This is a list of notable Americans of English descent

English American

English Americans are citizens or residents of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England....

, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship 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.

Artists

• George Biddle
  George Biddle
  George Biddle was an American artist best known for his social realism, combat art, and his strong advocacy of government-sponsored art projects...
  
  
• Edward Leigh Chase
  Edward Leigh Chase
  Edward Leigh Chase was an American painter and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe experiment which gave rise to the artists' colony at Woodstock, New York...
  
  
• Frank Swift Chase
  Frank Swift Chase
  Frank Swift Chase was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida....
  
  
• Joseph DeCamp
  Joseph DeCamp
  Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was an American painter.-Biography:Born in Cincinnati, Ohio where he studied with Frank Duveneck. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich...
  
  
• Thomas Dewing
  Thomas Dewing
  Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and later settled into a studio in New York City...
  
  
• Childe Hassam
  Childe Hassam
  Frederick Childe Hassam was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums...
  
  
• Winslow Homer
  Winslow Homer
  Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
  
  
• Willard Metcalf
  Willard Metcalf
  Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter...
  
  
• Grandma Moses
  Grandma Moses
  Anna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"...
  
  
• Norman Rockwell
  Norman Rockwell
  Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
  
  
• John Singer Sargent
  John Singer Sargent
  John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
  
  
• Edmund C. Tarbell
  Edmund C. Tarbell
  Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters...
  
  
• Abbott Handerson Thayer
  Abbott Handerson Thayer
  Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as indicated by the fact that his paintings are part of the most important U.S. art collections...
  
  
• John Trumbull
  John Trumbull
  John Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings...
  
  
• Andrew Wyeth
  Andrew Wyeth
  Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century....
  
  
• N.C. Wyeth

Assassins, outlaws and criminals

• Clyde Barrow
• John Wilkes Booth
  John Wilkes Booth
  John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor...
  
  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
  Calamity Jane
  Martha Jane Cannary Burke , better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native Americans...
  
  outlaw, whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary
• Butch Cassidy
  Butch Cassidy
  Robert LeRoy Parker , better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West...
  
  train and bank robber
• Charles J. Guiteau
  Charles J. Guiteau
  Charles Julius Guiteau was an American lawyer who assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield. He was executed by hanging.- Background :...
  
  James Garfield assassin.
• Jesse James
  Jesse James
  Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He also faked his own death and was known as J.M James. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary...
  
  train and bank robber
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  Lee Harvey Oswald
  Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to four government investigations,These were investigations by: the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the Warren Commission , the House Select Committee on Assassinations , and the Dallas Police Department. the sniper who assassinated John F...
  
  John F. Kennedy assassin
• Bonnie Parker
• William Poole
  William Poole
  William Poole , also known as Bill the Butcher, was a member of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement.-Early life:...
  
  gangster, "Bill the Butcher", Know-Nothing politician
• Belle Starr
  Belle Starr
  Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr , better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.-Early life:...
  
  a notorious American outlaw

Astronauts

• John Glenn
  John Glenn
  John Herschel Glenn, Jr. is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original...
  
  
• Christa McAuliffe
  Christa McAuliffe
  Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster....
  
   - Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
• Alan Shepard
  Alan Shepard
  Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, in space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit...
  
  

Astronomers

• Harold D. Babcock
  Harold D. Babcock
  Harold Delos Babcock was an American astronomer, and the father of Horace W. Babcock, of English and German ancestry. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 until 1948. He specialized in solar spectroscopy and mapped the distribution...
  
  
• Alvan Clark
  Alvan Clark
  Alvan Clark , born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver , and at the age of 40 became involved in telescope making...
  
  
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  -Further reading:*Rubin, Vera , "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin" in OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, Nina Byers and Gary Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press ....
  
  
• Asaph Hall
  Asaph Hall
  Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars in 1877...
  
  
• Percival Lowell
  Percival Lowell
  Percival Lawrence Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death...
  
  
• Carolyn S. Shoemaker
  Carolyn S. Shoemaker
  Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Clyde Tombaugh
  Clyde Tombaugh
  Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer. Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper Belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for serious scientific...
  
  

Directors/producers

• Robert Aldrich
  Robert Aldrich
  Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...
  
  
• Robert Altman
  Robert Altman
  Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
  
  
• John Badham
  John Badham
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• J. Stuart Blackton
  J. Stuart Blackton
  James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...
  
  
• George Howells Broadhurst
  George Howells Broadhurst
  George Howells Broadhurst was an Anglo-American theatre owner/manager, director, producer and playwright. Born in Walsall, England he emigrated to the US in 1882 where he began writing plays, later moving into production and direction.He also managed theatres in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and San...
  
  
• Tim Burton
  Tim Burton
  Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
  
  
• Nick Castle
  Nick Castle
  Nick Castle is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his role as Michael Myers in Halloween. He also co-wrote Escape from New York with his friend, John Carpenter.-Early life:...
  
  
• Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
  
  
• D. W. Griffith
  D. W. Griffith
  David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
  
  
• Howard Hawks
  Howard Hawks
  Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...
  
  
• Fraser Clarke Heston
  Fraser Clarke Heston
  Fraser Clarke Heston is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. The son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, Fraser Clarke Heston was born in Los Angeles, California....
  
  
• Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
  
• Jack Hope
  Jack Hope
  Jack Hope was an English-born American film and television producer.-Biography:Jack was born Francis James Hope in Eltham, London, England, Jack was the second of seven sons...
  
  
• David Horsley
  David Horsley
  David Horsley was an English born pioneer of the movie industry who built the first movie studio in Hollywood....
  
  
• Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
  
• John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
  
• Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• George Lucas
  George Lucas
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
  
  
• Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...
  
  
• Jonathan Nolan
  Jonathan Nolan
  Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is a British-American author and screenwriter. His short story "Memento Mori" was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento. He has also co-written the screenplays for The Prestige and The Dark...
  
  
• Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
  
  
• William A. Wellman
  William A. Wellman
  William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation...
  
  

Notable descendants of Mayflower passengers

• Alec Baldwin
  Alec Baldwin
  Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing in the role of Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons before his character was killed off...
  
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• Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...
  
   - Actress
• Chevy Chase
  Chevy Chase
  Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
  
  Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
• Leslie Carter
  Leslie Carter
  Leslie Barbara Carter is an American singer.- Family :Carter was born in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth and Robert Gene Carter. She is the older sister of Aaron Carter and younger sister of Nick Carter. Aside from her brothers, Nick and Aaron, she also has two sisters: Angel and...
  
  
• Aaron Carter
  Aaron Carter
  Aaron Charles Carter is an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early-first decade of the 21st century....
  
  , singer.
• Angel Carter
• Nick Carter (musician)
  Nick Carter (musician)
  Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer and actor. He is best known as a member of the pop group, Backstreet Boys. He went on to release a solo album called Now Or Never during their hiatus. He has made occasional television appearances and...
  
  
• Johnny Carson
  Johnny Carson
  John William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
  
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• Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , actor and singer, father was a decendant
• Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
  
    actor
• Jodie Foster
  Jodie Foster
  Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
  
  
• Ulysses S. Grant
  Ulysses S. Grant
  Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...
  
  Union Army general; U.S. President
• Hugh Hefner
  Hugh Hefner
  Hugh Marston "Hef" Hefner is an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.-Early life:...
  
  founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises
• Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
  
  an iconic American actress of film, television and stage
• John Lithgow
  John Lithgow
  John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...
  
    actor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
  poet
• Seth MacFarlane
  Seth MacFarlane
  Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...
  
  creator of Family Guy
  Family Guy
  Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
  
  , Scottish, Welsh and English Ancestry
• George B. McClellan
  George B. McClellan
  George Brinton McClellan was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union...
  
  Union Army general
• Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
   - famous actress
• Christopher Reeve
  Christopher Reeve
  Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...
  
  actor
• Bill Richardson Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
  
  U.S. President; (although he was 1/4 Dutch)
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses -
• Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her for role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination...
  
   actress
• Benjamin Spock
  Benjamin Spock
  Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand...
  
  pediatrician and author, Baby and Child Care
• Dick Van Dyke
  Dick Van Dyke
  Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke, and father of Barry Van Dyke...
  
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• Noah Webster
  Noah Webster
  Noah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author...
  
    American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editor

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• Jensen Ackles
  Jensen Ackles
  Jensen Ross Ackles is an American actor. He is known for his roles in television as Eric Brady in Days of our Lives, which earned him several Daytime Emmy Award nominations, as well as Alec/X5-494 in Dark Angel and Jason Teague in Smallville...
  
  
• Ben Affleck
  Ben Affleck
  Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt , better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Casey Affleck
  Casey Affleck
  Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt , better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as...
  
  
• Kevin Bacon
  Kevin Bacon
  Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
  
  
• Alec Baldwin
  Alec Baldwin
  Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing in the role of Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons before his character was killed off...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Daniel Baldwin
  Daniel Baldwin
  Daniel Leroy Baldwin is an American actor, producer and director. He is the second oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all of whom are actors. Daniel Baldwin is known for his role as Detective Beau Felton in the popular NBC TV series Homicide: Life on the Street...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Stephen Baldwin
  Stephen Baldwin
  Stephen Andrew Baldwin is an American actor, director, producer and author. One of the Baldwin brothers, he is known for his roles as William F. Cody in the western show The Young Riders and as Stuart in the movie Threesome...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• William Baldwin
  William Baldwin
  William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners , Backdraft , Sliver , Fair Game , Virus , Double Bang , as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom , Art Heist , The Squid and the Whale , as himself...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Fred Ball
  Fred Ball
  Frederick Henry Ball was an American movie studio executive, actor, brother of comedienne Lucille Ball.-Early life:...
  
   - Mother of Partial English descent
• Lucille Ball
  Lucille Ball
  Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...
  
   - Mother of partial English descent
• Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
  
   - Father of English descent Mother of half English descent
• Drew Barrymore
  Drew Barrymore
  Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Maurice Barrymore
  Maurice Barrymore
  Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore.-Early life:...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Hania Barton
  Hania Barton
  Hania Claire Barton , the younger sister of actress Mischa Barton, is an English-American actress.- Early life :Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Irish mother, Nuala , a photographer, and English father, Paul Marsden Barton, a stockbroker...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Mischa Barton
  Mischa Barton
  Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C..-Early life:...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Lake Bell
  Lake Bell
  -Early life:Bell was born in New York City, the daughter of Robin Bell, owner of the design firm Robin Bell Design, Inc. in New York, and Harvey Siegel. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Protestant, and Bell has stated that she was raised in a "comically dysfunctional family".Bell attended The...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Tobin Bell
  Tobin Bell
  Tobin Bell is an American film and television character actor. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s.Bell...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Joan Bennett
  Joan Bennett
  Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era...
  
   - Grandfather of half English descent
• Barbara Bennett
  Barbara Bennett
  Barbara Jane Bennett was an American silent film actress.Born into an acting family, she was the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison. Her sisters were actresses Constance and Joan Bennett.Bennett would never succeed to...
  
   - Grandfather of half English descent
• Constance Bennett
  Constance Bennett
  -Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...
  
   - Grandfather of half English descent
• Emily Bergl
  Emily Bergl
  Anne Emily Bergl is an English-born American film, stage, and television actress. She is best known for her role as Rachel Lang on the film The Rage: Carrie 2 , Annie O'Donnell on the ABC television show Men in Trees , Beth Young on Desperate Housewives and Tammy Bryant on the TNT drama series...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Halle Berry
  Halle Berry
  Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Jessica Biel
  Jessica Biel
  Jessica Claire Biel is an American actress, model, and occasional singer. Biel is known for her television role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Bill Bixby
  Bill Bixby
  Wilfred Bailey Everett “Bill” Bixby III was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.His career spanned over three decades; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and TV series...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Violetta Blue
• Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
  
   - Father of partial English descent and Mother mainly of English descent
• Elizabeth Bracco
  Elizabeth Bracco
  Elizabeth Bracco is an American actress who is best known for her role as Marie Spatafore, wife of Vito Spatafore, on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos....
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Lorraine Bracco
  Lorraine Bracco
  Lorraine Bracco is an American actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on HBO series, The Sopranos, and Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series, Rizzoli & Isles...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...
  
