Visual artists

Assassins, outlaws, and criminals

John Wilkes Booth – Abraham Lincoln assassin
Lizzie Borden – central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts
Butch Cassidy – train and bank robber
Albert Fish – famed child serial killer
Jesse James – train and bank robber
Richard Lawrence – intellectually disabled criminal, who attempted to kill Andrew Jackson
William Poole – gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician

Astronauts

Neil Armstrong – first person to step on the moon
Christa McAuliffe – English, Irish, German and Lebanese ancestry
Alan Shepard – first American to travel into space

Astronomers

Directors, producers

Descendants of Mayflower passengers

Alec Baldwin^[1]
Jordana Brewster – actress
Chevy Chase – Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
Bing Crosby – actor and singer
Seth MacFarlane – actor, animator and writer; notable for creating Family Guy and American Dad
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^[1]
Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises^[1]
Susan Fales-Hill
Ashley Judd – actress
John Lithgow – actor
Christopher Lloyd – actor^[3]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet^[3]
George B. McClellan^[1] – Union Army general
Marilyn Monroe – actress ^[1]
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Anthony Perkins – actor
Anne Ramsey – actress
Christopher Reeve – actor ^[1]
Bill Richardson^[4] – Governor of New Mexico
Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President
Victoria Rowell – actress
Benjamin Spock^[3] – 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

Actors

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I-J

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L

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N-O

P-Q

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U-V

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Authors and writers

Musicians

Entrepreneurs, executives

P. T. Barnum^[28]
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
Nicholas Biddle
Benjamin Brewster
Caleb Bradham – creator of Pepsi
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
Roy O. Disney
Walt Disney
John Francis Dodge – automobile manufacturing pioneer
Bill Gates – co-founder of Microsoft and world's richest man for 13 consecutive years
Edward Henry Harriman – railroad executive
Charles T. Hayden
Joseph Lowthian Hudson
Samuel Insull – investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads
Will Keith Kellogg
Phil Knight – co-founder of Nike
Matthew Laflin
Edward Lamb
Charles M. Loring
Anson Green Phelps – founded Phelps, Dodge & Co.
Madeleine Pickens
Henry Huttleston Rogers
Samuel Slater – early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution"
Charles Lewis Tiffany
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

First Ladies of the United States

(in order by their husband's presidency)

Governors of states

Greg Abbott – Texas
Neil Abercrombie – Hawaii
Samuel Adams – Massachusetts
Nahum J. Bachelder – New Hampshire
Charlie Baker – Massachusetts
James Barbour – Virginia
Frederick Bates – Missouri
Gunning Bedford Sr. – Delaware
William D. Bloxham – Florida
Jan Brewer – Arizona
Owen Brewster – Maine
Paul Brigham – Vermont
Bryant Butler Brooks – Wyoming
John Brough – Ohio
Morgan Bulkeley – Connecticut
Jeb Bush – Florida
Ezra Butler – Vermont
Harry F. Byrd – Virginia
Cyrus C. Carpenter – Iowa
Michael Castle – Delaware
Martin Chittenden – Vermont
Thomas Chittenden – Vermont
Joshua Clayton – Delaware
Powell Clayton – Arkansas
DeWitt Clinton – New York
George Clinton – New York
Nicholas Cooke – Rhode Island
John Christopher Cutler – Utah
Mitch Daniels – Indiana
William Richardson Davie – North Carolina
Wendy Davis – Texas
Nelson Dewey – Wisconsin
Edward H. East – Tennessee
Samuel Elbert – Georgia
Edward Everett – Massachusetts
John Brown Francis – Rhode Island
Elbridge Gerry – Massachusetts
Frank R. Gooding – Idaho
William Greene – Rhode Island
Frederic T. Greenhalge – Massachusetts
Matthew Griswold – Connecticut
Button Gwinnett – Georgia
Lyman Hall – Georgia
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
John Eager Howard – Maryland
Mike Huckabee – Arkansas
James Iredell Jr. – North Carolina
James Jackson – Georgia
Thomas Johnson – Maryland
John Langdon – New Hampshire
Blair Lee III – Maryland
Fitzhugh Lee – Virginia
Henry Lee III – Virginia
Thomas Sim Lee – Maryland
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. – Maryland
George Madison – Kentucky
Stevens T. Mason – Michigan
Alexander McNutt – Mississippi
William Dunn Moseley – Florida
Wilson Cary Nicholas – Virginia
Aaron Ogden – New Jersey
Charles Smith Olden – New Jersey
William Paca – Maryland
John Page – Virginia
Sarah Palin – Alaska
William A. Palmer – Vermont
David Paterson – New York
Endicott Peabody – Massachusetts
William Sanford Pennington – New Jersey
John S. Phelps – Missouri
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
William Scranton – Pennsylvania
John Sevier – Tennessee
William Spry – Utah
Leland Stanford – California
Charles C. Stratton – New Jersey
Edward Tiffin – Ohio
Samuel J. Tilden – New York
Benjamin Tillman – South Carolina
James Hoge Tyler – Virginia
John Tyler Sr. – Virginia
Robert S. Vessey – South Dakota
Joseph Marshall Walker – Louisiana
William Weld – Massachusetts
Heber Manning Wells – Utah
John Wereat – Georgia
George P. Wetmore – Rhode Island
James Withycombe – Oregon
Oliver Wolcott – Connecticut
Oliver Wolcott Jr. – Connecticut

