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.
List
Visual artists
Assassins, outlaws, and criminals
Astronauts
Astronomers
Directors, producers
Descendants of Mayflower passengers
- Alec Baldwin[1]
- 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[1] – actor
- Nick Folk[2] – football player
- Jodie Foster – actress
- Richard Gere – actor
- Martha Graham – dancer
- Ulysses 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 – actress
- John Lithgow – actor
- Christopher Lloyd – actor[3]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet[3]
- George B. McClellan[1] – Union Army general
- Marilyn Monroe – actress [1]
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
- Anthony Perkins – actor
- Anne Ramsey – actress
- Christopher Reeve – actor [1]
- Bill Richardson[4] – Governor of New Mexico
- Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President
- Victoria Rowell – actress
- Benjamin 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 editor
Actors
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I-J
K
L
M
N-O
P-Q
R
S
T
U-V
W-Z
Authors and writers
Musicians
Entrepreneurs, executives
First Ladies of the United States
(in order by their husband's presidency)
Governors of states
Historical figures
Mormon pioneers
Inventors
Journalists
Military
Models
Political figures
American pornographic film actors
Presidents of the United States
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 from Purleigh, Essex, England)[51][52]
- John Adams (English)
- 2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583, Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts)[53]
- Thomas Jefferson (English)
- 3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph)
- James Madison (English)
- 4th President 1809–17[54]
- John Quincy Adams (English)
- 6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England)[53]
- William Henry Harrison (English)
- 9th President 1841–1841[55]
- John Tyler (English)
- 10th President 1841–1845[56]
- Zachary Taylor (English)
- 12th President 1849–50
- Millard Fillmore (English)
- 13th President 1850–1853[57]
- Franklin Pierce (English)
- 14th President 1853–1857[58]
- Abraham Lincoln (English and Welsh)
- 16th President 1861–65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts).[59][60]
- Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English)
- 17th President 1865–1869[61]
- Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and English)
- 18th President 1869–77
- Rutherford Hayes (English)
- 19th President 1877–1881[62]
- James A. Garfield (English and French)
- 20th President 1881–81[63]
- 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[64]
- 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 to Isle of Wight County, Virginia)[65]
- Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)
- 40th President 1981–1989[66]
- 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 from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts)[67]
- Barack Obama (Luo, English)
- 44th President 2009–2017 (his mother Ann Dunham's heritage is mostly English)[68]
- Joe Biden (Irish, French, and English)
- 46th President 2021-present (William Biden from Sussex, England emigrated before 1822 to Baltimore, Maryland)
Vice presidents of the United States
Religious figures
Members of the United States House of Representatives
Scientists, researchers
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
- Susan Collins, Maine
- 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
- Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
- 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
- Jim Risch, Idaho[69]
- 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
- Jon Tester, Montana
- 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
United States Supreme Court justices
Other
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External links
Media related to Americans of English descent at Wikimedia Commons