List of English Americans
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The following is a list of notable English Americans.
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Contents |
[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
- Lucille Ball
- Maurice Barrymore
- Mischa Barton (1986 - ) film/television actress (The O.C.)[6]
- Warren Beatty
- Emily Bergl
- Halle Berry
- Humphrey Bogart
- Angela Cartwright
- Glenn Close
- Bud Cort[7]
- Edward Coxen
- Bing Crosby
- Kelly Bishop
- Gary Cooper
- W.C. Fields
- Claire Forlani[8]
- Judy Garland
- Malcolm Gets[9]
- Christopher Guest[10]
- Jerry Hall
- Oliver Hardy
- William Holden
- Bob Hope[11]
- Sally Ann Howes[12]
- Kelly Hu[13]
- Don Johnson
- Alan Ladd[14]
- Elsa Lanchester[15]
- Angela Lansbury[16]
- Charles Laughton[17]
- Peter Lawford[18]
- Shirley Maclaine
- Dorothy Mackaill[19]
- John Mahoney[20]
- Julia Marlowe[21]
- Steve Martin
- Gloria Pall
- Lori Petty
- Brad Pitt
- Eliza Poe[22]
- Alma Reville[23]
- Burt Reynolds
- Jane Seymour (1948 - ) English-born film/television actress[24]
- Paul Rudd
- Donna Reed
- Alicia Silverstone
- Elizabeth Taylor[25]
- Mark Wahlberg
- Jon Walmsley
- Sam Waterston
- Sigourney Weaver
[edit] Misc.
- William Colgate
- 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". Her maternal great-grandparents are from northwest England.
[edit] Musicians
- jack Brooks Lyricist
- Britney Spears
- James Hetfield - founder of Metallica
- Mandy Moore
- Jason Newsted - former member of Metallica, currently a member of Rock Star Supernova
- Slash
- The Osmonds
- Talib Kweli - His mother was an English professor.
- Slick Rick
[edit] Political figures
- 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.
- George H. W. Bush, the Bush family's ancestors are from Somerset.
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Hillary Clinton
- William Richardson Davie, attended the Constitutional Convention, but did not sign.
- Howard Dean
- John Edwards, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
- Frank R. Gooding,[30] A governor of Idaho and US Senator born in England.
- Ernest Greenwood
- 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
- William Milnes, Jr.
- 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[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
- George Mason
[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
- Tom Brown -Baseball player
- Henry Chadwick - Baseball, sportswriter. Born in England.
- Kenny Cooper - Soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer[36]
- John Hopkins - Motorcycle racer, English parents
[edit] Other
- Boston Corbett
- Grace Clawson
- 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."
- ^ [13] "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.""
- ^ [14] 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."
- ^ [15]
- ^ [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."