Historical figures

Daniel Boone – American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the US
John Brown – abolitionist^[29]
Wyatt Earp – westerner: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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"
Rebecca Nurse – figure in the Salem witch trials
Annie Oakley – sharpshooter
John Proctor – English born victim of the Salem Witch Trials
Rick Rescorla – a hero of September 11, 2001
Betsy Ross – maker of the first American flag
Joseph Smith – religious leader and founder of Mormonism
J. D. Tippit – police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
Abigail Williams – accuser in the Salem witch trials

Mormon pioneers

Inventors

Journalists

Military

Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Henry H. Arnold
Edward Dickinson Baker
Thomas W. Bradley
Braxton Bragg
John C. Breckinridge
Jacob Brown
John Buford
Matthew Butler
George Rogers Clark
Wesley Clark
Norvell P. Cobb
George A. Cobham Jr.
Boston Corbett – Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
Horatio Gates
Edmund P. Gaines
Horatio Gates
Nathanael Greene
William Halsey, Jr
Cyrus Hamlin
Wade Hampton III
Winfield Scott Hancock
Henry Heth
Joseph Hooker
Esek Hopkins
Henry L. Hulbert
Samuel Huntington
Stonewall Jackson
Joseph E. Johnston
Charles Lee
Edwin Gray Lee
Robert E. Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee
James Longstreet
James Murray Mason
George B. McClellan
James F. Merton
Robert Olds
Robin Olds
George S. Patton
Matthew C. Perry
Noah Phelps
George Pickett
George W. Randolph
Deborah Sampson
Robert F. Stockton
Richard Taylor
William B. Travis
Edward Trenchard
Ronald R. Van Stockum
Vernon A. Walters
Abraham Whipple
John Ancrum Winslow

Models

Political figures

Dean Acheson
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Michael Bennet
George P. Bush
George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Richard Girnt Butler
Jimmy Carter^[31]
John Caven
Walter Chiles
Hillary Clinton^[32]^[33]^[34]
Susan Collins
Calvin Coolidge
Chris Coons
Jefferson Davis
Charles E. Dudley
William M. Evarts
Gerald Ford^[35]
Benjamin Franklin
Lindsey Graham
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover^[36]
William Jennings
Boris Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson^[37]
Richard Henry Lee
Robert Liddell
George Mason
Mitch McConnell
Malcolm Nichols
Richard Nixon^[38]
Barack Obama^[39]^[40]
Sarah Palin
Henry Paulson^[41]
Ronald Reagan^[42]
Condoleezza Rice^[43]^[44]^[45]^[46]
Jim Risch^[47]
George Lincoln Rockwell
Mitt Romney^[40]
Franklin D. Roosevelt^[48]
Edward Shippen
George Sutherland
Jon Tester
John Townsend
Harry S. Truman^[49]
Elizabeth Warren
Martin H. Weight
Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense^[50]
Harry Weeks – political activist and economist
Woodrow Wilson

American pornographic film actors

Presidents of the United States

A number of the presidents of the United States have English ancestry. The extent of English ancestry varies in the presidents with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock. Later U.S. 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]
Thomas Jefferson (English): 3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph)
James Madison (English): 4th President 1809–17^[54]
John Quincy Adams (English): 6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England)^[53]
William Henry Harrison (English): 9th President 1841–1841^[55]
John Tyler (English): 10th President 1841–1845^[56]
Zachary Taylor (English): 12th President 1849–50
Millard Fillmore (English): 13th President 1850–1853^[57]
Franklin Pierce (English): 14th President 1853–1857^[58]
Abraham Lincoln (English and Welsh): 16th President 1861–65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts).^[59]^[60]
Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English): 17th President 1865–1869^[61]
Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and English): 18th President 1869–77
Rutherford Hayes (English): 19th President 1877–1881^[62]
James A. Garfield (English and French): 20th President 1881–81^[63]
Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish and English): 21st President 1881–85
Grover Cleveland (Scotch-Irish and English): 22nd and 24th President 1885–89, 1893–97
Benjamin Harrison (Scotch-Irish and English): 23rd President 1889–93
William McKinley (Scotch-Irish, English and German): 25th President 1897–1901
Theodore Roosevelt (Dutch, Scottish, English and Scotch-Irish): 26th President 1901–1909
William Howard Taft (English): 27th President 1909–1913
Warren G. Harding (English, Scottish, Dutch and Welsh): 29th President 1921–23
Calvin Coolidge (English): 30th President 1923–1929^[64]
Herbert Hoover (German, Swiss, Scots-Irish, English): 31st President 1929–1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt (English, Dutch and Scottish): 32nd President 1933–45
Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English and German): 33rd President 1945–53
Lyndon B. Johnson (English, Scotch-Irish and German): 36th President 1963–69
Richard Nixon (English and Scotch-Irish): 37th President 1969–74
Gerald Ford (English): 38th President 1974–77
Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish and English): 39th President 1977–81 (Thomas Carter Sr. emigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia)^[65]
Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish): 40th President 1981–1989^[66]
George H. W. Bush (Scotch-Irish and English): 41st President 1989–93
Bill Clinton (Scotch-Irish and English): 42nd President 1993–2001
George W. Bush (Scotch-Irish and English): 43rd President 2001–2009 (Reynold Bush from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts)^[67]
Barack Obama (Luo, English): 44th President 2009–2017 (his mother Ann Dunham's heritage is mostly English)^[68]
Joe Biden (Irish, French, and English): 46th President 2021-2025 (William Biden from Sussex, England emigrated before 1822 to Baltimore, Maryland)

