List of Americans of English descent

• 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

• Clyde Barrow
• 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
• 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
• Richard Lawrence – intellectually disabled criminal, who attempted to kill Andrew Jackson
• 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
• Brad Newman

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

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

• 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

• Alec Baldwin[1]
• 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[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
• Linda Hamilton – actress
• Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises [1]
• Katharine Hepburn – iconic American actress of film, television and stage
• Ashley Judd – actress
• Victoria Justice – actress, father of partial English descent
• Taylor Lautner
• 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 [1]
• Anthony Perkins – actor
• Anne Ramsey – actress
• Christopher Reeve – actor [1]
• Bill Richardson[3] – Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt – U.S. President (although he was 1/4 Dutch)
• Anna Mary Robertson Moses
• Victoria Rowell – actress
• Sissy Spacek – actress
• Benjamin Spock – 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

• 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[4] – of partial English descent
• Krista Allen[5] – of partial English descent
• Lauren Ambrose – mother of partial English descent
• Gillian Anderson – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Aniston[6] – mother of partial English descent
• Devon Aoki – maternal grandfather of 1/2 English descent; maternal grandmother of English descent
• Christopher Atkins
• Hayley Atwell
• Jean Arthur
• Jake T. Austin – father of English descent

• Kevin Bacon – of mostly English descent
• Sosie Bacon – father of mostly English descent and mother of partial English descent.
• Diora Baird
• Brandon Baker[7] – 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 April 15, 1979) – 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
• Kim Basinger
• Amanda Bearse
• 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
• Annette Bening – father of partial English decent; mother of English decent
• Emily Bergl – father of English descent
• Kelli Berglund – of partial English descent
• Halle Berry – mother of English descent
• Valerie Bertinelli – mother of English descent
• Michael Biehn – father of partial English descent; mother has some English ancestry
• Jessica Biel – of partial English descent
• Jason Biggs – father of half English descent
• Bill Bixby – both parents of English descent
• Jack Black[8] – father of partial English descent
• Tyler Blackburn
• JB Blanc – actor, mother of English descent
• Rowan Blanchard – mother of English descent[9]
• Cate Blanchett
• Alexis Bledel – of partial English descent
• Violetta Blue
• Emily Blunt
• Humphrey Bogart – father of partial English descent; mother mainly of English descent
• Matt Bomer[10] – 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[11] – mother of partial English descent
• Vanessa Branch
• Marlon Brando – of mostly 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 – 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
• Clancy Brown – actor of English, Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, and Dutch descent. Best known as the voice of Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Sandra Bullock – father of partial English descent
• Ty Burrell – of partial English descent
• Steve Burton
• Sophia Bush – of partial English descent
• Austin Butler – of mostly English descent

• Anna Camp
• 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[12][13][14]
• 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
• Pauline Chalamet – father of partial English descent
• Timothée Chalamet – father 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
• Rachael Leigh Cook – father 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
• Jon Cryer
• Cameron Cuffe
• Macaulay Culkin[15] – 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

• 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
• Britain Dalton
• 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
• Jessica Darrow – father of partial English descent
• Fanny Davenport – both parents of English descent
• Harry Davenport
• Bette Davis – both parents of mainly English descent
• Geena Davis
• Jaye Davidson – mother of English descent
• Sarah Lynn Dawson
• 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 mainly English descent
• Lily-Rose Depp – father of mainly English descent
• Rebecca De Mornay – paternal grandfather was English
• Laura Dern – of partial English descent
• Emily Deschanel[16] – of partial English descent
• Zooey Deschanel – of partial English descent
• Jenna Dewan[17] – mother of partial English descent
• Cameron Diaz – mother of partial English descent
• Vin Diesel – mother (and possibly father) of partial English descent
• Peter Dinklage – of partial English descent
• Shannen Doherty – mother of partial English descent
• Taylor Dooley – of partial English descent
• Diana Douglas – of partial English descent
• Melvyn Douglas – mother of English descent
• Michael Douglas – mother of partial English descent
• Lesley-Anne Down
• Robin Atkin Downes
• Robert Downey Jr. – mother of partial English descent
• Minnie Driver
• Olivia Taylor Dudley
• Haylie Duff – of partial English descent
• Hilary Duff – of partial English descent
• Josh Duhamel – of partial English descent
• Clark Duke – of partial English descent
• Emma Dumont
• 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

