List of Americans of English descent

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This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and were the principal founders of the United States, and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are English American or must have references showing they are English American and are notable.

List

Visual Artists

• George Biddle
• Edward Leigh Chase
• Frank Swift Chase
• Arthur Crooks
• Joseph DeCamp
• Thomas Dewing
• Thomas Eakins
• Peter Harrison
• Childe Hassam
• Winslow Homer
• Thomas Hope
• Willard Metcalf
• Grandma Moses
• William Nichols
• Norman Rockwell
• John Singer Sargent
• Thomas Sully
• Edmund C. Tarbell
• Abbott Handerson Thayer
• John Trumbull
• Calvert Vaux
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Andrew Wyeth
• N.C. Wyeth

Assassins, outlaws and criminals

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

• Clyde Barrow
• John Wilkes Booth – Abraham Lincoln assassin
• Lizzie Borden – the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts
• Calamity Jane – outlaw, whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary
• Butch Cassidy – train and bank robber
• Charles J. Guiteau – James Garfield assassin.
• Jesse James – train and bank robber
• Sophie Lyons
• Lee Harvey Oswald – John F. Kennedy assassin
• Bonnie Parker
• William Poole – gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician
• Arthur Shawcross
• Belle Starr – a notorious American outlaw

Astronauts

• John Glenn
• Christa McAuliffe - Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
• Alan Shepard

Astronomers

• Harold D. Babcock
• Alvan Clark
• Edgar Frisby
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• Asaph Hall
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Percival Lowell
• Carolyn S. Shoemaker
• Clyde Tombaugh

Directors/producers

• Robert Aldrich
• Robert Altman
• Tex Avery
• John Badham
• J. Stuart Blackton
• Charles Brabin
• George Howells Broadhurst
• Nick Castle
• Clint Eastwood
• D. W. Griffith
• Howard Hawks
• Fraser Clarke Heston
• Jack Hope
• David Horsley
• Ron Howard
• John Huston
• Charles Laughton
• George Lucas
• Garry Marshall
• Christopher Nolan
• Jonathan Nolan
• Hassard Short
• Emma Thomas
• Orson Welles
• William A. Wellman

Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers

Clint Eastwood

Johnny Carson

• Alec Baldwin - ^[1]
• Jordana Brewster - actress
• Chevy Chase – Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
• Leslie Carter
• Aaron Carter, singer
• Nick Carter (musician)
• Johnny Carson -
• Bing Crosby, actor and singer, father was a descendant
• Clint Eastwood^[1] – actor
• Nick Folk^[2] - Football player
• Jodie Foster - actress
• Richard Gere - actor
• Martha Graham - dancer
• Ulysses S. Grant – Union Army general; U.S. President
• Linda Hamilton - actress
• Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises ^[1]
• Katharine Hepburn – an iconic American actress of film, television and stage
• Ashley Judd - actress
• John Lithgow – actor
• Christopher Lloyd - actor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow^{[citation needed]} – poet
• Seth MacFarlane^{[citation needed]} – creator of Family Guy, Scottish, Welsh and English Ancestry
• George B. McClellan^{[citation needed]} – Union Army general
• Marilyn Monroe - famous actress ^[1]
• Anthony Perkins - actor
• Anne Ramsey - actress
• Christopher Reeve – actor ^[1]
• Bill Richardson^[3] – Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President; (although he was 1/4 Dutch)
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses -
• Victoria Rowell - actress
• Sissy Spacek - actress
• Benjamin Spock^{[citation needed]} – pediatrician and author, Baby and Child Care
• Dick Van Dyke - ^[1]
• Noah Webster – American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editor

Entertainment

Actors

A-B

• Jensen Ackles
• Amy Adams - Of partial English descent
• Ben Affleck - Of partial English descent
• Casey Affleck
• Karen Allen^[4] - Of partial English descent
• Krista Allen^[5] - Of partial English descent
• Lauren Ambrose - Mother of partial English descent
• Gillian Anderson - Father of English descent
• Jennifer Aniston^[6] - Mother of partial English descent
• Gabrielle Anwar
• Christina Applegate - Of partial English descent
• Hayley Atwell
• Jean Arthur
• Jake T. Austin - Father of English descent
• Kevin Bacon
• Brandon Baker^[7] - Of partial English descent
• Alec Baldwin - Of partial English descent
• Daniel Baldwin - Of partial English descent
• Stephen Baldwin - Of partial English descent
• William Baldwin - Of partial English descent
• Fred Ball - Mother of Partial English descent
• Lucille Ball - Mother of partial English descent
• Jamie Bamber
• Elizabeth Banks - Of half English descent
• Ethel Barrymore - Both Parents of English descent
• Drew Barrymore - Father of English descent
• Maurice Barrymore - Both Parents of English descent
• Hania Barton - Father of English descent
• Mischa Barton - Father of English descent
• Jason Bateman - Mother born in England
• Lake Bell - Mother of English descent
• Laura Joyce Bell - London-born singer and actress, wife of the American comedian Digby Bell
• Tobin Bell - Mother of English descent
• Joan Bennett - Grandfather of half English descent
• Barbara Bennett - Grandfather of half English descent
• Constance Bennett - Grandfather of half English descent
• Emily Bergl - Father of English descent
• Halle Berry - Mother of English descent
• Jessica Biel - Of partial English descent
• Jason Biggs - Father of half English descent
• Bill Bixby - Both Parents of English descent
• Jack Black^[8] - Mother of partial English descent
• Tyler Blackburn
• Alexis Bledel, Father of partial English descent
• Violetta Blue
• Humphrey Bogart - Father of partial English descent and Mother mainly of English descent
• Matt Bomer^[9]
• Julie Bowen - Of partial English descent
• Elizabeth Bracco - Mother of English descent
• Lorraine Bracco - Mother of English descent
• Zach Braff^[10] - Mother of English descent
• Vanessa Branch
• Marlon Brando - Both Parents of partial English descent
• Benjamin Bratt
• Jordana Brewster - Father descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Richard Bright
• James Broderick - Of half English descent
• Matthew Broderick - Father of English descent
• James Brolin
• Josh Brolin
• Louise Brooks
• Saffron Burrows
• Steve Burton

