George I added a few others to your native born GM list:-

"Miriling" wrote in message
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The first American-born player to be awarded the GM title by FIDE was
Reuben Fine (1914-1993), who received the title in 1950.
Other Americans who received the title in the early years:

1954: Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985), IM title in 1950.
1957: Arthur Bisguier (1929- ), IM in 1950, and Larry Evans (1932- ), IM
in
1952.
1958: Robert Fischer (1943- ), IM in 1957.
1960: William Lombardy (1937- ), IM in 1957.
1964: Robert Byrne (1928- ), IM in 1952

Andrew Soltis (b.1947 in Hazleton, PA)
Larry Christiansen (b.1956, Riverside, CA)
Nick de Firmian (b.1957, Fresno, CA)
John Fedorowicz, (b.1958, New York, NY)
Michael Rohde, (b.1959, New York, NY)
Joel Benjamin (b.1964, New York, NY)
Patrick Wolff (b.1968, New York, NY)

Cordially, Phil Innes