List of Americans of English descent

List

Visual artists

• Earl W. Bascom "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists"
• George Biddle
• Edward Leigh Chase
• Frank Swift Chase
• Marissa Yardley Clifford
• Arthur Crooks
• Joseph DeCamp
• Thomas Dewing
• Thomas Eakins
• Peter Harrison
• Childe Hassam
• Winslow Homer
• Thomas Hope
• Willard Metcalf
• Grandma Moses
• William Nichols
• Frederic Remington "Father of Cowboy Sculpture"
• Norman Rockwell
• John Singer Sargent
• Thomas Sully
• Edmund C. Tarbell
• Abbott Handerson Thayer
• John Trumbull
• Calvert Vaux
• Andrew Wyeth
• N.C. Wyeth

  Assassins, outlaws, and criminals

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

  Astronauts

• John Glenn
• Christa McAuliffe – Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
• Alan Shepard – first American to travel into space

  Astronomers

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

  Directors, producers

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

  Descendants of ''Mayflower'' passengers

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

  Entertainment

Actors

A

• Candice Accola – of partial English descent
• Jensen Ackles – of partial English descent
• Amy Adams – of partial English descent
• Ben Affleck – of partial English descent
• Casey Affleck – of partial English descent
• Jessica Alba – mother of partial English descent
• Karen Allen – of partial English descent
• Krista Allen – of partial English descent
• Lauren Ambrose – mother of partial English descent
• Gillian Anderson – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Aniston – mother of partial English descent
• Hayley Atwell
• Jean Arthur
• Jake T. Austin – father of English descent

  B

• Kevin Bacon – of partial English descent
• Brandon Baker – of partial English descent
• Christian Bale
• Alec Baldwin – of partial English descent
• Daniel Baldwin – of partial English descent
• Stephen Baldwin – of partial English descent
• William Baldwin – of partial English descent
• Mark Ballas – mother of partial English descent
• Fred Ball – mother of partial English descent
• Lucille Ball – of partial English descent
• Jamie Bamber
• Elizabeth Banks – of partial English descent
• Cooper Barnes - born in England, immigrated to USA
• Sasha Barrese – of partial English descent
• Ethel Barrymore – of partial English descent
• Drew Barrymore – father of partial English descent
• Maurice Barrymore – of partial English descent
• Mischa Barton – father of English descent
• Earl W. Bascom – paternal grandmother born in England
• Jason Bateman – mother born in England; father of part English descent
• Emily Beecham
• Lake Bell – mother of part English descent
• Laura Joyce Bell – London-born singer and actress; wife of the American comedian Digby Bell
• Tobin Bell – mother was English
• Troian Bellisario – mother of English descent
• Joan Bennett – grandfather of half English descent
• Barbara Bennett – grandfather of half English descent
• Constance Bennett – grandfather of half English descent
• Emily Bergl – father of English descent
• Kelli Berglund – of partial English descent
• Halle Berry – mother of part English descent
• Valerie Bertinelli – mother of English descent
• Jessica Biel – of partial English descent
• Jason Biggs – father of half English descent
• Bill Bixby – both parents of English descent
• Jack Black – father of partial English descent
• Tyler Blackburn
• JB Blanc - actor, mother of English descent
• Rowan Blanchard – mother of English descent
• Alexis Bledel – of partial English descent
• Violetta Blue
• Emily Blunt
• Humphrey Bogart – father of partial English descent; mother mainly of English descent
• Matt Bomer – of partial English descent
• Powers Boothe – of partial English descent
• Julie Bowen – of partial English descent
• Lucy Boynton
• Elizabeth Bracco – mother was English
• Lorraine Bracco – mother was English
• Zach Braff – mother of partial English descent
• Vanessa Branch
• Marlon Brando – both parents of partial English descent
• Benjamin Bratt – father of part English descent
• Amy Brenneman – father of partial English descent
• Jordana Brewster – father of part English descent, descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Dorothy Bridges – father was English
• Richard Bright
• James Broderick – of one quarter English descent
• Matthew Broderick – father of one quarter English descent
• James Brolin – of partial English descent
• Josh Brolin – of partial English descent
• Louise Brooks
• Sandra Bullock – father of partial English descent
• Ty Burrell – of partial English descent
• Steve Burton
• Sophia Bush – of partial English descent