C

• John Carradine
• Keith Carradine
• Robert Carradine
• Lynda Carter- Her Father is of English descent^[11][12][13]
• Mary Castle
• Lon Chaney, Sr. - Father mostly of English descent
• Lon Chaney, Jr. - Of partial English descent
• Carmen Chaplin
• Charles Chaplin, Jr.
• Charlie Chaplin
• Geraldine Chaplin
• Josephine Chaplin
• Kiera Chaplin
• Michael Chaplin
• Sydney Earle Chaplin
• Victoria Chaplin
• Ruth Chatterton - Father of English descent
• Chevy Chase
• Kelsey Chow - Mother of English descent
• Hayden Christensen - Father of English descent
• John Clarke
• Melinda Clarke - Father of English descent
• Kristen Cloke - Of partial English descent
• George Clooney - Mother of half English descent
• Glenn Close
• Stephen Colbert
• Jack Coleman
• Lily Collins - Father English singer Phil Collins
• Constance Collier - Both Parents of English descent
• Gary Cooper - Both Parents of English descent
• Miranda Cosgrove - Of partial English descent
• Kevin Costner
• Courteney Cox - Of partial English descent
• Edward Coxen - Both Parents of English descent
• Jeanne Crain - Father of English descent
• James Cromwell
• Bing Crosby - Father a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• David Cross - Father of English descent
• Marcia Cross
• Tom Cruise - Father of partial English descent
• Macaulay Culkin - Father of partial English descent

D

• Willem Dafoe
• Nicholas D'Agosto - Mother of English descent
• Ian Anthony Dale - Of partial English descent
• Matt Damon - Of partial English descent
• Dorothy Dandridge - Father of English descent
• Claire Danes
• Blythe Danner
• Ted Danson - Of half English descent
• Fanny Davenport - Both Parents of English descent
• Harry Davenport
• Bette Davis - Of partial English descent
• Jaye Davidson - Mother of English descent
• James Dean
• Robert De Niro - Mother of English descent
• Johnny Depp^[14] - Of partial English descent
• Laura Dern - Mother of English descent
• Emily Deschanel^[15] - Of partial English descent
• Zooey Deschanel - Of partial English descent
• Jenna Dewan^[16] - Of partial English descent
• Cameron Diaz - Mother of partial English descent
• Vin Diesel - Mother of partial English descent
• Shannon Doherty - Mother of partial English descent
• Taylor Dooley - Of partial English descent
• Melvyn Douglas - Mother of English descent
• Michael Douglas - Of partial English descent
• Lesley-Anne Down
• Haylie Duff - Of partial English descent
• Josh Duhamel - Of partial English descent
• Clark Duke - Of partial English descent
• Faye Dunaway - Of partial English descent
• Eliza Dushku - Mother is of half English descent
• Deanna Durbin - Both Parents of English descent
• Robert Duvall
• Ellen DeGeneres - Of partial English descent

E-F

• Alison Eastwood - Of partial English descent
• Clint Eastwood - Of partial English descent
• Kyle Eastwood - Of partial English descent
• Scott Eastwood - Of partial English descent
• Aaron Eckhart - Mother of partial English descent
• Zac Efron - Of partial English descent
• Jennifer Ehle - Of partial English descent
• Ansel Elgort - Mother of partial English descent
• Shannon Elizabeth - Mother of partial English descent
• June Elvidge - Of half English descent
• Edith Evanson
• Edie Falco - Mother of English descent
• Dakota Fanning - Of partial English descent
• Elle Fanning - Of partial English descent
• Farrah Fawcett - Of partial English descent
• Will Ferrell - Of partial English descent
• Carrie Fisher - Mother of English descent
• Charles Fisher
• Frances Fisher - Father of English descent
• Sean Patrick Flanery - Of partial English descent
• James Flavin
• Jonathan Frakes - Of partial English descent
• Pauline Frederick - Father of half English descent
• Jane Fonda - Of partial English descent
• Joan Fontaine - Both Parents of English descent
• Claire Forlani
• Glenn Ford
• Wallace Ford - Both Parents of English descent
• Robert Forster - Father of half English descent
• Matthew Fox - Father of English descent
• Megan Fox - Of partial English descent
• Jeff Foxworthy
• Drew Fuller - Of partial English descent

G

• Ava Gardner - Mother of partial English descent
• Andrew Garfield - Mother of English descent
• Judy Garland- Of partial English descent
• Greer Garson
• Gladys George
• Malcolm Gets
• Paul Giamatti - Of partial English descent
• Crispin Glover - Both Parents of partial English descent
• Paulette Goddard - Mother of English descent
• John Goodman
• Gale Gordon - Mother of English descent
• Lucas Grabeel - Of half English descent
• Betty Grable - Of partial English descent
• Lauren Graham
• Cary Grant - Both Parents of English descent
• Christopher Guest - Father of partial English descent
• Carla Gugino - Partial English descent
• Mamie Gummer - Mother of partial English descent
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Father of half English descent
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Father of half English descent

H

• Gene Hackman - Maternal Grandmother of English descent
• Anthony Michael Hall
• Rebecca Hall
• Armie Hammer
• Mariska Hargitay - Mother of half English descent
• Justin Hartley
• David Hasselhoff^[17] - Mother of English descent & Father of partial English descent
• Rondo Hatton
• Olivia de Havilland - Both Parents of English descent
• Goldie Hawn - Of partial English descent
• Florence Henderson
• Logan Henderson - Of partial English descent
• Christina Hendricks - Father of English descent and Mother of partial English descent
• Katharine Hepburn - Descendant of Mayflower
• Charlton Heston - Of part English descent
• Catherine Hicks - Of half English descent
• Paris Hilton - Of partial English descent
• William Holden - Both Parents of English descent
• Katie Holmes - Of partial English descent
• Bob Hope - English born and immigrated to the US in 1908
• John Houseman
• Bryce Dallas Howard - Father of English descent
• Kelly Hu - Of partial English descent
• Kate Hudson - Of partial English descent
• Oliver Hudson - Of partial English descent
• Rock Hudson - Mother of partial English descent
• Helen Hunt^[18] - Maternal Grandfather of English descent
• Anjelica Huston - Of partial English descent
• Danny Huston - Of partial English descent
• John Huston
• Josh Hutcherson - grandmothers of mostly English descent, grandfathers of partly English edscent