   - Both Parents of partial English descent
• Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Traffic, and Piñero.-Early life:Bratt was born in San Francisco, California,...
  
  
• Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...
  
   - Father descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Richard Bright
  Richard Bright (actor)
  Richard James Bright was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films.-Early life & work:...
  
  
• Louise Brooks
  Louise Brooks
  Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
  
  
• Betty Grable
  Betty Grable
  Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable was an American actress, dancer and singer.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later included in the LIFE magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World"...
  
   - Of partial English descent

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• Lynda Carter
  Lynda Carter
  Lynda Jean Carter is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman ....
  
  - Her Father is of English Heritage
• Mary Castle
  Mary Castle
  Mary Ann Castle was an American actress of early film and television whose personal problems destroyed her once burgeoning career. Her best known role was as female detective Frankie Adams in the syndicated western series, Stories of the Century, which aired from 1954 to 1955.-Early years:Castle...
  
  
• Lon Chaney Sr - Father mostly of English descent
• Lon Chaney Jr - Of partial English descent
• Carmen Chaplin
  Carmen Chaplin
  Carmen Chaplin is an actress, who belongs to the family of Charlie Chaplin.-Family:Carmen Chaplin is an English multicultural actress, director and writer....
  
  
• Charles Chaplin, Jr.
  Charles Chaplin, Jr.
  Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an American actor and the son of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother was Charlie Chaplin's second wife, Mexican-American Lita Grey, and he was the elder brother of actor Sydney Chaplin...
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
  
• Dolores Chaplin
• Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
  
  
• Josephine Chaplin
  Josephine Chaplin
  Josephine Hannah Chaplin is an actress and the daughter of actor/comedian/director Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill. Her siblings include Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin and Michael Chaplin. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr...
  
  
• Kiera Chaplin
  Kiera Chaplin
  Kiera Chaplin is a Northern Irish-born British actress and model, a granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and a great-granddaughter of Eugene O'Neill.-Biography:...
  
  
• Michael Chaplin
• Sydney Earle Chaplin
  Sydney Earle Chaplin
  Sydney Earle Chaplin was a film and theatre actor.-Biography:The third son of Sir Charles Chaplin and the second by his second wife, Mexican-American actress Lita Grey, Sydney Chaplin was named after his uncle Sydney Chaplin .Lita Grey was 16 when she married the 35-year-old Charles Chaplin in 1924...
  
  
• Victoria Chaplin
  Victoria Chaplin
  Victoria Chaplin is an Anglo-American actress, the daughter of actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill....
  
  
• Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton was an American actress, novelist, and early aviatrix.- Early life :Chatterton was born in New York City, on Christmas Eve 1892, to Walter Smith and Lillian Reed Chatterton...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Chevy Chase
  Chevy Chase
  Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
  
  
• Glenn Close
  Glenn Close
  Glenn Close is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and...
  
  
• Lily Collins
  Lily Collins
  Lily Jane Collins is a British-American actress and television personality.-Early life:Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England, and is the daughter of British musician Phil Collins and his second wife, American-born Jill Tavelman...
  
   - Father English singer Phil Collins
• Constance Collier
  Constance Collier
  Constance Collier was an English film actress and acting coach.-Life and career:Born Laura Constance Hardie, in Windsor, Berkshire, Collier made her stage debut at the age of 3, when she played Fairy Peasblossom in A Midsummer's Night Dream...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Edward Coxen
  Edward Coxen
  Albert Edward Coxen was an English-born American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during his career.-Early life:...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Jeanne Crain
  Jeanne Crain
  Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress.-Early life:Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a school teacher, and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
   - Father a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Tom Cruise
  Tom Cruise
  Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....
  
   - Father of partial English descent
• Cher
  Cher
  Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
  
   - Mother of Partial English descent

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• Matt Damon
  Matt Damon
  Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Fanny Davenport
  Fanny Davenport
  Fanny Lily Gipsy Davenport was an English-American stage actress. The daughter of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Vining, she was born in London, England, but was brought to America when a child and educated in the Boston public schools...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Harry Davenport
• Bette Davis
  Bette Davis
  Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Jaye Davidson
  Jaye Davidson
  Jaye Davidson is an American-British former actor and model. He is best known for his roles as transgender "Dil" in the 1992 suspense-drama thriller film The Crying Game, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, making him the first Black British actor...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Cameron Diaz
  Cameron Diaz
  Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona...
  
   - Mother of partial English descent
• Taylor Dooley
  Taylor Dooley
  Taylor Marie Dooley is an American teen actress. She is best known for her starring role as Lavagirl in the Robert Rodriguez's film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.-Personal life:...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Melvyn Douglas
  Melvyn Douglas
  Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man , Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Eliza Dushku
  Eliza Dushku
  Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American actress known for her television roles, including recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse...
  
   - Mother is of half English descent
• Deanna Durbin
  Deanna Durbin
  Deanna Durbin is a Canadian-born, Southern California-raised retired singer and actress, who appeared in a number of musical films in the 1930s and 1940s singing standards as well as operatic arias....
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Ellen DeGeneres
  Ellen DeGeneres
  Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
  
   - Of partial English descent

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• Alison Eastwood
  Alison Eastwood
  Alison Eastwood is an American film director, Hollywood actress, fashion model, and fashion designer. She made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties , starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Kyle Eastwood
  Kyle Eastwood
  Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Scott Eastwood
  Scott Eastwood
  -Life and career:Reeves was born in Carmel, California but grew up in Hawaii. He is the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves, elder brother of Kathryn Reeves -Life and career:Reeves was born in Carmel, California but grew up in Hawaii. He is the son of...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Shannon Elizabeth
  Shannon Elizabeth
  Shannon Elizabeth is an American actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth is well known for her roles in comedy films such as Scary Movie, American Pie, and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. She is also well known for her work in horror films such as Thirteen Ghosts, Cursed, and Night of the Demons...
  
   - Mother of partial English descent
• Farrah Fawcett
  Farrah Fawcett
  Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Frances Fisher
  Frances Fisher
  Frances Fisher is a British actress. She is known for her work on television, in theater and in films, including roles as Strawberry Alice, the madame prostitute in Unforgiven , and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet's character in Titanic .- Early life and education :Fisher was born...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Pauline Frederick
  Pauline Frederick
  Pauline Frederick was a leading Broadway actress who later became known for her motion picture work.-Early years:...
  
   - Father of half English descent
• Joan Fontaine
  Joan Fontaine
  Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland , known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s....
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Claire Forlani
  Claire Forlani
  Claire Antonia Forlani is an English actress.-Early life:Claire Forlani was born in Twickenham, London, the daughter of Barbara , who was English, and Pierluigi Forlani, a music manager from Ferrara, Italy. At the age of 11, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to...
  
  
• Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...
  
  
• Wallace Ford
  Wallace Ford
  Wallace Ford was an English film and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build later in life, appeared in a number of film westerns and B-movies....
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Robert Forster
  Robert Forster
  Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...
  
   - Father of half English descent
• Matthew Fox
  Matthew Fox (actor)
  Matthew Chandler Fox is an American actor. He is mostly known for his role as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five, and for portraying Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama television series Lost.- Early life :...
  
   - Father of English descent
• Jennifer Ehle
  Jennifer Ehle
  Jennifer Ehle is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.-Early life:...
  
   - Mother of English descent

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• Ava Gardner
  Ava Gardner
  Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day...
  
   - Mother of partial English descent
• Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  Greer Garson, CBE was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award...
  
  
• Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Christopher Guest
  Christopher Guest
  Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest , better known as Christopher Guest, is an American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that...
  
   - Father of partial English descent
• Gale Gordon
  Gale Gordon
  Gale Gordon was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil—and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Carla Gugino
  Carla Gugino
  Carla Gugino is an American actress known for her roles of Sally Jupiter in Watchmen, Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch, Lucille in Sin City, Amanda Daniels in seasons 3, 5 and 7 of Entourage, Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids film trilogy, and as the lead characters of the television series Karen Sisco...
  
   - Partial English descent

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• Gene Hackman
  Gene Hackman
  Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is an American actor and novelist.Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde...
  
   - Maternal Grandmother of English descent
• Mariska Hargitay
  Mariska Hargitay
  Mariska Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.The daughter of actress...
  
   - Mother of half English descent
• Rondo Hatton
  Rondo Hatton
  Rondo Hatton was an American actor who had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features which were the result of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland.-Biography:Hatton was born Rondo K...
  
  
• Olivia de Havilland
  Olivia de Havilland
  Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
  
   - Descendant of Mayflower
• Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...
  
   - Of part English descent
• William Holden
  William Holden
  William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• John Houseman
  John Houseman
  John Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane...
  
  
• Kelly Hu
  Kelly Hu
  Kelly Ann Hu is an American actress and former fashion model. She was Miss Teen USA 1985 and Miss Hawaii USA 1993.-Early life:Hu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Juanita, an engineering drafter for Honolulu, and Herbert Hu, a salesman and exotic bird breeder; the two divorced during...
  
   - Of partial English descent

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• Lillie Langtry
  Lillie Langtry
  Lillie Langtry , usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U.S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British actress born on the island of Jersey...
  
  
• Alan Ladd
  Alan Ladd
  -Early life:Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. He was of English ancestry. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter...
  
   - Mother of half English descent
• Alan Ladd, Jr.
  Alan Ladd, Jr.
  Alan Ladd, Jr. is an American film industry executive and producer. He is famous for giving George Lucas the go-ahead to make Star Wars and remained as Lucas' only support at times when the Board of Directors wished to shut down production...
  
   - Grandmother of half English descent
• David Ladd
  David Ladd
  David Ladd is an American producer and former actor.-Personal life:Ladd was born in Los Angeles, California, and is the son of Alan Ladd and Sue Carol and brother of Alana Ladd...
  
   - Grandmother of half English descent
• Jordan Ladd
  Jordan Ladd
  Jordan Elizabeth Ladd is an American actress. She began taking small film roles before landing her first high-profile role in Never Been Kissed . Since then, Ladd has portrayed supporting as well as lead roles in films, including Cabin Fever , Club Dread , and Death Proof...
  
   - Great Grandmother of half English descent

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• Seth MacFarlane
  Seth MacFarlane
  Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...
  
   - Father of partial English descent
• Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...
  
   - Of half English descent
• Wentworth Miller
  Wentworth Miller
  Wentworth Earl Miller III is an English-born American actor; model and screenwriter who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.-Early life:...
  
   - Father is of partial English descent
• Mary Tyler Moore
  Mary Tyler Moore
  Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as...
  
   - Mother of English descent

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• Sarah Jessica Parker
  Sarah Jessica Parker
  Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
  
   - mother is of part English descent
• Gregory Peck
  Gregory Peck
  Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...
  
   - Both Parents of part English descent
• Christina Pickles
  Christina Pickles
  Christina Pickles is an English actress, best known for her long-running role of Nurse Helen Rosenthal in the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for four Emmys.-Life and career:...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Victoria Principal
  Victoria Principal
  Victoria Principal is an American actress, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987.-Early life:...
  
   - Mother of English descent

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• Robert Redford
  Robert Redford
  Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...
  
  
• Brandon Routh
  Brandon Routh
  Brandon James Routh is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on multiple television series throughout the early 2000s. In 2006, he gained greater recognition for his role as the titular hero...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Eric Roberts
  Eric Roberts
  Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...
  
  
• Julia Roberts
  Julia Roberts
  Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
  
   - Mother of partial English descent
• Paul Rudd
  Paul Rudd
  Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor and screenwriter. He has primarily appeared in comedies, and is known for his roles in the films Clueless, Wet Hot American Summer, Anchorman, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Dinner for Schmucks, The Object of My...
  
   - Both parents English Jews

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• Susan Sarandon
  Susan Sarandon
  Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
  
   - Father of partial English descent
• Nicollette Sheridan
  Nicollette Sheridan
  Nicollette Sheridan is an English film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives and as Paige Matheson on Knots Landing.-Early life:...
  