  C

• John Carradine – of partial English descent
• Keith Carradine – of partial English descent
• Robert Carradine – of partial English descent
• Lynda Carter – father of half English descent
• Dana Carvey – American comedian, actor and producer, small amount of English ancestry.
• Katie Cassidy – of partial English descent
• Mary Castle
• Matt Cedeño – mother of half English descent
• Lacey Chabert – both parents of partial English descent
• Lon Chaney Sr. – father mostly of English descent
• Lon Chaney Jr. – of partial English descent
• Charles Chaplin Jr.
• Geraldine Chaplin – father of English descent
• Josephine Chaplin – father of English descent
• Kiera Chaplin – father of English descent
• Michael Chaplin – father of English descent
• Sydney Earle Chaplin – father of English descent
• Victoria Chaplin – father of English descent
• Ruth Chatterton – father of English descent
• Chevy Chase – both parents of mainly English descent
• Kelsey Chow – mother of English descent
• John Clarke
• Melinda Clarke – father of English descent
• Montgomery Clift – mainly of English descent
• Kristen Cloke – of partial English descent
• George Clooney – of partial English descent
• Glenn Close – of mostly English descent
• Lauren Cohan – lived in New Jersey before moving to the United Kingdom with her mother
• Stephen Colbert – small amount of English ancestry
• Jack Coleman
• Lily Collins – father of English descent; maternal grandmother of mainly English descent
• Constance Collier – both parents of English descent
• Gary Cooper – both parents of English descent
• James Corden – London-born comedian, actor, singer, and television personality; host of The Late Late Show with James Corden
• Miranda Cosgrove – of partial English descent
• Kevin Costner – of partial English descent
• D.J. Cotrona – small amount of English descent
• Courteney Cox – both parents mainly of English descent
• Edward Coxen – both parents of English descent
• Jeanne Crain – father of English descent
• James Cromwell
• Bing Crosby – father of English descent, and a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• David Cross – father English-born
• Marcia Cross
• Tom Cruise – father of partial English descent
• Macaulay Culkin – father of partial English descent
• Tim Curry – English-born actor, most notable for portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its remake
• Jamie Lee Curtis – maternal grandfather of partial English descent

  D

• Alexandra Daddario – of partial English descent
• Willem Dafoe – of partial English descent
• Nicholas D'Agosto – mother of partial English descent
• Ian Anthony Dale – of partial English descent
• Matt Damon – father of partial English descent
• Dorothy Dandridge – father of partial English descent
• Claire Danes – of partial English descent
• Blythe Danner – of partial English descent
• Ted Danson – of partial English descent
• Fanny Davenport – both parents of English descent
• Harry Davenport
• Bette Davis – both parents of mainly English descent
• Jaye Davidson – mother of English descent
• James Dean
• Ellen DeGeneres – of partial English descent
• Dana Delaney – of half English descent
• Robert De Niro – mother of partial English descent
• Joe DeRita – of half English descent
• Johnny Depp – of partial English descent
• Rebecca De Mornay – paternal grandfather was English
• Laura Dern – of partial English descent
• Emily Deschanel – of partial English descent
• Zooey Deschanel – of partial English descent
• Jenna Dewan – mother of partial English descent
• Cameron Diaz – mother of partial English descent
• Vin Diesel – mother of partial English descent
• Peter Dinklage – of partial English descent
• Shannen Doherty – mother of partial English descent
• Taylor Dooley – of partial English descent
• Melvyn Douglas – mother of English descent
• Michael Douglas – mother of partial English descent
• Lesley-Anne Down
• Robin Atkin Downes
• Minnie Driver
• Haylie Duff – of partial English descent
• Hilary Duff – of partial English descent
• Josh Duhamel – of partial English descent
• Clark Duke – of partial English descent
• Faye Dunaway – of partial English descent
• Eliza Dushku – mother of part English descent
• Deanna Durbin – both parents of English descent
• Robert Duvall – of partial English descent

  E

• Leslie Easterbrook – of partial English descent
• Alison Eastwood – of partial English descent
• Clint Eastwood – of partial English descent
• Kyle Eastwood – of partial English descent
• Scott Eastwood – of partial English descent
• Aaron Eckhart – mother of partial English descent
• Anthony Edwards – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Ehle – of partial English descent
• Carmen Electra – of partial English descent
• Ansel Elgort – maternal grandfather of partial English descent
• Shannon Elizabeth – mother of partial English descent
• June Elvidge – of half English descent
• Dick Enberg – mother of partial English descent
• Edith Evanson
• Alice Eve

  F

• Edie Falco – mother of partial English descent
• Dakota Fanning – of partial English descent
• Elle Fanning – of partial English descent
• Farrah Fawcett – both parents of mainly English descent
• Will Ferrell – of mainly English descent
• Tina Fey – father of partial English descent
• W.C. Fields – father born in England
• Carrie Fisher – mother of partial English descent
• Charles Fisher
• Frances Fisher – father of English descent
• Sean Patrick Flanery – of partial English descent
• James Flavin
• Jonathan Frakes – of partial English descent
• Pauline Frederick – father of half English descent
• Scott Foley – of partial English descent
• Bridget Fonda – of partial English descent
• Jane Fonda – of partial English descent
• Peter Fonda – of partial English descent
• Joan Fontaine – both parents of English descent
• Glenn Ford
• Trent Ford
• Wallace Ford – both parents of English descent
• Robert Forster – father of part English descent
• Matthew Fox – both parents of part English descent
• Megan Fox – both parents of mainly English descent
• Michael J. Fox – of partial English descent
• Jeff Foxworthy
• Drew Fuller – of partial English descent

