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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.
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Visual Artists [edit]
- George Biddle
- Edward Leigh Chase
- Frank Swift Chase
- Joseph DeCamp
- Thomas Dewing
- Thomas Eakins
- Childe Hassam
- Winslow Homer
- Thomas Hope
- Willard Metcalf
- Grandma Moses
- William Nichols
- Norman Rockwell
- John Singer Sargent
- Edmund C. Tarbell
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
- John Trumbull
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Andrew Wyeth
- N.C. Wyeth
Assassins, outlaws and criminals [edit]
- 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
- Sophie Lyons
- Lee Harvey Oswald – John F. Kennedy assassin
- Bonnie Parker
- William Poole – gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician
- Belle Starr – a notorious American outlaw
Astronauts [edit]
- John Glenn
- Christa McAuliffe - Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
- Alan Shepard
Astronomers [edit]
- Harold D. Babcock
- Alvan Clark
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Asaph Hall
- Percival Lowell
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- Clyde Tombaugh
Directors/producers [edit]
- Robert Aldrich
- Robert Altman
- John Badham
- J. Stuart Blackton
- George Howells Broadhurst
- Nick Castle
- Clint Eastwood
- D. W. Griffith
- Howard Hawks
- Fraser Clarke Heston
- Jack Hope
- David Horsley
- Ron Howard
- John Huston
- Charles Laughton
- George Lucas
- Garry Marshall
- Christopher Nolan
- Jonathan Nolan
- Hassard Short
- Emma Thomas
- Orson Welles
- William A. Wellman
Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers [edit]
- 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 -
- Bing Crosby, actor and singer, father was a descendant
- Clint Eastwood[1] – actor
- Jodie Foster - actress
- Richard Gere - actor
- Ulysses S. Grant – Union Army general; U.S. President
- Linda Hamilton - actress
- 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
- Ashley Judd - actress
- John Lithgow – actor
- Christopher Lloyd - actor
- 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]
- Anthony Perkins - actor
- Anne Ramsey - actress
- Christopher Reeve – actor [1]
- Bill Richardson[2] – 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 -
- Victoria Rowell - actress
- 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
Entertainment [edit]
Actors [edit]
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Authors and writers [edit]
- Louisa May Alcott
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Kevin Andrews
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr[39]
- 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
- Carolyn Cassady
- Raymond Chandler
- J. Smeaton Chase
- Winston Churchill
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Ann Coulter[40]
- 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
- Nicole Krauss
- Sidney Lanier
- Ring Lardner
- Jack London
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Herman Melville – (he was descendant of Percival Lowle)
- William Least Heat-Moon
- Mary O'Hara
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Edgar Allan Poe
- William Henry Leonard Poe
- Katherine Anne Porter
- James Wesley Rawles[41]
- E. E. Smith
- Nicholas Sparks
- Lynne Spears
- 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[42]
Musicians [edit]
- 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
- David Cook
- Alice Cooper
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Miley Cyrus
- Jamie Davis
- Hilary Duff
- Spencer Dryden - The longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane and nephew of Charlie Chaplin[43]
- Eminem
- Sara Evans
- Mick Fleetwood
- Paul Gray – Slipknot bassist
- James Hetfield – singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
- Buddy Holly
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Burl Ives
- Joe Jonas
- Kevin Jonas
- Nick Jonas
- Norah Jones - Mother of English descent
- Janis Joplin
- Joey Jordison – Slipknot drummer
- JoJo
- Naomi Judd
- Wynonna Judd
- Dana Key- Christian Rock guitarist, direct descendant of Francis Scott Key
- Anthony Kiedis
- Alison Krauss
- Amy Lee
- Sean Lennon – his late father, John Lennon of The Beatles, was from Great Britain
- Lene Lovich - Mother of English descent
- Tony Lucca
- Reba McEntire[44]
- Moby
- Mandy Moore - Mother of English descent
- Jim Morrison
- Graham Nash[45]
- Ricky Nelson
- Willie Nelson
- Jason Newsted
- Justin Nozuka - Mother of English descent
- The Osmonds
- Randy Owen
- Sara Paxton
- Katy Perry - Of partial English descent
- Michelle Phillips
- Elvis Presley
- Iggy Pop
- Tony Rice
- Kevin Richardson
- Mark Ronson
- James Root – guitarist
- Pete Seeger
- Tommy Shaw
- Ashlee Simpson
- Jessica Simpson
- 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
- Gene Summers
- Taylor Swift
- Corey Taylor – singer Slipknot Stone Sour
- Justin Timberlake
- Randy Travis
- Steven Tyler
- Hank Williams
- Brian Wilson
- Sid Wilson – member of nu-metal band Slipknot
- "Weird Al" Yankovic – singer and satirist, his maternal grandmother is of English descent
- Adam Young
- Young MC
Entrepreneurs, executives [edit]
- P. T. Barnum[46]
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
- Nicholas Biddle (banker)
- Warren Buffett – investor, businessman, and philanthropist.[47]
- 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.