• 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
• Ashley Eckstein – both parents of partial English decent
• 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
• Linda Evans – of partial English descent
• Edith Evanson
• Alice Eve

• Shelley Fabares – both parents of partial English descent
• Edie Falco – mother of partial English descent
• Dakota Fanning – of partial English descent
• Elle Fanning – of partial English descent
• Anna Faris
• Farrah Fawcett – both parents of mainly English descent
• Will Ferrell – of mainly English descent
• Tina Fey – father of partial English descent
• Celeste Fianna – mother of English descent
• W.C. Fields – father born in England
• Jenna Fischer
• Carrie Fisher – mother of 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
• Jodie Foster
• 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
• Mackenzie Foy
• Drew Fuller – of partial English descent

• Robert Gant – of partial English descent
• Ava Gardner – mainly of English descent
• Andrew Garfield – was raised in England; mother was English-born, father was born to English parents in U.S
• Judy Garland – of partial English descent
• Jennifer Garner
• Greer Garson
• Gladys George
• Richard Gere
• 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
• Ashley Greene
• Melanie Griffith – of partial English descent
• Christopher Guest – father of partial English descent
• Carla Gugino – mother of partial English descent
• Mamie Gummer – mother of partial English descent
• Ryan Guzman[18] – mother of partial English descent
• Jake Gyllenhaal – father of part English descent
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – father of part English descent

• 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
• Linda Hamilton
• Amelia Gray Hamlin – maternal grandmother of English and Portuguese descent; father of English descent
• Harry Hamlin
• Jon Hamm – of partial English descent
• Armie Hammer – of partial English descent
• Woody Harrelson – of partial English descent
• Mariska Hargitay – mother of half English descent
• Justin Hartley
• David Hasselhoff[19] – 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
• Tricia Helfer
• Emma Heming – of partial English descent
• Florence Henderson
• Logan Henderson – of partial English descent
• Christina Hendricks – father English-born; mother of partial English descent
• Elaine Hendrix
• 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 partial 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
• Lauren Holly – of partial 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 partial English descent
• Brianne Howey – of partial 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[20] – of partial English descent
• Anjelica Huston – father of partial English descent
• Danny Huston – of partial English descent
• John Huston
• Josh Hutcherson
• Timothy Hutton

• Jonathan Jackson[21] – of partial English descent
• Celina Jade – of partial English descent
• Caitlyn Jenner
• Kendall Jenner
• Kris Jenner
• Kylie Jenner
• Glynis Johns
• 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

• 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
• Catherine Keener – of partial English descent
• Ellie Kemper – of partial English descent
• Anna Kendrick[22] – 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[23] – father of partial English descent
• Justin Kirk – father of partial English descent
• Jen Kirkman[24] – of partial English descent
• Hayley Kiyoko[25] – father of half English descent
• Chris Klein – small amount of English descent
• Wayne Knight – father of English descent
• David Koechner – of partial English descent

• 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
• Brie Larson – of partial 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
• Riker Lynch – mother of English descent
• Ross Lynch – mother of English descent
• Rydel Lynch – mother of English descent

• Andie MacDowell
• 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
• Matthew McConaughey – of partial English descent
• 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
• Bentley Mitchum – both parents had English ancestry
• John Mitchum – of partial English descent
• Julie Mitchum – of partial English descent
• Robert Mitchum – of partial English descent
• Marilyn Monroe
• 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
• Emma Myers – of partial English descent

• 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[26] – mother of 1/4 English descent
• John Oliver
• 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 (1975-1988) – 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

• Adrianne Palicki – mother of partial English descent
• Gwyneth Paltrow – mother of partial English descent
• Brina Palencia – mother of partial English descent
• Eleanor Parker – both parents were of part English descent
• Mary-Louise Parker – of partial English descent
• Sarah Jessica Parker – mother of part English descent
• Audrina Patridge – of partial English descent
• Robert Patrick
• Aaron Paul – of mostly English descent
• Sara Paxton – father 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
• Chelsea Peretti – father of half 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[27] – mother of part English descent
• Martha Plimpton – of partial English descent
• Amy Poehler[28] – of partial English descent
• Ellen Pompeo – father of partial English descent
• Tyler Posey[29] – father of partial English descent
• Grace Potter
• 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
• Lindsay Pulsipher
• Dennis Quaid – of partial English descent
• Randy Quaid – of partial English descent
• Margaret Qualley
• Rainey Qualley