  G

• Robert Gant – of partial English descent
• Ava Gardner – mainly of English descent
• Andrew Garfield – was raised in England; mother is English-born
• Judy Garland – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Garner
• Greer Garson
• Gladys George
• Leila George
• Malcolm Gets
• Paul Giamatti – of partial English descent
• Carmine Giovinazzo – of partial English descent
• Crispin Glover – father of partial English descent
• Paulette Goddard – mother of English descent
• John Goodman – of partial English descent
• Ginnifer Goodwin – father of English descent
• Gale Gordon – mother of English descent
• Burn Gorman – both parents are English
• Milena Govich – mother of half English descent
• Lucas Grabeel – of part English descent
• Betty Grable – of partial English descent
• Lauren Graham – mother of part English descent
• Cary Grant – English-born, became an American citizen
• Christopher Guest – father of partial English descent
• Carla Gugino – mother of partial English descent
• Mamie Gummer – mother of partial English descent
• Ryan Guzman – mother of partial English descent
• Jake Gyllenhaal – father of part English descent
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – father of part English descent

  H

• Gene Hackman – of partial English descent
• Bill Hader – of partial English descent
• Kathryn Hahn – of partial English descent
• Angelica Hale – English father
• Rebecca Hall – English father
• Jon Hamm – of partial English descent
• Armie Hammer – of partial English descent
• Mariska Hargitay – mother of half English descent
• Justin Hartley
• David Hasselhoff – mother of English descent; father of partial English descent
• Anne Hathaway – father of partial English descent
• Rondo Hatton
• Olivia de Havilland – both parents of English descent
• Jonah Hauer-King – English father
• Goldie Hawn – father of partial English descent
• Colton Haynes – of mainly English descent
• Florence Henderson
• Logan Henderson – of partial English descent
• Christina Hendricks – father English-born; mother of partial English descent
• David Henrie – father of half English descent
• Katharine Hepburn – of mostly English descent, descendant of Mayflower
• Charlton Heston – of part English descent
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – of heavily English descent
• Catherine Hicks – of half English descent
• Paris Hilton – of partial English descent
• Tyler Hoechlin – mother of partial English descent
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – of partial English descent
• William Holden – both parents of mainly English descent
• Katie Holmes – of partial English descent
• Bob Hope – English born and immigrated to the US in 1908
• Hopsin – partial English descent
• John Houseman – mother of part English descent
• Bryce Dallas Howard – of part English descent
• Kelly Hu – of partial English descent
• Kate Hudson – of partial English descent
• Oliver Hudson – of partial English descent
• Rock Hudson – mother of partial English descent
• Felicity Huffman – of partial English descent
• Helen Hunt – of partial English descent
• Anjelica Huston – father of partial English descent
• Danny Huston – of partial English descent
• John Huston
• Josh Hutcherson

  I-J

• Jonathan Jackson – of partial English descent
• Celina Jade
• Caitlyn Jenner
• Kendall Jenner – of partial English descent
• Kris Jenner
• Kylie Jenner – of partial English descent
• Boris Johnson – born and lived in New York City before moving to the United Kingdom
• Kristen Johnston
• January Jones – of partial English descent
• Tommy Lee Jones – of partial English descent
• Victoria Justice – father of partial English descent

  K

• Matthew Kane
• Khloé Kardashian – mother of mainly English descent
• Kim Kardashian – mother of mainly English descent
• Kourtney Kardashian – mother of mainly English descent
• Rob Kardashian – mother of mainly English descent
• Zoe Kazan – of partial English descent
• Stacy Keach – father of English descent
• Stacy Keach Sr.
• Diane Keaton – mother of partial English descent
• Michael Keaton – father of partial English descent
• Ellie Kemper – of partial English descent
• Anna Kendrick – of partial English descent
• George Kennedy – of partial English descent
• Tom Kenny – of partial English descent
• John Kerr
• Nicole Kidman – both parents of mainly English descent
• Val Kilmer – father of partial English descent
• Justin Kirk – father of partial English descent
• Jen Kirkman – of partial English descent
• Hayley Kiyoko – father of half English descent
• Chris Klein – small amount of English descent
• Wayne Knight – father of English descent
• David Koechner – of partial English descent

