List of English Americans

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The following is a list of notable English Americans, that is American citizens with one or more English ancestor.

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Contents

[edit] Art and Design

[edit] Artists

[edit] Directors/producers

[edit] Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Actors

[edit] Authors and writers

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Entrepreneurs, executives

[edit] Historical figures

[edit] Mormon pioneers

[edit] Inventors

  • 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
  • Elihu Thomson - engineer and inventor; founder major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France; born in England

[edit] Military

[edit] Political figures

[edit] Religious Figures

[edit] Scientists/researchers

[edit] Sports

[edit] Other

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] "Born of English immigrant parents"
  2. ^ [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. ^ [http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html "Ancestry of Bill Ricardson"
  4. ^ [3] "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." [4] "I’m an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York and moved around a lot with her dad’s job" [5] "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."
  5. ^ [6] "Antitrust features English starlet Claire Forlani..."
  6. ^ [7] His parents, Terence and Lispeth Gets (who have been married 54 years), were born in London.
  7. ^ [8] "Spoken like the hereditary English lord that he is."
  8. ^ [9] "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.""
  9. ^ [10] 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."
  10. ^ Kelly Hu
  11. ^ [11] "But the cute one with a twinkle in his eye that made all the girls scream was an English import, Davy Jones..."
  12. ^ [12] "His mother, an English immigrant who came to the United States at the age of 19"
  13. ^ [13] "Elsa Lanchester was born to an eccentric family on October 28, 1902, in England" and "eventually becoming American citizens in 1950."
  14. ^ [14] "Born in London, England, 16 October 1925; came to United States, 1940; became U.S. citizen, 1951."
  15. ^ [15] "It was on this date, July 1, 1899, that English-American actor Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire."
  16. ^ [16] "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"
  17. ^ [17] "Dorothy Mackaill was an English actress. She was born in 1903 at Hull, Yorkshire..."
  18. ^ [18] "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)."
  19. ^ [19] "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."
  20. ^ "Eliza Poe (1787-1811) was a British-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe."
  21. ^ [20] "The Perfect English Couple"
  22. ^ 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."[citation needed]
  23. ^ "English actress and AIDS activist, 1932-".
  24. ^ [21] "English-born American science fiction and fantasy writer"
  25. ^ [22] "British broadcaster Alistair Cook"; became a U.S. citizen
  26. ^ [23] "Amelia Barr, writer, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831."
  27. ^ [24] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."
  28. ^ [25] 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.
  29. ^ [26] "Samuel Insull (1859-1938), English-born American entrepreneur..."
  30. ^ [27] Bioguide
  31. ^ [28] "Ancestry: English"
  32. ^ [29] BBC
  33. ^ [30] Bioguide
  34. ^ [31] "Ethnicity - English"
  35. ^ [32] born in Clay-Coaton, Northamptonshire
  36. ^ [33] "Cooper, who was born in Baltimore, has a British passport because his father is English. In January 2007, though, he represented the United States at full international."