  
• Alicia Silverstone
  Alicia Silverstone
  Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is perhaps best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin .-Early life:Silverstone...
  
   - Father an English Jew
• Julia Stiles
  Julia Stiles
  Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
  
   - Mother of part English descent
• Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Patrick Swayze
  Patrick Swayze
  Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest...
  
  
• Madeleine Stowe
  Madeleine Stowe
  Madeleine Mora Stowe is an American actress. She rose to prominence appearing in films such as Stakeout, Revenge, Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans, Blink, China Moon, 12 Monkeys, and We Were Soldiers...
  
   - Father of English descent

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• Jessica Tandy
  Jessica Tandy
  Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was an English-American stage and film actress.She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films...
  
   - Both Parents of English descent
• Elizabeth Taylor
  Elizabeth Taylor
  Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
  
  
• Vince Vaughn
  Vince Vaughn
  Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn is an American film actor, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 movie Swingers...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Milo Ventimiglia
  Milo Ventimiglia
  Milo Anthony Ventimiglia is an American television actor best known for his role of Peter Petrelli on the TV series Heroes...
  
   - Mother is of partial English descent
• Tracey Ullman
  Tracey Ullman
  Tracey Ullman is a British stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author ....
  
   - Mother of English descent

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• Donnie Wahlberg
  Donnie Wahlberg
  Donald Edward "Donnie" Wahlberg, Jr. is an American singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block. His work background includes music, feature films, and television...
  
  
• Mark Wahlberg
  Mark Wahlberg
  Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of...
  
  
• Robert Wahlberg
  Robert Wahlberg
  Robert G. Wahlberg is an American actor. He has appeared in such films as Southie, Mystic River, and The Departed.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sam Waterston
  Sam Waterston
  Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy...
  
  Mother was a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver is an American actress. She is best known for her critically acclaimed role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition .Other notable roles include Dana...
  
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• Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
  
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Authors and writers

• Louisa May Alcott
  Louisa May Alcott
  Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...
  
  
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  Amelia Edith Barr in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, died March 10, 1919) was a British American novelist.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Bartlett
  John Bartlett (publisher)
  John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.-Biography:...
  
  
• L. Frank Baum
• Ambrose Bierce
  Ambrose Bierce
  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist...
  
  
• Tony Blankley
  Tony Blankley
  Anthony “Tony” Blankley is an Executive Vice President with Edelman public relations in Washington, a Visiting Senior Fellow in National-Security Communications at the Heritage Foundation, weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated public radio program Left, Right & Center, author of The...
  
  
• Victor Bockris
  Victor Bockris
  Victor Bockris is an English-born, U.S.-based author, primarily of biographies of artists, writers, and musicians.He has written about Lou Reed , Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali...
  
  
• William Cullen Bryant
  William Cullen Bryant
  William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.-Youth and education:...
  
  
• Christopher Buckley
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
  William F. Buckley, Jr.
  William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
  
  
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
  
• William S. Burroughs
  William S. Burroughs
  William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
  
  
• Truman Capote
  Truman Capote
  Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...
  
  
• Carolyn Cassady
  Carolyn Cassady
  Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady is an American writer associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures...
  
  
• Raymond Chandler
  Raymond Chandler
  Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...
  
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  James Fenimore Cooper
  James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...
  
  
• Stephen Crane
  Stephen Crane
  Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...
  
  
• Ann Coulter
  Ann Coulter
  Ann Hart Coulter is an American lawyer, conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public events and private events...
  
  
• Coningsby Dawson
  Coningsby Dawson
  Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American Novelist and Soldier, Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.-Education:He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905...
  
  
• John Derbyshire
  John Derbyshire
  John Derbyshire is a British-American writer. His columns in National Review and cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race. Derbyshire's 1996 novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the...
  
  
• Emily Dickinson
  Emily Dickinson
  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
  
  
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
  
  
• William Faulkner
  William Faulkner
  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
  
  
• Diana Gabaldon
  Diana Gabaldon
  Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
  
  
• Joseph Gales
  Joseph Gales
  Joseph Gales, Jr. was an American journalist, born in Eckington, Derbyshire, England. His father, Joseph Gales, Sr. , was a printer in Sheffield, who was compelled to emigrate to America in 1795 because of his republican principles.-History:The son was educated at the University of North Carolina...
  
  
• Hamlin Garland
  Hamlin Garland
  Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.- Biography :...
  
  
• Edgar Guest
  Edgar Guest
  Edgar Albert Guest was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England...
  
  
• Dashiell Hammett
  Dashiell Hammett
  Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op .In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on...
  
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
  
  
• Bret Harte
  Bret Harte
  Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
  
  
• O. Henry
  O. Henry
  O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.-Early life:...
  
  
• Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
  
  
• Washington Irving
  Washington Irving
  Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
  
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett
  Sarah Orne Jewett
  Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.-Biography:Jewett's family had been residents of New England for many...
  
  
• Helen Keller
  Helen Keller
  Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
  
  
• Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
• Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Biography:Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry. His distant French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to England in the 16th century...
  
  
• Ring Lardner
  Ring Lardner
  Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
  
• Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
  
  (he was descendant of Percival Lowle)
• Thomas Paine
  Thomas Paine
  Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
  
  
• Thomas Nelson Page
  Thomas Nelson Page
  Thomas Nelson Page was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, including the important period of World War I.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
  
• William Henry Leonard Poe
  William Henry Leonard Poe
  William Henry Leonard Poe, often referred to as Henry Poe , was a sailor, amateur poet and the older brother of Edgar Allan Poe and Rosalie Poe....
  
  
• Katherine Anne Porter
  Katherine Anne Porter
  Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim...
  
  
• James Wesley Rawles
  James Wesley Rawles
  James Wesley, Rawles is a New York Times best-selling survivalist-fiction author, blogger, and survival retreat consultant. Rawles is a Christian conservative. He is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a blog on survival and preparedness topics...
  
  
• E. E. Smith
  E. E. Smith
  Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and Ted was a food engineer and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others...
  
  
• Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• Benjamin Spock
  Benjamin Spock
  Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand...
  
  
• John Steinbeck
  John Steinbeck
  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
  
  
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom...
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  Henry David Thoreau
  Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
  
  
• Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
  
• Gore Vidal
  Gore Vidal
  Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
  
  
• Lew Wallace
  Lew Wallace
  Lewis "Lew" Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician and author...
  
  
• Robert Penn Warren
  Robert Penn Warren
  Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...
  
  
• Noah Webster
  Noah Webster
  Noah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author...
  
  
• Eudora Welty
  Eudora Welty
  Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...
  
  
• Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman
  Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
  
  
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family...
  
  
• Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
  
  
• Michael Z. Williamson
  Michael Z. Williamson
  Michael Z. Williamson is a science fiction and military fiction author. Born in Birkenhead, England, he and his family emigrated to Canada, then the United States in 1978. Williamson frequently utilizes the pen names "Mad Mike", and "Crazy Einar". He is retired from the United States...
  
  

Musicians

• Dimebag Darrell Abbott former lead guitarist of Pantera
  Pantera
  Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
  
  
• Vinnie Paul Abbott former Pantera
  Pantera
  Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
  
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• Clay Aiken
  Clay Aiken
  Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken is an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer and author who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released...
  
  
• Billie Joe Armstrong
  Billie Joe Armstrong
  Billie Joe Armstrong is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day...
  
  founder of Green Day
  Green Day
  Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
  
  
• Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
  
• Baby Bash
  Baby Bash
  Ronnie Ray Bryant , better known by his stage name Baby Bash , is a Mexican-American rapper. From 1995 to 1998, he performed under the stage name Baby Beesh, as part of the Vallejo, California group Potna Duece, after which he changed the last part of the name to Bash...
  
  
• Owen Biddle (musician)
  Owen Biddle (musician)
  Owen Biddle is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and songwriter from Philadelphia, who has been touring with Grammy-award-winning hip hop group The Roots since the August 31, 2007 departure of 17-year-veteran bassist, "Hub"...
  
  
• Rebecca Black
  Rebecca Black
  Rebecca Renee Black is an American pop singer who gained extensive media attention with the 2011 single "Friday". Her mother paid $4,000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity release through the record label ARK Music Factory. The song was co-written and produced...
  
   of partial English descent
• Jack Brooks
  Jack Brooks (lyricist)
  Jack Brooks was an English-American lyricist.Brooks was born in Liverpool, England. He wrote a large number of lyrics of popular songs, including "Ole Buttermilk Sky" "That's Amore" and " Wagon Train" the second theme used on the television program, Wagon...
  
  lyricist
  Lyricist
  A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
  
  
• Rex Brown
  Rex Brown
  Rex Robert Brown is an American heavy metal bassist. A former member of Down, he is most famous as the longtime bassist for the Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling band Pantera.-Pantera:...
  
  former Pantera
  Pantera
  Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
  
   bassist
• Cliff Burton
  Cliff Burton
  Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton was an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American heavy metal band Metallica....
  
  
• John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  Composer. Of English and Scottish descent
• Aaron Carter
  Aaron Carter
  Aaron Charles Carter is an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early-first decade of the 21st century....
  
  
• Leslie Carter
  Leslie Carter
  Leslie Barbara Carter is an American singer.- Family :Carter was born in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth and Robert Gene Carter. She is the older sister of Aaron Carter and younger sister of Nick Carter. Aside from her brothers, Nick and Aaron, she also has two sisters: Angel and...
  
  
• Nick Carter
  Nick Carter (musician)
  Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer and actor. He is best known as a member of the pop group, Backstreet Boys. He went on to release a solo album called Now Or Never during their hiatus. He has made occasional television appearances and...
  
  
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  
• Cher
  Cher
  Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
  
  
• Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
  
  
• Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  
• Billy Ray Cyrus
  Billy Ray Cyrus
  William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon...
  
  
• Miley Cyrus
  Miley Cyrus
  Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....
  
  
• Hilary Duff
  Hilary Duff
  Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...
  
  
• Eminem
  Eminem
  Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
  
  
• Mick Fleetwood
  Mick Fleetwood
  Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac...
  
  
• Paul Gray
  Paul Gray (Slipknot)
  Paul Dedrick Gray also known as The Pig or by his number #2 was an American musician, best known as the bassist, primary songwriter and one of the founding members of the Grammy Award-winning metal band Slipknot....
  
  Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
  
   bassist
• James Hetfield
  James Hetfield
  James Alan Hetfield is the rhythm guitarist, co-founder, main songwriter, and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering a classified advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler,...
  
  singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
  Metallica
  Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
  
  
• Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
  
  
• Engelbert Humperdinck
  Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
  Engelbert Humperdinck is a British pop singer, best known for his hits including "Release Me " and "After the Lovin'" as well as "The Last Waltz" .-Early life:...
  
  
• Burl Ives
  Burl Ives
  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
  
  
• Norah Jones
  Norah Jones
  Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
  
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• Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
  
  
• Joey Jordison
  Joey Jordison
  Joey Jordison , is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work as the drummer for the nu metal band Slipknot. He grew up in Waukee, Iowa with his parents and two sisters, and was given his first drum kit at the age of 8...
  
  Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
  
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• JoJo
• Naomi Judd
  Naomi Judd
  Naomi Judd is an American country music singer, songwriter, and activist.-Personal life:She was born Diana Ellen Judd to Charles Glen Judd and his wife Pauline Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky. Her father owned a gas station; her mother started out as a homemaker but later became a...
  
  
• Wynonna Judd
  Wynonna Judd
  Wynonna Ellen Judd is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna. Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds...
  
  
• Dana Key
  Dana Key
  Dana Key was an American Christian rock guitarist, singer, and producer who was co-founder of the Christian rock group DeGarmo and Key with keyboardist Eddie DeGarmo, best friends since the first grade...
  
  - Christian Rock guitarist, direct descendant of Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
  
  
• Anthony Kiedis
  Anthony Kiedis
  Anthony Kiedis is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his 12th birthday, to Hollywood,...
  
