List of Scotch-Irish Americans
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The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to Lowland Scottish and Northern English people, but through having stayed a few generations in Ulster.
This is a list of notable Scots-Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
This list is ordered by surname within section.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scots-Irish American or must have references showing they are Scots-Irish American and are notable.
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[edit] List
[edit] Entertainment
- Mary Astor (movie star) Her mother was of Scots Irish heritage.
- Tallulah Bankhead (actress)
- Warren Beatty (actor, producer, director)
- Johnny Cash, (musician)
- Eddie Cochran, (musician)
- Rory Cochrane, (actor)
- Lou Diamond Phillips, (actor)
- Michael Douglas (movie star) His Bermudian mother Diana Dill had Ulster Scots ancestry.
- Eminem (rapper, actor)
- Zach Galifianakis (actor) His mother is of Scotch-Irish descent
- Ava Gardner (movie star)
- Crystal Gayle, (singer)
- Summer Glau, (actress, classically trained ballet dancer)
- Edna Goodrich Broadway and Silent Screen Actress, 1901–1920; Floradora girl
- Merle Haggard, (musician)
- Kate Hudson (actress)
- Oliver Hudson (actor)
- Michael Keaton (1951 - ) (actor)
- Loretta Lynn, (singer)
- Shirley MacLaine (actress, dancer, author)
- Reba McEntire (singer, actress)
- Robert Mitchum (actor)
- Agnes Moorehead (actress)
- Dolly Parton (1946 - ) country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress[1]
- Elvis Presley (musician, actor)
- Charley Pride (musician)
- Christina Ricci (1980 - ) actress
- Ricky Skaggs, (singer)
- Jimmy Stewart (actor)
- John Wayne (actor)
- Hank Williams (singer)
[edit] Literature
- Cork Graham (author)
- Stephen King (author)
- John Steinbeck (author)
- David McCullough (historian)
- Edgar Allan Poe (author) Paternal side of his family were Ulster Scots from County Cavan
- Mark Twain (author, wit) AKA Samuel Clemens - family were from County Antrim
[edit] Political/Military
- Chester A. Arthur (President)
- John C. Calhoun, (Vice President)
- Grover Cleveland (President)
- Bill Clinton (President)
- David Crockett (Frontiersman, US Congressman)
- Jefferson Davis (Confederacy President)
- John Dunlap (Revolutionary politician)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (President)
- Benjamin Harrison (President)
- William Henry Harrison (President)
- Sam Houston (Texan statesman)
- Andrew Jackson (president)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate General)
- Andrew Johnson (president)
- John J. Kennedy (Republic of Texas politician)
- John McCain (Senator, U.S. Presidential Candidate)
- George B. McClellan (Union General)
- William McKinley (President)
- Francis Makemie (Presbyterian minister)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (President)
- Arthur Noble (Lieutenant-Colonel)
- Barack Obama (President; mother had ancestral connection to Ulster)
- George S. Patton (US General)
- James Knox Polk (President)
- James S. Rollins (Representative, "Father of the University of Missouri")[2]
- William Sharkey (Governor of Mississippi)
- J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate General)
- Charles Thomson (Revolutionary politician)
- James H. Webb (Marine, U.S. Senator)
- James White (frontiersman, founder of Knoxville, Tennessee)
- Woodrow Wilson (President)
[edit] Sports
- Mickey Cochrane, (sportsman)
- Jack Dempsey, (boxer)
- Jeff Gordon (NASCAR driver)
- Arnold Palmer (golfer)
[edit] Other
- Neil Armstrong, (astronaut)
- Tammy Bruce (radio talk show host)[3]
- Kit Carson (frontiersman)
- James Creelman, journalist
- Timothy Eaton, founder of the Eaton's department store
- Bill Gates, (chairman of Microsoft)
- James Irwin, (astronaut)
- Andrew W. Mellon (banker)
- Harry Gordon Selfridge (founder of eponymous department store)
- Alexander Turney Stewart (retail innovator)
- William Wheeler Thornton Judge, author, Indiana Supreme Ct. Librarian
- Sir Henry Worth Thornton President, Canadian National Railways; Coach, Vanderbilt University Football Team
- Charles Stark Draper Inventor of Inertial Navigation
- Kary Mullis Inventor of PCR, Nobel Prize Winner
[edit] References
- ^ Parton - [1] "Dolly Parton the Queen of Country spoke of her pride at being Scotch Irish just before a sellout gig in Belfast. In an interview with Northern Ireland newspaper the Belfast Telegraph she said, " there is no reason why I haven't played Belfast in the past. But with my Scotch Irish ancestry its ridiculous that I haven't been here before. Obviously my roots have been a massive influence on my music" Dolly then said that she would love to return to Northern Ireland being very proud of her heritage she would love to find out more. The Ulster Scots Agency who presented Dolly with a Ulster Scots translated version of her hit "Jolene" said she would be very welcome, " Dolly is just one of 22 Million Scotch-Irish in America who are enthusiastically following up their Ulster Scots roots. I am delighted she is in town and hope she finds out more about her roots. I am sure she will find us very welcoming and will come back again to visit where her forefather's came from"
- ^ Rollins - Floyd Calvin Shoemaker, Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians, Missouri Book Company, 1918, p. 184.
- ^ Tammy Bruce: "I'm Italian and Scotch-Irish", Tammy Bruce Show, Los Angeles, Talk Radio Network, (May 14, 2009), radio commentary.
