List of Welsh Americans
This is a list of notable Welsh Americans, 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 Welsh American or must have references showing they are Welsh American and are notable.
List
Fine art
- Earl W. Bascom, western artist, sculptor, and inventor; "cowboy of cowboy artists"; "father of modern rodeo"
Entertainment
- Jessica Alba, movie actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Alexis Arquette, movie actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- David Arquette, movie actor and TV director, distant Welsh ancestry
- Patricia Arquette, movie and TV actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Rosanna Arquette, movie actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Michael Aston, born in Cornelly, musician
- Andrea Bowen, actor
- Erika Christensen, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Kelly Clarkson, singer, distant Welsh ancestry
- Daniel Craig, actor
- Miley Cyrus, singer and actress
- Bette Davis, two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television; distant Welsh ancestry
- Billy De Wolfe, actor, mother was Welsh
- Thomas Dekker, actor, mother is Welsh
- Michael Douglas, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Leslie Easterbrook, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Bill Evans, jazz pianist / composer
- Chris Evans, actor, Welsh paternal great-great grandfather
- Sara Evans, country music singer
- Alice Eve, actress
- Glenn Ford, film actor
- G-Eazy,, rapper
- Carson Grant, actor
- D. W. Griffith, early film director
- Mark Hamill, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Teri Hatcher, actress and writer, distant Welsh ancestry
- Sitara Hewitt, actress
- Bob Hope, actor/comedian, mother was Welsh
- Anthony Hopkins, born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan; Academy Award-winning film/stage actor
- John Houseman, film producer
- Anjelica Huston, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- John Goodman, actor & voice actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- John Huston, film director, screenwriter and actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Quincy Jones, record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter, Welsh paternal grandfather
- Rashida Jones, actress, Welsh paternal great-grandfather
- Tommy Lee Jones, actor, Welsh father
- Jon Langford, musician and artist
- Tommy Lee, drummer for hard rock/heavy metal band Mötley Crüe
- Zachary Levi, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Ted Levine, actor, mother was part Welsh
- Blake Lewis, American Idol contestant and singer
- Juliette Lewis, actress and singer
- Harold Lloyd, actor
- Myrna Loy, actress
- Marco Marenghi, animator, born in Rhondda
- Kelly McGillis, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Ray Milland, actor
- Wayne Newton, distant Welsh ancestry
- Leslie Nielsen, actor, Welsh mother
- Ninja, Twitch streamer, distant Welsh ancestry
- The Osmonds, including Donny Osmond, half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie; of part Welsh descent, traced their ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil
- Karyn Parsons, actress, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Welsh descent on father's side
- Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Brian Pillman, professional wrestler, mother was Welsh
- Chris Pine, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Ryan Potter, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Kim Richards, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Kyle Richards, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Monica Richards, author and musician
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, born in Swansea, Glamorgan; actress
- Katherine Jenkins, born in Neath, Glamorgan; singer
- Jason Robards, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Eric Roberts, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Julia Roberts, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Coco Rocha, Canadian model of Welsh, Irish, and Russian descent
- Gena Rowlands, actress, father was of Welsh descent
- Susan Sarandon, Oscar-winning actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Brooke Shields, actress and model, distant Welsh ancestry
- Esperanza Spalding, singer/songwriter, distant Welsh ancestry
- Tiffani Thiessen, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Henry Thomas, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Lynda Thomas, musician, singer-songwriter
- Scott Walker, singer, distant Welsh ancestry
- Tuc Watkins, actor
- Betty White, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Michelle Williams, actress, distant Welsh ancestry
- Robin Williams, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
- Chris Williams (actor), African-American, English and Welsh descent
- Vanessa Williams, African-American, English and Welch descent
- Cassandra Wilson, née Cassandra Fowlkes, jazz vocalist; distant Welsh ancestry through her father
- Patrick Wilson, actor, distant Welsh ancestry
Literature
- Ben Bradlee, author, Executive Editor of the Washington Post
- Ben Bradlee, Jr., author, journalist, newspaper editor at the Boston Globe
- Quinn Bradlee,, author
- William Dean Howells, realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"
- Grover Jones, playwright, screenwriter
- Sinclair Lewis, novelist/playwright
- Jack London, author
- Edgar Lee Masters, poet/biographer/dramatist
- Hillary Monahan, author
- Lorin Morgan-Richards, author and illustrator
- Ogden Nash, poet, humorist
- Sally Quinn, author, first anchorwoman in America
Politics
- John Adams, President of the United States, Vice President of the United States
- John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, Secretary of State
- John Henry Bowen, U.S. Representative from Tennessee
- Martha Hughes Cannon, physician, Utah women's rights advocate and suffragist, first female state senator elected in the United States, member of the Utah Senate from the 6th district
- Bill Cassidy, United States Senator from Louisiana
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
- Cassius Marcellus Clay, abolitionist
- Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, U.S. Senator from New York, former First Lady
- James S. Conway, Governor of Arkansas
- Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, Vice President of the United States
- John J. Crittenden, Governor of Kentucky
- D.W. Davis, Commissioner of the U.S Reclamation Service, Governor of Idaho, Idaho State Senator
- James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States
- Alvin Evans, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; United States Senator from Iowa
- John Floyd, Governor of Virginia
- John B. Floyd, Governor of Virginia
- William Floyd, United States Declaration of Independence signatory, President of the United States
- Nicholas Gilman, United States Senator from New Hampshire
- Button Gwinnett, Governor of Georgia, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States
- William Henry Harrison, President of the United States
- Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of New York
- Andrew Humphreys, U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Andrew A. Humphreys, United States Army officer and Union General in the American Civil War
- E. Howard Hunt, CIA Intelligence Officer; a key figure in organizing and participating in the Watergate burglaries
- Arthur James, Governor of Pennsylvania
- Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States; Vice President of the United States
- John Edward Jones, Governor of Nevada
- Robert E. Lee, Confederate general
- Francis Lewis, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
- James Madison, President of the United States
- John Marshall, statesman, Chief Justice of the United States
- Noah M. Mason, United States Congressman from Illinois, Illinois State Senator
- George Mathews, Governor of Georgia
- Henry M. Mathews, Governor of West Virginia
- John G. McCullough, Governor of Vermont
- James Monroe, President of the United States
- James Morgan, U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
- Lewis Morris, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- Robert Morris, United States Declaration of Independence signatory
- Patty Murray, United States Senator from Washington
- Richard Nixon, President of the United States; Vice President of the United States
- Barack Obama, President of the United States
- P.B.S. Pinchback, Governor of Louisiana
- Hugh H. Price, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
- Rodman M. Price, Governor of New Jersey
- John H. Pugh, U.S. Representative from New Jersey
- Thomas Rees, U.S. Congressman, parents/grandparents from Wales
- John Richards, U.S. Congressman from New York, Johnsburg, New York Town Supervisor, Warren County, New York Court of Common Pleas Judge
- Edward V. Robertson, U.S. Senator from Wyoming
- Ann Romney, wife of American businessman and politician Mitt Romney
- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; Vice President of the United States
- Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky
- Daniel Webster, United States Senator and Secretary of State
- Thomas Wynne, physician to William Penn; speaker of the first Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
Industry and business
- Thomas Henry Blythe, born in Wales, immigrated to San Francisco, best known for using the Colorado River to irrigate large areas of the California and Mexican deserts
- Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, Tennessee-born founder of Jack Daniel's whiskey
- Bob Evans, founder of Bob Evans Restaurants
- William Fargo, pioneer expressman
- Howard Hughes, pioneering aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer
- Willard F. Jones, naval architect, Gulf Oil executive
- Reese J. Llewellyn, born in Brynamman, Wales, immigrated to San Francisco, later settling in Los Angeles, co-founder and president of Llewellyn Iron Works
- J. P. Morgan, banker
- Junius Spencer Morgan, banker
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, president and chief executive officer of CareZone
- Howard Stringer, businessman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation
- Lloyd Tevis, banker
- David Thomas, prominent ironmaster and philanthropist during the Industrial Revolution in Pennsylvania
Other
- Jim Jones - Cult leader and mass murderer
- Mervyn S. Bennion, Medal of Honor recipient killed during the Attack on Pearl Harbor; grandfather was a Welsh immigrant
- James Bowie, pioneer and Texas revolutionary
- Daniel Boone, American pioneer
- Mary Katherine Campbell, Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, first runner-up 1924
- Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, serial killer; father has Welsh ancestry
- Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, 1922–1939
- Lewis Evans, colonial surveyor and geographer
- Cowboy Morgan Evans, Texas rancher; 1928 World Series Rodeo Bulldogging champion; competition bull rider; oil production roughneck; drilling foreman; oilman
- Oliver Evans, inventor
- Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster, chief political and labor racketeer in the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition
- Frank James, cowboy/outlaw
- Jesse James, cowboy/outlaw
- George Jones, New-York Daily Times co-founder
- John L. Lewis, organized labor union leader
- Meriwether Lewis, explorer
- Chelsea Manning, mother was Welsh
- Nate Marquardt, MMA fighter, partially Welsh on his mother's side
- Daniel Morgan, Brigadier General in the American Revolution in the Continental Army; served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia
- Michael Phelps, Olympian swimmer, distant Welsh ancestry
- William Farrand Prosser, Union Colonel in the American Civil War; served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Tennessee
- Herbert M. Sauro, scientist, born in Dyfed
- Henry Morton Stanley, journalist/explorer
- George Henry Thomas, Union General during the American Civil War
- Joe Watts, gangster and associate of the Gambino crime family; partially Welsh on his father's side
- Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century
- Elihu Yale, first benefactor of Yale University
- Philip Murgatroyd