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This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are English American or must have references showing they are English American and are notable.
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[edit] Architects
- George Biddle
- Edward Leigh Chase
- Frank Swift Chase
- Joseph DeCamp
- Thomas Dewing
- Childe Hassam
- Winslow Homer
- Willard Metcalf
- Grandma Moses
- Norman Rockwell
- John Singer Sargent
- Edmund C. Tarbell
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
- John Trumbull
- Andrew Wyeth
- N.C. Wyeth
[edit] Assassins, outlaws and criminals
- Clyde Barrow
- John Wilkes Booth – Abraham Lincoln assassin
- Lizzie Borden – the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Calamity Jane – outlaw, whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary
- Butch Cassidy – train and bank robber
- Charles J. Guiteau – James Garfield assassin.
- Jesse James – train and bank robber
- Lee Harvey Oswald – John F. Kennedy assassin
- Bonnie Parker
- William Poole – gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician
- Belle Starr – a notorious American outlaw
[edit] Astronauts
- John Glenn
- Christa McAuliffe - Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
- Alan Shepard
[edit] Astronomers
- Harold D. Babcock
- Alvan Clark
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Asaph Hall
- Percival Lowell
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- Clyde Tombaugh
[edit] Directors/producers
- Robert Aldrich
- Robert Altman
- John Badham
- J. Stuart Blackton
- George Howells Broadhurst
- Tim Burton
- Nick Castle
- Clint Eastwood
- D. W. Griffith
- Howard Hawks
- Fraser Clarke Heston
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Jack Hope
- David Horsley
- Ron Howard
- John Huston
- Charles Laughton
- George Lucas
- Christopher Nolan
- Jonathan Nolan
- Orson Welles
- William A. Wellman
[edit] Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers
- Alec Baldwin - [1]
- Jordana Brewster - Actress
- Chevy Chase – Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Leslie Carter
- Aaron Carter, singer.
- Nick Carter (musician)
- Johnny Carson - [2]
- Bing Crosby, actor and singer, father was a descendant
- Clint Eastwood[1] – actor
- Jodie Foster[3]
- Ulysses S. Grant – Union Army general; U.S. President
- Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises [1]
- Katharine Hepburn – an iconic American actress of film, television and stage
- John Lithgow – actor [2]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[citation needed] – poet
- Seth MacFarlane[citation needed] – creator of Family Guy, Scottish, Welsh and English Ancestry
- George B. McClellan[citation needed] – Union Army general
- Marilyn Monroe - famous actress [1]
- Christopher Reeve – actor [1]
- Bill Richardson[4] – Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President; (although he was 1/4 Dutch)
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses - [2]
- Sissy Spacek actress
- Benjamin Spock[citation needed] – pediatrician and author, Baby and Child Care
- Dick Van Dyke - [1]
- Noah Webster – American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editor [2]
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[edit] Authors and writers
- Louisa May Alcott
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr[9]
- John Bartlett
- L. Frank Baum
- Ambrose Bierce
- Tony Blankley
- Victor Bockris
- William Cullen Bryant
- Christopher Buckley
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Truman Capote
- Carolyn Cassady
- Raymond Chandler
- J. Smeaton Chase
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Ann Coulter[10]
- Coningsby Dawson
- John Derbyshire
- Emily Dickinson
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- Diana Gabaldon
- Joseph Gales
- Hamlin Garland
- Edgar Guest
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Bret Harte
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Christopher Hitchens
- Washington Irving
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Helen Keller
- Stephen King
- Sidney Lanier
- Ring Lardner
