Hispanopedia Wiki
Articulo de referencia

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 t...

Hispanopedia WikiContenido en espanolLectura gratuita

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

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

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)[52][53]
John Adams (English)
2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583, Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts)[54]
Thomas Jefferson (English)
3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph)
James Madison (English)
4th President 1809–17[55]
John Quincy Adams (English)
6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton 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 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, 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 to Isle 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 from Messing, Essex, England emigrated in 1631 to Cambridge, Massachusetts)[68]
Barack Obama (Luo, English)
44th President 2009–2017 (his mother Ann Dunham's heritage is mostly English)[69]
Joe Biden (Irish, French, and English)
46th President 2021-2025 (William Biden from Sussex, England emigrated before 1822 to Baltimore, Maryland)

Vice presidents of the United States

Religious figures

U.S. representatives

Scientists, researchers

U.S. senators

Sports

United States Supreme Court justices

Other

References

  1. 12345678"Famous Descendants of Mayflower Passengers". MayflowerHistory.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  2. ↑"Cardiac kid: Nick Folk gets pumping again". August 20, 2010.
  3. 123Pratt, Mark (November 26, 2015). "Meet John Howland, a lucky Pilgrim — and maybe your ancestor". Associated Press. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  4. ↑"Ancestry of Bill Richardson". www.wargs.com.
  5. ↑"Allen and Riegert tend to the 'White Irish Drinkers'".
  6. ↑"Catch up with Johnny Tsunami Brandon Baker". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on July 15, 2007.
  7. ↑"Zach Braff and Mitt Romney 'related through a witch'". Storyful. March 2, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ↑"Jenna Dewan's Fan Q&A on Twitter and New Photos at Nylon Magazine's TV Issue Launch Party". Channing Tatum Unwrapped. August 26, 2009. Archived from the original on August 23, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  9. ↑"Stammbaum Hasselhoff"(PDF). abenteuer-ahnenforschung.de. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 29, 2013.
  10. ↑"WHAT TO WATCH". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  11. ↑"You Made It Weird #132: Jen Kirkman – Nerdist". March 8, 2013. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  12. ↑Nalea J. Ko (May 9, 2011). "Actress Hayley Kiyoko says her motto of 'staying true' to herself has been key in keeping her humble as she gains more fame in Hollywood". Pacific Citizen. Archived from the original on November 8, 2011. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
  13. ↑"Sidekick supreme".
  14. ↑"This girl's no slouch". New York Daily News.
  15. ↑"American Ancestors - Burlington, MA Native Amy Poehler has Interesting Family Ties". www.americanancestors.org. Archived from the original on October 25, 2010.
  16. ↑"mstarareid.com".
  17. 12"British Film, TV and Music News – HuffPost Entertainment UK".
  18. ↑"Latina Magazine". Latina.
  19. ↑"Her attraction to British and Irish comics clearly stems from her roots – her father is Irish-Norwegian, her mother English- Scottish".
  20. ↑"Crusoe's Philip Winchester Previews NBC's New Island Adventure". October 17, 2008.
  21. ↑Paul Adams:Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston from the Handbook of Texas Online(Mary P). Retrieved December 23, 2008.
  22. ↑biographyArchived 2008-12-21 at the Wayback Machine – James Wesley Rawles
  23. ↑biography – Michael Z. Williamson
  24. ↑"Airplane's Dryden dies". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
  25. ↑"Courtney Love". Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher. March 3, 2002. Oxygen.
  26. ↑"Reba McEntire Discovers Ancestors Were Indentured Servants + More on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'". March 3, 2012.
  27. ↑"She's Always Wanted To Make Herb-Infused Soaps - xoNecole". www.xonecole.com.
  28. ↑"Introduction".
  29. ↑"John Brown, American Abolitionist". chestofbooks.com.
  30. ↑"Ascendants de David de Mareau". roglo.eu.
  31. ↑Horowitz, Alan. "Jimmy Carter Genealogical Information". www.jimmycarterlibrary.org. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  32. ↑Alexander, Harriet (June 4, 2015). "Hillary Clinton's British relatives tell of their shock at their celebrity cousin". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  33. ↑"What Is the Real Story Behind Hillary Clinton's Ancestry? – Ancestry Blog". Ancestry Blog. June 26, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  34. ↑Briggs, Caroline (November 4, 2016). "Hillary Clinton's English mining roots". BBC News. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  35. ↑"Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum". www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  36. ↑Burner, David (1979). Herbert Hoover, a public life (1st ed.). New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-46134-7. OCLC 4193277.