I-K

• Celina Jade
• Kendall Jenner - Mother of English descent
• Kylie Jenner - Mother of English descent
• Kristen Johnston
• Victoria Justice - Father of partial English descent
• Matthew Kane
• Khloé Kardashian - Mother of English descent
• Kim Kardashian - Mother of English descent
• Kourtney Kardashian - Mother of English descent
• Rob Kardashian - Mother of English descent
• Stacy Keach - Father of English descent
• Stacy Keach, Sr.
• Anna Kendrick^[19] - Of partial English descent
• Tom Kenny - Of partial English descent
• John Kerr
• Val Kilmer^[20]
• Justin Kirk - Of partial English descent
• Jen Kirkman^[21] - Of partial English descent
• Hayley Kiyoko^[22] - Father of half English descent
• David Koechner - Of partial English descent

L

• Lillie Langtry
• Alan Ladd - Mother of half English descent
• Alan Ladd, Jr. - Grandmother of half English descent
• David Ladd - Grandmother of half English descent
• Diane Ladd
• Jordan Ladd - Great Grandmother of half English descent
• Sanoe Lake - Of partial English descent
• Burt Lancaster - Grandparents of English descent
• Angela Lansbury
• Jennifer Lawrence
• James F. Layson
• Matt LeBlanc - Father of English descent
• Brandon Lee - Mother of half English descent
• Téa Leoni - Grandfather of half English descent
• Sam Lloyd
• June Lockhart
• Demi Lovato - Mother of English descent
• Chad Lowe - Of partial English descent
• Rob Lowe - Of partial English descent
• Lorna Luft - Mother of partial English descent

M

• Seth MacFarlane - Father of partial English descent
• Kyle MacLachlan
• Meredith MacRae - Mother an English born
• Michael Madsen - Mother of partial English descent
• Virginia Madsen
• Jayne Mansfield - Of half English descent
• William Mapother - Of partial English descent
• James Marsden - Of partial English descent
• Lee Marvin
• Dylan McDermott - Mother of half English descent
• Steve McQueen
• Wentworth Miller - Father is of partial English descent
• Liza Minnelli - Mother of partial English descent
• Demi Moore
• Mary Tyler Moore - Mother of English descent
• Agnes Moorehead
• Frank Morgan
• Ralph Morgan
• Viggo Mortensen - Mother of English descent
• Tamera Mowry - Mother of English descent
• Tia Mowry - Mother of English descent
• Meg Mundy

N-O

• Becki Newton
• Matt Newton
• Jack Nicholson - Mother of part English descent
• Lorraine Nicholson - Father of English descent
• Chuck Norris
• Edward Norton
• Dylan O'Brien^[23] - Of partial English descent
• Ryan O'Neal - Father of partial English descent
• Jennifer O'Neill
• Emily Osment - Of partial English descent
• Chord Overstreet

P-Q

• Gwyneth Paltrow - Mother of partial English descent
• Sarah Jessica Parker - mother is of part English descent
• Aaron Paul
• Al Pearce
• Gregory Peck - Both Parents of part English descent
• Matthew Perry - Of partial English descent
• Ryan Phillippe - Of partial English descent
• Mary Pickford - Father of English descent
• Christina Pickles - Both Parents of English descent
• Justin Pierce - Father of English descent
• Chris Pine - Of partial English descent
• Brad Pitt
• Aubrey Plaza^[24] - Mother of half English descent
• Martha Plimpton - Father of partial English descent
• Amy Poehler^[25] - Of partial English descent
• Ellen Pompeo - Father of partial English descent
• Tyler Posey^[26] - Of partial English descent
• Tyrone Power - Father of partial English descent
• Victoria Principal - Mother of English descent
• Freddie Prinze, Jr. - Mother of English descent
• Bill Pullman - Father of English descent
• Dennis Quaid
• Randy Quaid

R

• Adam Rayner
• Robert Redford
• Tara Reid^[27] - Of partial English descent
• Tracy Reiner
• Giovanni Ribisi
• Denise Richards^[28][29]
• Michael Richards - Father of English descent
• Blanche Ring - Great-great-grandfather of English descent
• Molly Ringwald
• Jason Ritter
• John Ritter
• Keanu Reeves - Mother of English descent
• Lee Remick
• Jason Robards - Of partial English descent
• AnnaSophia Robb - Of partial English descent
• Emma Roberts
• Eric Roberts^[30] Both parents of partial English descent
• Julia Roberts^[30] - Both parents of partial English descent
• James Roday^[31] - Mother of partial English descent
• Rebecca Romijn - Mother of half English descent
• Neil Ross
• Brandon Routh - Of partial English descent
• Paul Rudd - Both parents English Jews
• Amy Ryan - Of partial English descent
• Remy Ryan - Of partial English descent

S

• Mark Salling
• Susan Sarandon - Father of partial English descent
• Seann William Scott
• Edie Sedgwick
• Kyra Sedgwick - Father of English descent
• Robert Sedgwick - Father of English descent
• Marian Seldes - Mother of English descent
• Jane Seymour - Father an English Jew
• Amanda Seyfried - Of partial English descent
• Ally Sheedy - Father of partial English descent
• Nicollette Sheridan
• Brooke Shields - Both Parents of partial English descent
• Andrew Shue
• Elisabeth Shue
• Casey Siemaszko - Mother of English descent
• Nina Siemaszko - Mother of English descent
• Jean Simmons - English born became U.S Citizen in 1956
• Guy Siner - Mother of English descent
• Alicia Silverstone - Father an English Jew
• Douglas Smith - Father of English descent
• Gregory Smith - Father of English descent
• Jaclyn Smith^[32]- Both parents of partial English descent
• Kerr Smith - Of partial English descent
• Ian Somerhalder - Mother is of partial English descent
• Shannyn Sossamon - Of partial English descent
• Jamie Lynn Spears - Mother of part English descent
• John Stamos - Mother of half English descent
• Kim Stanley - Mother of half English descent
• Karen Steele - Father of English descent
• Julia Stiles - Mother of part English descent
• Emma Stone - Of partial English descent
• Sharon Stone - Of half English descent
• Beatrice Straight
• Meryl Streep - Of maternal English descent
• Patrick Swayze
• Madeleine Stowe - Father of English descent

T-V

• William Talman - Grandparents of English descent
• Jessica Tandy - Both Parents of English descent
• Channing Tatum
• Uma Thurman^[33] - Father of partial English descent
• Spencer Tracy
• Greg Travis
• Stacey Travis
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Alan Tudyk - Of half English descent
• Sonny Tufts
• Lana Turner
• Liv Tyler - Both parents of English descent
• Casper Van Dien - Of partial English descent
• Dick Van Dyke - Mother of half English descent
• Jerry Van Dyke - Mother of half English descent
• Vince Vaughn - Of partial English descent
• Milo Ventimiglia - Mother is of partial English descent
• Tracey Ullman - Mother of English descent