- Jack London
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Herman Melville – (he was descendant of Percival Lowle)[11]
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Edgar Allan Poe
- William Henry Leonard Poe
- Katherine Anne Porter
- James Wesley Rawles[12]
- E. E. Smith
- Nicholas Sparks
- Benjamin Spock
- John Steinbeck
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
- Gore Vidal
- Lew Wallace
- Robert Penn Warren
- Noah Webster
- Eudora Welty
- Walt Whitman
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- Michael Z. Williamson[13]
[edit] Musicians
- Dimebag Darrell Abbott – former lead guitarist of Pantera
- Vinnie Paul Abbott – former Pantera drummer
- Clay Aiken
- Billie Joe Armstrong – founder of Green Day
- Joan Baez
- Baby Bash
- Owen Biddle (musician)
- Rebecca Black of partial English descent
- Jack Brooks – lyricist
- Rex Brown – former Pantera bassist
- Cliff Burton
- John Cage – Composer. Of English and Scottish descent
- Aaron Carter
- Leslie Carter
- Nick Carter
- Johnny Cash
- Cher
- Kurt Cobain
- Alice Cooper
- Billy Ray Cyrus[14]
- Miley Cyrus[15]
- Hilary Duff
- Eminem
- Mick Fleetwood
- Paul Gray – Slipknot bassist
- James Hetfield – singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
- Buddy Holly
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Burl Ives
- Norah Jones - Mother of English descent
- Janis Joplin[16]
- Joey Jordison – Slipknot drummer
- JoJo
- Naomi Judd
- Wynonna Judd
- Dana Key- Christian Rock guitarist, direct descendant of Francis Scott Key
- Anthony Kiedis
- Amy Lee
- Sean Lennon – his late father, John Lennon of The Beatles, was from Great Britain
- Moby
- Mandy Moore - Mother of English descent
- Jim Morrison
- Graham Nash[17]
- Ricky Nelson
- Willie Nelson
- Jason Newsted
- The Osmonds
- Sara Paxton
- Katy Perry - Of partial English descent
- Michelle Phillips
- Elvis Presley
- Iggy Pop
- Mark Ronson
- James Root – guitarist
- Pete Seeger
- Tommy Shaw
- Slash – rock guitarist
- Grace Slick – singer and former model, her mother is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers
- Matt Sorum – drummer
- Britney Spears - Grandmother of half English descent
- Izzy Stradlin – rock musician
- Corey Taylor – singer Slipknot Stone Sour
- Justin Timberlake
- Brian Wilson
- Sid Wilson – member of nu-metal band Slipknot
- "Weird Al" Yankovic – singer and satirist, his maternal grandmother is of English descent
[edit] Entrepreneurs, executives
- P. T. Barnum[18]
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
- Nicholas Biddle (banker)
- Warren Buffett – investor, businessman, and philanthropist.[19]
- Benjamin Brewster
- Walter Chrysler – founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
- William R. Coe – insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist.
- James Boorman Colgate – financier.
- Samuel Colgate – manufacturer .
- William Colgate – manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company.
- Roy O. Disney
- Walt Disney
- John Francis Dodge – automobile manufacturing pioneer.
- William E. Dodge
- Bill Gates – co founder of Microsoft and worlds richest man for 13 years in a row.
- Edward Henry Harriman – railroad executive.
- Joseph Lowthian Hudson
- Samuel Insull – investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads.
- Oliver Burr Jennings
- Will Keith Kellogg
- Henry Clews – financier.
- Rowland Hussey Macy, founder of the R.H. Macy and Company.
- J. P. Morgan – banker.
- Robert Noyce – co-founder of Intel.
- Ransom E. Olds – pioneer of the American automotive industry.
- Oliver Hazard Payne
- Anson Greene Phelps, he was descended from the early American Colonial Governors Thomas Dudley, John Haynes and George Wyllys.
- Charles Pratt
- Henry Huttleston Rogers
- Samuel Slater – early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution".
- Harold Stanley – banker.
- Sam Walton – founder of the American retailer Wal-Mart.
- Henry Wells – co-founder of the Wells Fargo & Company.
[edit] First Ladies of the United States
Martha Washington was the first lady and wife of first American President George Washington.