  37. ↑"Lyndon B. Johnson". November 13, 2013. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  38. ↑"Birth Record of Hugh Forest". Familysearch.
  39. ↑"The Ancestry of Richard Milhous Nixon"(PDF).
  40. ↑Jamieson, Richard Gray and Alastair (March 7, 2009). "Barack Obama's English relatives whose lives are a world apart from the White House". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  41. 12"Our Non-Anglo-Saxon Presidents". NBC Chicago. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  42. ↑"Who is Henry Paulson? Bio, Political career, Net worth, Personal life, Early life, Facts". Feed Weekly. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  43. ↑"Check Out Ronald Reagan's Family Tree". ThoughtCo. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  44. ↑"Episode 7: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., DNA". Your Genetic Genealogist. Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2018. Dr
  45. ↑"Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons". Finding Your Roots. April 29, 2012. Archived from the original on September 3, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  46. ↑ Rice, Condoleezza (2017). Democracia: Historias del largo camino hacia la libertad . Nueva York: Grand Central Publishing. pág. 27. ISBN  978-1-4555-4018-1.
  47. ↑ Beck, Emma (28 de febrero de 2005). "Creciendo con Condoleezza Rice" . BBC News . Archivado del original el 16 de septiembre de 2018. Recuperado el 25 de septiembre de 2013 .
  48. 1 2 "riesgoso" . 4 de julio de 2015. Archivado del original el 4 de julio de 2015. Recuperado el 15 de marzo de 2024 .
  49. ↑ GORMLEY, MYRA VANDERPOOL (6 de julio de 1989). "Rastreando el linaje de los presidentes estadounidenses" . Los Angeles Times . ISSN 0458-3035 . Consultado el 19 de agosto de 2018 . 
  50. ↑ "Biblioteca Truman: Arraigada en la historia: La genealogía de Harry S. Truman" . www.trumanlibrary.org . Consultado el 19 de agosto de 2018 .
  51. ↑ Stout, David (28 de marzo de 2006). "Caspar W. Weinberger muere a los 88 años" . The New York Times . Consultado el 19 de agosto de 2018 .
  52. ↑ "George Washington" . Patrimonio estadounidense . Archivado del original el 10 de julio de 2010. Consultado el 21 de agosto de 2017 .
  53. ↑ Irvin Haas (1992). Casas históricas de los presidentes estadounidenses . Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-26751-2.
  54. 1 2 "Árbol genealógico de: Henry Adams c1583-1646" . Concentric.net . Archivado del original el 24 de marzo de 2010. Recuperado el 19 de noviembre de 2009 .
  55. ↑ "James Madison" . Patrimonio estadounidense . Archivado del original el 12 de diciembre de 2010. Consultado el 14 de febrero de 2010 .
  56. ↑ "William Henry Harrison" . American Heritage . Archivado del original el 2 de enero de 2010. Consultado el 14 de febrero de 2010 .
  57. ↑ "John Tyler" . Patrimonio estadounidense . Archivado del original el 2 de enero de 2010. Consultado el 21 de agosto de 2017 .
  58. ↑"Millard Fillmore". American Heritage. Archived from the original on May 11, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  59. ↑"Franklin Pierce". American Heritage. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  60. ↑The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, James Henry Lea, Robert Hutchinson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1909, p. 4.
  61. ↑"Ancestors of Abraham Lincoln". www.genbox.com.
  62. ↑"Andrew Johnson". American Heritage. Archived from the original on May 11, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  63. ↑"Ruthorford Hayes". American Heritage. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  64. ↑"James Garfield". American Heritage. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  65. ↑"Calvin Coolidge". American Heritage. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  66. ↑"Jimmy Carter Library – maintained by fanboy Alan Horowitz".
  67. ↑"Ronald Reagan". American Heritage. Archived from the original on July 10, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  68. ↑"George W Bush, Essex boy". BBC News. November 7, 2000.
  69. ↑"Ancestry of Barack Obama". www.wargs.com.
  70. ↑Davies, Gareth A (January 14, 2009). "UFC 'can become an Olympic sport'".
  71. ↑"Sandra Day O'Connor". Oyez. Archived from the original on November 20, 2006.
  72. ↑"Ancestry of William Rehnquist". William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services.

Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to Americans of English descent at Wikimedia Commons