  
• Amy Lee
  Amy Lee
  Amy Lynn Hartzler , best known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. She cites influences ranging from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman and...
  
  
• Sean Lennon
  Sean Lennon
  is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor. He is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. His godfather is Sir Elton John.-Early life and education:...
  
  his late father, John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   of The Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , was from Great Britain
• Moby
  Moby
  Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
  
  
• Mandy Moore
  Mandy Moore
  Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. In 2007, she took an adult pop-folk direction with the release of...
  
   - Mother of English descent
• Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
  
• Graham Nash
  Graham Nash
  Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...
  
  
• Ricky Nelson
  Ricky Nelson
  Eric Hilliard Nelson , better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor...
  
  
• Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
  
• Jason Newsted
  Jason Newsted
  Jason Curtis Newsted is an American bassist known for his work with Metallica, Voivod and Flotsam and Jetsam. Joining Metallica in 1986 after Cliff Burton's death, Newsted remained a member until 2001, making him the band's longest-serving bassist...
  
  
• The Osmonds
  The Osmonds
  The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
  
  
• Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
  
• Katy Perry
  Katy Perry
  Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Michelle Phillips
  Michelle Phillips
  Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s group The Mamas & the Papas, and is the last surviving original member of the group.-Early life:...
  
  
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
  
  
• Mark Ronson
  Mark Ronson
  Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....
  
  
• James Root guitarist
• Pete Seeger
  Pete Seeger
  Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
  
  
• Tommy Shaw
  Tommy Shaw
  Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....
  
  
• Slash
  Slash (musician)
  Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
  
  rock guitarist
• Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
  
  singer and former model, her mother is a direct descendant of Mayflower
  Mayflower
  The Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, , in 1620...
  
   passengers
• Matt Sorum
  Matt Sorum
  Matthew William Sorum is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses and supergroup Velvet Revolver , which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash .-Early career :Matt Sorum was born Matthew William...
  
  drummer
• Britney Spears
  Britney Spears
  Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
  
   - Grandmother of half English descent
• Izzy Stradlin
  Izzy Stradlin
  Jeffrey Dean Isbell , known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, which he left at the height of its fame in 1991. Following his departure, he led his own band Izzy...
  
  rock musician
• Corey Taylor
  Corey Taylor
  Corey Todd Taylor sometimes known by the number 8, is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Slipknot and Stone Sour. Taylor was raised by his single mother. He developed a fond feeling toward classic rock after his grandmother introduced him to it...
  
  singer Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
  
   Stone Sour
  Stone Sour
  Stone Sour is an American rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. Since 2006, the group has been composed of Corey Taylor , Jim Root , Josh Rand, , Shawn Economaki and Roy Mayorga . Original drummer Joel Ekman left the group in 2006...
  
  
• Justin Timberlake
  Justin Timberlake
  Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...
  
  
• Brian Wilson
  Brian Wilson
  Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
  
  
• Sid Wilson
  Sid Wilson
  Sidney George Wilson also known as Ratboy or DJ Sid, #0 , is an American disc jockey known as the turntablist of the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot. He is the youngest member of the band.-Biography:...
  
  member of nu-metal band Slipknot
  Slipknot (band)
  Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
  
  
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
  "Weird Al" Yankovic
  Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
  
  singer and satirist, his maternal grandmother is of English descent

Entrepreneurs, executives

• P. T. Barnum
  P. T. Barnum
  Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus....
  
  
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
• Nicholas Biddle (banker)
  Nicholas Biddle (banker)
  Nicholas Biddle was an American financier who served as the president of the Second Bank of the United States.-Ancestry and early life:...
  
  
• Warren Buffett
  Warren Buffett
  Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is...
  
  investor, businessman, and philanthropist.
• Benjamin Brewster
  Benjamin Brewster (financier)
  Benjamin Brewster was an American industrialist, financier, and one of the original trustees of Standard Oil.-Early life:...
  
  
• Walter Chrysler
  Walter Chrysler
  Walter Percy Chrysler was an American machinist, railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, Freemason, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.- Railroad career :...
  
  founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
• William R. Coe insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist.
• James Boorman Colgate
  James Boorman Colgate
  James Boorman Colgate , son of William Colgate, was an American financier. He was born in New York City and received his first training in the house of Boorman, Johnston, and Company...
  
  financier.
• Samuel Colgate
  Samuel Colgate
  Samuel Colgate , son of William Colgate , was an American manufacturer and philanthropist, born in New York City. He became widely known as a soap maker, and the manufactory he built in Jersey City developed into one of the largest establishments of its kind in the world. He was also prominent in...
  
  manufacturer .
• William Colgate
  William Colgate
  William Colgate was an American manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company in 1806.- History :...
  
  manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company.
• Roy O. Disney
  Roy O. Disney
  Roy Oliver Disney was, with his younger brother, Walt Disney, the co-founder of what is now The Walt Disney Company.-Early life:...
  
  
• Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
  
  
• John Francis Dodge
  John Francis Dodge
  John Francis Dodge was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.-Biography:...
  
  automobile manufacturing pioneer.
• William E. Dodge
  William E. Dodge
  William Earle Dodge, Sr. was a New York businessman, referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge was also a noted abolitionist, and Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance...
  
  
• Bill Gates
  Bill Gates
  William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
  
  co founder of Microsoft and worlds richest man for 13 years in a row.
• Edward Henry Harriman railroad executive.
• Joseph Lowthian Hudson
  Joseph Lowthian Hudson
  Joseph Lowthian Hudson , aka J. L. Hudson, was the merchant who founded the Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan....
  
  
• Samuel Insull
  Samuel Insull
  Samuel Insull was an Anglo-American innovator and investor based in Chicago who greatly contributed to creating an integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States. Insull was notable for purchasing utilities and railroads using holding companies, as well as the abuse of them...
  
  investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads.
• Oliver Burr Jennings
  Oliver Burr Jennings
  Oliver Burr Jennings was an American businessman and one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Will Keith Kellogg
  Will Keith Kellogg
  Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals...
  
  
• Henry Clews
  Henry Clews
  -Biography:He was born in 1836 in Staffordshire, England, and emigrated to the United States around 1850. His first job was at an import business, working as a junior clerk. In 1859 he co-founded Livermore, Clews, and Company, what was then the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the...
  
  financier.
• Rowland Hussey Macy
  Rowland Hussey Macy
  __notoc__Rowland Hussey Macy, Sr. was an American businessman who founded the department store chain R.H. Macy and Company.-Life and career:...
  
  , founder of the R.H. Macy and Company.
• J. P. Morgan
  J. P. Morgan
  John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric...
  
  banker.
• Robert Noyce
  Robert Noyce
  Robert Norton Noyce , nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968...
  
  co-founder of Intel.
• Ransom E. Olds
  Ransom E. Olds
  Ransom Eli Olds was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered car in 1896...
  
  pioneer of the American automotive industry.
• Oliver Hazard Payne
  Oliver Hazard Payne
  Oliver Hazard Payne was an American businessman, organizer of the American Tobacco trust, and assisted with the formation of U.S. Steel, and was affiliated with Standard Oil. He is considered one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, having left an enormous fortune. His estate at Esopus, New York,...
  
  
• Anson Greene Phelps
  Anson Greene Phelps
  Anson Greene Phelps was a co-founder of mining company Phelps Dodge, which he founded in 1833 along with his son-in-law William E. Dodge.-Early life:...
  
  , he was descended from the early American Colonial Governors Thomas Dudley, John Haynes and George Wyllys.
• Charles Pratt
  Charles Pratt
  Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist.Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. An advertising slogan was "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil." He...
  
  
• Henry Huttleston Rogers
• Samuel Slater
  Samuel Slater
  Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution", or the "Father of the American Factory System" because he brought British textile technology to America. He learned textile machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British...
  
  early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution".
• Harold Stanley
  Harold Stanley
  Harold Stanley was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955....
  
  banker.
• Sam Walton
  Sam Walton
  Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...
  
  founder of the American retailer Wal-Mart.
• Henry Wells
  Henry Wells
  Henry Wells was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.-Early life:...
  
  co-founder of the Wells Fargo & Company.

First Ladies of the United States

(in order by their husband's presidency)

• Martha Washington
  Martha Washington
  Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States...
  
  
• Abigail Smith Adams
• Martha Jefferson
• Dolley Madison
  Dolley Madison
  Dolley Payne Todd Madison was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817...
  
  
• Elizabeth Monroe
• Louisa Adams
  Louisa Adams
  Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, born Louisa Catherine Johnson , wife of John Quincy Adams, was First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rachel Jackson
  Rachel Jackson
  Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, born Rachel Donelson, was the wife of the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson....
  
  
• Anna Harrison
  Anna Harrison
  Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison , wife of President William Henry Harrison and grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.-Early Life and Marriage:Anna was born at her...
  
  
• Letitia Tyler
• Julia Tyler
• Sarah Polk
• Margaret Taylor
  Margaret Taylor
  Margaret Mackall Smith "Peggy" Taylor , wife of Zachary Taylor, was First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850.-Early Life and Marriage:...
  
  
• Abigail Fillmore
  Abigail Fillmore
  Abigail Powers Fillmore , wife of Millard Fillmore, was First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853.Abigail was born in Stillwater, New York, 1798, in Saratoga County, New York. She was the daughter of the Reverend Lemuel Powers, a Baptist minister, and Abigail Newland-Powers, Abigail grew...
  
  
• Mary Lincoln
  Mary Todd Lincoln
  Mary Ann Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.-Life before the White House:...
  
  
• Julia Grant
  Julia Grant
  Julia Boggs Dent-Grant , was the wife of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and was First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877.-Background:...
  
  
• Lucy Hayes
• Lucretia Garfield
  Lucretia Garfield
  Lucretia Rudolph Garfield , wife of James A. Garfield, was First Lady of the United States in 1881.-Early life:...
  
  
• Frances Cleveland
• Caroline Harrison
  Caroline Harrison
  Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison , wife of Benjamin Harrison, was first lady of the United States from 1889 until her death. She was the first “first lady” to be born in October.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ida Saxton McKinley
  Ida Saxton McKinley
  Ida Saxton McKinley , wife of William McKinley, was First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901.-Early life and marriage:...
  
  
• Edith Roosevelt
  Edith Roosevelt
  Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1901 to 1909.-Early life:...
  
  
• Helen Taft
• Ellen Wilson
• Edith Wilson
• Florence Harding
  Florence Harding
  Florence Mabel Kling "Flossie" Harding , wife of President Warren G...
  
  
• Grace Coolidge
  Grace Coolidge
  Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was the wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lou Hoover
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
  
  
• Bess Truman
  Bess Truman
  Bess Truman , was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mamie Eisenhower
  Mamie Eisenhower
  Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower was the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jackie Kennedy
• Lady Bird Johnson
  Lady Bird Johnson
  Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources and made that...
  
  
• Betty Ford
  Betty Ford
  Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford , better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford...
  
  
• Rosalynn Carter
  Rosalynn Carter
  Eleanor Rosalynn Carter is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. As First Lady and after, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental...
  
  
• Nancy Reagan
  Nancy Reagan
  Nancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989....
  
  
• Barbara Bush
  Barbara Bush
  Barbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb Bush...
  
  
• Hillary Clinton
• Laura Bush
  Laura Bush
  Laura Lane Welch Bush is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. She was the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009. She has held a love of books and reading since childhood and her life and education have reflected that interest...
  
  

Governors of states

• Jeb Bush
  Jeb Bush
  John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush; the younger brother of former President George W...
  
  , Florida.
• John Chafee
  John Chafee
  John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.-Early life and family:...
  
  , Rhode Island.
• Person Colby Cheney
  Person Colby Cheney
  Person Colby Cheney was a paper manufacturer, abolitionist and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. He was 43rd Governor of New Hampshire and later represented the state in the United States Senate....
  
  ,New Hampshire.
• William Richardson Davie
  William Richardson Davie
  William Richardson Davie was a military officer and the tenth Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799, as well as one of the most important men involved in the founding of the University of North Carolina...
  