(in order by their husband's presidency)
- Martha Washington
- Abigail Smith Adams
- Martha Jefferson
- Dolley Madison
- Elizabeth Monroe
- Louisa Adams
- Rachel Jackson
- Anna Harrison
- Letitia Tyler
- Julia Tyler
- Sarah Polk
- Margaret Taylor
- Abigail Fillmore
- Mary Lincoln
- Julia Grant
- Lucy Hayes
- Lucretia Garfield
- Frances Cleveland
- Caroline Harrison
- Ida Saxton McKinley
- Edith Roosevelt
- Helen Taft
- Ellen Wilson
- Edith Wilson
- Florence Harding
- Grace Coolidge
- Lou Hoover
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Bess Truman
- Mamie Eisenhower
- Jackie Kennedy
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Betty Ford
- Rosalynn Carter
- Nancy Reagan
- Barbara Bush
- Hillary Clinton
- Laura Bush
[edit] Governors of states
- Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii.
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts.
- Homer Martin Adkins, Arkansas.
- Nahum J. Bachelder, New Hampshire.
- John J. Bagley, Michigan.
- James Barbour, Virginia.
- Frederick Bates, Missouri.
- Phil Batt, Idaho.
- Gunning Bedford, Sr., Delaware.
- Willie Blount, Tennessee.
- William D. Bloxham, Florida.
- Jan Brewer, Arizona.
- Paul Brigham, Vermont.
- John Brough, Ohio.
- C. Douglass Buck, Delaware.
- Jeb Bush, Florida.
- Ezra Butler, Vermont.
- Harry F. Byrd, Virginia.
- Cyrus C. Carpenter, Iowa.
- Michael Castle, Delaware.
- John Chafee, Rhode Island.
- Person Colby Cheney, New Hampshire.
- Martin Chittenden, Vermont.
- Thomas Chittenden, Vermont.
- Joshua Clayton, Delaware.
- Powell Clayton, Arkansas.
- DeWitt Clinton, New York.
- George Clinton, New York.
- Howell Cobb, Georgia.
- Thomas Collins, Delaware.
- Alfred H. Colquitt, Georgia.
- John Cook, Delaware.
- Nicholas Cooke, Rhode Island.
- Steve Cowper, Alaska.
- Moody Currier, New Hampshire.
- John Christopher Cutler, Utah.
- Nathan Cutler, Maine.
- Mitch Daniels, Indiana.
- William Richardson Davie, North Carolina.
- Howard Dean, Vermont.
- Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin.
- Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine.
- Edward H. East, Tennessee.
- Walter Evans Edge, New Jersey.
- Charles Edison, New Jersey.
- Samuel Elbert, Georgia.
- Buford Ellington, Tennessee.
- Edward Everett, Massachusetts.
- Hamilton Fish, New York.
- John Brown Francis, Rhode Island.
- Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts.
- Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Virginia.
- Frank R. Gooding, Idaho.
- William Greene, Rhode Island.
- Frederic T. Greenhalge, Massachusetts.
- James W. Grimes, Iowa.
- Matthew Griswold, Connecticut.
- Button Gwinnett, Georgia.
- Joshua Hall, Maine.
- Lyman Hall, Georgia.
- James Hamilton, Jr., South Carolina.
- Jay Hammond, Alaska.
- George Handley, Georgia.
- Clifford Hansen, Wyoming.
- Benjamin Harrison V, Virginia.
- David Hazzard, Delaware.
- Patrick Henry, Virginia.
- John Hoeven, North Dakota.
- Henry Hollis Horton, Tennessee.
- John Eager Howard, Maryland.
- Richard Howly, Georgia.
- Mike Huckabee, Arkansas.
- Samuel Huntington, Connecticut.
- Jonathan G. Hunton, Maine.
- Jon Huntsman, Jr., Utah.
- James Jackson, Georgia.
- Thomas Johnson, Maryland.
- William King (Governor of la Florida)
- Joseph Kent, Maryland.
- Philip La Follette, Wisconsin.
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Wisconsin.
- John Langdon, New Hampshire.
- Blair Lee III, Maryland
- Fitzhugh Lee, Virginia.
- Henry Lee III, Virginia.
- Thomas Sim Lee, Maryland.
