OH, they have to go to the USA? The question says they merely "emigrated" somewhere and also "Became famous in the USA." I read it wrong.
No you didn't. I didn't put that question with sufficient accuracy.
Those are three good examples Rat_Lady. I think I asked for too many cases and that it should be your turn to post the next question
Further examples of Germans who emigrated to the US and became famous there are:
John Jacob Astor - Founder of the Astor family and one of America's first multimillionaires.
Carl Schurz - Fled to America after the failed Revolution of 1848 in Germany. In the Civil War he was a general for the north and later the first German born US senator.
Franz Siegel - Another 1848 revolutionary who fled to the US fought in the US civil war and later on held political positions in New York, for both the Republicans and the Democrats.
Henry Kissinger - Security adviser in the Nixon and Ford Administration.
Thomas Nast - Famous 19th century newspaper caricaturist (among other the Democrat donkey and the Republican elephant are his creation).
Roland Emmerich - Movie Director (e.g. Independence day).
Wolfgang Peterson - Another movie director (e.g. The perfect storm).
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben - Played an important role in training George Washington's army in the war of independence.
There are many more examples of people born in Germany and becoming famous in the US. The list of those descended from Germans is even longer (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, the Rockefeller clan, Paris Hilton, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Chester W. Nimitz, John Joseph Pershing are some examples). Here is a longer
list.
Anyway, your turn Rat_Lady
