# Amerikan kültürü
Amerikan kültürü (İngilizce: Folklore of the United States), Amerika Birleşik Devletlerinde yaşayan halka ve vatandaşlık bağıyla bağlı olan herkese ve bu kültürü yaşayanlara verilen addır.


## Amerikan kültür figürleri.
### Uydurulmuş kişiler.
  - Paul Bunyan
  - Cordwood Pete
  - Iron John
  - John the Conqueror
  - John Henry
  - Roy Hobbs
  - Johnny Kaw
  - Joe Magarac
  - Molly Pitcher
  - Pecos Bill
  - Zorro
  - Stagger Lee
  - Henry "Ole Pete" Peterson
  - Casey Jones


### Tarihsel kişiler.
#### Başkanlar.
  - Aaron Burr (1756–1836)
  - Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
  - Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)
  - Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
  - Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
  - Bob Dole (born 1923)
  - Charles Sumner (1811–1874)
  - Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
  - Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926)
  - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
  - George Wallace (1919–1998)
  - George Washington (1732–1799)
  - Henry Clay (1777–1852)
  - Huey Long (1893–1935)
  - Jefferson Davis (1808–1889)
  - John C. Calhoun (1780–1850)
  - John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
  - John Hancock (1737–1793)
  - John Jay (1745–1829)
  - Jonathan Moulton (1726–1787)
  - Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957)
  - Patrick Henry (1736–1799)
  - Preston Brooks (1819–1857)
  - R. Budd Dwyer (1939–1987)
  - Ralph Nader (born 1934)
  - Richard Nixon (1913–1994)
  - Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968)
  - Robert La Follette (1855–1925)
  - Ron Paul (born 1935)
  - Sam Houston (1793–1863)
  - Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836)
  - Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
  - Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
  - William Bradford (1590–1657)
  - William M. Tweed (1823–1878)
  - William Penn (1644–1718)


#### Eski batı figürleri.
  - Annie Oakley (1860–1926)
  - Bat Masterson (1853–1921)
  - Belle Starr (1848–1889)
  - Big Nose George (died 1881)
  - Big Nose Kate (1850–1940)
  - Bill Doolin (1858–1906)
  - Billy the Kid (1859–1881)
  - Brushy Bill Roberts (c. 1859 – 1950)
  - Butch Cassidy (1866 – c. 1908)
  - Calamity Jane (1852–1903)
  - Charles Bolles (1829 – c. 1888)
  - Charles Goodnight (1836–1929)
  - Cole Younger (1844–1916)
  - Cowboy Morgan Evans (1903–1969)
  - The Dalton Gang (1890–1892)
  - Doc Holliday (1851–1887)
  - James W. Marshall (1810–1885)
  - Jesse James (1847–1882)
  - Joaquin Murrieta (1829 – c. 1853)
  - John Sutter (1803–1880)
  - John Wesley Hardin (1853–1895)
  - Johnny Ringo (1850–1882)
  - Jose Chavez y Chavez (1851–1924)
  - Juan Cortina (1824–1894)
  - Kit Carson (1809–1868)
  - Mysterious Dave Mather (1851–?)
  - Pancho Villa (1878–1923)
  - Pat Garrett (1850–1908)
  - Reno Gang (1866–1868)
  - Robert Ford (1862–1892)
  - Roy Bean (c. 1825 – 1903)
  - Soapy Smith (1860–1898)
  - Tom Horn (1860–1903)
  - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837–1876)
  - William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846–1917)
  - Wyatt Earp (1848–1929)
  - Black Bart (1829 – c. 1888)


#### Kaşifçiler ve sınırlarda yaşayanlar.
  - Henry Hudson (died c. 1611)
  - John Smith (c. 1580 – 1631)
  - Daniel Boone (1734–1820)
  - Simon Kenton (1755–1836)
  - Mike Fink (c. 1770 – c. 1823)
  - "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman (1774–1845)
  - Zebulon Pike (1778–1813)
  - Davy Crockett (1785–1836)
  - Jedediah Smith (1798 – c. 1831)
  - Lewis & Clark (1804–1806)
  - James "Grizzly" Adams (c. 1807 – 1860)
  - John C. Frémont (1813–1890)
  - "Liver Eating" John Johnson (c. 1824 – 1900)


#### Aktivistler.
##### Kölelik karşıtları.
  - Dred Scott (1799–1858)
  - John Brown (1800–1859)
  - Nat Turner (1800–1831)
  - Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882)
  - Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
  - Harriet Tubman (1822–1913)