Vice presidents of the United States

Religious figures

Members of the United States House of Representatives

Philip P. 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
Wendy Davis Schuler – Wyoming
George Dent – Maryland
Samuel Dibble – South Carolins
Stephen A. Douglas – Illinois
Newt Gingrich – Georgia
Ernest Greenwood – New York
Steny Hoyer – Maryland
Robert Hurt – Virginia
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
Paul Ryan – Wisconsin
Theodore Sedgwick – Massachusetts
Charles Slade – Illinois
William Henry Sowden – Pennsylvania
Moses T. Stevens – Massachusetts
Richard Stockton (U.S. senator) – New Jersey
Norton Strange Townshend – Ohio
David Gardiner Tyler – Virginia
William D. Washburn – Minnesota
Robert Charles Winthrop – Massachusetts
Thomas Contee Worthington – Maryland

Scientists, researchers

Elizabeth Blackburn
Thomas Bland – doctor, founder of the National Indian Defense Association
Percy Bridgman – Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Dewar – computer scientist
Freeman Dyson – theoretical physicist and mathematician
F. Duncan M. Haldane
Oliver Hart (economist)
George H. Hitchings
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Woods Hutchinson
Henry Way Kendall – Nobel Prize in Physics
Willis Lamb – Nobel Prize in Physics
Francis Ernest Lloyd
Charles Horace Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, one of seven founders of Mayo Clinic
William James Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, one of seven founders of Mayo Clinic
William Worrall Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, one of seven founders of the Mayo Clinic
George Minot – Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
Joseph Priestley – chemist
James Renwick (physicist)
J. Alan Robinson – philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
Roger Sanders
Albert Schatz (scientist)
Oliver Smithies
James Dewey Watson – molecular biologist
Thomas Bramwell Welch – discoverer of the pasteurization process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice
Robert Burns Woodward – organic chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Senators

Nelson W. Aldrich, Rhode Island
Samuel G. Arnold, Rhode Island
Augustus Octavius 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
Susan Collins, Maine
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
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
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
Jim Risch, Idaho^[47]
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 A. Taft, Ohio
Robert Taft Jr., Ohio
James Taliaferro, Florida
Littleton Waller Tazewell, Virginia
Jon Tester, Montana
Robert Toombs, Georgia
Mark Udall, Colorado
Tom Udall, New Mexico
Malcolm Wallop, Wyoming
Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts
Daniel Webster, Massachusetts
Edward Douglass White, Louisiana
David Wilmot, Pennsylvania

Sports

Muhammad Ali
Kurt Angle
Rick Barry
Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995) – rodeo champion, "Father of Modern Rodeo"
James Blake
Aaron Boone
Bob Boone
Bret Boone
Ray Boone
Dave Brain
George Brown
Tom Brown – baseball player
Walter Carlisle
Cameron Carter-Vickers
Roy Castleton
John Cena
Paul Child
Geoff Coombes
Harry Cooper
Kenny Cooper – soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer
Matthew Dallman
Laurence Ekperigin (born 1988) – basketball player in the Israeli National League
Jacoby Ellsbury
Dick Enberg – sportscaster
Gary Etherington
Alan Green
Dick Hall – soccer player
Alan Hamlyn
Dan Henderson^[69]
Dick Higham
Seb Hines
Mick Hoban
Duane Holmes
Bernie James
Derek Jeter
Sacha Killeya-Jones (born 1998) – basketball player
Danny Lewis (born 1970) – basketball player
Ryan Lochte
Barry Mahy
Alan Merrick
Ken Miles
George Moorhouse
Chad Pennington
Michael Phelps
Tarik Phillip (born 1993), British-American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
Mal Roche
Chris Rodd
Elwood Romney
Adam Rosen – British-American luge Olympian
Ronda Rousey
Brendan Schaub
Denny Shute
May Sutton
Adam Vinatieri
Cyril Walker
Katarina Waters – professional wrestler
Josh West (born 1977) – British-American Olympic rower and earth sciences professor
Harry Wright
Chris Wyles

United States Supreme Court justices

Other

Raymond Buckland – writer
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

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