- Levi Lincoln, Jr., Massachusetts.
- Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Maryland.
- George Madison, Kentucky.
- Stevens T. Mason, Michigan.
- Alexander McNutt, Mississippi.
- Matt Mead, Wyoming.
- William Dunn Moseley, Florida.
- Abner Nash, North Carolina.
- William A. Newell, New Jersey.
- Donald Grant Nutter, Montana.
- Aaron Ogden, New Jersey.
- Charles Smith Olden, New Jersey.
- John Eugene Osborne, Wyoming.
- William Paca, Maryland.
- John Page, Virginia.
- Sarah Palin, Alaska.
- William A. Palmer, Vermont.
- Frederic Hale Parkhurst, Maine.
- Albion Parris, Maine.
- David Paterson, New York.
- Endicott Peabody, Massachusetts.
- William Sanford Pennington, New Jersey.
- John S. Phelps, Missouri.
- Sidney Perham, Maine.
- Rick Perry, Texas.
- Benjamin Pierce, New Hampshire.
- John S. Pillsbury, Minnesota.
- William Plumer, New Hampshire.
- Beverley Randolph, Virginia.
- Edmund Randolph, Virginia.
- Peyton Randolph, Virginia.
- Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Virginia.
- George Read, Delaware.
- Bill Richardson, New Mexico.
- Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania.
- Charles Carnan Ridgely, Maryland.
- Jim Risch, Idaho.
- Wyndham Robertson, Virginia.
- Caesar Rodney, Delaware.
- Daniel Rogers, Delaware.
- George W. Romney, Michigan.
- Mitt Romney, Massachusetts.
- William E. Russell, Massachusetts.
- John Rutledge, South Carolina.
- Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts.
- Francis W. Sargent, Massachusetts.
- William Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- John Sevier, Tennessee.
- John Gill Shorter, Alabama.
- Al Smith, New York.
- Samuel E. Smith, Maine.
- William Spry, Utah.
- Onslow Stearns, New Hampshire.
- Charles C. Stratton, New Jersey.
- Ezekiel A. Straw, New Hampshire.
- Bob Taft, Ohio.
- Samuel J. Tilden, New York.
- Daniel D. Tompkins, New York.
- John Treadwell, Connecticut.
- William Trousdale, Tennessee.
- James Hoge Tyler, Virginia.
- John Tyler, Sr., Virginia.
- Robert S. Vessey, South Dakota.
- Joseph Marshall Walker, Louisiana.
- Cadwallader C. Washburn, Wisconsin.
- William Weld, Massachusetts.
- Heber Manning Wells, Utah.
- John Wereat, Georgia.
- Frank White, North Dakota.
- James Withycombe, Oregon.
- Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut.
- Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Connecticut.
- Urban A. Woodbury, Vermont.
- Fielding L. Wright, Mississippi.
[edit] Historical figures
- Clara Barton, pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian.
- Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
- John Brown (abolitionist)[20]
- Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990) Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, First Runner-Up 1924.[21]
- Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer and author.[22]
- Wyatt Earp
- Samuel Fielden – socialist, anarchist, labor organizer
- Elizabeth Fones – Puritan settler
- Pat Garrett, best known for killing Billy the Kid.
- Howard Hughes, aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
- Francis Scott Key, amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- Charles Lindbergh, aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
- Rebecca Nurse, figure in the Salem witch trials.
- Annie Oakley – sharpshooter
- Rick Rescorla – a hero of 11 September 2001
- Betsy Ross – maker of the first American flag
- Elizabeth Short – murder victim who was nicknamed the "Black Dahlia"
- Paul Tibbets, brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.
- J. D. Tippit – police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
- Abigail Williams – accuser in the Salem witch trials
[edit] Mormon pioneers
[edit] Inventors
John Pemberton was the inventor of Coca-Cola.
Wright Brothers who are generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.
