist ( d. 1943 )

* Goethe Link ( 1879-1980 ), American surgeon and amateur astronomer

In 1922 hundreds of North American amateurs were heard in Europe at 200 meters and at least 20 North American amateurs heard amateur signals from Europe.

The term U. S. Open or US Open is applied to " open " United States-hosted championships in a particular sport ( or non-sport organized competitive gaming activity ), in which anyone, amateur or professional, American or non-American, and generally, male or female, may compete.

* Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup, soccer ( association football ) tournament held between American soccer clubs from MLS, minor leagues, and amateur associations

It was noted at the time that he was only eligible because of the shotgun formation ( an NFL quarterback who takes a snap from underneath the center was and still is an ineligible receiver, a rule not found in any amateur level of American football ).

Fernando Vargas ( born December 7, 1977 ) is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.

For many years the fair's amateur radio station console was used by the American Radio Relay League.

A number of proposals were made, including one in 1968 by the American banker R. Gordon Wasson, an amateur ethnomycologist, who asserted that soma was an inebriant, and suggested fly-agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, as the likely candidate.

In 1939, the town of Cologne was preserved on film in the amateur short subject Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther, which chronicles aspects of life in the German-American community prior to the American engagement in World War II.

Henry Chadwick believed that baseball and not cricket should become America's pastime after the game drawing the conclusion that amateur American players did not have the leisure time required to develop cricket skills to the high technical level required of professional players.

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

Ezra Stiles was also a dedicated supporter of the American Revolutionary cause, and an avid amateur scientist who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin about scientific discoveries.

As founder of the North American Football League, the largest amateur football league in the United States.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was an amateur architect who admired early American architecture, and the new building was designed in the Georgian style that was especially popular at the time.

Founded in 2008, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League, a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Eastern Keystone Division.