User:Kingsif/List of artists and entertainers depicted in The American Library (2018)

People notable for art or entertainment whose names are depicted on books of, and lives are profiled as part of, Yinka Shonibare's The American Library installation art.^[1] The artwork features 3,200 people who are immigrants, or descendants of recent immigrants, to the United States, or migrants of the Great Migration, and who have significantly contributed to American culture. Many of these people have overcome discrimination, and/or have worked with a focus on the topic of immigration. Some have anti-immigration views.

Name	Image	Country of birth	Country/ies of origin
Pacita Abad		Philippines
Chris Abani		Nigeria
Joseph Abboud		United States	Syria
Barkhad Abdi		Somalia
Paula Abdul		United States	Syria Canada
Virgil Abloh		United States	Ghana
F. Murray Abraham		United States	Syria Italy
Marina Abramović		present-day Serbia
Diana Abu-Jaber		United States	Jordan
Chinua Achebe		Nigeria
Reem Acra		Lebanon
Louis Adamic		present-day Slovenia
Amy Adams		Italy
Maud Adams		Sweden
Cynthia Addai-Robinson		United Kingdom
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie		Nigeria
Bernard Adler		United States	Germany
Uzo Aduba		United States	Nigeria
Dianna Agron		United States	present-day Ukraine present-day Latvia
Liaquat Ahamed		Kenya
Mequitta Ahuja		United States	India
Gbenga Akinnagbe		United States	Nigeria
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje		United Kingdom	Nigeria
Samuel Akinyah		Ghana
Rabih Alameddine		Jordan
Daniel Alarcón		Peru
Jessica Alba		United States	Mexico
Anni Albers		present-day Germany
Josef Albers		present-day Germany
Sholem Aleichem		present-day Ukraine
Grant Aleksander		United States	Poland
Pico Alexander		United States	Poland
Tatyana Ali		United States	Trinidad and Tobago Panama
Woody Allen		United States	Russia Austria
Isabel Allende		Peru
Laz Alonso		United States	Cuba
Herb Alpert		United States	Romania present-day Ukraine
Charles Alston		United States	United States (North Carolina)
Julia Alvarez		United States	Dominican Republic
Camila Alves		Brazil
Nawras Alzubaidy		Iraq
Sana Amanat		United States	Pakistan
Christiane Amanpour		United Kingdom
Alessandra Ambrosio		Brazil
Aml Ameen		United Kingdom
Ghada Amer		Egypt
Amerie		United States	South Korea
Daniele Amfitheatrof		Russia
Wally Amos		United States
Rudolfo Anaya		United States
Benny Andrews		United States	United States (Georgia)
Chet Anekwe		Nigeria
Heather Angel		United Kingdom
Maya Angelou		United States	United States (North Carolina)
Boris Anisfeld		present-day Moldova
Jennifer Aniston		United States	Greece
Paul Anka		Canada
Ann-Margret		Sweden
Odette Annable		United States	Colombia Cuba
Nonso Anozie		United Kingdom
Aziz Ansari		United States	India
George Antheil		United States	Germany
Michael Anthony		United States	Poland
Mary Antin		present-day Belarus
Vinessa Antoine		Canada
Richard Anuszkiewicz		United States	Poland
Devon Aoki		United States	Japan
Apl.de.ap		Philippines
Sergio Aragonés		Spain
Richard Arbib		United States	Egypt
Alexander Archipenko		present-day Ukraine
Alan Arkin		United States	Russia present-day France
Desi Arnaz		Cuba
Felix Arndt		United States	Switzerland Spain
Will Arnett		Canada
Boris Aronson		present-day Ukraine
Rudolph Aronson		United States	Germany
David Arquette		United States	present-day Ukraine
Rosanna Arquette		United States	present-day Ukraine
Richard Artschwager		United States	present-day Germany present-day Poland present-day Russia present-day Lithuania Ukraine
Ruth Asawa		United States	Japan
Emil Ascher		Germany
Isaac Asimov		Russia
Leon Askin		Austria
Reza Aslan		Iran
Ed Asner		United States	Russia
Fred Astaire		United States	Austria present-day Germany
W. H. Auden		United Kingdom
Mischa Auer		Russia
Richard Avedon		United States	Russia
Dan Aykroyd		Canada
Max Azria		Tunisia
Yigal Azrouël		Israel
Lauren Bacall		United States	Romania present-day Belarus
Morena Baccarin		Brazil
Peter Bacho		United States	Philippines
Max Albin Bachofen		Switzerland
Olga Baclanova		Russia
Joan Baez		United States	Mexico United Kingdom
Ross Bagdasarian		United States	Armenia
Ross Bagdasarian Jr.		United States	Armenia
Scott Baio		United States	Italy
Simon Baker		Australia
Georges Baklanoff		Latvia
