List of Americans of English descent
This is a list of notable English Americans.
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Directors/producers
- John Badham - film director
- J. Stuart Blackton - film producer
- George Howells Broadhurst - theatre owner/manager, director, producer and playwright
- Jack Hope
- David Horsley
- Christopher Nolan
Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers
- Chevy Chase - Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Clint Eastwood - actor
- Richard Gere - actor, But with Irish Heritage (see the IMDB)
- Ulysses S. Grant - Union Army general; U.S. President
- Hugh Hefner - founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises
- Katharine Hepburn - an iconic American actress of film, television and stage
- John Lithgow - actor
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - poet
- Seth MacFarlane - creator of Family Guy, Scottish, Welsh and English Ancestry
- George B. McClellan - Union Army general
- Christopher Reeve - actor
- Bill Richardson[1], Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - U.S. President; (although he was 1/4 Dutch)
- Benjamin Spock - pediatrician and author, Baby and Child Care
- Noah Webster - American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editor
- Laura Ingalls Wilder - author
Entertainment
Actors
- David Anders
- Jennifer Aniston
- Kevin Bacon
- Alec Baldwin
- Daniel Baldwin
- Stephen Baldwin
- William Baldwin
- Lucille Ball Scottish, French and English Ancestry
- Maurice Barrymore (1849, India – 1905)
- Drew Barrymore
- Emily Bergl
- Halle Berry
- Bill Bixby
- Violetta Blue
- Lon Chaney Sr
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Edward Coxen
- Bing Crosby
- Tom Cruise
- Kelly Bishop
- Gary Cooper
- Ted Danson
- Bette Davis
- James Dean
- Robert De Niro
- Cameron Diaz
- Nicole Eggert
- W.C. Fields
- Frances Fisher
- Wallace Ford
- Claire Forlani[2]
- Judy Garland
- Cary Grant
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Christopher Guest[3]
- Gale Gordon
- Gene Hackman
- Tom Hanks
- Oliver Hardy
- Rondo Hatton
- Ethan Hawk
- William Holden
- George Holland
- Kelly Hu[4]
- Kate Hudson
- Don Johnson
- Stan Laurel
- Hugh Laurie
- Matt LeBlanc
- Carole Lombard
- Shirley MacLaine
- Steve Martin
- Sienna Miller
- Michael Newman
- Jack Nicholson
- Edward Norton
- Steve-O-Jackass fame /born in london
- Gloria Pall
- Tera Patrick
- Gregory Peck
- Lori Petty
- Christina Pickles
- Rebecca Pidgeon
- Brad Pitt
- Kelly Preston
- Victoria Principal
- Bill Pullman
- Robert Redford
- Donna Reed
- Christopher Reeve, Of French and English descent [5]
- Brandon Routh
- Paul Rudd
- Alma Reville[6]
- Juliet Holland-Rose
- Susan Sarandon
- Jamie Lynn Spears
- Christian Slater [7]
- Meryl Streep
- Elizabeth Taylor
- William Talman
- Jessica Tandy
- Liv Tyler
- Jon Walmsley
- Sam Waterston
- Sigourney Weaver
- Fay Wray
Authors and writers
- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - semi-historical tales and novels [8]
- Tony Blankley - political journalist
- William Seward Burroughs II
- Carolyn Cassady
- John Derbyshire - political journalist
- Edgar Guest, poet
- Diana Gabaldon - romantic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction author
- Joseph Gales - political journalist
- Ernest Hemingway - novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
- Christopher Hitchens - author, political journalist and literary critic.
- James Wesley Rawles - survivalist writer[9]
- E. E. Smith - science fiction author
- Michael Z. Williamson - science fiction and fantasy writer[10]
Musicians
- Dimebag Darrell Abbott-former lead guitarist of Pantera
- Vinnie Paul Abbott-former Pantera drummer
- Billie Joe Armstrong - founder of Green Day
- Jack Brooks Lyricist
- Rex Brown former Pantera bassist
- John Cage Composer. Of English and Scottish descent.
- Alice Cooper
- Paul Gray Slipknot bassist
- James Hetfield singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
- Joey Jordison Slipknot drummer
- JoJo singer
- Amy Lee
- Sean Lennon
- Britney Spears
- Mandy Moore
- Jim Morrison - Mother of English descent, father of Scottish descent.
- Graham Nash - musician/songwriter[11] *Graham Nash - musician/songwriter[12]
- Slash, rock guitarist
- The Osmonds
- Elvis Presley
- Slick Rick
- Matt Sorum, drummer
- Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
- James Root guitarist
- Corey Taylor singer Slipknot Stone Sour
- Justin Timberlake
- Sid Wilson - member of nu-metal band Slipknot
- Weird Al Yankovic
Entrepreneurs, executives
- William R. Coe - insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist
- William Colgate - manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company
- Walt Disney
- John Francis Dodge - automobile manufacturing pioneer
- Bill Gates
- Joseph Lowthian Hudson
- Samuel Insull - investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads[13]
- Samuel Slater - early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution"
Historical figures
Gangsters and Assassins
- John Wilkes Booth - Abraham Lincoln assassin
- Butch Cassidy - train and bank robber
- Samuel Fielden - socialist, anarchist, labor organizer
- Owney Madden - Prohibition era gangster
- William Poole - gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician
Mormon pioneers
- Richard Alldridge
- May Anderson
- Ebenezer Beesley
- William Bickerton
- Thomas Bullock (Mormon)
- George Careless
- William Clayton
- Joseph Fielding
- Ruth May Fox
- Emma Lee French
- George Goddard (Mormon)
- May Green Hinckley
- Henry Howell (Mormon)
- John Jaques (Mormon)
- Heber C. Kimball
- Charles Kingston (Mormon)
- Christopher Layton
- George Manwaring
- Abraham Marchant
- Peter Maughan
- L. John Nuttall
- Ralph Partington
- Charles W. Penrose
- George Reynolds (Mormon)
- Brigham Henry Roberts
- Charles Roscoe Savage
- Joseph F. Smith
- Mary Fielding Smith
- Edward Stevenson
- James E. Talmage
- Agnes Taylor
- John Taylor
- George Teasdale
- Edward Tullidge
- David King Udall
- Nellie Unthank
- George D. Watt
- John Wells (Mormon)
- Emily H. Woodmansee
Inventors
- Thomas Edison
- Charles Goodyear - inventor of process to vulcanize rubber
- Samuel F. B. Morse - painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor of the Morse Code
Military
- Thomas W. Bradley
- George Armstrong Custer
- Robert E. Lee
- Boston Corbett - Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
- Horatio Gates
- Henry L. Hulbert
- Joseph E. Johnston
- James F. Merton
- Lucian Truscott
Political figures
- Dean Acheson
- John Adams, his ancestors came from Somerset.