W-Z

• Natasha Gregson Wagner - Father English-born
• Donnie Wahlberg - Paternal grandmother is of English descent
• Mark Wahlberg - Paternal grandmother is of English descent
• Robert Wahlberg - Paternal grandmother is of English descent
• Paul Walker
• Robert Walker - Of half English descent
• Kerry Washington - Mother of partial English descent
• Sam Waterston – Mother was a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Dennis Weaver - Father of partial English descent
• Sigourney Weaver - Mother English-born & Father of partial English descent
• Sylvester Weaver
• Rachel Weisz - Actress
• Justin Welborn
• Raquel Welch - Mother of English descent
• Betty White - Both Parents of partial English descent
• Kristen Wiig^[34] - Mother of half English descent
• Olivia Wilde - Father of partial English descent
• Adrienne Wilkinson^[35] - Of partial English descent
• Barry Williams - Of partial English descent
• Robin Williams
• Bruce Willis - Father of English descent
• Philip Winchester^[36] - Mother English-born
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead
• Jonathan Winters
• Elijah Wood - Of partial English descent
• Fay Wray - Father of English descent
• Jane Wyatt - Of partial English descent

Authors and writers

Louisa May Alcott

Ernest Hemingway

• Louisa May Alcott
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Kevin Andrews
• W.H. Auden
• Natalie Barney
• Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr^[37]
• John Bartlett
• L. Frank Baum
• Ambrose Bierce
• Tony Blankley
• Victor Bockris
• William Cullen Bryant
• Christopher Buckley
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs
• Carolyn Cassady
• Raymond Chandler
• J. Smeaton Chase
• Winston Churchill (novelist)
• Chris Claremont
• Florence Earle Coates
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Stephen Crane
• Ann Coulter^[38]
• Coningsby Dawson
• John Derbyshire
• Emily Dickinson
• T. S. Eliot
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• William Faulkner
• Diana Gabaldon
• Joseph Gales
• Hamlin Garland
• Zane Grey
• Edgar Guest
• Dashiell Hammett
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Bret Harte
• Ernest Hemingway
• O. Henry
• Thomas S. Hinde
• Christopher Hitchens
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Washington Irving
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Agnes Newton Keith
• Helen Keller
• Stephen King
• Nicole Krauss
• Sidney Lanier
• Ring Lardner
• Estelle Anna Lewis
• Jack London
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Herman Melville – (he was descendant of Percival Lowle)
• William Least Heat-Moon
• Mary O'Hara
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Nelson Page
• Edgar Allan Poe
• William Henry Leonard Poe
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Thomas Pynchon
• James Wesley Rawles^[39]
• E. E. Smith
• Nicholas Sparks
• Lynne Spears
• Benjamin Spock
• John Steinbeck
• Charles Warren Stoddard
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Glendon Swarthout
• Anthony Swofford
• Henry David Thoreau
• Mark Twain
• Gore Vidal
• Lew Wallace
• Robert Penn Warren
• Noah Webster
• Eudora Welty
• Walt Whitman
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tennessee Williams
• Michael Z. Williamson^[40]
• Jason F. Wright

Musicians

Britney Spears

Justin Timberlake

• Dimebag Darrell Abbott – former lead guitarist of Pantera
• Vinnie Paul Abbott – former Pantera drummer
• Clay Aiken
• Jimmy The Rev Sullivan - Former Drummer for American Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold
• Billie Joe Armstrong – founder of Green Day
• Joan Baez
• Baby Bash
• Owen Biddle (musician)
• Rebecca Black of partial English descent
• Jack Brooks – lyricist
• Rex Brown – former Pantera bassist
• Cliff Burton
• John Cage – Composer. Of English and Scottish descent
• Aaron Carter
• Leslie Carter
• Nick Carter
• Johnny Cash
• Cher
• Kurt Cobain
• David Cook
• Alice Cooper
• Billy Ray Cyrus
• Miley Cyrus
• Jamie Davis
• Hilary Duff
• Spencer Dryden - The longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane and nephew of Charlie Chaplin^[41]
• Eminem
• Sara Evans
• Mick Fleetwood
• Brandon Flowers
• Paul Gray – Slipknot bassist
• James Hetfield – singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
• Buddy Holly
• Engelbert Humperdinck
• Burl Ives
• Joe Jonas
• Kevin Jonas
• Nick Jonas
• Norah Jones - Mother of English descent
• Janis Joplin
• Joey Jordison – Slipknot drummer
• JoJo
• Naomi Judd
• Wynonna Judd
• Dana Key- Christian Rock guitarist, direct descendant of Francis Scott Key
• Anthony Kiedis
• Alison Krauss
• Amy Lee
• Sean Lennon – his late father, John Lennon of The Beatles, was from Great Britain
• Greg London
• Lene Lovich - Mother of English descent
• Tony Lucca
• Reba McEntire^[42]
• Moby
• Mandy Moore - Mother of English descent
• Jim Morrison
• Graham Nash^[43]
• Marcus Mumford member of Mumford and Sons, Parnets who are English, has a dual citizenship for the U.K. And the U.S.
• Ricky Nelson
• Willie Nelson
• Jason Newsted
• Justin Nozuka - Mother of English descent
• The Osmonds
• Randy Owen
• Jennifer Paige
• Sara Paxton
• Katy Perry - Of partial English descent
• Michelle Phillips
• Elvis Presley
• Iggy Pop
• Romina Power
• Tony Rice
• Kevin Richardson
• Mark Ronson
• James Root – guitarist
• Slick Rick - Rapper who immigrated from England as a child
• Pete Seeger
• Tommy Shaw
• Ashlee Simpson
• Jessica Simpson
• Slash – rock guitarist
• Grace Slick – singer and former model, her mother is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Matt Sorum – drummer
• Britney Spears - Grandmother of half English descent
• Izzy Stradlin – rock musician
• Gene Summers
• Taylor Swift
• Corey Taylor – singer Slipknot Stone Sour
• Justin Timberlake
• Randy Travis
• Steven Tyler
• Hank Williams
• Brian Wilson
• Sid Wilson – member of nu-metal band Slipknot
• "Weird Al" Yankovic – singer and satirist, his maternal grandmother is of English descent
• Adam Young
• Young MC - Singer and rapper who immigrated from England to the US at eight years old