##### Sivil hak liderleri.
  - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
  - W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
  - Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
  - Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975)
  - Rosa Parks (1913–2005)
  - Medgar Evers (1925–1963)
  - Malcolm X (1925–1965)
  - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
  - Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998)
  - Bobby Seale (born 1936)
  - Huey P. Newton (1942–1989)
  - Jesse Jackson (born 1941)
  - H. Rap Brown (born 1943)
  - Al Sharpton (born 1954)
  - Freedom Riders (1961)


##### Kadın hakları destekçileri.
  - Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
  - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
  - Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
  - Emma Goldman (1869–1940)


##### İşçi Hareketi.
  - Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930)
  - Big Bill Haywood (1869–1928)
  - Sid Hatfield (1893–1921)
  - Molly Maguires (c. 1861 – 1878)
  - Fannie Sellins (1872–1917)
  - Frank Little (1879–1917)
  - Ginger Goodwin (1887–1918)
  - Wesley Everest (1890–1919)
  - Cesar Chavez (1927–1993)


##### Skandalcılar.
  - Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911)
  - Jacob Riis (1849–1914)
  - Julius Chambers (1850–1920)
  - Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)
  - Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941)
  - William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951)
  - Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936)
  - David Graham Phillips (1867–1911)
  - Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946)
  - William Henry Irwin (1873–1948)
  - William English Walling (1877–1936)
  - Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)


##### Savaş karşıtları.
  - Ron Paul (born 1935)
  - Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
  - Alice Herz (1882–1965)
  - Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005)
  - Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
  - Tom Laughlin (born 1931)
  - Norman Morrison (1933–1965)
  - Ralph Nader (born 1934)
  - Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989)
  - Jane Fonda (born 1937)
  - Jerry Rubin (1938–1994)
  - John Kerry (born 1943)
  - Sandra Lee Scheuer (1949–1970)
  - Jeffrey Glenn Miller (1950–1970)
  - William Knox Schroeder (1950–1970)
  - Allison Krause (1951–1970)
  - Michael Moore (born 1954)
  - Cindy Sheehan (born 1957)
  - Students for a Democratic Society (1962–1969)


##### Amerikan Yerlileri Hareketi.
  - Dennis Banks (born 1932)
  - Vine Deloria (1933–2005)
  - Clyde Bellecourt (born 1936)
  - Russell Means (born 1939)
  - Leonard Peltier (born 1944)
  - Sacheen Littlefeather (born 1947)


##### Beyazların üstünlüğü öğretisi.
  - Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877)
  - Virgil Effinger (1873–1955)
  - William J. Simmons (1880–1945)
  - Hiram Wesley Evans (1881–1966)
  - William Dudley Pelley (1890–1965)
  - D. C. Stephenson (1891–1966)
  - Robert Edward Chambliss (1904–1985)
  - George Lincoln Rockwell (1916–1967)
  - Samuel Bowers (1924–2006)
  - Tom Metzger (born 1938)
  - David Duke (born 1950)
  - Alex Linder (born 1966)


##### Çevreciler.
  - Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
  - John Muir (1838–1914)
  - Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
  - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948)
  - Rachel Carson (1907–1964)
  - Edward Abbey (1927–1989)
  - Smokey Bear (c. 1940s-1976)
  - Al Gore (born 1948)


#### Askeri kişilikler.
  - Francis Marion (c. 1732 – 1795)
  - Ethan Allen (1738–1789)
  - Stephen Decatur (1779–1820)
  - John Paul Jones (1747–1792)
  - Henry Knox (1750–1806)
  - William Henry Harrison (1773–1841)
  - Zachary Taylor (1784–1850)
  - Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)
  - William B. Travis (1809–1836)
  - William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)
  - Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)
  - Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824–1863)
  - William Quantrill (1837–1865)
  - George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876)
  - Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966)
  - George Marshall (1880–1959)
  - Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)
  - George S. Patton (1885–1945)
  - Alvin C. York (1887–1964)
  - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)
  - The Rough Riders (1898) 
  - Audie Murphy (1924–1971)
  - Tuskegee Airman (1940–1946)
  - William Calley (born 1943)
  - David Petraeus (born 1952)