- John Quincy Adams
- Louisa Adams, only foreign born First Lady, she was born in London to an English mother.
- Edward Dickinson Baker
- George H. W. Bush, the Bush family's ancestors are from Somerset.
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Dick Cheney
- Hillary Clinton
- William Richardson Davie, attended the Constitutional Convention, but did not sign.
- Howard Dean
- John Edwards, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
- Benjamin Franklin
- Frank R. Gooding,[14] A governor of Idaho and US Senator born in England.
- Frederic T. Greenhalge
- Ernest Greenwood
- Button Gwinnett, signatory of United States Declaration of Independence, born in Gloucestershire
- Benjamin Harrison, see below
- William Henry Harrison, [15] Ninth President, the Harrison family in general is of English descent.
- Thomas Jefferson, his grandfather[15] BBC</ref> A signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. The Lee family as a whole was of English origin and named one of their major estates Stratford Hall Plantation.
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Robert Liddell (Pittsburgh)
- Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States.
- Lee Mantle,[16] US Senator for Montana from Birmingham, England
- Martin B. Madden
- George Mason
- William Milnes, Jr.
- Robert Morris (merchant), born near Liverpool, a signer of the US Constitution. *Robert Morris (merchant), born near Liverpool, a signer of the US Constitution.
- Bill Nelson
- Sandra Day O'Connor, jurist and former politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006[citation needed]
- Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois and US presidential candidate.
- Sandra Day O'Connor, jurist and former politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006[17]
- James H. Osmer
- Samuel Pasco
- Endicott Peabody
- Susanna M. Salter
- Leverett Saltonstall
- William Scranton
- Charles Slade
- William Henry Sowden
- William Spry
- Andrew Sullivan, activist, political blogger. Lived in the US for the last 20 years.
- Norton Strange Townshend,[18] A representative for Ohio.
- George Washington
- Caspar Weinberger
Religious Figures
- Costen Jordan Harrell
- Eben Samuel Johnson
- Charles W. Penrose
- Anna Howard Shaw
- George Teasdale
- Edward Thomson
- John R. Winder
Scientists/researchers
- Freeman Dyson - theoretical physicist and mathematician
- Woods Hutchinson
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson
- Francis Ernest Lloyd
- William Worrall Mayo - medical doctor and chemist, founder of the Mayo clinic
- J. Alan Robinson - philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
- 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
Sports
- Lance Armstrong
- Jim Barnes
- Gareth Baxendale
- James Blake - Tennis player
- Michael Bradley (soccer)
- Dave Brain
- George Brown (soccer)
- Tom Brown - Baseball player
- Walter Carlisle
- Roy Castleton
- Kenny Cooper - Soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer
- Geoff Coombes
- Harry Cooper (golfer)
- Paul Child
- Gary Etherington
- Alan Green
- Dick Hall (soccer)
- Alan Hamlyn
- Tony Hawk
- Dick Higham
- Phil Hill
- Mick Hoban
- Bernie James
- Alan Merrick
- George Moorhouse
- Ken Miles
- Heath Pearce
- Kenny Roberts
- Andy Roddick
- Tim Shaw (football player)
- Denny Shute
- Brad Walker
- Cyril Walker
- Tim Ward (soccer)
- Harry Wright
Other
- Harold D. Babcock-astronomer
- Richard Girnt Butler
- Alvan Clark
- Daisy and Violet Hilton - co-joined twins
- Ronald Hilton - academic, reporter and think-tank specialist, specializing in Latin America and, in particular, Fidel Castro's Cuba.
- Nelle Wilson Reagan - Mother of President Ronald Reagan
- Frank H.T. Rhodes - university president, government science advisor
- Roger Sanders
References
- ^ [http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html "Ancestry of Bill Ricardson"
- ^ [1] "Antitrust features English starlet Claire Forlani..."
- ^ [2] "Spoken like the hereditary English lord that he is."
- ^ Kelly Hu
- ^ [3] "Descendant of Humphrey Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of the famous King Henry V of England."
- ^ [4] "The Perfect English Couple"
- ^ [5] "He is of Irish/English descent"
- ^ [6] "Amelia Barr, writer, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831."
- ^ http://www.survivalblog.com/biographies.html
- ^ http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/bio.php
- ^ [7] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."
- ^ [8] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."
- ^ [9] "Samuel Insull (1859-1938), English-born American entrepreneur..."
- ^ [10] Bioguide
- ^ [11] "Ancestry: English"
- ^ [12] Bioguide
- ^ [13] "Ethnicity - English"
- ^ [14] born in Clay-Coaton, Northamptonshire