List of English Americans
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The following is a list of notable English Americans.
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[edit] Artists
- Frederick Styles Agate,[1] A painter.
- George Beck,[2] A painter and poet
- Thomas Cole
[edit] Authors
[edit] Business
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Actors
- Ben Affleck
- Maurice Barrymore
- Mischa Barton (1986 - ) film/television actress (The O.C.)[6]
- Emily Bergl
- Halle Berry
- Bud Cort[7]
- Kelly Bishop
- Humphrey Bogart
- Gary Cooper
- Bing Crosby
- Bette Davis
- Clint Eastwood
- Claire Forlani[8]
- Judy Garland
- Malcolm Gets[9]
- Melanie Griffith
- Christopher Guest[10]
- Gene Hackman[11]
- Jerry Hall
- Tom Hanks
- Oliver Hardy
- William Holden
- Bob Hope[12]
- Ron Howard
- Sally Ann Howes[13]
- Don Johnson
- Alan Ladd[14]
- Elsa Lanchester[15]
- Angela Lansbury[16]
- Charles Laughton[17]
- Peter Lawford[18]
- Dorothy Mackaill[19]
- John Mahoney[20]
- Julia Marlowe[21]
- Steve Martin
- Gloria Pall
- Brad Pitt
- Eliza Poe[22]
- Donna Reed
- Keanu Reeves
- Burt Reynolds
- Alma Reville[23]
- Jane Seymour (1948 - ) English-born film/television actress[24]
- Alicia Silverstone
- Britney Spears
- Elizabeth Taylor[25]
- Spencer Tracy
- Nancy Travis
- Jon Walmsley
- Sam Waterston
- Sigourney Weaver
[edit] Misc.
- Alistair Cooke (1908 - 2004) journalist and broadcaster[26]
- Davy Jones - member of The Monkees[27]
- Graham Nash - musician/songwriter[28]
- George Shearing[29] Jazz pianist, US citizen since at least 1956.
- Mandy Searles - founder of "Mandy's British Royalty" and the "British American Group".
[edit] Musicians
- James Hetfield - founder of Metallica
- Slash
- The Osmonds
- Talib Kweli - His mother was an English professor.
[edit] Political figures
- Louisa Adams, only foreign born First Lady, she was born in London to an English mother.
- George H. W. Bush, The Bush family's ancestors are from Somerset.
- George W. Bush
- William Richardson Davie, attended the Constitutional Convention, but did not sign.
- John Edwards, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
- Frank R. Gooding,[30] A governor of Idaho and US Senator born in England.
- Button Gwinnett, signatory of United States Declaration of Independence, born in Gloucestershire
- Benjamin Harrison, see below
- William Henry Harrison, [31] Ninth President, the Harrison family in general is of English descent.
- Thomas Jefferson-His grandfather Isham Randolph was from England as was most or all of his ancestry.
- Francis Lightfoot Lee,[32] 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.
- Lee Mantle,[33] US Senator for Montana from Birmingham, England
- Robert Morris (merchant), born near Liverpool, a signer of the US Constitution.
- Sandra Day O'Connor (1930 - ) jurist and former politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006[34]
- Thomas Paine, died in Greenwich Village, most of his life not in the US.
- Andrew Sullivan, activist, political blogger. Lived in the US for the last 20 years.
- Norton Strange Townshend,[35] A representative for Ohio.
- Vernon A. Walters, father was an English immigrant, went to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire for a few years.
- George Washington
[edit] Science
- Samuel Andrews, chemist and inventor born in England.
- Mary Esther Harding, prominent Jungian psychologist born in Shropshire, England, lived in New York City.
[edit] Sports
- James Blake- Tennis player
- Henry Chadwick - Baseball, sportswriter. Born in England.
- Kenny Cooper (1984 - ) soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer[36]
- John Hopkins - Motorcycle racer, English parents
[edit] Other
- Rick Rescorla, hero of 11 September, 2001
[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ [1] "Born of English immigrant parents"
- ^ [2] Mr. Beck came from England many years ago, attracted by a desire of enriching his native country with the productions of his talents for painting, drawn from the beauties of nature in America.