- Samuel Andrews
- John Bidwell
- Gail Borden
- Franklin S. Cooper
- Peter Cooper Hewitt
- Samuel Colt
- George Eastman
- Thomas Edison
- Isaac L. Ellwood
- Thaddeus Fairbanks
- Philo Farnsworth
- Calvin Souther Fuller
- King Camp Gillette
- Charles Goodyear
- William S. Harley
- Robert Hoe
- Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Daniel Leavitt
- Samuel Morse[23]
- John Pemberton
- Edward S. Renwick – father was James Renwick
- William Bradford Shockley
- Jimmy Wales
- Eli Whitney
- Orville and Wilbur Wright
[edit] Journalists
- Tina Brown
- Jane Cunningham Croly
- Anderson Cooper
- Chris Hedges
- Ronald Hilton
- Cokie Roberts
- Diane Sawyer[24]
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Barbara Walters
[edit] Military
- Benedict Arnold
- Thomas W. Bradley
- Henry A. Byroade
- George Armstrong Custer
- Robert E. Lee
- Boston Corbett – Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
- Horatio Gates
- William Halsey, Jr
- Oliver O. Howard
- Henry L. Hulbert
- Joseph E. Johnston
- Douglas MacArthur
- George B. McClellan
- James B. McPherson
- James F. Merton
- George S. Patton
- Deborah Sampson
- Robert Gould Shaw
- Lucian Truscott
- Ethan Allen
[edit] Models
- Bebe Buell
- Angel Carter
- Cindy Crawford[25]
- Crystal Harris- Both Parents of English descent
[edit] Political figures
- Dean Acheson
- Susan B. Anthony
- Richard Girnt Butler
- Benjamin Franklin
- Robert Liddell
- George Mason
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- Mitt Romney
- Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense
[edit] American pornographic film actors
- Tag Adams
- Tracey Adams
- Brooke Ashley
- Erica Boyer
- Mike Branson
- Rex Chandler
- Tera Patrick - Of partial English descent
- Stephanie Swift
- Kendra Wilkinson
[edit] Presidents of the United States
A number of the Presidents of the United States have English ancestry.[26] The extent of English Heritage varies in the presidents with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock. Later US Presidents ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England.
- George Washington (English)
- 1st President 1789-97 (great-grandfather, John Washington from Purleigh, Essex, England.[27][28])
- John Adams (English)
- 2nd President 1797-1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts.[29][30])
- Thomas Jefferson (Welsh and Scotch-English)
- 3rd President 1801–1809 (Maternal English ancestry from William Randolph.)
- James Madison (English)
- 4th President 1809-17[31]
- John Quincy Adams (English)
- 6th President 1825-29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England.[29][30])
- William Harrison (English)
- 9th President 1841-1841 [32]
- John Tyler (English)
- 10th President 1841-1845 [33]
- Zachary Taylor (English)
- 12th President 1849-50
- Millard Fillmore (English)
- 13th President 1850-1853 [34]
- Franklin Pierce (English)
- 14th President 1853-1857 [35]
- Abraham Lincoln (English)
- 16th President 1861-65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts.[36][37])
- Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English)
- 17th President 1865-1869 [38]
- Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, English & Scottish)
- 18th President 1869-77
- Rutherford Hayes (English)
- 19th President 1877-1881 [39]
- James A. Garfield (English and French)
- 20th President 1881-81 [40]
- Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish and English)
- 21st President 1881-85
- Grover Cleveland (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 22nd and 24th President 1885-89, 1893–97
- Benjamin Harrison (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 23rd President 1889-93
- William McKinley (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 25th President 1897-1901
- Theodore Roosevelt (Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English & French)
- 26th President 1901-1909 [41]
- William Taft (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 27th President 1909-1913 [42]
- Woodrow Wilson (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 28th President 1913-1921 (Wilson's mother Janet was born in Carlisle)
- Warren G. Harding (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 29th President 1921-23
- Calvin Coolidge (English)
- 30th President 1923-1929 [43]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dutch, French and English)
- 32nd President 1933-45
- Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English & German)
- 33rd President 1945-53 (English and Irish descent)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (English)
- 36th President 1963-69
- Richard Nixon (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & German)
- 37th President 1969-74 (English and Irish descent)
- Gerald Ford (English)
- 38th President 1974-77
- Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 39th President 1977-81 (Thomas Carter Sr. emigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia.[44])
- Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)
- 40th President 1981-1989 [45]
- George H. W. Bush (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 41st President 1989-93
- Bill Clinton (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 42nd President 1993-2001
- George W. Bush (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 43rd President 2001-2009 (Reynold Bush from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts.[46])
- Barack Obama (Kenyan, English & Irish)
- 44th President 2009–Present (His mother Ann Dunham's heritage consists mostly of English and Irish ancestors.[47])
[edit] Religious Figures
- Costen Jordan Harrell
- Anne Hutchinson
- Eben Samuel Johnson
- Charles W. Penrose
- Anna Howard Shaw
- George Teasdale
- Edward Thomson
- Ellen G. White
- John R. Winder
[edit] Members of the United States House of Representatives
- Arthur Laban Bates, Pennsylvania.