Entrepreneurs, executives

Ransom E. Olds

Bill Gates

• P. T. Barnum^[44]
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
• Nicholas Biddle (banker)
• Benjamin C. Bradlee
• Warren Buffett – investor, businessman, and philanthropist.^[45]
• Benjamin Brewster
• Walter Chrysler – founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
• Henry Clews – financier.
• William R. Coe – insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist.
• James Boorman Colgate – financier.
• Samuel Colgate – manufacturer .
• William Colgate – manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company.
• Charles Deering
• Roy O. Disney
• Walt Disney
• John Francis Dodge – automobile manufacturing pioneer.
• William E. Dodge
• Benjamin Newton Duke
• James Buchanan Duke
• Charles B. Finch
• Bill Gates – co founder of Microsoft and worlds richest man for 13 years in a row.
• A. Bartlett Giamatti
• Edward Henry Harriman – railroad executive.
• Charles T. Hayden
• Joseph Lowthian Hudson
• Samuel Insull – investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads.
• Arthur Curtiss James
• Oliver Burr Jennings
• Will Keith Kellogg
• Matthew Laflin
• Edward Lamb
• Charles M. Loring
• Rowland Hussey Macy, founder of the R.H. Macy and Company.
• J. Willard Marriott, founder of the Marriott International
• J. P. Morgan – banker.
• Robert Noyce – co-founder of Intel.
• Ransom E. Olds – pioneer of the American automotive industry.
• Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
• Augustus G. Paine, Sr.
• Gloria Pall
• Oliver Hazard Payne
• Anson Greene Phelps, he was descended from the early American Colonial Governors Thomas Dudley, John Haynes and George Wyllys.
• Madeleine Pickens
• Charles Pratt
• Henry Huttleston Rogers
• Eugene Selvage
• Samuel Slater – early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution".
• Harold Stanley – banker.
• Charles Lewis Tiffany
• Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
• Ellis Wainwright
• Sam Walton – founder of the American retailer Wal-Mart.
• Henry Wells – co-founder of the Wells Fargo & Company.
• Meg Whitman
• Henry Melville Whitney
• George Dennick Wick

First Ladies of the United States

Martha Washington was the first lady and wife of first American President George Washington.

Laura Bush

(in order by their husband's presidency)

• Martha Washington
• Abigail Smith Adams
• Martha Jefferson
• Dolley Madison
• Elizabeth Monroe
• Louisa Adams
• Rachel Jackson
• Anna Harrison
• Letitia Tyler
• Julia Tyler
• Sarah Polk
• Margaret Taylor
• Abigail Fillmore
• Mary Lincoln
• Julia Grant
• Lucy Hayes
• Lucretia Garfield
• Frances Cleveland
• Caroline Harrison
• Ida Saxton McKinley
• Edith Roosevelt
• Helen Taft
• Ellen Wilson
• Edith Wilson
• Florence Harding
• Grace Coolidge
• Lou Hoover
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Bess Truman
• Mamie Eisenhower
• Jackie Kennedy
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Betty Ford
• Rosalynn Carter
• Nancy Reagan
• Barbara Bush
• Hillary Clinton
• Laura Bush

