List of English Americans

List of English Americans

This is a list of notable English Americans.

List

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 [ [http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html "Ancestry of Bill Ricardson"] , 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
*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
*Eminem
*W.C. Fields
*Frances Fisher
*Wallace Ford
*Claire Forlani [ [http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/antitrust.html] "Antitrust features English starlet Claire Forlani..."]
*Judy Garland
*Cary Grant
*Sydney Greenstreet
*Christopher Guest [ [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/11/1057783348977.html] "Spoken like the hereditary English lord that he is."]
*Gale Gordon
*Gene Hackman
*Tom Hanks
*Oliver Hardy
*Rondo Hatton
*William Holden
*George Holland
*Kelly Hu [ [http://www.kellyhu.com/bio1.html Kelly Hu ] ]
*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 ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/bio] "Descendant of Humphrey Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of the famous King Henry V of England."]
*Brandon Routh
*Paul Rudd
*Alma Reville [ [http://members.tripod.com/~hitchandalma/Alma.htm] "The Perfect English Couple"]
*Juliet Holland-Rose
*Susan Sarandon
*Jamie Lynn Spears]
*Christian Slater [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000225/bio] "He is of Irish/English descent" ]
*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 [ [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fba75.html] "Amelia Barr, writer, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Singleton) Huddleston, was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, on March 29, 1831."]
*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 [http://www.survivalblog.com/biographies.html]
*E. E. Smith - science fiction author
*Michael Z. Williamson - science fiction and fantasy writer [http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/bio.php]

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 [ [http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/nash/] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."] *Graham Nash - musician/songwriter [ [http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/nash/] "Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet..."]
*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 [ [http://www.essayboom.com/biographies/Samuel_Insull-33742.html] "Samuel Insull (1859-1938), English-born American entrepreneur..."]
*Samuel Slater - early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution"

Historical figures

*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
*Rick Rescorla - a hero of 11 September, 2001

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, [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000288] Bioguide] 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, [ [http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h290.html] "Ancestry: English"] Ninth President, the Harrison family in general is of English descent.
*Thomas Jefferson, his grandfather [http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/04/08/history_lee_house_feature.shtml] BBC] 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, [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000116] Bioguide] 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 2006fact
*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 [ [http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/102/print] "Ethnicity - English"]
*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, [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000338] born in Clay-Coaton, Northamptonshire] 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

cientists/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

ports

*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

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