  , North Carolina.
• Joshua Clayton
  Joshua Clayton
  Dr. Joshua Clayton was an American physician and politician from Mt. Pleasant in Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of...
  
  , Delaware.
• Nathan Cutler
  Nathan Cutler
  Nathan Cutler was an American politician from Maine. He was a Democrat.Cutler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798, and practiced law in Farmington, Maine. He was a delegate to the Maine Constitutional Convention in 1819. In 1828, he was elected to the Maine Senate, and served as Senate...
  
  , Maine.
• Howard Dean
  Howard Dean
  Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...
  
  , Vermont.
• Charles Edison
  Charles Edison
  Charles Edison was son of Thomas Edison to Mina, businessman, Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey.-Biography:...
  
  , New Jersey.
• Frank R. Gooding
  Frank R. Gooding
  Frank Robert Gooding was a Republican United States Senator and the seventh Governor of Idaho. The city of Gooding and Gooding County, both in southern Idaho, are named for him....
  
  , Idaho.
• Frederic T. Greenhalge
  Frederic T. Greenhalge
  Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was born in Clitheroe, England and immigrated with his parents to the United States in early childhood...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• Button Gwinnett
  Button Gwinnett
  Button Gwinnett was an English-born American political leader who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was the second of the signatories on the United States Declaration of Independence...
  
  , Georgia.
• Joshua Hall
  Joshua Hall
  Joshua Hall was a Maine legislator who served as the eighth Governor of Maine for 34 days in 1830....
  
  , Maine.
• Lyman Hall
  Lyman Hall
  Lyman Hall , physician, clergyman, and statesman, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him.-Early life and family:...
  
  , Georgia.
• James Hamilton, Jr., South Carolina.
• Mike Huckabee
  Mike Huckabee
  Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...
  
  , Arkansas.
• William King (Governor of la Florida)
  William King (Governor of la Florida)
  William King was an American army officer who was military Governor of West Florida from May 26, 1818 to February 4, 1819. He was appointed to the position by Andrew Jackson, who led the American occupation of Spanish West Florida during the First Seminole War....
  
  
• Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin
  Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
  
  , Alaska.
• Endicott Peabody
  Endicott Peabody
  Endicott "Chub" Peabody was the 62nd Governor of Massachusetts from January 3, 1963 to January 7, 1965.-Early life:...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• Bill Richardson, New Mexico.
• Tom Ridge
  Tom Ridge
  Thomas Joseph "Tom" Ridge is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives , the 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania , Assistant to the President for Homeland Security , and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security...
  
  , Pennsylvania.
• George W. Romney
  George W. Romney
  George Wilcken Romney was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973...
  
  , Michigan.
• Mitt Romney
  Mitt Romney
  Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• Leverett Saltonstall
  Leverett Saltonstall
  Leverett A. Saltonstall was an American Republican politician who served as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts and as a United States Senator .-Biography:...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• Francis W. Sargent
  Francis W. Sargent
  Francis William Sargent was the 64th Governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. Born in 1915 in Hamilton, Massachusetts, he was known for his sharp wit and self-deprecating manner...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• William Scranton
  William Scranton
  William Warren Scranton is a former U.S. Republican Party politician. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.-Early life:...
  
  , Pennsylvania.
• Samuel E. Smith
  Samuel E. Smith
  Samuel Emerson Smith was an American politician and the tenth Governor of Maine.- Early life :Smith was born in Hollis, New Hampshire on March 12, 1788. He graduated from Harvard University in 1808. He then studied law....
  
  , Maine.
• William Spry
  William Spry
  William Spry was an American politician and the third Governor of Utah.Spry was born at Windsor, Berkshire, England. He emigrated to Utah Territory with his parents at the age of eleven....
  
  , Utah.
• William Weld
  William Weld
  William Floyd Weld is a former governor of the US state of Massachusetts. He served as that state's 68th governor from 1991 to 1997. From 1981 to 1988, he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Justice Department...
  
  , Massachusetts.

Historical figures

• Clara Barton
  Clara Barton
  Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.-Youth, education, and family nursing:...
  
  , pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian.
• Daniel Boone
  Daniel Boone
  Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...
  
  , American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
• John Brown (abolitionist)
  John Brown (abolitionist)
  John Brown was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed, in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas, and made his name in the...
  
  
• Amelia Earhart
  Amelia Earhart
  Amelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  , aviation pioneer and author.
• Wyatt Earp
  Wyatt Earp
  Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known...
  
  
• Samuel Fielden
  Samuel Fielden
  Samuel Fielden was a socialist, anarchist and labor activist who was one of eight convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing.-Early life:...
  
  socialist, anarchist, labor organizer
• Elizabeth Fones
  Elizabeth Fones
  Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett was an early settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where her father-in-law John Winthrop served as Governor...
  
  Puritan settler
• Pat Garrett
  Pat Garrett
  Patrick Floyd "Pat" Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was best known for killing Billy the Kid...
  
  , best known for killing Billy the Kid.
• Howard Hughes
  Howard Hughes
  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...
  
  , aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
• Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key
  Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
  
  , amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
• Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
  
  , aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
• Rebecca Nurse
  Rebecca Nurse
  Rebecca Towne Nurse was executed for witchcraft by the government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England in 1692, during the Salem witch trials. She was the wife of Francis Nurse, with several children and grandchildren, and a well-respected member of the community...
  
  , figure in the Salem witch trials.
• Annie Oakley
  Annie Oakley
  Annie Oakley , born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Oakley's most famous trick is perhaps...
  
  sharpshooter
• Rick Rescorla
  Rick Rescorla
  Cyril Richard "Rick" Rescorla was a retired United States Army officer of British birth who served with distinction in Northern Rhodesia as a member of the Northern Rhodesia Police and as a soldier in the Vietnam War as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army...
  
  a hero of 11 September 2001
• Betsy Ross
  Betsy Ross
  Betsy Ross is widely credited with making the first American flag. There is, however, no credible historical evidence that the story is true.-Early life:...
  
  maker of the first American flag
• Elizabeth Short murder victim who was nicknamed the "Black Dahlia"
• Paul Tibbets
  Paul Tibbets
  Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. was a 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. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima...
  
  , 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
  J. D. Tippit
  Tippit attended a Veterans Administration vocational training school at Bogata, Texas, from January 1950 until June 1952. He was then hired by the Dallas Police Department as a patrolman on July 28, 1952...
  
  police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
• Abigail Williams
  Abigail Williams
  Abigail Williams was one of the initial accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692, which led to the arrest and imprisonment of over 150 innocent people.-Salem Witch trials:...
  
  accuser in the Salem witch trials

Mormon pioneers

• Richard Alldridge
  Richard Alldridge
  Richard Alldridge was a Latter-day Saint hymn writer who wrote two hymns in the 1985 English edition of the hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These are "Lord Accept Our True Devotion" and "We'll Sing All Hail To Jesus' Name".Alldridge was born in Birmingham, England. He...
  
  
• May Anderson
  May Anderson
  May Anderson was the second general president of the children's Primary organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1925 and 1939. Anderson also served as the first counselor to general Primary president Louie B...
  
  
• Ebenezer Beesley
  Ebenezer Beesley
  Ebenezer Beesley was a Latter-day Saint hymn writer and composer. The music for twelve of the hymns in the 1985 English-language hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints written by him....
  
  
• William Bickerton
  William Bickerton
  William Bickerton was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement after the 1844 succession crisis. In 1862, Bickerton became the founding president of the church now known as The Church of Jesus Christ , which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded...
  
  
• Thomas Bullock
  Thomas Bullock (Mormon)
  Thomas Bullock was a Mormon pioneer and a clerk in the Church Historian's Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Bullock was born in Leek, Staffordshire, England...
  
  
• George Careless
  George Careless
  George Edward Percy Careless was a prominent Latter-day Saint composer and conductor.Careless was born in London, England. As a child he studied at the Royal Academy in London...
  
  
• William Clayton
• Joseph Fielding
  Joseph Fielding
  Joseph Fielding was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as the second president of the British Mission , coordinating the activities of missionaries in sections of the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. He was the brother of Mary Fielding, the second wife of Hyrum Smith,...
  
  
• Ruth May Fox
  Ruth May Fox
  Ruth May Fox was a nineteenth century English-born women's rights activist in the Territory of Utah. Fox was a poet, hymn writer, and a leader of youth in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  
  
• Emma Lee French
  Emma Lee French
  Emma Louise Batchelor Lee French , better known as Emma Lee French, was a British woman, born in Uckfield, East Sussex who travelled to Utah and Arizona, in the United States, where she became well known as a carer for the sick.- Trek :After being converted by the Mormons, Emma Lee arrived in...
  
  
• George Goddard
  George Goddard (Mormon)
  George Goddard was a Mormon pioneer and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .Goddard was born in Leicester, England. He was converted to the LDS Church in January 1851...
  
  
• May Green Hinckley
  May Green Hinckley
  May Green Hinckley was the third general president of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1940 until her death. She was the stepmother of Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth president of the LDS Church.May Green was born in Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.In...
  
  
• Henry Howell
  Henry Howell (Mormon)
  Henry Howell was a Mormon pioneer and one of the founders of Fish Haven, Idaho, USA.-Biography:Howell was born in Essex, England. He married 27-year-old Frances Goble in 1855, one month before emigrating to the United States where he settled in Philadelphia for five years. In 1860 Howell crossed...
  
  

• John Jaques
  John Jaques (Mormon)
  John Jaques was a Latter Day Saint hymnwriter and missionary and an Assistant Church Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
  
  
• Heber C. Kimball
  Heber C. Kimball
  Heber Chase Kimball was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Latter Day Saint church, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his...
  
  
• Charles Kingston
  Charles Kingston (Mormon)
  Charles Kingston was an English Mormon convert and a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southwestern Wyoming.Kingston was born in Peterborough, England...
  
  
• Christopher Layton
  Christopher Layton
  Christopher Layton was a Mormon colonizer and Patriarch who founded the cities of Kaysville, Utah, Layton, Utah, and Thatcher, Arizona. Layton, Utah is named after him....
  
  
• George Manwaring
  George Manwaring
  George Manwaring was a hymnwriter of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Some of his works have become favorite LDS hymns and are found in the 1985 LDS Church hymnal.-Early life:...
  
  
• Abraham Marchant
  Abraham Marchant
  Abraham Marchant was an early Mormon leader and one of the founders of Peoa, Utah.-Biography:Marchant was born on March 17, 1816, in Bath, England, where he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1844 and became the leader of the Saints in Bath and...
  
  
• Peter Maughan
  Peter Maughan
  Peter Maughan was an early Mormon pioneer who settled the Cache Valley of Utah under the direction of Brigham Young.-Life:...
  
  
• L. John Nuttall
  L. John Nuttall
  Leonard John Nuttall was a private secretary for Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff and was a member of the Council of Fifty who kept a detailed journal of the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Nuttall was born in Liverpool, England and emigrated to...
  
  
• Ralph Partington
  Ralph Partington
  Ralph Partington was a Mormon pioneer.Partington was born in Skippool, Lancashire, England, and was married to Ann Taylor. Taylor was among the first English women to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she was baptized in the River Ribble in 1837...
  
  
• Charles W. Penrose
  Charles W. Penrose
  Charles William Penrose was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from July 7, 1904. Penrose was also a member of the First Presidency of the church under Church Presidents Joseph F. Smith and Heber J...
  
  
• George Reynolds
  George Reynolds (Mormon)
  George Reynolds was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a longtime secretary to the First Presidency of the LDS Church, and a party to the 1878 United States Supreme Court case Reynolds v...
  
  
• Brigham Henry Roberts
  Brigham Henry Roberts
  Brigham Henry Roberts was a Mormon leader, historian, and politician who published a six-volume history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was denied a seat as a member of United States Congress because of his practice of plural marriage.- Early life :Roberts was born in...
  
  
• Charles Roscoe Savage
  Charles Roscoe Savage
  Charles Roscoe Savage was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer who produced images of the American West. He is best known for his 1869 photographs of the linking of the first transcontinental railroad....
  