Governors of states

• Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii.
• Samuel Adams, Massachusetts.
• Homer Martin Adkins, Arkansas.
• Nahum J. Bachelder, New Hampshire.
• John J. Bagley, Michigan.
• James Barbour, Virginia.
• Frederick Bates, Missouri.
• Phil Batt, Idaho.
• Gunning Bedford, Sr., Delaware.
• Willie Blount, Tennessee.
• William D. Bloxham, Florida.
• Jan Brewer, Arizona.
• Owen Brewster, Maine.
• Paul Brigham, Vermont.
• John Brough, Ohio.
• C. Douglass Buck, Delaware.
• Morgan Bulkeley, Connecticut.
• Jeb Bush, Florida.
• Ezra Butler, Vermont.
• Harry F. Byrd, Virginia.
• Cyrus C. Carpenter, Iowa.
• Michael Castle, Delaware.
• John Chafee, Rhode Island.
• Person Colby Cheney, New Hampshire.
• Martin Chittenden, Vermont.
• Thomas Chittenden, Vermont.
• Joshua Clayton, Delaware.
• Powell Clayton, Arkansas.
• DeWitt Clinton, New York.
• George Clinton, New York.
• Howell Cobb, Georgia.
• Thomas Collins, Delaware.
• Alfred H. Colquitt, Georgia.
• John Cook, Delaware.
• Nicholas Cooke, Rhode Island.
• Steve Cowper, Alaska.
• Moody Currier, New Hampshire.
• John Christopher Cutler, Utah.
• Nathan Cutler, Maine.
• Mitch Daniels, Indiana.
• William Richardson Davie, North Carolina.
• Howard Dean, Vermont.
• Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin.
• Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine.
• Edward H. East, Tennessee.
• Walter Evans Edge, New Jersey.
• Charles Edison, New Jersey.
• Samuel Elbert, Georgia.
• Buford Ellington, Tennessee.
• Edward Everett, Massachusetts.
• Hamilton Fish, New York.
• John Brown Francis, Rhode Island.
• Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts.
• Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Virginia.
• Frank R. Gooding, Idaho.
• Theodore F. Green, Rhode Island.
• William Greene, Rhode Island.
• Frederic T. Greenhalge, Massachusetts.
• James W. Grimes, Iowa.
• Matthew Griswold, Connecticut.
• Button Gwinnett, Georgia.
• Joshua Hall, Maine.
• Lyman Hall, Georgia.
• James Hamilton, Jr., South Carolina.
• James Henry Hammond, South Carolina.
• Jay Hammond, Alaska.
• Wade Hampton III, South Carolina.
• George Handley, Georgia.
• Clifford Hansen, Wyoming.
• Benjamin Harrison V, Virginia.
• Joseph Roswell Hawley, Connecticut.
• David Hazzard, Delaware.
• Patrick Henry, Virginia.
• John Hoeven, North Dakota.
• Henry Hollis Horton, Tennessee.
• John Eager Howard, Maryland.
• Richard Howly, Georgia.
• Mike Huckabee, Arkansas.
• Samuel Huntington, Connecticut.
• Jonathan G. Hunton, Maine.
• James Iredell, Jr., North Carolina.
• James Jackson, Georgia.
• Thomas Johnson, Maryland.
• William King (Governor of la Florida)
• Joseph Kent, Maryland.
• Philip La Follette, Wisconsin.
• Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Wisconsin.
• John Langdon, New Hampshire.
• Blair Lee III, Maryland
• Fitzhugh Lee, Virginia.
• Henry Lee III, Virginia.
• Thomas Sim Lee, Maryland.
• Levi Lincoln, Jr., Massachusetts.
• Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Maryland.
• George Madison, Kentucky.
• Stevens T. Mason, Michigan.
• Alexander McNutt, Mississippi.
• Matt Mead, Wyoming.
• William Dunn Moseley, Florida.
• Abner Nash, North Carolina.
• William A. Newell, New Jersey.
• Wilson Cary Nicholas, Virginia.
• Donald Grant Nutter, Montana.
• Aaron Ogden, New Jersey.
• Charles Smith Olden, New Jersey.
• John Eugene Osborne, Wyoming.
• William Paca, Maryland.
• John Page, Virginia.
• Sarah Palin, Alaska.
• William A. Palmer, Vermont.
• Frederic Hale Parkhurst, Maine.
• Albion Parris, Maine.
• David Paterson, New York.
• Endicott Peabody, Massachusetts.
• William Sanford Pennington, New Jersey.
• John S. Phelps, Missouri.
• Sidney Perham, Maine.
• Rick Perry, Texas.
• Francis Wilkinson Pickens, South Carolina.
• Benjamin Pierce, New Hampshire.
• John S. Pillsbury, Minnesota
• Charles Pinckney, South Carolina.
• William Plumer, New Hampshire.
• Beverley Randolph, Virginia.
• Edmund Randolph, Virginia.
• Peyton Randolph, Virginia.
• Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Virginia.
• George Read, Delaware.
• Bill Richardson, New Mexico.
• Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania.
• Charles Carnan Ridgely, Maryland.
• Jim Risch, Idaho.
• Wyndham Robertson, Virginia.
• Caesar Rodney, Delaware.
• Daniel Rogers, Delaware.
• George W. Romney, Michigan.
• Mitt Romney, Massachusetts.
• William E. Russell, Massachusetts.
• Edward Rutledge, South Carolina.
• John Rutledge, South Carolina.
• Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts.
• Francis W. Sargent, Massachusetts.
• William Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• John Sevier, Tennessee.
• John Gill Shorter, Alabama.
• Al Smith, New York.
• Samuel E. Smith, Maine.
• William Spry, Utah.
• Leland Stanford, California.
• Onslow Stearns, New Hampshire.
• Charles C. Stratton, New Jersey.
• Ezekiel A. Straw, New Hampshire.
• Bob Taft, Ohio.
• Edward Tiffin, Ohio.
• Samuel J. Tilden, New York.
• Benjamin Tillman, South Carolina.
• Daniel D. Tompkins, New York.
• John Treadwell, Connecticut.
• William Trousdale, Tennessee.
• James Hoge Tyler, Virginia.
• John Tyler, Sr., Virginia.
• Robert S. Vessey, South Dakota.
• Joseph Marshall Walker, Louisiana.
• Cadwallader C. Washburn, Wisconsin.
• William Weld, Massachusetts.
• Heber Manning Wells, Utah.
• John Wereat, Georgia.
• George P. Wetmore, Rhode Island.
• Frank White, North Dakota.
• James Withycombe, Oregon.
• Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut.
• Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Connecticut.
• Urban A. Woodbury, Vermont.
• Fielding L. Wright, Mississippi.

Historical figures

• Susan B. Anthony, activist for women's right
• Clara Barton, pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian.
• Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
• John Brown (abolitionist)^[46]
• Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990) Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, First Runner-Up 1924.^[47]
• Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer and author.
• Wyatt Earp
• Samuel Fielden – socialist, anarchist, labor organizer
• Elizabeth Fones – Puritan settler
• Pat Garrett, best known for killing Billy the Kid.
• Howard Hughes, aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
• Francis Scott Key, amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
• Charles Lindbergh, aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
• Rebecca Nurse, figure in the Salem witch trials.
• Annie Oakley – sharpshooter
• Rick Rescorla – a hero of 11 September 2001
• Betsy Ross – maker of the first American flag
• Elizabeth Short – murder victim who was nicknamed the "Black Dahlia"
• Paul Tibbets, brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.
• J. D. Tippit – police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
• Abigail Williams – accuser in the Salem witch trials

Mormon pioneers

Inventors

John Pemberton was the inventor of Coca-Cola.

Wright Brothers who are generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

• Samuel Andrews
• John Bidwell
• Gail Borden
• Franklin S. Cooper
• Peter Cooper Hewitt
• Samuel Colt
• William Crompton
• Moncena Dunn
• George Eastman
• Thomas Edison
• Isaac L. Ellwood
• Thaddeus Fairbanks
• Philo Farnsworth
• Calvin Souther Fuller
• King Camp Gillette
• Charles Goodyear
• William S. Harley
• Robert Hoe
• Christopher Jones
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
• Daniel Leavitt
• Thomas Leavitt
• Samuel Morse^[48]
• John Pemberton
• Eliphalet Remington
• Edward S. Renwick – father was James Renwick
• William Bradford Shockley
• Elihu Thomson
• Jimmy Wales
• Eli Whitney
• Orville and Wilbur Wright

Journalists

• Ambrose Bierce
• Peter Brimelow
• Heather Brooke
• Tina Brown
• Charles Carleton Coffin
• Jane Cunningham Croly
• Anderson Cooper
• Benjamin Edes
• Chris Hedges
• Ronald Hilton
• David Ignatius
• Rachel Maddow
• Chris Matthews
• Michael Moynihan
• Edward R. Murrow
• Cokie Roberts
• Diane Sawyer
• Paul W. Smith
• Ida M. Tarbell
• Barbara Walters