• Adam Rayner
• Robert Redford – of paternal English descent, English grandmother
• Tara Reid[30] – of partial English descent
• Tracy Reiner
• James Remar[31] – mother was English
• Jeremy Renner – of partial English descent
• Giovanni Ribisi – of partial English descent
• Christina Ricci – of Irish, 1/4 Italian and some Scottish and English
• Denise Richards – of partial English descent[32][33]
• Michael Richards – father had English ancestry
• Blanche Ring – great-great-grandfather of English descent
• Molly Ringwald – of partial English descent
• Lisa Rinna – mother 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[34]
• Julia Roberts[34] – both parents of partial English descent
• James Roday[35] – mother of partial English descent
• Sarah Roemer[36] – of partial English descent
• Rebecca Romijn – mother of half English descent
• Neil Ross – London-born voice actor
• Brandon Routh – of partial English descent
• Victoria Rowell of partial English descent
• Paul Rudd – both parents English Jews
• Jane Russell – mother of 1/2 English descent
• Rene Russo – mother of partial English descent
• Amy Ryan – of partial English descent
• Remy Ryan – of partial English descent
• Winona Ryder – mother of mostly English descent

• Mark Salling – of partial English descent
• Susan Sarandon – father of partial English descent
• Peter Sarsgaard – of partial English descent
• Julia Schlaepfer – both parents of partial English decent
• Liev Schreiber – paternal great-great-grandfather of English descent; paternal grandmother of English descent
• Seann William Scott – of partial English descent
• Edie Sedgwick
• Kyra Sedgwick – father of English descent
• Robert Sedgwick – father of English descent
• Michael Shannon
• Steven Seagal – mother of partial English descent
• Marian Seldes – mother of English descent
• Tom Selleck
• Amanda Seyfried – of partial English descent
• Sara Shane – 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
• Molly Sims – father 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[37] – mother of mainly English descent
• Kerr Smith – of partial English descent
• Ian Somerhalder – of partial English descent
• Suzanne Somers – of Irish (mostly), with some English
• Kevin Sorbo – mother of partial English descent
• Shannyn Sossamon – of partial English descent
• James Spader
• Britney Spears
• Jamie Lynn Spears
• Nick Stahl – of partial English descent
• John Stamos – mother of part English descent
• Kim Stanley – mother of half English descent
• Sadie Stanley
• 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
• Madeleine Stowe – father of partial English descent
• Beatrice Straight
• Steven Strait – of half English descent
• Meryl Streep – mother of part English descent
• Gregg Sulkin
• Patrick Swayze – of partial English descent

• 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[38] – 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
• Ashley Tisdale – father of mainly English descent
• Jennifer Tisdale – father of mainly English descent
• Jonathan Tucker[39] – father of half English descent
• Alan Tudyk – mother of part English descent
• Sonny Tufts
• Lana Turner
• Liv Tyler – both parents of partial English descent

• Tracey Ullman – mother of English descent
• Erik Valdez – mother of English and Irish descent
• Casper Van Dien – father of mainly Dutch descent, with some English; mother of partial English descent
• Grace Van Dien – both parents has English ancestry
• Dick Van Dyke – mother of half English descent
• Jerry Van Dyke – mother of half English descent
• Vince Vaughn – both parents of partial English descent
• Danielle Vega – mixed African-American, Irish, English, Spanish and Cherokee
• Milo Ventimiglia – mother of partial English descent

• 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
• Robert Walker – of half English descent
• Evelyn Ward
• Mateus Ward - father of partial English descent
• Kerry Washington – mother of partial English descent
• Sam Waterston – mother of English descent, a descendant of Mayflower passengers
• John Wayne
• 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
• Tom Welling
• Betty White – both parents of partial English descent
• Kristen Wiig[40] – of part English descent
• Olivia Wilde – father of mainly English descent and mother has partial English descent
• Adrienne Wilkinson[41] – of partial English descent
• Barry Williams – of partial English descent
• Chris Williams (actor) – of African-American, English and Welsh descent
• Michelle Williams – of partial English descent
• Robin Williams – of partial English descent
• Vanessa Williams – of African-American, English and Welsh descent
• Zelda Williams – father of partially English descent
• Bruce Willis – of partial English descent
• Rumer Willis – father of partial English descent; mother of partial English descent
• Patrick Wilson – father of English descent
• Rainn Wilson
• Philip Winchester[42] – mother English-born
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Parents are both English
• Jonathan Winters – of part English descent
• Reese Witherspoon
• Elijah Wood – father of half English descent
• Shailene Woodley – of partial English descent
• James Woods[43] – father of English descent
• Shannon Woodward – of mainly English and Swedish descent, with small amount of Norwegian ancestry
• Fay Wray – father of English descent
• Jane Wyatt – of partial English descent
• John Lloyd Young – father of part English descent
• Zendaya – maternal grandmother of English and Scottish descent