First Ladies of the United States [edit]
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
Governors of states [edit]
- 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.
- Owen Brewster, Maine.
- Paul Brigham, Vermont.
- John Brough, Ohio.
- C. Douglass Buck, Delaware.
- Morgan Bulkeley, Connecticut.
- 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.
- Theodore F. Green, Rhode Island.
- 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.
- James Henry Hammond, South Carolina.
- Jay Hammond, Alaska.
- Wade Hampton III, South Carolina.
- George Handley, Georgia.
- Clifford Hansen, Wyoming.
- Benjamin Harrison V, Virginia.
- Joseph Roswell Hawley, Connecticut.
- 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.
- James Iredell, Jr., North Carolina.
- 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.
- Wilson Cary Nicholas, Virginia.
- 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
- Charles Pinckney, South Carolina.
- 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.
- Leland Stanford, California.
- Onslow Stearns, New Hampshire.
- Charles C. Stratton, New Jersey.
- Ezekiel A. Straw, New Hampshire.
- Bob Taft, Ohio.
- Edward Tiffin, Ohio.
- Samuel J. Tilden, New York.
- Benjamin Tillman, South Carolina.
- 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.
- George P. Wetmore, Rhode Island.
- Frank White, North Dakota.
- James Withycombe, Oregon.
- Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut.
- Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Connecticut.
- Urban A. Woodbury, Vermont.
- Fielding L. Wright, Mississippi.
Historical figures [edit]
- 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)[48]
- Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990) Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, First Runner-Up 1924.[49]
- Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer and author.
- 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
Mormon pioneers [edit]
Inventors [edit]
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
- William Crompton
- 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
- Thomas Leavitt
- Samuel Morse[50]
- John Pemberton
- Edward S. Renwick – father was James Renwick
- William Bradford Shockley
- Jimmy Wales
- Eli Whitney
- Orville and Wilbur Wright
Journalists [edit]
- Tina Brown
- Jane Cunningham Croly
- Anderson Cooper
- Chris Hedges
- Ronald Hilton
- Cokie Roberts
- Diane Sawyer
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Barbara Walters
Military [edit]
- Ethan Allen
- Benedict Arnold
- Edward Dickinson Baker
- Thomas W. Bradley
- Braxton Bragg
- John C. Breckinridge
- Jacob Brown
- John Buford
- Henry A. Byroade
- George Rogers Clark
- Boston Corbett – Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
- George Armstrong Custer
- Abner Doubleday
- Thomas D. Doubleday
- Horatio Gates
- Edmund P. Gaines
- Horatio Gates
- Nathanael Greene
- William Halsey, Jr
- Wade Hampton III
- Winfield Scott Hancock
- John Bell Hood
- Joseph Hooker
- Esek Hopkins
- Oliver O. Howard
- Henry L. Hulbert
- Samuel Huntington
- Stonewall Jackson
- Joseph E. Johnston
- Charles Lee
- Robert E. Lee
- Samuel Phillips Lee
- James Longstreet
- Douglas MacArthur
- John S. McCain, Jr.
- John S. McCain, Sr.