Military

Robert E. Lee

• Ethan Allen
• Benedict Arnold
• Henry H. Arnold
• Edward Dickinson Baker
• Thomas W. Bradley
• Braxton Bragg
• John C. Breckinridge
• Jacob Brown
• John Buford
• Matthew Butler
• Henry A. Byroade
• George Rogers Clark
• Norvell P. Cobb
• George A. Cobham, Jr.
• Boston Corbett – Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
• George Armstrong Custer
• Abner Doubleday
• Thomas D. Doubleday
• Donald McNeill Fairfax
• Horatio Gates
• Edmund P. Gaines
• Horatio Gates
• Nathanael Greene
• William Halsey, Jr
• Charles Hamlin
• Cyrus Hamlin
• Wade Hampton III
• Winfield Scott Hancock
• Henry Heth
• Theophilus H. Holmes
• John Bell Hood
• Joseph Hooker
• Esek Hopkins
• Oliver O. Howard
• Henry L. Hulbert
• Samuel Huntington
• Stonewall Jackson
• Joseph E. Johnston
• Charles Lee
• Edwin Gray Lee
• Robert E. Lee
• Samuel Phillips Lee
• James Longstreet
• Douglas MacArthur
• Murray Mason
• John S. McCain, Jr.
• John S. McCain, Sr.
• George B. McClellan
• James B. McPherson
• Richard Worsam Meade II
• Robert Leamy Meade
• James F. Merton
• Robert Olds
• Robin Olds
• George S. Patton
• Hiram Paulding
• Matthew C. Perry
• John J. Pershing
• Noah Phelps
• George Pickett
• George W. Randolph
• Deborah Sampson
• James M. Shackelford
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Robert F. Stockton
• J.E.B. Stuart
• Richard Taylor
• William B. Travis
• Edward Trenchard
• Lucian Truscott
• Vernon A. Walters
• Abraham Whipple
• John Ancrum Winslow

Models

Bebe Buell

• Angela Bowie
• Bebe Buell
• Cindy Crawford
• Jerry Hall^[49] - Of partial English descent
• Crystal Harris- Both Parents of English descent
• Alexandra Richards
• Kimberly Stewart
• Kate Upton - Of partial English descent
• Kendra Wilkinson - Of part English descent

Political figures

• Dean Acheson
• John Caven
• Richard Girnt Butler
• Jefferson Davis
• Charles E. Dudley
• William M. Evarts
• Benjamin Franklin
• William Jennings
• Richard Henry Lee
• Robert Liddell
• George Mason
• Malcolm Nichols
• George Lincoln Rockwell
• Mitt Romney
• Edward Shippen
• George Sutherland
• John Townsend
• Martin H. Weight
• Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense

American pornographic film actors

• Tag Adams
• Tracey Adams
• Eva Angelina
• Brooke Ashley
• Erica Boyer
• Mike Branson
• Rex Chandler
• Sasha Grey
• Jenna Jameson
• Brandi Love
• Keisha
• Tera Patrick - Of partial English descent
• Angelica Sin
• Stephanie Swift

Presidents of the United States

A number of the Presidents of the United States have English ancestry.^[50] The extent of English ancestry varies in the presidents with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock. Later US Presidents ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England.

George Washington (English)

1st President 1789-97 (great-grandfather, John Washington from Purleigh, Essex, England.^[51][52])

John Adams (English)

2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts.^[53][54])

Thomas Jefferson (Welsh & Scotch-English)

3rd President 1801–1809 (Maternal English ancestry from William Randolph.)

James Madison (English)

4th President 1809-17^[55]

John Quincy Adams (English)

6th President 1825-29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England.^[53][54])

William Harrison (English)

9th President 1841–1841 ^[56]

John Tyler (English)

10th President 1841–1845 ^[57]

Zachary Taylor (English)

12th President 1849-50

Millard Fillmore (English)

13th President 1850–1853 ^[58]

Franklin Pierce (English)

14th President 1853–1857 ^[59]

Abraham Lincoln (English)

16th President 1861-65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts.^[60][61])

Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish & English)

17th President 1865–1869 ^[62]

Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, English & Scottish)

18th President 1869-77

Rutherford Hayes (English)

19th President 1877–1881 ^[63]

James A. Garfield (English & French)

20th President 1881-81 ^[64]

Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish & English)

21st President 1881-85

Grover Cleveland (Scotch-Irish & English)

22nd and 24th President 1885-89, 1893–97

Benjamin Harrison (Scotch-Irish & English)

23rd President 1889-93

William McKinley (Scotch-Irish & English)

25th President 1897-1901

Theodore Roosevelt (Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English & French)

26th President 1901–1909 ^[65]

William Taft (Scotch-Irish & English)

27th President 1909–1913 ^[66]

Woodrow Wilson (Scotch-Irish & English)

28th President 1913–1921 (Wilson's mother Janet was born in Carlisle)

Warren G. Harding (Scotch-Irish & English)

29th President 1921-23

Calvin Coolidge (English)

30th President 1923–1929 ^[67]

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dutch, French & English)

32nd President 1933-45

Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English & German)

33rd President 1945-53 (English & Irish descent)

Lyndon B. Johnson (English)

36th President 1963-69

Richard Nixon (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & German)

37th President 1969-74 (English & Irish descent)

Gerald Ford (English)

38th President 1974-77

Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish & English)

39th President 1977-81 (Thomas Carter, Sr. emigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia.^[68])

Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)

40th President 1981–1989 ^[69]

George H. W. Bush (Scotch-Irish & English)

41st President 1989-93

Bill Clinton (Scotch-Irish & English)

42nd President 1993-2001

George W. Bush (Scotch-Irish & English)

43rd President 2001–2009 (Reynold Bush from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[70])

Barack Obama (Luo, English & Irish)

44th President 2009–Present (His mother Ann Dunham's heritage consists mostly of English & Irish ancestors.^[71])

Religious Figures

Anne Hutchinson

• Costen Jordan Harrell
• Anne Hutchinson
• Eben Samuel Johnson
• St. John O'Sullivan
• Charles W. Penrose
• Anna Howard Shaw
• George Teasdale
• Edward Thomson
• Ellen G. White
• John R. Winder

Members of the United States House of Representatives

• Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia.
• Arthur Laban Bates, Pennsylvania.
• Brian Baird, Washington
• William Bingham, Pennsylvania.
• Clifton R. Breckinridge, Arkansas.
• James Frankland Briggs, New Hampshire.
• Thomas Patterson Brockman, South Carolina.
• William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska.
• Charles Frederick Crisp, Georgia.
• Davy Crockett, Tennessee.
• Franklin Davenport, New Jersey.
• George Dent, Maryland.
• Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois.
• Newt Gingrich, Georgia.
• Ernest Greenwood, New York.
• Steny Hoyer, Maryland.
• Martin B. Madden, Illinois.
• George A. Marden, Massachusetts.
• James Murray Mason, Virginia.
• William Milnes, Jr., Virginia.
• James H. Osmer, Pennsylvania.
• John Randolph, Virginia.
• Caesar A. Rodney, Delaware.
• Theodore Sedgwick, Massachusetts.
• Charles Slade, Illinois.
• William Henry Sowden, Pennsylvania.
• Moses T. Stevens, Massachusetts.
• Richard Stockton New Jersey.
• Norton Strange Townshend, Ohio.
• David Gardiner Tyler, Virginia.
• William D. Washburn, Minnesota.
• Robert Charles Winthrop, Massachusetts.
• Thomas Contee Worthington, Maryland.

