List of Americans of English descent

This is a list of notable Americans of English 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.

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Visual artists

Assassins, outlaws, and criminals

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

Astronauts

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

Astronomers

Directors, producers

Descendants of ''Mayflower'' passengers

Alec Baldwin
Jordana Brewster – actress
Chevy Chase – Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor
Bing Crosby – actor and singer
Seth MacFarlane – actor, animator and writer; notable for creating Family Guy and American Dad
Clint Eastwood – actor
Nick Folk – football player
Jodie Foster – actress
Richard Gere – actor
Martha Graham – dancer
Ulysses S. Grant – Union Army general; U.S. President
Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises
Susan Fales-Hill
Ashley Judd – actress
John Lithgow – actor
Christopher Lloyd – actor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet
George B. McClellan – Union Army general
Marilyn Monroe – actress
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Anthony Perkins – actor
Anne Ramsey – actress
Christopher Reeve – actor
Bill Richardson – Governor of New Mexico
Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President
Victoria Rowell – 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

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Authors and writers

Musicians

Entrepreneurs, executives

P. T. Barnum
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
Nicholas Biddle
Benjamin Brewster
Caleb Bradham – creator of Pepsi
Henry Clews – financier
William R. Coe – insurance company, railroad, and business executive, and philanthropist
James Boorman Colgate – financier
Samuel Colgate – manufacturer
William Colgate – manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company
Roy O. Disney
Walt Disney
John Francis Dodge – automobile manufacturing pioneer
Bill Gates – co-founder of Microsoft and world's richest man for 13 consecutive years
Edward Henry Harriman – railroad executive
Charles T. Hayden
Joseph Lowthian Hudson
Samuel Insull – investor, known for purchasing utilities and railroads
Will Keith Kellogg
Phil Knight – co-founder of Nike
Matthew Laflin
Edward Lamb
Charles M. Loring
Anson Green Phelps – founded Phelps, Dodge & Co.
Madeleine Pickens
Henry Huttleston Rogers
Samuel Slater – early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution"
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Ellis Wainwright
Sam Walton – founder of the American retailer Wal-Mart
Henry Wells – co-founder of the Wells Fargo & Company
Meg Whitman
Henry Melville Whitney

First Ladies of the United States

Governors of states

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

Historical figures

Daniel Boone – American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the US
John Brown – abolitionist
Wyatt Earp – westerner: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Samuel Fielden – socialist, anarchist, labor organizer
Elizabeth Fones – Puritan settler
Pat Garrett – best known for killing Billy the Kid
Howard Hughes – aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world
Francis Scott Key – amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Rebecca Nurse – figure in the Salem witch trials
Annie Oakley – sharpshooter
John Proctor – English born victim of the Salem Witch Trials
Rick Rescorla – a hero of September 11, 2001
Betsy Ross – maker of the first American flag
Joseph Smith – religious leader and founder of Mormonism
J. D. Tippit – police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
Abigail Williams – accuser in the Salem witch trials