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This is a list ofnotableAmericans ofEnglish descent , 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.
Assassins, outlaws, and criminals[ edit ] Directors, producers[ edit ] Descendants ofMayflower passengers [ edit ] Alec Baldwin [ 1] Jordana Brewster – actressChevy Chase – Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actorBing Crosby – actor and singerSeth MacFarlane – actor, animator and writer; notable for creatingFamily Guy andAmerican Dad Clint Eastwood [ 1] – actorNick Folk [ 2] – football playerJodie Foster – actressRichard Gere – actorMartha Graham – dancerUlysses S. Grant – Union Army general; U.S. President[ 1] Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises[ 1] Susan Fales-Hill Ashley Judd – actressJohn Lithgow – actorChristopher Lloyd – actor[ 3] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet[ 3] George B. McClellan [ 1] – Union Army generalMarilyn Monroe – actress[ 1] Anna Mary Robertson Moses Anthony Perkins – actorAnne Ramsey – actressChristopher Reeve – actor[ 1] Bill Richardson [ 4] –Governor of New Mexico Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. PresidentVictoria Rowell – actressBenjamin Spock [ 3] – pediatrician and author,Baby and Child Care Dick Van Dyke –[ 1] Noah Webster – American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editorAuthors and writers [ edit ] Entrepreneurs, executives[ edit ] First Ladies of the United States [ edit ] (in order by their husband's presidency)
Governors of states [ edit ] Presidents of the United States [ edit ] A number of the presidents of the United States have English ancestry. The extent of English ancestry varies in the presidents with earlier presidents being predominantly of colonial English Yankee stock. Later U.S. presidents ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England.
George Washington (English)1st President 1789–97 (great-grandfather ,John Washington fromPurleigh ,Essex , England)[ 52] [ 53] John Adams (English)2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583,Barton St David ,Somerset , England, immigrated toBoston ,Massachusetts )[ 54] Thomas Jefferson (English)3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry fromWilliam Randolph ) James Madison (English)4th President 1809–17[ 55] John Quincy Adams (English)6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583Barton St David ,Somerset , England)[ 54] William Henry Harrison (English)9th President 1841–1841[ 56] John Tyler (English)10th President 1841–1845[ 57] Zachary Taylor (English)12th President 1849–50 Millard Fillmore (English)13th President 1850–1853[ 58] Franklin Pierce (English)14th President 1853–1857[ 59] Abraham Lincoln (English and Welsh)16th President 1861–65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 inHingham, Norfolk , England, died inHingham, Massachusetts ).[ 60] [ 61] Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English)17th President 1865–1869[ 62] Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and English)18th President 1869–77 Rutherford Hayes (English)19th President 1877–1881[ 63] James A. Garfield (English and French)20th President 1881–81[ 64] Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish and English)21st President 1881–85 Grover Cleveland (Scotch-Irish and English)22nd and 24th President 1885–89, 1893–97 Benjamin Harrison (Scotch-Irish and English)23rd President 1889–93 William McKinley (Scotch-Irish, English and German)25th President 1897–1901 Theodore Roosevelt (Dutch, Scottish, English and Scotch-Irish)26th President 1901–1909 William Howard Taft (English)27th President 1909–1913 Warren G. Harding (English, Scottish, Dutch and Welsh)29th President 1921–23 Calvin Coolidge (English)30th President 1923–1929[ 65] Herbert Hoover (German, Swiss, Scots-Irish, English)31st President 1929–1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt (English, Dutch and Scottish)32nd President 1933–45 Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English and German)33rd President 1945–53 Lyndon B. Johnson (English, Scotch-Irish and German)36th President 1963–69 Richard Nixon (English and Scotch-Irish)37th President 