• Louisa May Alcott
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Kevin Andrews
• Natalie Barney
• Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr[44]
• John Bartlett
• L. Frank Baum
• Ambrose Bierce
• Tony Blankley
• Victor Bockris
• Quinn Bradlee
• William Cullen Bryant
• Christopher Buckley
• William F. Buckley Jr.
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs
• Carolyn Cassady
• Raymond Chandler
• J. Smeaton Chase
• Winston Churchill (novelist)
• Chris Claremont
• Florence Earle Coates
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Stephen Crane
• Ann Coulter[45]
• Coningsby Dawson
• Paula Deen
• 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[46]
• 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[47]
• Jason F. Wright

• Alex Gaskarth – lead vocalist of All Time Low (born in Essex)
• Dimebag Darrell Abbott – former lead guitarist of Pantera
• Vinnie Paul Abbott – former Pantera drummer
• Trace Adkins
• 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
• Jeff Buckley – father of partial English descent
• Cliff Burton – father is mostly of English descent
• John Cage – composer; of English and Scottish descent
• Blu Cantrell – mother of partial English descent
• Jerry Cantrell
• 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 Corgan
• Chris Cornell – mother of mainly English descent
• Billy Ray Cyrus
• Miley Cyrus
• Glenn Danzig
• Jamie Davis
• Spencer Dryden – longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane; nephew of Charlie Chaplin[48]
• Billie Eilish – mother of mostly English descent
• Eminem – of mostly English descent
• Sara Evans
• John Fogerty
• Brandon Flowers – lead singer of The Killers
• Black Francis – singer and rhythm guitarist of the Pixies.
• G-Eazy — rapper
• Lady Gaga — maternal grandfather was of partial English descent
• Yung Gravy
• Paul Gray – Slipknot bassist
• Dave Grohl – mother of English descent
• Kirk Hammett
• Albert Hammond Jr – father is of English descent
• Jack Harlow
• Debbie Harry – of English and Scottish descent
• James Hetfield – singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
• Buddy Holly – of mostly English descent
• Josh Homme
• 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
• Kris Kristofferson
• Amy Lee
• Kodi Lee
• Greg London
• Courtney Love[49]
• Mike Love
• Lene Lovich – mother of English descent
• Tony Lucca
• Post Malone
• Mike Mccre
• Reba McEntire[50]
• Tim McGraw
• Charles Mingus – mother of partial English descent
• Moby
• Mandy Moore – maternal grandmother of English descent; father of partial English descent
• Thurston Moore – best known as a member of Sonic Youth.
• Jim Morrison
• Dave Mustaine
• Ricky Nelson
• Willie Nelson – of mostly English descent
• Michael Nesmith
• Joanna Newsom
• Jason Newsted
• Wayne Newton
• Stevie Nicks
• Justin Nozuka – mother of English descent
• The Osmonds
• Finneas O'Connell – mother of mostly English descent
• Randy Owen
• Jennifer Paige
• Sara Paxton
• Katy Perry – father of English descent; mother of partial English descent
• Tom Petty – of mostly English descent
• John Phillips – leader and a member of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas
• Michelle Phillips
• Elvis Presley
• Iggy Pop
• Romina Power
• Lana Del Rey
• Trent Reznor – lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter of band Nine Inch Nails
• Tony Rice
• Kevin Richardson
• Ashley Roberts – former member of the pop group The Pussycat Dolls.
• James Root – guitarist
• Axl Rose
• Jack Russell – founder of Great White
• Tommy Shaw
• Blake Shelton
• Ashlee Simpson
• Jessica Simpson
• Slash – rock guitarist
• Isaac Slade – lead vocalist, main songwriter and pianist of The Fray
• Grace Slick – singer and former model; mother is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers
• Elliott Smith
• Matt Sorum – drummer
• Britney Spears
• Jamie Lynn Spears
• Layne Staley
• Izzy Stradlin – rock musician
• Gene Summers
• Taylor Swift – both parents of partial English descent
• Corey Taylor – singer Slipknot Stone Sour
• Rob Thomas
• Justin Timberlake – of mostly English descent
• Randy Travis
• Steven Tyler – mother of half English descent
• Townes Van Zandt – of mostly English descent
• Eddie Vedder
• Tom Waits
• Florence Welch – lead singer of Florence and the Machine.
• Hank Williams
• Brian Wilson
• Carnie Wilson – father of English descent
• Wendy Wilson – father of English descent
• Sid Wilson – member of nu-metal band Slipknot
• Kimberly Wyatt – former member of the pop group The Pussycat Dolls.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic – singer and satirist; maternal grandmother of English descent
• Trisha Yearwood
• Adam Young