  L

• Alan Ladd
• Alan Ladd Jr. – of partial English descent
• David Ladd – of partial English descent
• Diane Ladd – of partial English descent
• Jordan Ladd – of partial English descent
• Sanoe Lake – of partial English descent
• Burt Lancaster – all grandparents of English descent
• Lillie Langtry
• Angela Lansbury – father of English descent
• Taylor Lautner – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Lawrence – of partial English descent
• Brandon Lee – mother of half English descent
• Kodi Lee – of partial English descent
• Jane Leeves
• Janet Leigh – father of partial English descent
• Téa Leoni – both parents of partial English descent
• David Letterman – father of partial English descent
• Jared Leto – biological father of partial English descent
• Sam Lloyd
• June Lockhart
• Demi Lovato – mother of English descent
• Chad Lowe – of partial English descent
• Rob Lowe – of partial English descent
• Camilla Luddington
• Lorna Luft – mother of partial English descent
• Kellan Lutz – small amount of English ancestry

  M

• Seth MacFarlane – of partial English descent
• Kyle MacLachlan – of partial English descent
• Meredith MacRae – mother English born
• William H. Macy
• Michael Madsen – mother of partial English descent
• Virginia Madsen – mother of partial English descent
• Roma Maffia – of partial English descent
• Tobey Maguire – of partial English descent
• Tina Majorino – mother of half English descent
• Wendie Malick – of partial English descent
• John Malkovich – mother of partial English descent
• Jayne Mansfield – of 3/4 English descent
• William Mapother – of partial English descent
• Meghan Markle – of partial English descent
• James Marsden – of partial English descent
• Lee Marvin
• Jennette McCurdy – of partial English descent
• Dylan McDermott – mother of half English descent
• Benjamin McKenzie – of partial English descent
• Wendi McLendon-Covey
• Steve McQueen – of partial English descent
• Burgess Meredith – father of English descent
• Jesse Metcalfe – father of partial English descent
• Sienna Miller
• Wentworth Miller – father of partial English descent, himself born
• Liza Minnelli – mother of partial English descent
• Demi Moore – father is English
• Mary Tyler Moore – of partial English descent
• Agnes Moorehead
• Elizabeth Montgomery – both parents of mainly English descent
• Frank Morgan
• Ralph Morgan
• Viggo Mortensen – mother of English descent
• Tamera Mowry – father of English descent
• Tia Mowry – father of English descent
• Meg Mundy
• Olivia Munn – father of partial English descent
• Edward R. Murrow – of partial English descent

  N-O

• Bob Newhart – father of partial English descent
• Becki Newton
• Matt Newton
• Michelle Nicastro – mother of partial English descent
• Thomas Ian Nicholas – of partial English descent
• Jack Nicholson – mother of part English descent
• Lorraine Nicholson – father of English descent
• Chuck Norris – of mainly English descent
• Edward Norton
• Dylan O'Brien – mother of 1/4 English descent
• Elizabeth Olsen – mother of English descent
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – mother of English descent
• Timothy Olyphant – of partial English descent
• Ryan O'Neal – father of partial English descent
• Tatum O'Neal – of partial English descent
• Heather O'Rourke – of partial English descent; best known for her lead role in the Poltergeist film series
• Emily Osment – of partial English descent
• Haley Joel Osment – of partial English descent
• Chord Overstreet – of partial English descent
• David Oyelowo
• Jessica Oyelowo

  P-Q

• Adrianne Palicki – mother of partial English descent
• Gwyneth Paltrow – mother of partial English descent
• Mary-Louise Parker – of partial English descent
• Sarah Jessica Parker – mother of part English descent
• Audrina Patridge – of partial English descent
• Aaron Paul – of partial English descent
• Al Pearce
• Gregory Peck – both parents were of part English descent
• Mizuo Peck – father of partial English descent
• Nicola Peltz – of partial English descent
• William Peltz – of partial English descent
• Nia Peeples – of partial English descent
• Matthew Perry – of partial English descent
• Ryan Phillippe – of partial English descent
• Joaquin Phoenix – father of mainly English descent
• River Phoenix – father of mainly English descent
• Mary Pickford – father of English descent
• Christina Pickles – both parents of English descent
• Justin Pierce – father of English descent
• Chris Pine – of partial English descent
• Brad Pitt – of heavily English descent
• Aubrey Plaza – mother of part English descent
• Martha Plimpton – of partial English descent
• Amy Poehler – of partial English descent
• Ellen Pompeo – father of partial English descent
• Tyler Posey – father of partial English descent
• Tyrone Power – father of partial English descent
• Chris Pratt – father of partial English descent
• Laura Prepon – mother of partial English descent
• Victoria Principal – mother of English descent
• Freddie Prinze Jr. – mother of partial English descent
• Bill Pullman – father of partial English descent
• Dennis Quaid – of partial English descent
• Randy Quaid – of partial English descent