  

• Joseph F. Smith
  Joseph F. Smith
  Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
  
  
• Mary Fielding Smith
  Mary Fielding Smith
  Mary Fielding Smith Kimball was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, the second wife of LDS Church leader Hyrum Smith and the mother of Joseph F. Smith....
  
  
• Edward Stevenson
  Edward Stevenson
  Edward Stevenson was a prominent Mormon missionary of the 19th century. He also served as a general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as one of the seven presidents of the Seventy....
  
  
  
• James E. Talmage
  James E. Talmage
  James Edward Talmage born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death in 1933....
  
  
• Agnes Taylor
  Agnes Taylor
  Agnes Taylor Rich Hoagland Schwartz was a Mormon pioneer who played a key role in helping her brother, LDS Church president John Taylor, evade authorities during the federal crackdown on polygamy in the mid-1880s. She was also the mother-in-law of later church president Joseph F. Smith and of...
  
  
• John Taylor
  John Taylor (1808-1887)
  John Taylor was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. He is the only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside of the United States....
  
  
• George Teasdale
  George Teasdale
  George Teasdale born in London, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  
  
• Edward Tullidge
  Edward Tullidge
  Edward Wheelock Tullidge was a literary critic, newspaper editor, playwright, and historian of Utah Territory.-Biography:...
  
  
• David King Udall
  David King Udall
  David King Udall, Sr. was a representative to the Arizona Territorial Legislature and the founder of the Udall political family. His great-grandsons Mark and Tom currently represent the Colorado and New Mexico in the United States Senate, respectively.-Childhood years:David King Udall was born in...
  
  
• Nellie Unthank
  Nellie Unthank
  Ellen Pucell "Nellie" Unthank was a Mormon pioneer, Utah settler, and amputee, remembered as a symbol of pioneer endurance....
  
  
• George D. Watt
  George D. Watt
  George Darling Watt was the first convert to Mormonism baptized in the British Isles. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , Watt was a secretary to Brigham Young, the primary editor of the Journal of Discourses and the primary inventor of the Deseret Alphabet.Watt was...
  
  
• John Wells
  John Wells (Mormon)
  John Wells was a member of the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1918 to 1938....
  
  
• Emily H. Woodmansee
  Emily H. Woodmansee
  Emily Hill Woodmansee was a nineteenth century Mormon poet and hymnwriter. Although only one of her hymns "As Sisters In Zion" is included in the 1985 LDS English language edition of the LDS Church's hymnbook, previous LDS Church hymnbooks have included more of her works.-Biography:Emily Hill was...
  
  

Inventors

• Samuel Andrews
• John Bidwell
  John Bidwell
  John Bidwell was known throughout California and across the nation as an important pioneer, farmer, soldier, statesman, politician, prohibitionist and philanthropist...
  
  
• Gail Borden
  Gail Borden
  Gail Borden, Jr. was a 19th century U.S. inventor, surveyor, and publisher, and was the inventor of condensed milk in 1853.- Early years :...
  
  
• Franklin S. Cooper
  Franklin S. Cooper
  Franklin Seaney Cooper was an American physicist and inventor who was a pioneer in speech research.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter Cooper Hewitt
  Peter Cooper Hewitt
  Peter Cooper Hewitt was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp in 1901. Hewitt was issued U.S. patent #682692 on September 17, 1901. In 1903, Hewitt created an improved version that possessed higher colour qualities which eventually found widespread...
  
  
• Samuel Colt
  Samuel Colt
  Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company , and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver. Colt's innovative contributions to the weapons industry have been described by arms historian James E...
  
  
• George Eastman
  George Eastman
  George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...
  
  
• Thomas Edison
  Thomas Edison
  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
  
  
• Isaac L. Ellwood
  Isaac L. Ellwood
  Isaac Leonard Ellwood was an American rancher, businessman and barbed wire entrepreneur.-Early life:...
  
  
• Thaddeus Fairbanks
  Thaddeus Fairbanks
  Thaddeus Fairbanks was an American inventor. He was an inventor of heating and cook stoves, cast iron plows, and other items. His greatest success was the invention and manufacture of the platform scale, which allowed the weighing of large objects accurately.- Biography :Fairbanks was born in...
  
  
• Philo Farnsworth
  Philo Farnsworth
  Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device , the "image...
  
  
• Calvin Souther Fuller
  Calvin Souther Fuller
  Calvin Souther Fuller was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges...
  
  
• King Camp Gillette
• Charles Goodyear
  Charles Goodyear
  Charles Goodyear was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844Although...
  
  
• William S. Harley
  William S. Harley
  William Sylvester Harley was a co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1880, and received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1907.He co-founded Harley-Davidson with Arthur Davidson in 1903 and served as...
  
  
• Robert Hoe
  Robert Hoe
  Robert Hoe was born in Leicestershire, England. He was indentured to a joiner, in 1802 emigrated to the United States, worked for a time as a master carpenter, and subsequently was an associate of his brothers-in-law, Peter and Matthew Smith, in the business of carpentry and in the manufacture of...
  
  
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
  Samuel Pierpont Langley
  Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
  
  
• Daniel Leavitt
  Daniel Leavitt
  Daniel Leavitt was an early American inventor who with his partner Edwin Wesson patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols. The innovative design was manufactured only briefly before a patent suit by Colt forced the...
  
  
• Samuel Morse
• John Pemberton
  John Pemberton
  John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.-Early life:...
  
  
• Edward S. Renwick
  Edward S. Renwick
  -Early life:He lost most of his eyesight while working as a patent examiner. He worked for a time in Wilkes-Barre as an ironmaster, but failed.-Family connections:...
  
  father was James Renwick
  James Renwick (physicist)
  James Renwick , was an English-American scientist and engineer.He was born in Liverpool, England, on May 30, 1790. He graduated from Columbia College in 1807. In 1820 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy in that college, a position he held until 1854. In 1838 he was appointed by the U.S...
  
  
• William Bradford Shockley
• Jimmy Wales
  Jimmy Wales
  Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
  
  
• Eli Whitney
  Eli Whitney
  Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South...
  
  
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
  Wright brothers
  The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two Americans credited 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...
  
  

Journalists

• Tina Brown
  Tina Brown
  Tina Brown, Lady Evans, CBE , is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair...
  
  
• Jane Cunningham Croly
  Jane Cunningham Croly
  Jane Cunningham Croly was an American author and journalist, better known as "Jennie June."She was born in England, came to the United States when a girl, and at an early age became a contributor to newspapers and magazines...
  
  
• Anderson Cooper
  Anderson Cooper
  Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories...
  
  
• Chris Hedges
  Chris Hedges
  Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...
  
  
• Ronald Hilton
  Ronald Hilton
  Ronald Hilton was a British-American academic, reporter and think-tank specialist, specializing in Latin America and, in particular, Fidel Castro's Cuba....
  
  
• Cokie Roberts
  Cokie Roberts
  Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts , best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with Christiane...
  
  
• Diane Sawyer
  Diane Sawyer
  Lila Diane Sawyer is the current anchor of ABC News' flagship program, ABC World News. Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC Newss morning news program, Good Morning America ....
  
  
• Ida M. Tarbell
  Ida M. Tarbell
  Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism". She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies...
  
  
• Barbara Walters
  Barbara Walters
  Barbara Jill Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows , the television newsmagazine , former co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, and current contributor to ABC News.Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news...
  
  

Military

• Benedict Arnold
  Benedict Arnold
  Benedict Arnold V was a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war in the Continental Army but later defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces...
  
  
• Thomas W. Bradley
  Thomas W. Bradley
  Thomas Wilson Bradley was a United States Representative from New York and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.-Biography:...
  
  
• Henry A. Byroade
  Henry A. Byroade
  Brigadier General Henry Alfred Byroade, United States Army of Indiana was a career diplomat who served as Ambassador to Egypt in 1955 and 1956 and later to five other countries, including United States Ambassador to Burma from September 1963 to June 1968, and served as Assistant Secretary of State...
  
  
• George Armstrong Custer
  George Armstrong Custer
  George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class...
  
  
• Robert E. Lee
  Robert E. Lee
  Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
  
  
• Boston Corbett
  Boston Corbett
  Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate.-Early...
  
  Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
• Horatio Gates
  Horatio Gates
  Horatio Lloyd Gates was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga – Benedict Arnold, who led the attack, was finally forced from the field when he was shot in the leg – and...
  
  
• William Halsey, Jr
• Oliver O. Howard
  Oliver O. Howard
  Oliver Otis Howard was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War...
  
  
• Henry L. Hulbert
  Henry L. Hulbert
  Henry Lewis Hulbert was a United States Marine who served during the Second Samoan Civil War and World War I. As a private, he received the Medal of Honor for distinguished service in Samoa on April 1, 1899....
  
  
• Joseph E. Johnston
  Joseph E. Johnston
  Joseph Eggleston Johnston was a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...
  
  
• Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
  
• George B. McClellan
  George B. McClellan
  George Brinton McClellan was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union...
  
  
• James B. McPherson
  James B. McPherson
  James Birdseye McPherson was a career United States Army officer who served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
  
  
• James F. Merton
  James F. Merton
  James F. Merton was a United States Navy sailor who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Korean Expedition in 1871. Landsman Merton was severely wounded during the seizure of the forts.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
  
• George S. Patton
  George S. Patton
  George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...
  
  
• Deborah Sampson
  Deborah Sampson
  Deborah Samson Gannett , better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war...
  
  
• Robert Gould Shaw
  Robert Gould Shaw
  Robert Gould Shaw was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As colonel, he commanded the all-black 54th Regiment, which entered the war in 1863. He was killed in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, near Charleston, South Carolina...
  
  
• Lucian Truscott
  Lucian Truscott
  Lucian King Truscott, Jr. was a U.S. Army General, who successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, U.S. Fifteenth Army and U.S. Fifth Army during World War II.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ethan Allen
  Ethan Allen
  Ethan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S...
  
  

Models

• Bebe Buell
  Bebe Buell
  Beverle Lorence "Bebe" Buell is an American fashion model and singer, and Playboy magazine's November 1974 Playmate of the Month. She is also known for dating rock musicians. She is actress Liv Tyler's mother from a brief relationship with Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler...
  
  
• Angel Carter
• Cindy Crawford
  Cindy Crawford
  Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s...
  
  
• Crystal Harris
  Crystal Harris
  Crystal Harris is an American glamour model, singer, and television personality. She was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 2009. On December 24, 2010, she became engaged to Hugh Hefner, to become his third wife. Harris broke off the engagement on June 14, 2011, five days before their...
  
  - Both Parents of English descent

Political figures

• Dean Acheson
  Dean Acheson
  Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War...
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony
  Susan B. Anthony
  Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...
  
  
• Richard Girnt Butler
  Richard Girnt Butler
  Richard Girnt Butler was an American aerospace engineer for Lockheed, who later became the leader of the Christian Identity white supremacist group Aryan Nations.-Biography:...
  
  
• Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
  
  
• Robert Liddell
  Robert Liddell (Pittsburgh)
  Robert Liddell , served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1878 to 1881.Robert Liddell was born in 1837 in England. He pursued the craft of beer making. During his administration, the Bureau of Water placed the Brilliant Pumping Facility into service.In 1878, Holy Ghost Fathers started a college on the...
  
  
• George Mason
  George Mason
  George Mason IV was an American Patriot, statesman and a delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention...
  
  
• George Lincoln Rockwell
  George Lincoln Rockwell
  George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the neo-Nazi movement in the United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis.-Early life:Rockwell was born in Bloomington,...
  
  
• Mitt Romney
  Mitt Romney
  Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
  
  
• Caspar Weinberger
  Caspar Weinberger
  Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger , was an American politician, vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after...
  
  former U.S. Secretary of Defense

American pornographic film actors

• Tag Adams
  Tag Adams
  Tag Adams , is the stage name of a pornographic actor appearing in gay pornography.- Awards :...
  