- George B. McClellan
- James B. McPherson
- James F. Merton
- George S. Patton
- Matthew C. Perry
- George Pickett
- Deborah Sampson
- Robert Gould Shaw
- Robert F. Stockton
- J.E.B. Stuart
- Richard Taylor
- William B. Travis
- Lucian Truscott
- John Ancrum Winslow
Models [edit]
- Bebe Buell
- Cindy Crawford
- Crystal Harris- Both Parents of English descent
- Kate Upton - Of partial English descent
- Kendra Wilkinson - Of part English descent
Political figures [edit]
- Dean Acheson
- Susan B. Anthony
- Richard Girnt Butler
- Jefferson Davis
- Charles E. Dudley
- William M. Evarts
- Benjamin Franklin
- William Jennings
- Richard Henry Lee
- Robert Liddell
- George Mason
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- Mitt Romney
- Edward Shippen
- George Sutherland
- John Townsend
- Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Hillary Clinton (Welsh)
American pornographic film actors [edit]
- Tag Adams
- Tracey Adams
- Eva Angelina
- Brooke Ashley
- Erica Boyer
- Mike Branson
- Rex Chandler
- Jenna Jameson
- Brandi Love
- Keisha
- Tera Patrick - Of partial English descent
- Angelica Sin
- Stephanie Swift
Presidents of the United States [edit]
A number of the Presidents of the United States have English ancestry.[51] The extent of English ancestry 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.[52][53])
- John Adams (English)
- 2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts.[54][55])
- Thomas Jefferson (Welsh & Scotch-English)
- 3rd President 1801–1809 (Maternal English ancestry from William Randolph.)
- James Madison (English)
- 4th President 1809-17[56]
- John Quincy Adams (English)
- 6th President 1825-29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England.[54][55])
- William Harrison (English)
- 9th President 1841–1841 [57]
- John Tyler (English)
- 10th President 1841–1845 [58]
- Zachary Taylor (English)
- 12th President 1849-50
- Millard Fillmore (English)
- 13th President 1850–1853 [59]
- Franklin Pierce (English)
- 14th President 1853–1857 [60]
- Abraham Lincoln (English)
- 16th President 1861-65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts.[61][62])
- Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 17th President 1865–1869 [63]
- Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, English & Scottish)
- 18th President 1869-77
- Rutherford Hayes (English)
- 19th President 1877–1881 [64]
- James A. Garfield (English & French)
- 20th President 1881-81 [65]
- Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish & 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 [66]
- William Taft (Scotch-Irish & English)
- 27th President 1909–1913 [67]
- 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 [68]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dutch, French & English)
- 32nd President 1933-45
- Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English & German)
- 33rd President 1945-53 (English & Irish descent)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (English)
- 36th President 1963-69
- Richard Nixon (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & German)
- 37th President 1969-74 (English & 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.[69])
- Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)
- 40th President 1981–1989 [70]
- 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.[71])
- Barack Obama (Luo, English & Irish)
- 44th President 2009–Present (His mother Ann Dunham's heritage consists mostly of English & Irish ancestors.[72])
Religious Figures [edit]
- Costen Jordan Harrell
- Anne Hutchinson
- Eben Samuel Johnson
- Charles W. Penrose
- Anna Howard Shaw
- George Teasdale
- Edward Thomson
- Ellen G. White
- John R. Winder
Members of the United States House of Representatives [edit]
- Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia.
- Arthur Laban Bates, Pennsylvania.
- Brian Baird, Washington
- William Bingham, Pennsylvania.
- Clifton R. Breckinridge, Arkansas.
- James Frankland Briggs, New Hampshire.
- Thomas Patterson Brockman, South Carolina.
- William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska.
- Charles Frederick Crisp, Georgia.
- Davy Crockett, Tennessee.
- Franklin Davenport, New Jersey.
- George Dent, Maryland.
- Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois.
- Newt Gingrich, Georgia.
- Ernest Greenwood, New York.
- Steny Hoyer, Maryland.
- Martin B. Madden, Illinois.
- James Murray Mason, Virginia.
- William Milnes, Jr., Virginia.
- James H. Osmer, Pennsylvania.
- John Randolph, Virginia.
- Caesar A. Rodney, Delaware.
- Theodore Sedgwick, Massachusetts.
- Charles Slade, Illinois.
- William Henry Sowden, Pennsylvania.
- Richard Stockton New Jersey.
- Norton Strange Townshend, Ohio.
- William D. Washburn, Minnesota.
- Robert Charles Winthrop, Massachusetts.
Scientists/researchers [edit]
- 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
- Albert Schatz
- 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
Senators [edit]
- Nelson W. Aldrich, Rhode Island.
- Samuel G. Arnold, Rhode Island.
- Augustus O. Bacon, Georgia.
- Edward Dickinson Baker, Oregon.
- William T. Barry, Kentucky.
- Max Baucus, Montana.
- Michael Bennet, Colorado.
- Bob Bennett, Utah.