  R

• Adam Rayner
• Robert Redford – of paternal English descent, English grandmother
• Tara Reid – of partial English descent
• Tracy Reiner
• James Remar – mother was English
• Jeremy Renner – of partial English descent
• Giovanni Ribisi – of partial English descent
• Denise Richards – of partial English descent
• Michael Richards – father had English ancestry
• Blanche Ring – great-great-grandfather of English descent
• Molly Ringwald – of partial English descent
• Jason Ritter – of partial English descent
• John Ritter – of partial English descent
• Lee Remick – of partial English descent
• Burt Reynolds – of partial English descent
• Debbie Reynolds – of partial English descent
• Jason Robards – of partial English descent
• AnnaSophia Robb – of partial English descent
• Emma Roberts – of partial English descent
• Eric Roberts – both parents of partial English descent
• Julia Roberts – both parents of partial English descent
• James Roday – mother of partial English descent
• Sarah Roemer – of partial English descent
• Rebecca Romijn – mother of half English descent
• Neil Ross – London-born voice actor
• Brandon Routh – of partial English descent
• Paul Rudd – both parents English Jews
• Rene Russo – mother of partial English descent
• Amy Ryan – of partial English descent
• Remy Ryan – of partial English descent

  S

• Mark Salling – of partial English descent
• Susan Sarandon – father of partial English descent
• Peter Sarsgaard – of partial English descent
• Seann William Scott – of partial English descent
• Edie Sedgwick
• Kyra Sedgwick – father of English descent
• Robert Sedgwick – father of English descent
• Marian Seldes – mother of English descent
• Tom Selleck
• Amanda Seyfried – of partial English descent
• Nicollette Sheridan
• Brooke Shields – both parents of partial English descent
• Andrew Shue – of partial English descent
• Elisabeth Shue – of partial English descent
• Casey Siemaszko – mother of English descent
• Nina Siemaszko – mother of English descent
• Guy Siner – mother of English descent
• Alicia Silverstone – father an English Jew
• Douglas Smith – father English-born; mother of partial English descent
• Gregory Smith – father English-born; mother of partial English descent
• Jaclyn Smith – mother of mainly English descent
• Kerr Smith – of partial English descent
• Ian Somerhalder – of partial English descent
• Kevin Sorbo – mother of partial English descent
• Shannyn Sossamon – of partial English descent
• James Spader – of partial English descent
• Britney Spears – of part English descent
• Jamie Lynn Spears – of part English descent
• John Stamos – mother of part English descent
• Kim Stanley – mother of half English descent
• Karen Steele – father of English descent
• Mary Steenburgen – of partial English descent
• Julia Stiles – mother of part English descent
• Emma Stone – of partial English descent
• Sharon Stone – of partial English descent
• Beatrice Straight
• Steven Strait – of half English descent
• Meryl Streep – mother of part English descent
• Patrick Swayze – of partial English descent
• Madeleine Stowe – father of partial English descent
• Gregg Sulkin

  T

• William Talman – grandparents of English descent
• Jessica Tandy – both parents of English descent
• Channing Tatum – of partial English descent
• Miles Teller – of partial English descent
• Shirley Temple – part English.
• Uma Thurman – father of partial English descent
• Spencer Tracy – mother of English descent
• Greg Travis
• Stacey Travis
• Elizabeth Taylor – both parents of mainly English descent
• Callie Thorne – of partial English descent
• Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Gene Tierney – mother of mainly English descent
• Justin Timberlake
• Jonathan Tucker – father of half English descent
• Alan Tudyk – mother of part English descent
• Sonny Tufts
• Lana Turner
• Liv Tyler – both parents of partial English descent

  U-V

• Tracey Ullman – mother of English descent
• Casper Van Dien – of partial English descent
• Dick Van Dyke – mother of half English descent
• Jerry Van Dyke – mother of half English descent
• Vince Vaughn – both parents of partial English descent
• Milo Ventimiglia – mother of partial English descent

  W-Z

• Natasha Gregson Wagner – father English-born
• Donnie Wahlberg – mother of part English descent
• Mark Wahlberg – mother of part English descent
• Robert Wahlberg – mother of part English descent
• Paul Walker – of mainly English descent
• Robert Walker – of half English descent
• Evelyn Ward
• Kerry Washington – mother of partial English descent
• Sam Waterston – mother of English descent, a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Dennis Weaver – father of partial English descent
• Sigourney Weaver – mother of English descent; father of mainly English descent
• Sylvester Weaver
• Justin Welborn
• Raquel Welch – mother of English descent
• Betty White – both parents of partial English descent
• Kristen Wiig – of part English descent
• Olivia Wilde – father of mainly English descent and mother has partial English descent
• Adrienne Wilkinson – of partial English descent
• Barry Williams – of partial English descent
• Michelle Williams – of partial English descent
• Robin Williams – of partial English descent
• Zelda Williams – father of partially English descent
• Bruce Willis – father of partially English descent
• Patrick Wilson – father of English descent
• Philip Winchester – mother English-born
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Parents are both English
• Jonathan Winters – of part English descent
• Elijah Wood – father of half English descent
• Shailene Woodley – of partial English descent
• James Woods – father of English descent
• Fay Wray – father of English descent
• Jane Wyatt – of partial English descent
• John Lloyd Young – father of part English descent