  
• Tracey Adams
  Tracey Adams
  Tracey Adams is an American pornographic actress. She appeared in over 200 movies during the 1980s and 90s, and is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame....
  
  
• Brooke Ashley
  Brooke Ashley
  Brooke Ashley is the stage name of a pornographic film actress.Ashley left the industry after finding out on March 29, 1998 that she was HIV positive...
  
  
• Erica Boyer
  Erica Boyer
  Erica Boyer, legal name Amanda Margaret Jensen was an American pornographic actress...
  
  
• Mike Branson
  Mike Branson
  Mike Branson is an American pornographic actor who has appeared in same-sex adult films.- Selected Videography :*Basic Plumbing 2*California Kings*The Chosen*Current Affairs*The Freshmen*Hardline-Awards:...
  
  
• Rex Chandler
  Rex Chandler
  Rex Chandler is an American actor and former pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.Chandler was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan on August 14, 1966. A former Mr. Michigan, he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1990 to seek out roles in the entertainment field. He modeled for several...
  
  
• Tera Patrick
  Tera Patrick
  Linda Ann Hopkins, better known as Tera Patrick is a former American pornographic actress.-Early life:Tera Patrick was born Linda Ann Hopkins in Great Falls, Montana. While at Boise State, Patrick earned an AAS degree in nursing and a BS in Biology.-Career:Patrick moved to New York City and her...
  
   - Of partial English descent
• Stephanie Swift
  Stephanie Swift
  Stephanie Swift is a former American pornographic actress who starred in over 370 adult movies between 1995 and 2009. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. Following her diagnosis and subsequent treatment, she decided to quit the adult movie industry, a move she had been considering for...
  
  
• Kendra Wilkinson
  Kendra Wilkinson
  Kendra Leigh Baskett , professionally known by her maiden name, is an American television personality and glamour model...
  
  

Presidents of the United States

A number of the Presidents of the United States have English ancestry. The extent of English Heritage 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

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 (English)

1st President 1789-97 (great-grandfather, John Washington

John Washington

John Washington was an English Virginia planter and politician. He was the immigrant ancestor and great-grandfather of George Washington, first president of the United States of America.-Early life and family:...

 from Purleigh

Purleigh

Purleigh is a village on the Dengie peninsula about south of Maldon in the English county of Essex. The village is part of the Purleigh ward of the Maldon district.-History:...

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.)

John Adams

John Adams

John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

 (English)

2nd President 1797-1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David

Barton St David

Barton St David is a village and civil parish on the River Brue adjacent to Keinton Mandeville in Somerset, England. It is situated south-east of Glastonbury and north-east of Somerton in the South Somerset district...

, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, immigrated to Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

.)

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

 (Welsh and Scotch-English)

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

William Randolph

William Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He moved to Virginia sometime between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary Isham a few years later...

.)

James Madison

James Madison

James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

 (English)

4th President 1809-17

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

 (English)

6th President 1825-29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David

Barton St David

Barton St David is a village and civil parish on the River Brue adjacent to Keinton Mandeville in Somerset, England. It is situated south-east of Glastonbury and north-east of Somerton in the South Somerset district...

, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.)

William Harrison

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States , an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the...

 (English)

9th President 1841-1841

John Tyler

John Tyler

John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...

 (English)

10th President 1841-1845

Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...

 (English)

12th President 1849-50

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...

 (English)

13th President 1850-1853

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

 (English)

14th President 1853-1857

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 (English)

16th President 1861-65 (Samuel Lincoln

Samuel Lincoln

Samuel Lincoln , was progenitor of many notable United States political figures, including his great-great-great-great-grandson, President Abraham Lincoln, Maine governor Enoch Lincoln, and Levi Lincoln, Sr...

 baptised 1622 in Hingham

Hingham, Norfolk

Hingham is a market town and civil parish in the Forehoe district in the heart of rural Norfolk, in England. The civil parish covers an area of and had a population of 2,078 in 944 households as of the 2001 census. Grand architecture surrounds the market place and village green...

, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, died in Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham is a town in northern Plymouth County on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and suburb in Greater Boston. The United States Census Bureau 2008 estimated population was 22,561...

.)

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

 (Scotch-Irish and English)

17th President 1865-1869

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

 (Scotch-Irish, English & Scottish)

18th President 1869-77

Rutherford Hayes (English)

19th President 1877-1881

James A. Garfield (English and French)

20th President 1881-81

Chester A. Arthur

Chester A. Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...

 (Scotch-Irish and English)

21st President 1881-85

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

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

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

23rd President 1889-93

William McKinley

William McKinley

William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

25th President 1897-1901

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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

26th President 1901-1909

William Taft (Scotch-Irish & English)

27th President 1909-1913

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

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

Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

29th President 1921-23

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 (English)

30th President 1923-1929

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

 (Dutch, French and English)

32nd President 1933-45

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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

 (English)

36th President 1963-69

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

 (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & German)

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

Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

 (English)

38th President 1974-77

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

39th President 1977-81 (Thomas Carter Sr. emigrated from England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 to Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

.)

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)

40th President 1981-1989

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

41st President 1989-93

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

42nd President 1993-2001

George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 (Scotch-Irish & English)

43rd President 2001-2009 (Reynold Bush from Messing, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

.)

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 (Kenyan, English & Irish)

44th President 2009–Present (His mother Ann Dunham

Ann Dunham

Stanley Ann Dunham , the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna, later known as Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, and finally Ann Dunham Sutoro...

's heritage consists mostly of English and Irish ancestors.)

Religious Figures

• Costen Jordan Harrell
  Costen Jordan Harrell
  Costen Jordan Harrell was a bishop of The Methodist Church in the United States, elected in 1944.-Birth and family:...
  
  
• Anne Hutchinson
  Anne Hutchinson
  Anne Hutchinson was one of the most prominent women in colonial America, noted for her strong religious convictions, and for her stand against the staunch religious orthodoxy of 17th century Massachusetts...
  
  
• Eben Samuel Johnson
  Eben Samuel Johnson
  Eben Samuel Johnson was an English-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1916.-Birth and Family:...
  
  
• Charles W. Penrose
  Charles W. Penrose
  Charles William Penrose was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from July 7, 1904. Penrose was also a member of the First Presidency of the church under Church Presidents Joseph F. Smith and Heber J...
  
  
• Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States. Her birthday is celebrated as Anna Howard Shaw Day, as an alternative to St. Valentine's Day.-Early Life:Shaw was...
  
  
• George Teasdale
  George Teasdale
  George Teasdale born in London, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  
  
• Edward Thomson
  Edward Thomson
  Edward Thomson was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church , elected in 1864.-Early life:Thomson was born in Portsea, part of Portsmouth, England...
  
  
• Ellen G. White
  Ellen G. White
  Ellen Gould White was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. She, along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, would form what is now known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Ellen White reported to her fellow believers her...
  
  
• John R. Winder
  John R. Winder
  John Rex Winder was a leader and general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric from 1887 to 1901, and First Counselor in the First Presidency to Church President Joseph F. Smith from 1901 until his death. He was well-known...
  
  

Members of the United States House of Representatives

• Arthur Laban Bates
  Arthur Laban Bates
  Arthur Laban Bates was a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.Arthur L. Bates was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He studied under tutors and was graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882...
  
  , Pennsylvania.
• Brian Baird
  Brian Baird
  Brian Norton Baird is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1999 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district comprises the counties of Thurston, Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clark, and Skamania....
  
  , Washington
• Clifton R. Breckinridge
  Clifton R. Breckinridge
  Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a Democratic alderman, congressman, diplomat, businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy. He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the...
  
  , Arkansas.
• William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan
  William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...
  
  , Nebraska.
• Davy Crockett
  Davy Crockett
  David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
  
  , Tennessee.
• Franklin Davenport
  Franklin Davenport
  Franklin Davenport was a Federalist Party US Senator and US Representative from New Jersey.-Biography:Davenport was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and his uncle was Benjamin Franklin...
  
  , New Jersey.
• George Dent
  George Dent
  George Dent was an American planter and politician from Maryland who served in the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1801.-Early Life:...
  
  , Maryland.
• Ernest Greenwood
  Ernest Greenwood
  Ernest Greenwood was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, he attended the public schools of Halifax and the Evening Technical Institute and College. He was employed with engineering firms in Sheffield in 1905 and 1906, and Halifax from 1907 to 1910...
  
  , New York.
• Martin B. Madden
  Martin B. Madden
  Martin Barnaby Madden was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Wolviston, County Durham, England, Madden immigrated to the United States with his parents , and settled near Chicago, Illinois, in 1869. He attended the public schools in Chicago and was graduated from Bryant and Stratton...
  
  , Illinois.
• William Milnes, Jr.
  William Milnes, Jr.
  William Milnes, Jr. was a nineteenth century congressman and industrialist from Virginia and Pennsylvania....
  
  , Virginia.
• James H. Osmer
  James H. Osmer
  James H. Osmer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James H. Osmer was born in Tenterden, Kent, England....
  
  , Pennsylvania.
• Charles Slade
  Charles Slade
  Charles Slade was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in England, Slade immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended the public schools. He moved to Carlyle, Illinois. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He held several local offices...
  
  , Illinois.
• William Henry Sowden
  William Henry Sowden
  William Henry Sowden was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
  
  , Pennsylvania.
• Norton Strange Townshend
  Norton Strange Townshend
  Norton Strange Townshend was a United States Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born in Clay Coton, Northamptonshire , in 1830 he migrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Avon, Ohio...
  
  , Ohio.

Scientists/researchers

• Freeman Dyson
  Freeman Dyson
  Freeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
  
  theoretical physicist and mathematician
• G. Evelyn Hutchinson
  G. Evelyn Hutchinson
  George Evelyn Hutchinson FRS was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of American limnology....
  
  
• Woods Hutchinson
  Woods Hutchinson
  Woods Hutchinson was an English physician, born at Selby, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later...
  
  
• Francis Ernest Lloyd
• William Worrall Mayo
  William Worrall Mayo
  William Worrall Mayo was a British medical doctor and chemist, best known for establishing the private medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. He was a descendant of a famous English chemist, John Mayow. His sons, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, joined the private...
  
  medical doctor and chemist, founder of the Mayo clinic
• Joseph Priestley
  Joseph Priestley
  Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
  
  chemist
• James Renwick (physicist)
  James Renwick (physicist)
  James Renwick , was an English-American scientist and engineer.He was born in Liverpool, England, on May 30, 1790. He graduated from Columbia College in 1807. In 1820 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy in that college, a position he held until 1854. In 1838 he was appointed by the U.S...
  
  
• J. Alan Robinson
  J. Alan Robinson
  John Alan Robinson is a philosopher , mathematician and computer scientist. He is University Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, United States....
  
  philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
• Roger Sanders
  Roger Sanders
  Roger Cobbin Sanders is an American doctor specializing in Ultrasound and Radiology. Originally from the United Kingdom, he obtained a degree in physiology at Oxford University, from the Oxford Clinical Medical School. In 1970 Sanders traveled to the United States to begin a one-year teaching...
  
  
• James Dewey Watson molecular biologist
• Thomas Bramwell Welch
  Thomas Bramwell Welch
  Thomas Bramwell Welch was the inventor of the pasteurization process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice.-Birth and emigration:...
  
  discoverer of the pasteurization process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice
• Robert Burns Woodward
  Robert Burns Woodward
  Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century...
  
  American organic chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Senators

• Edward Dickinson Baker
  Edward Dickinson Baker
  Edward Dickinson Baker was an English-born American politician, lawyer, military leader. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. A long-time close friend of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Baker served as U.S...
  
  , Oregon.
• Henry Clay
  Henry Clay
  Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...
  
  , Kentucky.
• Bob Dole
  Bob Dole
  Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...
  
  , Kansas.
• John Edwards
  John Edwards
  Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...
  