- Brian Baird, Washington[48]
- Clifton R. Breckinridge, Arkansas.
- William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska.
- Davy Crockett, Tennessee.
- Franklin Davenport, New Jersey.
- George Dent, Maryland.
- Ernest Greenwood, New York.
- Martin B. Madden, Illinois.
- William Milnes, Jr., Virginia.
- James H. Osmer, Pennsylvania.
- Charles Slade, Illinois.
- William Henry Sowden, Pennsylvania.
- Norton Strange Townshend, Ohio.
[edit] Scientists/researchers
- Freeman Dyson – theoretical physicist and mathematician
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson
- Woods Hutchinson
- Francis Ernest Lloyd
- William Worrall Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, founder of the Mayo clinic
- Joseph Priestley – chemist
- James Renwick (physicist)
- J. Alan Robinson – philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
- Roger Sanders
- James Dewey Watson – molecular biologist
- Thomas Bramwell Welch – discoverer of the pasteurization process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice
- Robert Burns Woodward – American organic chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
[edit] Senators
- Edward Dickinson Baker, Oregon.
- Henry Clay, Kentucky.
- Bob Dole, Kansas.
- John Edwards, North Carolina.
- John Kerry, Massachusetts.
- John McCain, Arizona.
- Lee Mantle, Montana.
- Robert Morris, Pennsylvania.
- Bill Nelson, Florida.
- Samuel Pasco, Florida.
- Harry Reid, Nevada.
- Tom Udall, New Mwxico.
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[edit] United States Supreme Court justices
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Sandra Day O'Connor[50]
- William Rehnquist[51]
- George Sutherland
- Byron White
- Levi Woodbury
- William Burnham Woods
[edit] Vice Presidents of the United States
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Aaron Burr
- Elbridge Gerry
- Daniel D. Tompkins
- John Tyler
- Millard Fillmore
- John C. Breckinridge
- Hannibal Hamlin
- William Wheeler
- Levi P. Morton[52]
- Theodore Roosevelt
- James S. Sherman
- Calvin Coolidge
- Charles G. Dawes
- Charles Curtis
- John Nance Garner
- Henry A. Wallace
- Richard Nixon
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Gerald Ford
- Nelson Rockefeller
- George H. W. Bush
- Dan Quayle
- Dick Cheney
- Joe Biden
[edit] Other
- Alton Brown – celebrity chef and creator/host of Food Network's Good Eats
- Patricia Buckley, socialite.
- Ann Dunham, anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama
- Daisy and Violet Hilton – co-joined twins
- Nelle Wilson Reagan – mother of President Ronald Reagan
- Frank H.T. Rhodes – university president, government science advisor
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Genealogy/famousdescendants.php
- ^ a b c d http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smason/html/cousins.htm#tp
- ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/foster.htm
- ^ "Ancestry of Bill Ricardson"
- ^ Gale Research Inc, Notable Hispanic American women, Volume 2 P.78 VNR AG, 1993
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