  Authors and writers

• Louisa May Alcott
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Kevin Andrews
• Natalie Barney
• Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
• John Bartlett
• L. Frank Baum
• Ambrose Bierce
• Tony Blankley
• Victor Bockris
• William Cullen Bryant
• Christopher Buckley
• William F. Buckley Jr.
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs
• Carolyn Cassady
• Raymond Chandler
• J. Smeaton Chase
• Winston Churchill
• Chris Claremont
• Florence Earle Coates
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Stephen Crane
• Ann Coulter
• Coningsby Dawson
• John Derbyshire
• Emily Dickinson
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• William Faulkner
• Diana Gabaldon
• Joseph Gales
• Hamlin Garland
• Zane Grey
• Edgar Guest
• Dashiell Hammett
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Bret Harte
• Ernest Hemingway
• O. Henry
• Thomas S. Hinde
• Christopher Hitchens
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• Washington Irving
• Henry James
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Agnes Newton Keith
• Helen Keller
• Stephen King
• Nicole Krauss
• Sidney Lanier
• Ring Lardner
• Estelle Anna Lewis
• Jack London
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Robert Lowell
• Herman Melville – descendant of Percival Lowle
• William Least Heat-Moon
• Mary O'Hara
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Nelson Page
• Edgar Allan Poe
• William Henry Leonard Poe
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Thomas Pynchon
• James Wesley Rawles
• E. E. Smith
• Nicholas Sparks
• Lynne Spears
• Benjamin Spock
• John Steinbeck
• Charles Warren Stoddard
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Glendon Swarthout
• Anthony Swofford
• Henry David Thoreau
• Mark Twain
• Gore Vidal
• Lew Wallace
• Robert Penn Warren
• Noah Webster
• Eudora Welty
• Walt Whitman
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Tennessee Williams
• Michael Z. Williamson
• Jason F. Wright

  Musicians

• Alex Gaskarth – lead vocalist of All Time Low
• Dimebag Darrell Abbott – former lead guitarist of Pantera
• Vinnie Paul Abbott – former Pantera drummer
• Christina Aguilera – mother of partial English descent
• Kevin Rudolf – father of English descent
• Clay Aiken
• Elijah Blue Allman
• Jimmy The Rev Sullivan – former drummer for American Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold
• Billie Joe Armstrong – founder of Green Day
• Joan Baez
• Mark Ballas – mother is English
• Baby Bash
• Josh Beech
• Owen Biddle
• Rebecca Black – of partial English descent
• Jack Brooks – lyricist
• Rex Brown – former Pantera bassist
• Cliff Burton
• John Cage – composer; of English and Scottish descent
• Aaron Carter
• Leslie Carter
• Nick Carter
• Johnny Cash
• Cher – mother of partial English descent
• Kelly Clarkson – both parents of partial English descent
• Kurt Cobain
• David Cook
• Alice Cooper
• Billy Ray Cyrus
• Jamie Davis
• Spencer Dryden – longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane; nephew of Charlie Chaplin
• Eminem – of partial English descent
• Sara Evans
• Brandon Flowers – lead singer of The Killers
• Paul Gray – Slipknot bassist
• James Hetfield – singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
• Buddy Holly
• Burl Ives
• Waylon Jennings
• Norah Jones – mother of English descent
• Janis Joplin
• Joey Jordison – Slipknot drummer
• JoJo
• Naomi Judd
• Wynonna Judd
• Dana Key – Christian rock guitarist; direct descendant of Francis Scott Key
• Alicia Keys – mother of partial English descent
• Anthony Kiedis
• Alison Krauss
• Kris Kristofferson
• Amy Lee
• Kodi Lee
• Greg London
• Courtney Love
• Lene Lovich – mother of English descent
• Tony Lucca
• Ludacris – of partial English descent
• Madonna – mother of distant English descent
• Post Malone
• Reba McEntire
• Charles Mingus – mother of partial English descent
• Moby
• Mandy Moore – maternal grandmother of English descent; father of partial English descent
• Jim Morrison
• Ricky Nelson
• Willie Nelson
• Jason Newsted
• Wayne Newton
• Justin Nozuka – mother of English descent
• The Osmonds
• Randy Owen
• Jennifer Paige
• Sara Paxton
• Katy Perry – father of English descent; mother of partial English descent
• Michelle Phillips
• Elvis Presley
• Iggy Pop
• Romina Power
• Tony Rice
• Kevin Richardson
• James Root – guitarist
• Tommy Shaw
• Ashlee Simpson – both parents of mostly English descent
• Jessica Simpson – both parents of mostly English descent
• Slash – rock guitarist
• Grace Slick – singer and former model; her mother is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Matt Sorum – drummer
• Britney Spears – maternal grandmother of English descent; father mostly of English descent
• Jamie Lynn Spears – maternal grandmother of English descent; father mostly of English descent
• Izzy Stradlin – rock musician
• Gene Summers
• Taylor Swift – both parents of partial English descent
• Corey Taylor – singer Slipknot Stone Sour
• Justin Timberlake
• Randy Travis
• Steven Tyler – mother of half English descent
• Hank Williams
• Brian Wilson
• Kalil Wilson
• Sid Wilson – member of nu-metal band Slipknot
• "Weird Al" Yankovic – singer and satirist; maternal grandmother of English descent
• Trisha Yearwood
• Adam Young