- Wallace F. Bennett, Utah.
- Thomas H. Benton, Missouri.
- William Blount, Tennessee.
- Lemuel J. Bowden, Virginia.
- Stephen R. Bradley, Vermont.
- John Breckinridge, Kentucky.
- Orville Hickman Browning, Illinois.
- Frank O. Briggs, New Jersey.
- Joseph R. Burton, Kansas.
- Prescott Bush, Connecticut.
- Andrew Butler, South Carolina.
- Matthew Butler, South Carolina.
- Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Virginia.
- Howard Cannon, Nevada.
- Dudley Chase, Vermont.
- Rufus Choate, Massachusetts.
- John M. Clayton, Delaware.
- Thomas Clayton, Delaware.
- Dan Coats, Indiana.
- William Cocke, Tennessee.
- Walter T. Colquitt, Georgia.
- Marcus A. Coolidge, Massachusetts.
- Chris Coons, Delaware.
- James Cooper, Pennsylvania.
- Henry W. Corbett, Oregon.
- Charles Curtis, Kansas.
- David Daggett, Connecticut.
- Chauncey Depew, New York.
- Bob Dole, Kansas.
- Charles E. Dudley, New York.
- John Edwards, North Carolina.
- Mike Enzi, Wyoming.
- John Wayles Eppes, Virginia.
- William Few, Georgia.
- Richard Stockton Field, New Jersey.
- James Fisk, Vermont.
- George G. Fogg, New Hampshire.
- Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island.
- Nicholas Gilman, New Hampshire.
- Ray Greene, Rhode Island.
- Mark Hanna, Ohio.
- Alexander C. Hanson, Maryland
- Orrin Hatch, Utah.
- Benjamin Hawkins, North Carolina.
- Carl Hayden, Arizona.
- Jesse Helms, North Carolina.
- Nathaniel P. Hill, Colorado.
- James Hillhouse, Connecticut.
- Irving Ives, New York.
- Ralph Izard, South Carolina.
- John W. Johnston, Virginia.
- John P. Jones, Nevada.
- Hamilton Fish Kean, New Jersey.
- John Kerry, Massachusetts.
- William H. King, Utah.
- Paul G. Kirk, Massachusetts.
- John Laurance, New York.
- Luke Lea, Tennessee.
- Blair Lee I, Maryland.
- Mike Lee, Utah.
- John McCain, Arizona.
- Lee Mantle, Montana.
- Armistead Mason, Virginia.
- Stevens T. Mason, Virginia.
- Roger Q. Mills, Texas.
- Robert Morris, Pennsylvania.
- Bill Nelson, Florida.
- Robert C. Nicholas, Louisiana.
- William North, New York.
- William A. Palmer, Vermont.
- Thomas W. Palmer, Michigan.
- Nahum Parker, New Hampshire.
- Frank C. Partridge, Vermont.
- Samuel Pasco, Florida.
- George H. Pendleton, Ohio.
- Lawrence C. Phipps, Colorado.
- Rob Portman, Ohio.
- Jennings Randolph, West Virginia.
- Harry Reid, Nevada.
- Terry Sanford North Carolina.
- Jeff Sessions, Alabama.
- John Smith, New York.
- Samuel M. Shortridge, California.
- Margaret Chase Smith, Maine.
- Reed Smoot, Utah.
- John P. Stockton, New Jersey.
- John E. Sununu, New Hampshire.
- Kingsley A. Taft, Ohio.
- Robert Taft, Ohio.
- Robert Taft, Jr., Ohio.
- James Taliaferro, Florida.
- Littleton Waller Tazewell, Virginia.
- Robert Toombs, Georgia.
- Mark Udall, Colorado.
- Tom Udall, New Mexico.
- Malcolm Wallop, Wyoming.
- Daniel Webster, Massachusetts.
- Edward Douglass White, Louisiana.
- David Wilmot, Pennsylvania.
Sports [edit]
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United States Supreme Court justices [edit]
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Sandra Day O'Connor[74]
- William Rehnquist[75]
- George Sutherland
- Byron White
- Levi Woodbury
- William Burnham Woods
Vice Presidents of the United States [edit]
- 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
- 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
Other [edit]
- Alton Brown – celebrity chef and creator/host of Food Network's Good Eats
- Patricia Buckley, socialite.
- Ann Dunham, anthropologist and mother of President 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
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