Notable Latvian Americans
- Rutanya Alda (Rūta Skrastiņa, 1942), actress (Mommy Dearest, The Deer Hunter)
- Āris Brīmanis (1972), ice hockey player
- Gunnar Birkerts (Gunārs Birkerts, 1925), architect (Corning Museum of Glass, Marquette Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela)
- Chase Budinger (1988), NBA basketball player
- Vija Celmins (Vija Celmiņš, 1938), painter, in 2009 she won a Fellow Award in the Visual Arts from United States Artists
- Jacob Davis (Jacob Youphes, 1831–1908), tailor, inventor of denim
- Buddy Ebsen (1908–2003), actor and dancer, who is perhaps best remembered for his role as Jed Clampett in the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies
- Andrievs Ezergailis (1930), historian of the Holocaust
- Paul Grasmanis (1974) former NFL american footbal player
- Natalie Gulbis, LPGA golfer
- Moriss Halle (1923), linguist
- Philippe Halsman (Filips Halsmans), photographer
- Juris Hartmanis (1928), computer scientist, Turing Award winner (1993)
- Miķelis Knublis (1972), NHL ice hockey player
- Mārtiņš Krūmiņš, Latvian-American Impressionist Painter
- DJ Lethal (Leors Dimants), DJ for rap-rock band Limp Bizkit
- Ed Leedskalnin (Edvards Liedskalniņš, 1887–1951), amateur sculptor, builder of Coral Castle in Florida, claimed to have discovered the ancient magnetic levitation secrets used to construct the Egyptian pyramids.
- Leo Mihelsons (1887–1978) - artist
- Agate Nesaule, writer of A Woman in Amber : Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
- Fred Norris (Alfreds Leo Nuķis), Howard Stern show personality
- Lucia Peka (Lūcija Pēka, 1912–1991), artist, painter of "Flowers", "Riga", and "The Well". Part of the Latvian Diaspora.
- Brita Petersone, model
- Konstantīns Počs, engineer, one of the inventors of AWACS – the airborne warning and control system
- Gundaris Pone, composer and conductor (1932–1994)
- Roberta Pedon (1954–1982), glamour model
- Lolita Ritmanis (1962, Portland), orchestrator, composer
- Mark Rothko, painter
- Raimonds Staprans (Raimonds Staprāns, 1926), Latvian/American painter and playwright ("The Freezing", 1979; "Four Days in June", 1989)
- Haralds Šnepsts (1954), NHL ice hockey player
- Esther Sans Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources at University of Buffalo and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (Oct. 7, 2009)
- Juris Upatnieks (1936), physicist, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography, created the first working hologram in 1962
- Makss Veinreihs (1893–1969), linguist
- Ed Viesturs (Edmunds Viesturs, (1959), one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is one of only 18 people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks.
- Markus Zusevics (1989), NFL american footbal player
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