  Entrepreneurs, executives

• P. T. Barnum
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
• Nicholas Biddle
• Benjamin C. Bradlee
• Benjamin

• Caleb Bradham – creator of Pepsi
• John Browning – firearm innovator and founder of Browning Arms Company
• Walter Chrysler – founder of the Chrysler Corporation
• Henry Clews – financier
• William R. Coe – insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist
• James Boorman Colgate – financier
• Samuel Colgate – manufacturer
• William Colgate – manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company
• Charles Deering
• Roy O. Disney
• Walt Disney
• John Francis Dodge – automobile manufacturing pioneer
• William E. Dodge
• Benjamin Newton Duke
• James Buchanan Duke
• Charles B. Finch
• Bill Gates – co-founder of Microsoft and world's richest man for 13 years in a row
• A. Bartlett Giamatti
• Edward Henry Harriman – railroad executive
• Charles T. Hayden
• Joseph Lowthian Hudson
• Samuel Insull – investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads
• Arthur Curtiss James
• Oliver Burr Jennings
• Will Keith Kellogg
• Matthew Laflin
• Edward Lamb
• Charles M. Loring
• Rowland Hussey Macy – founder of the R.H. Macy and Company
• J. Willard Marriott – founder of the Marriott International
• J. P. Morgan – banker
• Robert Noyce – co-founder of Intel
• Ransom E. Olds – pioneer of the American automotive industry
• Augustus G. Paine Jr.
• Augustus G. Paine Sr.
• Gloria Pall
• Oliver Hazard Payne
• Anson Greene Phelps – descended from the early American colonial governors Thomas Dudley, John Haynes and George Wyllys
• Madeleine Pickens
• Charles Pratt
• Henry Huttleston Rogers
• Eugene Selvage
• Samuel Slater – early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution"
• Harold Stanley – banker
• Charles Lewis Tiffany
• Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
• Ellis Wainwright
• Sam Walton – founder of the American retailer Wal-Mart
• Henry Wells – co-founder of the Wells Fargo & Company
• Meg Whitman
• Henry Melville Whitney
• George Dennick Wick
• Oliver Winchester – founder of Winchester Repating Arms Company

  First Ladies of the United States

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

  Governors of states

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

  Historical figures

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

  Mormon pioneers

• May Anderson
• Ebenezer Beesley
• William Bickerton
• Thomas Bullock
• George Careless
• William Clayton
• Joseph Fielding
• Ruth May Fox
• Emma Lee French
• George Goddard
• May Green Hinckley
• Henry Howell
• John Jaques
• Heber C. Kimball
• Charles Kingston
• Christopher Layton
• George Manwaring
• Abraham Marchant
• Peter Maughan
• L. John Nuttall
• Ralph Partington
• Charles W. Penrose
• George Reynolds
• Brigham Henry Roberts
• Charles Roscoe Savage
• Joseph F. Smith
• Mary Fielding Smith
• Edward Stevenson
• James E. Talmage
• Agnes Taylor
• John Taylor
• George Teasdale
• Edward Tullidge
• David King Udall
• Nellie Unthank
• George D. Watt
• Daniel H. Wells
• John Wells
• Emily H. Woodmansee

  Inventors

• Charles Alderton
• Samuel Andrews
• Earl W. Bascom – early inventor of rodeo equipment
• John Bidwell
• Gail Borden
• Caleb Bradham
• Vannevar Bush – founder of Raytheon
• Franklin S. Cooper
• Peter Cooper Hewitt
• Samuel Colt
• William Crompton
• Moncena Dunn
• George Eastman
• Thomas Edison
• Isaac L. Ellwood
• Thaddeus Fairbanks
• Philo Farnsworth
• Calvin Souther Fuller
• King Camp Gillette
• Charles Goodyear
• William S. Harley
• Robert Hoe
• Christopher Jones
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
• Daniel Leavitt
• Thomas Leavitt
• Samuel Morse
• Elon Musk
• John Pemberton
• Eliphalet Remington
• Edward S. Renwick – father was James Renwick
• William Bradford Shockley
• Elihu Thomson
• Jimmy Wales
• Eli Whitney
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Amos Whitney