#### Atletler.
  - Cap Anson (1852–1922)
  - John L. Sullivan (1858–1918)
  - Jack Johnson (1876–1946)
  - Ty Cobb (1886–1961)
  - Jim Thorpe (1888–1953)
  - Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888–1951)
  - Babe Ruth (1895–1948)
  - Jack Dempsey (1895–1983)
  - Lou Gehrig (1903–1941)
  - Red Grange (1903–1991)
  - Satchel Paige (1906–1982)
  - Vince Lombardi (1913–1970)
  - Jesse Owens (1913–1980)
  - Paul Bear Bryant (1913–1983)
  - Joe Louis (1914–1981)
  - Joe DiMaggio (1914–1999)
  - Gorgeous George (1915–1963)
  - Ted Williams (1918–2002)
  - Jackie Robinson (1919–1972)
  - The Harlem Globetrotters (1926–)
  - Mickey Mantle (1931–1995)
  - Johnny Unitas (1933–2002)
  - Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999)
  - Evel Knievel (1938–2007)
  - Billy Mills (born 1938)
  - Bob Knight (born 1940)
  - Pete Rose (born 1941)
  - Muhammad Ali (born 1942)
  - Joe Namath (born 1943)
  - Pete Maravich (1947–1988)
  - Julius Erving (born 1950)
  - Steve Prefontaine (1951–1975)
  - Dale Earnhardt (1951–2001)
  - Joe Montana (born 1956)
  - Michael Jordan (born 1963)
  - Brett Favre (born 1969)
  - Lance Armstrong (born 1971)
  - Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972)
  - Tiger Woods (born 1975)
  - Peyton Manning (born 1976)
  - Tom Brady (born 1977)
  - Kobe Bryant (born 1978)
  - LeBron James (born 1984)
  - Michael Phelps (born 1985)
  - Tim Tebow (born 1987)


#### Edebiyatçılar.
  - Parson Weems (1756–1825)
  - Washington Irving (1783–1859)
  - James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1951)
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
  - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
  - Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
  - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
  - Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
  - Herman Melville (1819–1891)
  - Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
  - Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899)
  - Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
  - Mark Twain (1835–1910)
  - L. Frank Baum (1856–1919)
  - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957)
  - Robert Frost (1874–1963)
  - Jack London (1876–1910)
  - H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)
  - Uncle Remus (1881–1905)
  - T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
  - H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
  - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
  - Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
  - John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
  - Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
  - Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)
  - Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
  - William S. Burroughs (1914–1997)
  - J. D. Salinger (1919–2010)
  - Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
  - Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
  - Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)
  - Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
  - Shel Silverstein (1930–1999)
  - Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
  - Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)
  - Stephen King (born 1947)
  - Beat Generation (1948-early 1960s)
  - William Faulkner (1897–1962)


#### Artistler.
  - Thomas Cole (1801–1848)
  - Grandma Moses (1860–1961)
  - Frederic Remington (1861–1909)
  - Norman Rockwell (1894–1978)
  - Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)
  - Andy Warhol (1928–1987)


#### Müzisyenler.
  - Edwin Pearce Christy (1815–1862)
  - Dan Emmett (1815–1904)
  - Stephen Foster (1826–1864)
  - John Philip Sousa (1854–1923)
  - Scott Joplin (1867–1917)
  - W. C. Handy (1873–1958)
  - George M. Cohan (1878–1942)
  - Jelly Roll Morton (1885–1941)
  - Al Jolson (1886–1950)
  - Leadbelly (1888–1949)
  - Jimmie Rodgers (1897–1933)
  - George Gershwin (1898–1937)
  - Emmett Miller (1900–1962)
  - Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
  - Fats Waller (1904–1934)
  - Robert Johnson (1911–1938)
  - Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)
  - Billie Holiday (1915–1959)
  - Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
  - Hank Williams (1923–1953)
  - Ray Charles (1930–2004)
  - Johnny Cash (1932–2003)
  - Elvis Presley (1935–1977)
  - Buddy Holly (1936–1959)
  - Bob Dylan (born 1941)
  - Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970)
  - Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
  - Bruce Springsteen (born 1949)
  - Michael Jackson (1958–2009)
  - The Rat Pack (1950–1980s)
  - Kurt Cobain (1967–1994)
  - Tupac Shakur (1971–1996)
  - The Notorious B.I.G. (1972–1997)


#### Aktör ve film yapımcıları.
  - Edwin Forrest (1806–1872)
  - Edwin Booth (1833–1892)
  - D. W. Griffith (1875–1948)
  - Will Rogers (1879–1935)
  - Tom Mix (1880–1940)
  - John Barrymore (1882–1942)
  - Lon Chaney, Sr. (1883–1930)
  - Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933)
  - John Ford (1894–1973)
  - Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926)
  - Walt Disney (1901–1966)
  - John Wayne (1907–1979)
  - Marx Brothers (1905 – c. 1950)
  - Orson Wells (1915–1985)
  - Marlon Brando (1924–2004)
  - Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)
  - The Three Stooges (1925–1970)
  - Laurel and Hardy (1926–1957)
  - Abbott and Costello (1929–1965)
  - Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
  - Clint Eastwood (born 1930)
  - James Dean (1931–1955)
  - Bruce Lee (1940–1973)
  - George Carlin