Scientists/researchers

• Robert Dewar – computer scientist
• Freeman Dyson – theoretical physicist and mathematician
• George H. Hitchings
• G. Evelyn Hutchinson
• Woods Hutchinson
• Francis Ernest Lloyd
• William Worrall Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, founder of the Mayo clinic
• Joseph Priestley – chemist
• James Renwick (physicist)
• J. Alan Robinson – philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
• Roger Sanders
• Albert Schatz
• James Dewey Watson – molecular biologist
• 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

Senators

• Nelson W. Aldrich, Rhode Island.
• Samuel G. Arnold, Rhode Island.
• Augustus O. Bacon, Georgia.
• Edward Dickinson Baker, Oregon.
• William T. Barry, Kentucky.
• Max Baucus, Montana.
• Michael Bennet, Colorado.
• Bob Bennett, Utah.
• Wallace F. Bennett, Utah.
• Thomas H. Benton, Missouri.
• William Blount, Tennessee.
• Lemuel J. Bowden, Virginia.
• Stephen R. Bradley, Vermont.
• John Breckinridge, Kentucky.
• Orville Hickman Browning, Illinois.
• Frank O. Briggs, New Jersey.
• Joseph R. Burton, Kansas.
• Prescott Bush, Connecticut.
• Andrew Butler, South Carolina.
• Matthew Butler, South Carolina.
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Virginia.
• Howard Cannon, Nevada.
• Dudley Chase, Vermont.
• Rufus Choate, Massachusetts.
• John M. Clayton, Delaware.
• Thomas Clayton, Delaware.
• Dan Coats, Indiana.
• William Cocke, Tennessee.
• Walter T. Colquitt, Georgia.
• Marcus A. Coolidge, Massachusetts.
• Chris Coons, Delaware.
• James Cooper, Pennsylvania.
• Henry W. Corbett, Oregon.
• Charles Curtis, Kansas.
• David Daggett, Connecticut.
• Chauncey Depew, New York.
• Bob Dole, Kansas.
• Charles E. Dudley, New York.
• John Edwards, North Carolina.
• Mike Enzi, Wyoming.
• John Wayles Eppes, Virginia.
• William Few, Georgia.
• Richard Stockton Field, New Jersey.
• James Fisk, Vermont.
• George G. Fogg, New Hampshire.
• Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island.
• Nicholas Gilman, New Hampshire.
• Barry Goldwater, Arizona.
• Ray Greene, Rhode Island.
• Mark Hanna, Ohio.
• Alexander C. Hanson, Maryland
• Orrin Hatch, Utah.
• Benjamin Hawkins, North Carolina.
• Carl Hayden, Arizona.
• Jesse Helms, North Carolina.
• Nathaniel P. Hill, Colorado.
• James Hillhouse, Connecticut.
• Irving Ives, New York.
• Ralph Izard, South Carolina.
• John W. Johnston, Virginia.
• John P. Jones, Nevada.
• Hamilton Fish Kean, New Jersey.
• John Kerry, Massachusetts.
• William H. King, Utah.
• Paul G. Kirk, Massachusetts.
• John Laurance, New York.
• Luke Lea, Tennessee.
• Blair Lee I, Maryland.
• Mike Lee, Utah.
• John McCain, Arizona.
• Lee Mantle, Montana.
• Armistead Mason, Virginia.
• Stevens T. Mason, Virginia.
• Roger Q. Mills, Texas.
• Robert Morris, Pennsylvania.
• Bill Nelson, Florida.
• Robert C. Nicholas, Louisiana.
• William North, New York.
• William A. Palmer, Vermont.
• Thomas W. Palmer, Michigan.
• Nahum Parker, New Hampshire.
• Frank C. Partridge, Vermont.
• Samuel Pasco, Florida.
• George H. Pendleton, Ohio.
• Lawrence C. Phipps, Colorado.
• Rob Portman, Ohio.
• Jennings Randolph, West Virginia.
• Harry Reid, Nevada.
• Terry Sanford North Carolina.
• Jeff Sessions, Alabama.
• John Smith, New York.
• Samuel M. Shortridge, California.
• Margaret Chase Smith, Maine.
• Reed Smoot, Utah.
• John P. Stockton, New Jersey.
• John E. Sununu, New Hampshire.
• Kingsley A. Taft, Ohio.
• Robert Taft, Ohio.
• Robert Taft, Jr., Ohio.
• James Taliaferro, Florida.
• Littleton Waller Tazewell, Virginia.
• Robert Toombs, Georgia.
• Mark Udall, Colorado.
• Tom Udall, New Mexico.
• Malcolm Wallop, Wyoming.
• Daniel Webster, Massachusetts.
• Edward Douglass White, Louisiana.
• David Wilmot, Pennsylvania.

Sports

United States Supreme Court justices

• Oliver Ellsworth
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Sandra Day O'Connor^[73]
• William Rehnquist^[74]
• George Sutherland
• Byron White
• Levi Woodbury
• William Burnham Woods

Vice Presidents of the United States

• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Aaron Burr
• Elbridge Gerry
• Daniel D. Tompkins
• John Tyler
• Millard Fillmore
• John C. Breckinridge
• Hannibal Hamlin
• William Wheeler
• Levi P. Morton
• Theodore Roosevelt
• James S. Sherman
• Calvin Coolidge
• Charles G. Dawes
• Charles Curtis
• John Nance Garner
• Henry A. Wallace
• Richard Nixon
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Gerald Ford
• Nelson Rockefeller
• George H. W. Bush
• Dan Quayle
• Dick Cheney
• Joe Biden

Other

• Alton Brown – celebrity chef and creator/host of Food Network's Good Eats
• Patricia Buckley – socialite
• Ann Dunham – anthropologist and mother of President Barack Obama
• Daisy and Violet Hilton – co-joined twins
• Nelle Wilson Reagan – mother of President Ronald Reagan
• Frank H.T. Rhodes – university president, government science advisor
• Henry Chadwick – known as the father of baseball
• Jerry Springer – TV presenter
• Alfred Hitchcock film director and producer who became a U.S citizen in 1955

References