  Journalists

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

  Military

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

  Models

• Angela Bowie
• Bebe Buell
• Cindy Crawford
• Jerry Hall – of partial English descent
• Crystal Harris – both parents of English descent
• Alexandra Richards
• Kimberly Stewart
• Kate Upton – of partial English descent
• Kendra Wilkinson – of part English descent

  Political figures

• Dean Acheson
• Jimmy Carter
• John Caven
• Walter Chiles
• Hillary Clinton
• Calvin Coolidge
• George W. Bush
• George H. W. Bush
• Richard Girnt Butler
• Jefferson Davis
• Charles E. Dudley
• William M. Evarts
• Gerald Ford
• Benjamin Franklin
• Warren G. Harding
• Herbert Hoover
• William Jennings
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard Henry Lee
• Robert Liddell
• George Mason
• Malcolm Nichols
• Richard Nixon
• Barack Obama
• Henry Paulson
• Ronald Reagan
• George Lincoln Rockwell
• Mitt Romney
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Edward Shippen
• George Sutherland
• John Townsend
• Harry S. Truman
• Martin H. Weight
• Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Harry Weeks – political activist and economist
• Woodrow Wilson

  American pornographic film actors

• Tracey Adams
• Eva Angelina
• Tori Black
• Erica Boyer
• Lily Carter
• Dani Daniels
• Sasha Grey
• Jenna Jameson
• Noname Jane
• Shayla LaVeaux
• Brandi Love
• Tera Patrick – of partial English descent
• Chanel Preston
• Stephanie Swift

  Presidents of the United States

Religious figures

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

  Members of the United States House of Representatives

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

  Scientists, researchers

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

  Senators

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

  Sports

• Andre Agassi
• Muhammad Ali
• Kurt Angle
• Lance Armstrong
• Brent Barry
• Jon Barry
• Rick Barry
• Earl W. Bascom – rodeo champion, "Father of Modern Rodeo"
• James Blake
• Aaron Boone
• Bob Boone
• Bret Boone
• Ray Boone
• Michael Bradley
• Dave Brain
• George Brown
• Tom Brown – baseball player
• Gina Carano
• Walter Carlisle
• Roy Castleton
• John Cena
• Paul Child
• Geoff Coombes
• Harry Cooper
• Kenny Cooper – soccer player, currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer
• Matthew Dallman
• Lindsay Davenport
• Ted DiBiase
• Jacoby Ellsbury
• Gary Etherington
• Steve Furness
• Alan Green
• Dick Hall – soccer player
• Alan Hamlyn
• Jeff Hardy
• Matt Hardy
• Tony Hawk
• Dan Henderson
• Adam Henley
• Dick Higham
• Phil Hill
• Mick Hoban
• John Hopkins – motorcycle racer
• Mark Howe
• Marty Howe
• Bernie James
• Derek Jeter
• Ryan Lochte
• Barry Mahy
• Alan Merrick
• Ken Miles
• George Moorhouse
• Heath Pearce
• Chad Pennington
• Michael Phelps
• Billy Pierce
• Ted Potter Jr.
• Kenny Roberts
• Mal Roche
• Chris Rodd
• Andy Roddick
• Elwood Romney
• Adam Rosen – British-American luge Olympian
• Ronda Rousey
• Arthur Rudd
• Tim Tebow
• Brendan Schaub
• Tim Shaw
• Denny Shute
• May Sutton
• Adam Vinatieri
• Lindsey Vonn
• Brad Walker
• Cyril Walker
• Tim Ward – soccer
• Jarrod Washburn
• Josh West – British-American Olympic rower and Earth Sciences professor
• Lew Worsham, golfer
• Harry Wright
• Chris Wyles

  United States Supreme Court justices

• Oliver Ellsworth
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• John Marshall
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• William Rehnquist
• George Sutherland
• Byron White
• Levi Woodbury
• William Burnham Woods

  Vice Presidents of the United States

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

  Other

• Alton Brown – celebrity chef and creator/host of Food Network's Good Eats
• Patricia Buckley – socialite
• Ann Dunham – anthropologist and mother of President Barack Obama
• Darci Lynne – singer and ventriloquist
• Wally George – radio host and television commentator
• Daisy and Violet Hilton – co-joined twins
• Nelle Wilson Reagan – mother of President Ronald Reagan
• Frank H.T. Rhodes – university president, government science advisor
• Henry Chadwick – known as the father of baseball
• Jerry Springer – TV presenter