George Balanchine		Russia
John Baldessari		United States	Italy Denmark
Christian Bale		United Kingdom	South Africa United Kingdom
Liz Balmaseda		Cuba
Bambadjan Bamba		Côte d'Ivoire
Anne Bancroft		United States	Italy
John Banner		present-day Austria
Christine Baranski		United States	Poland
Gary Barber		South Africa
John Barry		United Kingdom
Uta Barth		Germany
Mischa Barton		United Kingdom
Mikhail Baryshnikov		Latvia	Russia
Basia		Poland
Jean-Michel Basquiat		United States	Haiti
Elaine Bass		United States	Hungary
Saul Bass		United States	Lithuania Russia
Harold Bauer		United Kingdom
Steven Bauer		Cuba
Dave Bautista		United States	Philippines
Michael Bay		United States	Russia
Ishmael Beah		Sierra Leone
Frank Beard		United States
Romare Bearden		United States	United States (North Carolina)
Garcelle Beauvais		Haiti
Glenn Beck		United States
Harry Belafonte		United States	Jamaica
Sidor Belarsky		Ukraine
Leon Belasco		present-day Ukraine
Jules Belkin		United States	Russia
Mike Belkin		United States	Russia
Kristen Bell		United States	Germany Poland
Maria Bello		United States	Italy
Saul Bellow		Canada	present-day Lithuania present-day Latvia
Ludwig Bemelmans		present-day Italy
Brian Benben		United States	Austria
Benny Benjamin		United States	United States (Alabama)
Jack Benny		United States	Poland Lithuania
Herman Bergdorf (Bergdorf Goodman)		France
Tom Bergeron		United States	Canada
Maria Bergson		Austria
Irving Berlin	File:Irving Berlin (1888-1989) circa 1940.jpg	Russia
Emile Berliner		present-day Germany
Carlos Bernard		United States	Spain
Lucian Bernhard		Germany
Elmer Bernstein		United States	Ukraine
Leonard Bernstein		United States	present-day Ukraine
Harry Bertoia		Italy
Otto Bettmann		Germany
Jeff Bewkes		United States	Germany
Leon Bibb		United States	United States (Alabama)
August Biehle		United States	Germany
John Bielenberg		Germany
Albert Bierstadt		present-day Germany
Joe Bihari		United States	Hungary present-day Slovakia
Theodore Bikel		Austria
Nadia Bjorlin		United States	Sweden Iran
Ben Black		United Kingdom
Edwin Black		United States	Poland
Michael Blackson		Ghana
Rubén Blades		Panama
William Peter Blatty		United States	Lebanon
Alexis Bledel		United States	Argentina
Yasmine Bleeth		United States	Algeria Germany
Ernest Bloch		Switzerland
Hyman Bloom		present-day Latvia
Marc Blucas		United States	Poland
Joseph Blumenthal		United States	Germany
Peter Bogdanovich		United States	present-day Syria Austria
Varujan Boghosian		United States	Armenia
Ettore Boiardi		Italy
Edward William Bok		Netherlands
Richard Boleslawski		Poland
Adolph Bolm		Russia
Ilya Bolotowsky		Russia
Michael Bolton		United States	Russia United Kingdom
Jon Bon Jovi		United States	Italy Slovakia Lithuania Poland Russia Switzerland
Lilian Bond		United Kingdom
Sonny Bono		United States	Italy
Irène Bordoni		France (Corsica)
Maria Borges		Angola
Alex Borstein		United States	Hungary
Johnny Yong Bosch		United States	South Korea
Amar Bose		United States	India
Fernando Botero		Colombia
Daniel Boulud		France
Louise Bourgeois		France
Carol Bove		Switzerland
Sônia Braga		Brazil
Edmund Braham		United Kingdom
Lesley-Ann Brandt		South Africa
Cindy Breakspeare		Canada	Jamaica
Marcel Breuer		present-day Hungary
Jordana Brewster		Panama	United Kingdom Brazil
Peter Brimelow		United Kingdom
Alexey Brodovitch		present-day Belarus
Joseph Brodsky		present-day Russia
Adrien Brody		United States	Hungary
Charles Bronson		United States	Lithuania
Gwendolyn Brooks		United States	United States (Kansas)
Pierce Brosnan		Ireland
Brother Theodore		present-day Germany
Claude Brown		United States	United States (South Carolina)
Georg Stanford Brown		Cuba
Jackson Browne		Germany
Robert Brownjohn		United States	United Kingdom
Tania Bruguera		Cuba
Cindy Bruna		France
Yul Brynner		Russia
Mika Brzezinski		United States
Leslie Buck		present-day Ukraine
William F. Buckley Jr.		United States	Canada
Henry Buehman		Germany
Akosua Busia		Ghana
Charles Bukowski		present-day Germany
NoViolet Bulawayo		Zimbabwe
Carlos Bulosan		Philippines
Gisele Bündchen		Brazil
Sam Burckhardt		Switzerland
David Burliuk		present-day Ukraine
Charles Burnett		United States
George Burns		United States	Austria Poland
Will Burtin		Germany
Jean Butler		United States	Ireland
Xu Bing		China