#### Amerikan yerlileri.
  - Hiawatha (12th century)
  - Squanto (1580–1625)
  - Pocahontas (1595–1617)
  - Sequoyah (1767–1843)
  - Tecumseh (1768–1813)
  - Sacagawea (1788 – c. 1812)
  - Red Cloud (1822–1909)
  - Geronimo (1829–1909)
  - Sitting Bull (1831–1890)
  - Liliuokalani (1838–1917)
  - Chief Joseph (1840–1904)
  - Crazy Horse (1840–1877)
  - Black Elk (1863–1950)
  - Ira Hayes (1923–1955)


#### Havacılık ve uzay kaşifçileri.
  - Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973)
  - Amelia Earhart (1897-?)
  - Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974)
  - The Wright Brothers (1903)
  - Howard Hughes (1905–1976)
  - John Glenn (born 1921)
  - Alan Shepard (1923–1998)
  - Chuck Yeager (born 1923)
  - Neil Armstrong (born 1930)
  - Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)
  - Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986)
  - Sally Ride (1951–2012)
  - Chesley Sullenberger (born 1951)


#### Suçlular.
  - Al Capone (1899–1947)'
  - Baby Face Nelson (1908–1934)
  - Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718)
  - Bonnie Parker (1910–1934
  - Charles Ponzi (1882–1949)
  - Clyde Barrow (1909–1934)
  - D.B. Cooper (died c. 1971)
  - Jimmy Hoffa (1913-?)
  - John Dillinger (1903–1934)
  - John Gotti (1940–2002)
  - John Wilkes Booth (1836–1865)
  - Lizzie Borden (1860–1927)
  - Lucky Luciano (1897–1962))
  - Pretty Boy Floyd (1904–1934)
  - Stagger Lee Shelton (1865–1912)
  - Tommy Lucchese (1899–1967)
  - Willie Sutton (1901–1980)


#### Hukukçular.
  - Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884)
  - J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972)
  - Melvin Purvis (1903–1960)
  - Eliot Ness (1903–1957)


#### Dini kişilikler.
  - Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643)
  - Roger Williams (1603–1683)
  - Increase Mather (1639–1723)
  - Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
  - Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
  - George Whitefield (1714–1770)
  - Brigham Young (1801–1877)
  - Joseph Smith (1805–1844)
  - Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)
  - Billy Sunday (1862–1935)
  - Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944)
  - Charles Coughlin (1891–1979)
  - Billy Graham (born 1918)


#### Mucitler ve Girişimciler.
  - Charles Goodyear (1800–1860)
  - Eli Whitney (1765–1825)
  - John Deere (1804–1886)
  - Samuel Morse (1791–1872)
  - P. T. Barnum (1810–1891)
  - Levi Strauss (1829–1902)
  - Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)
  - John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)
  - Jack Daniel (1846–1911)
  - Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
  - Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
  - Henry Ford (1863–1947)
  - Colonel Sanders (1890–1980)
  - Walt Disney (1901–1966)


#### Amerikan Devriminin Devlet Adamları.
  - Paul Revere (1735–1818)
  - Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
  - Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
  - Betsy Ross (1752–1836)


#### Diğer.
  - Leif Ericson (c. 970 – c. 1020)
  - Oceanus Hopkins (1620 – c. 1623)
  - Sally Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835)
  - Marie Laveau (1801–1881)
  - Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874)
  - Emperor Norton I (1819–1880)
  - Abner Doubleday (1819–1893)
  - General Tom Thumb (1838–1883)
  - The Leatherman (c. 1839 – 1889)
  - Isaac W. Sprague (1841–1887)
  - Jumbo (1861–1885)
  - Casey Jones (1863–1900)
  - Fedor Jeftichew (1868–1904)
  - Mary Mallon (1869–1938)
  - Leon Ray Livingston (1872–1944)
  - Harry Houdini (1874–1936)
  - Helen Keller (1880–1968)
  - Abraham Zapruder (1905–1970)
  - Colonel Tom Parker (1909–1997)
  - Timothy Leary (1920–1996)
  - Black Dahlia (1924 – c. 1947)
  - Wavy Gravy (born 1936)
  - Wolfman Jack (1939–1995)
  - Christopher McCandless (1968–1992)
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### Efsanevi ve Kültürel kişilikler.
  - Babe the Blue Ox
  - Bigfoot
  - Bloody Mary
  - Cardiff Giant
  - Champ
  - Christmas elf
  - Chupacabra
  - Fur-bearing trout
  - Goatman
  - Grey aliens
  - Hodag
  - Jackalope
  - Jersey Devil
  - La Llorona
  - Mothman
  - Nain Rouge
  - Rabbit's foot
  - Santa Claus
  - Skunk Ape
  - Squonk
  - Wendigo
  - The White Lady
  - The Michigan Dogman
  - Zombie