- ^ [3] "English-born American science fiction and fantasy writer"
- ^ [4] "Amelia Barr, writer, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831."
- ^ [5] "Samuel Insull (1859-1938), English-born American entrepreneur..."
- ^ [6] "The English-born beauty has revealed that she loves seeing exes who treated her badly try to apologise now that she has become a Hollywood star." [7] "I’m an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York and moved around a lot with her dad’s job" [8] "My mother's Irish--she went to school in London when she was young--but she's full-on Irish, you can trace it back as far as you want. My father is from Manchester, England, with the accent."
- ^ [9] "Definitely Irish. Half Irish, half French-Canadian, half English."
- ^ [10] "Antitrust features English starlet Claire Forlani..."
- ^ [11] His parents, Terence and Lispeth Gets (who have been married 54 years), were born in London.
- ^ [12] "Spoken like the hereditary English lord that he is."(Born in the US with an English noble father from Essex. He is also Jewish as his mother is Jewish, see Who is a Jew?)
- ^ [13] When he was a very small boy, his parents divorced and he moved to Danville, Illinois where he was raised by his English-born grandmother, Beatrice Gray.
- ^ [14] "English 1986 Recipient "Our family left England shortly after I was born and sailed to America. What a glorious sight as all the little Hopes clambered up on deck as the ship steamed into New York Harbor.""
- ^ [15] Her father was an English comedian and she was born in London. In addition, "She is a naturalized U.S. citizen and resides in New York."
- ^ [16] "His mother, an English immigrant who came to the United States at the age of 19"
- ^ [17] "Elsa Lanchester was born to an eccentric family on October 28, 1902, in England" and "eventually becoming American citizens in 1950."
- ^ [18] "Born in London, England, 16 October 1925; came to United States, 1940; became U.S. citizen, 1951."
- ^ [19] "It was on this date, July 1, 1899, that English-American actor Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire."
- ^ [20] "Born: on 09/07/1923 in London, England" and "1960 Became an American citizen in order to vote in 1960 election for brother-in-law John F. Kennedy"
- ^ [21] "Dorothy Mackaill was an English actress. She was born in 1903 at Hull, Yorkshire..."
- ^ [22] "John Mahoney, despite his all-American voice, has a surprise to his viewers. He's actually British!!! John was born on June 20th 1940 in Manchester (the hometown of Daphne)."
- ^ [23] "One of the great romantic actresses of her day, English-born U.S. actress Julia Marlowe was known especially for her interpretations of William Shakespeare."
- ^ "Eliza Poe (1787-1811) was a British-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe."
- ^ [24] "The Perfect English Couple"
- ^ Seymour - [25] "Jane Seymour denied suggestions that she might have split loyalties as she was born in Britain. She said: "I'm clearly English but I hold an American passport. Right now I'm American as apple pie and I will be as American as apple pie right up until we win. I'm not going to quit.""
- ^ [26] "English actress and AIDS activist, 1932-"
- ^ [27] "British broadcaster Alistair Cook"; became a U.S. citizen
- ^ [28] "But the cute one with a twinkle in his eye that made all the girls scream was an English import, Davy Jones..."
- ^ [29] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."
- ^ [30] Shearing: I feel this way: with no hard feelings or anything like that towards the country of your birth, if you intend to live your life in a country that has turned out to be very good for you in every way—business—wise, in particular—you adopt that country's ways and participate as a citizen. So the obvious thing to do is become naturalised. My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits. And of course, I have many happy memories of my life here.
- ^ [31] Bioguide
- ^ [32] "Ancestry: English"
- ^ [33] BBC
- ^ [34] Bioguide
- ^ [35] "Ethnicity - English"
- ^ [36] born in Clay-Coaton, Northamptonshire
- ^ [37] "Cooper, who was born in Baltimore, has a British passport because his father is English. He has not represented the United States at any level."