1969–74 Gerald Ford (English)38th President 1974–77 Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish and English)39th President 1977–81 (Thomas Carter Sr. emigrated from England toIsle of Wight County, Virginia )[ 66] Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)40th President 1981–1989[ 67] George H. W. Bush (Scotch-Irish and English)41st President 1989–93 Bill Clinton (Scotch-Irish and English)42nd President 1993–2001 George W. Bush (Scotch-Irish and English)43rd President 2001–2009 (Reynold Bush fromMessing ,Essex , England emigrated in 1631 toCambridge, Massachusetts )[ 68] Barack Obama (Luo, English)44th President 2009–2017 (his motherAnn Dunham 's heritage is mostly English)[ 69] Joe Biden (Irish, French, and English)46th President 2021-2025 (William Biden fromSussex , England emigrated before 1822 toBaltimore, Maryland ) Vice presidents of the United States [ edit ] Members of the United States House of Representatives [ edit ] Scientists, researchers[ edit ] Nelson W. Aldrich , Rhode IslandSamuel G. Arnold , Rhode IslandAugustus Octavius Bacon , GeorgiaEdward Dickinson Baker , OregonWilliam T. Barry , KentuckyMax Baucus , MontanaMichael Bennet , ColoradoBob Bennett , UtahWallace F. Bennett , UtahThomas H. Benton , MissouriWilliam Blount , TennesseeLemuel J. Bowden , VirginiaStephen R. Bradley , VermontJohn Breckinridge , KentuckyOrville Hickman Browning , IllinoisFrank O. Briggs , New JerseyJoseph R. Burton , KansasPrescott Bush , ConnecticutAndrew Butler , South CarolinaMatthew Butler , South CarolinaHarry F. Byrd Jr. , VirginiaHoward Cannon , NevadaDudley Chase , VermontRufus Choate , MassachusettsJohn M. Clayton , DelawareThomas Clayton , DelawareDan Coats , IndianaWilliam Cocke , TennesseeSusan Collins , MaineWalter T. Colquitt , GeorgiaMarcus A. Coolidge , MassachusettsChris Coons , DelawareJames Cooper , PennsylvaniaHenry W. Corbett , OregonCharles Curtis , KansasDavid Daggett , ConnecticutChauncey Depew , New YorkBob Dole , KansasCharles E. Dudley , New YorkJohn Edwards , North CarolinaMike Enzi , WyomingJohn Wayles Eppes , VirginiaWilliam Few , GeorgiaRichard Stockton Field , New JerseyJames Fisk , VermontGeorge G. Fogg , New HampshirePeter G. Gerry , Rhode IslandNicholas Gilman , New HampshireBarry Goldwater , ArizonaRay Greene , Rhode IslandMark Hanna , OhioAlexander C. Hanson , MarylandOrrin Hatch , UtahBenjamin Hawkins , North CarolinaCarl Hayden , ArizonaJesse Helms , North CarolinaNathaniel P. Hill , ColoradoJames Hillhouse , ConnecticutIrving Ives , New YorkRalph Izard , South CarolinaJohn W. Johnston , VirginiaJohn P. Jones , NevadaHamilton Fish Kean , New JerseyJohn Kerry , MassachusettsWilliam H. King , UtahPaul G. Kirk , MassachusettsJohn Laurance , New YorkLuke Lea , TennesseeBlair Lee I , MarylandMike Lee , UtahJohn McCain , ArizonaLee Mantle , MontanaArmistead Mason , VirginiaStevens T. Mason , VirginiaMitch McConnell , KentuckyRoger Q. Mills , TexasRobert Morris , PennsylvaniaBill Nelson , FloridaRobert C. Nicholas , LouisianaWilliam North , New YorkWilliam A. Palmer , VermontThomas W. Palmer , MichiganNahum Parker , New HampshireFrank C. Partridge , VermontSamuel Pasco , FloridaGeorge H. Pendleton , OhioLawrence C. Phipps , ColoradoRob Portman , OhioJennings Randolph , West VirginiaHarry Reid , NevadaJim Risch , Idaho[ 48] Terry Sanford North CarolinaJeff Sessions , AlabamaJohn Smith , New YorkSamuel M. Shortridge , CaliforniaMargaret Chase Smith , MaineReed Smoot , UtahJohn P. Stockton , New JerseyJohn E. Sununu , New HampshireKingsley A. Taft , OhioRobert A. Taft , OhioRobert Taft Jr. , OhioJames Taliaferro , FloridaLittleton Waller Tazewell , VirginiaJon Tester , MontanaRobert Toombs , GeorgiaMark Udall , ColoradoTom Udall , New MexicoMalcolm Wallop , WyomingElizabeth Warren , MassachusettsDaniel Webster , MassachusettsEdward Douglass White , LouisianaDavid Wilmot , PennsylvaniaUnited States Supreme Court justices [ edit ] ^a b c d e f g h "Famous Descendants ofMayflower Passengers" .MayflowerHistory.com . Archived fromthe original on December 16, 2009. RetrievedMarch 10, 2010 .^ "Cardiac kid: Nick Folk gets pumping again" . 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