  , North Carolina.
• John Kerry
  John Kerry
  John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
  
  , Massachusetts.
• John McCain
  John McCain
  John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
  
  , Arizona.
• Lee Mantle
  Lee Mantle
  Lee Mantle was a United States Senator from Montana.Born in Birmingham, England, his mother converted to Mormonism and immigrated to the United States with her children; they settled at Salt Lake City, Utah in 1864...
  
  , Montana.
• Robert Morris, Pennsylvania.
• Bill Nelson
  Bill Nelson
  Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior United States Senator from the state of Florida and a member of the Democratic Party. He is a former U.S. Representative and former Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner of Florida...
  
  , Florida.
• Samuel Pasco
  Samuel Pasco
  Samuel Pasco was a United States Senator from Florida.-Biography:Born in London, England, he moved to the United States with his family as a child and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Pasco attended Harvard University and then moved to Florida in 1859...
  
  , Florida.
• Harry Reid
  Harry Reid
  Harry Mason Reid is the senior United States Senator from Nevada, serving since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been the Senate Majority Leader since January 2007, having previously served as Minority Leader and Minority and Majority Whip.Previously, Reid was a member of the U.S...
  
  , Nevada.
• Tom Udall
  Tom Udall
  Thomas Stewart "Tom" Udall is the junior United States Senator from New Mexico and a member of the Democratic Party. He had represented as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999. Udall was elected as the junior United States senator from New Mexico on November 4, 2008,...
  
  , New Mwxico.

Sports

• Andre Agassi
  Andre Agassi
  Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
  
  
• Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...
  
  
• Kurt Angle
  Kurt Angle
  Kurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion...
  
  
• Lance Armstrong
  Lance Armstrong
  Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support...
  
  
• James Blake
  James Blake
  James Riley Blake is an American professional tennis player. Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. As of August 2011, Blake is ranked no. 63 among active male players with 24 career finals appearances...
  
  
• Michael Bradley (soccer)
  Michael Bradley (soccer)
  Michael Bradley is an American soccer player who currently plays as a central midfielder for Chievo Verona in Serie A and the United States national team, which was formerly coached by his father Bob Bradley.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dave Brain
  Dave Brain
  David Leonard "Dave" Brain was an infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox , St. Louis Cardinals , Pittsburgh Pirates , Boston Beaneaters & Doves , Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants . Brain batted and threw right-handed...
  
  
• George Brown (soccer)
• Tom Brown Baseball player
• Walter Carlisle
  Walter Carlisle
  Walter Carlisle [Rosy] was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1908 season. Carlisle was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed...
  
  
• Roy Castleton
  Roy Castleton
  Royal Eugene Castleton was a relief pitcher for the New York Highlanders and Cincinnati Reds. The first native of the state of Utah and the first Mormon to play in the major leagues, Castleton made his debut with the Highlanders on April 16, 1907, and played his final game with the Reds on May 29,...
  
  
• Paul Child
• Geoff Coombes
  Geoff Coombes
  Geoffrey "Jeff" Coombes was a U.S. soccer player who was a member of the U.S. team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.-Youth:...
  
  
• Harry Cooper (golfer)
  Harry Cooper (golfer)
  Harry E. Cooper was a prominent PGA Tour golfer of the 1920s and 1930s. After he retired from competitive golf, he became a well-regarded instructor, into his 90s....
  
  

• Kenny Cooper
  Kenny Cooper
  Kenneth Scott Cooper, Jr. is an American soccer player who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer....
  
  Soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas
  FC Dallas
  FC Dallas is an American professional soccer club based in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada...
  
   of Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
  
  
• Lindsay Davenport
  Lindsay Davenport
  Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
  
  
• Gary Etherington
  Gary Etherington
  Gary Etherington is a retired English-American soccer player who began his professional career in the North American Soccer League before moving to the Major Indoor Soccer League. He earned seven caps with the U.S. national team...
  
  
• Alan Green
  Alan Green (soccer)
  Alan Green is a retired English-American Association football forward. He began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team.-Professional:Green, a...
  
  
• Dick Hall (soccer)
  Dick Hall (soccer)
  Richard “Dick” Hall is a retired English-American Association football defender. He played seven seasons with the Dallas Tornado in the North American Soccer League. He also earned four caps with the U.S. national team between 1973 and 1975. He currently coaches high school boys soccer in...
  
  
• Alan Hamlyn
  Alan Hamlyn
  Alan Hamlyn is a retired English-American soccer defender. He began his career in England, before playing eight seasons in the North American Soccer League. He also earned four caps with the U.S. national team between 1972 and 1975.-Club career:...
  
  
• Jeff Hardy
  Jeff Hardy
  Jeffrey Nero "Jeff" Hardy is an American professional wrestler, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he is a former two–time TNA World Heavyweight Champion...
  
  
• Matt Hardy
  Matt Hardy
  Matthew Moore "Matt" Hardy is a semi-retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stints in World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  
• Tony Hawk
  Tony Hawk
  Anthony Frank "Tony" Hawk , nicknamed "The Birdman" is an American retired professional skateboarder and actor. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision...
  
  
• Dick Higham
  Dick Higham
  Richard Higham was an American professional baseball player born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. However, he is best known as the only umpire to be banned from baseball....
  
  
• Phil Hill
  Phil Hill
  Philip Toll Hill, Jr., was a United States automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship. Hill was described as a "thoughtful, gentle man" and once said, "I'm in the wrong business. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero...
  
  
• Mick Hoban
  Mick Hoban
  Michael “Mick” Hoban is an English-U.S. soccer midfielder who began his career with Aston Villa in 1969 before moving to the North American Soccer League in 1971. He earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1973.-England:Hoban attended St...
  
  
• Bernie James
  Bernie James
  Bernie James is a former U.S. soccer player and current youth soccer coach. James spent twenty-four years as a professional, both beginning and ending his career with different versions of the Seattle Sounders. He played in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, American...
  
  

• Alan Merrick
  Alan Merrick
  Alan Ronald Merrick is a retired English-American Association football defender who played professionally in England, the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League...
  
  
  
• Ken Miles
  Ken Miles
  Ken Miles was a sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his career in the USA and with American teams on the international scene.-Background:Miles raced motorcycles before he served as a tank sergeant in the British Army in World War...
  
  
• George Moorhouse
  George Moorhouse
  George Moorhouse is, reputedly, the first Englishman to appear in a FIFA World Cup. He spent most of his playing career in the United States and earned seven caps with the U.S. national team. He was a member of the U.S. teams at the 1930 FIFA World Cup and 1934 FIFA World Cup...
  
  
• Heath Pearce
  Heath Pearce
  Heath Gregory Pearce is an American soccer player who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer and for the United States men's national soccer team.-College and Amateur:...
  
  
• Michael Phelps
  Michael Phelps
  Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...
  
  
• Kenny Roberts
  Kenny Roberts
  Kenneth Leroy Roberts is a former motorcycle racer and racing team owner. In 1978, he became the first American to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. He was also a two-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship...
  
  
• Andy Roddick
  Andy Roddick
  Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....
  
  
• Tim Tebow
  Tim Tebow
  Timothy Richard "Tim" Tebow is an American football player who is currently the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League . He was drafted by the Broncos as the 25th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft...
  
   (Football Player)
• Tim Shaw (football player)
• Brad Walker
• Cyril Walker
  Cyril Walker
  Cyril Walker was an English golfer born in Manchester who emigrated to the United States in 1914....
  
  
• Tim Ward (soccer)
  Tim Ward (soccer)
  Tim Ward is a professional American soccer player who currently plays as a defender for the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer.-Youth and college:...
  
  
• Lew Worsham
  Lew Worsham
  Lewis Elmer Worsham, Jr. was an American professional golfer.Worsham was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. In 1947, he won the U.S. Open by defeating Sam Snead in an 18-hole playoff at the St. Louis Country Club in Clayton, Missouri after the two men had finished tied at 282 in regulation....
  
  , golfer.
• Harry Wright
  Harry Wright
  William Henry "Harry" Wright was an English-born American professional baseball player, manager, and developer. He assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings...
  
  

United States Supreme Court justices

• Oliver Ellsworth
  Oliver Ellsworth
  Oliver Ellsworth was an American lawyer and politician, a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States. While at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the word National from the motion made by Edmund...
  
  
• Sandra Day O'Connor
  Sandra Day O'Connor
  Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981...
  
  
• William Rehnquist
  William Rehnquist
  William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
  
  
• George Sutherland
  George Sutherland
  Alexander George Sutherland was an English-born U.S. jurist and political figure. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S...
  
  
• Byron White
  Byron White
  Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White won fame both as a football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until his retirement in 1993...
  
  
• Levi Woodbury
  Levi Woodbury
  Levi Woodbury was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Governor of New Hampshire and cabinet member in three administrations. He was the first Justice to have attended law school....
  
  
• William Burnham Woods
  William Burnham Woods
  William Burnham Woods was an American jurist, politician, and soldier.-Early life and career:Woods was born on August 3, 1824 in Newark, Ohio. He was the older brother of Charles R. Woods, another future Civil War general. He attended college at both Western Reserve University and Yale...
  
  

Vice Presidents of the United States

• John Adams
  John Adams
  John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
  
  
• Aaron Burr
  Aaron Burr
  Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...
  
  
• Elbridge Gerry
  Elbridge Gerry
  Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American statesman and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States , serving under James Madison, until his death a year and a half into his term...
  
  
• Daniel D. Tompkins
  Daniel D. Tompkins
  Daniel D. Tompkins was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, the fourth Governor of New York , and the sixth Vice President of the United States .-Name:...
  
  
• John Tyler
  John Tyler
  John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...
  
  
• Millard Fillmore
  Millard Fillmore
  Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
  
  
• John C. Breckinridge
  John C. Breckinridge
  John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States , to date the youngest vice president in U.S...
  
  
• Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...
  
  
• William Wheeler
  William A. Wheeler
  William Almon Wheeler was a Representative from New York and the 19th Vice President of the United States .-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Levi P. Morton
  Levi P. Morton
  Levi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
  
  
• James S. Sherman
  James S. Sherman
  James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States . He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.-Early life:...
  
  
• Calvin Coolidge
  Calvin Coolidge
  John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
  
  
• Charles G. Dawes
  Charles G. Dawes
  Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...
  
  
• Charles Curtis
  Charles Curtis
  Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...
  
  
• John Nance Garner
  John Nance Garner
  John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...
  
  
• Henry A. Wallace
  Henry A. Wallace
  Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...
  
  
• Richard Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
  
  
• Lyndon B. Johnson
  Lyndon B. Johnson
  Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
  
  
• Gerald Ford
  Gerald Ford
  Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
  
  
• Nelson Rockefeller
  Nelson Rockefeller
  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...
  
  
• George H. W. Bush
  George H. W. Bush
  George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
  
  
• Dan Quayle
  Dan Quayle
  James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....
  
  
• Dick Cheney
  Dick Cheney
  Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
  
  
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
  

Other

• Alton Brown
  Alton Brown
  Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America...
  
  celebrity chef
  Chef
  A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...
  
   and creator/host of Food Network's
  Food Network
  Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....
  
   Good Eats
  Good Eats
  Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown which airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the advantages of...
  
  
• Patricia Buckley
  Patricia Buckley
  Patricia Aldyen Austin Taylor "Pat" Buckley was a Canadian socialite, noted for her fundraising activities and her height; she stood just under six feet. She was the wife of conservative writer and activist William F. Buckley, Jr...
  
  , socialite.
• Ann Dunham
  Ann Dunham
  Stanley Ann Dunham , the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna, later known as Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, and finally Ann Dunham Sutoro...
  
  , anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama
• Daisy and Violet Hilton
  Daisy and Violet Hilton
  Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton were a pair of conjoined twins who toured in the U.S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s.-Early life:...
  
  co-joined twins
• Nelle Wilson Reagan
  Nelle Wilson Reagan
  Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan was the mother of United States President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil "Moon" Reagan .-Early life:...
  
  mother of President Ronald Reagan
• Frank H.T. Rhodes
  Frank H.T. Rhodes
  Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995.-Biography:Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree...
  
  university president, government science advisor