• P. T. Barnum[51]
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
• Nicholas Biddle
• Benjamin Brewster
• 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
• Elias Hasket Derby – first millionaire in the United States
• 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

(in order by their husband's presidency)

• 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
• Michelle Obama – (African-American (mostly), including Gullah, as well as distant English, Scottish, and Irish)
• Jill Biden – of partial English descent

• 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 – 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

• 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[52]
• Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990) – Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923; first runner-Up 1924[53]
• 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 September 11, 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

• Charles Alderton
• Samuel Andrews
• Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995) – early inventor of rodeo equipment
• John Bidwell
• Gail Borden
• Caleb Bradham
• Vannevar Bush[54] – 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[55]
• 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

• Ambrose Bierce
• Peter Brimelow
• Ben Bradlee
• Ben Bradlee, Jr.
• 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
• Sally Quinn
• Cokie Roberts
• Charlie Rose
• Diane Sawyer
• Paul W. Smith
• Ida M. Tarbell
• Barbara Walters

• 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
• William Wilson Quinn
• 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

• Angela Bowie
• Bebe Buell
• Cindy Crawford
• Ashley Graham – of partial English descent
• Kaia Gerber – of partial English descent
• Jerry Hall
• Crystal Harris – both parents of English descent
• Carolyn Murphy
• Alexandra Richards
• Nia Sanchez – mother of partial English descent
• Kimberly Stewart
• Kate Upton – of partial English descent
• Kendra Wilkinson – of part English descent
• Kylie Jenner
• Kendall Jenner

• Dean Acheson
• Jimmy Carter[56]
• John Caven
• Walter Chiles
• Hillary Clinton[57][58][59]
• Calvin Coolidge
• George P. Bush
• George W. Bush
• George H. W. Bush
• Richard Girnt Butler
• Jefferson Davis
• Charles E. Dudley
• William M. Evarts
• Gerald Ford[60]
• Benjamin Franklin
• Warren G. Harding
• Herbert Hoover[61]
• William Jennings
• Lyndon B. Johnson[62]
• Richard Henry Lee
• Robert Liddell
• George Mason
• Malcolm Nichols
• Richard Nixon[63]
• Barack Obama[64][65]
• Henry Paulson[66]
• Ronald Reagan[67]
• George Lincoln Rockwell
• Mitt Romney[65]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt[68][65]
• Edward Shippen
• George Sutherland
• John Townsend
• Harry S. Truman[69]
• Martin H. Weight
• Caspar Weinberger – former U.S. Secretary of Defense[70]
• Harry Weeks – political activist and economist
• Woodrow Wilson

• Tracey Adams
• Eva Angelina
• Tori Black
• Sasha Grey
• Jenna Jameson
• Noname Jane
• Shayla LaVeaux
• Brandi Love
• Tera Patrick – of partial English descent
• Chanel Preston

A number of the presidents of the United States have English ancestry.[71] 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)[72][73]

John Adams (English)

2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583, Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts)[74]

Thomas Jefferson (Welsh and Scotch-English)

3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph)

James Madison (English)

4th President 1809–17[75]

John Quincy Adams (English)

6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England)[74]

William Harrison (English)

9th President 1841–1841[76]

John Tyler (English)

10th President 1841–1845[77]

Zachary Taylor (English)

12th President 1849–50

Millard Fillmore (English)

13th President 1850–1853[78]

Franklin Pierce (English)

14th President 1853–1857[79]

Abraham Lincoln (English and Welsh)

16th President 1861–65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts).[80][81]

Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English)

17th President 1865–1869[82]

Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, English and Scottish)

18th President 1869–77

Rutherford Hayes (English)

19th President 1877–1881[83]

James A. Garfield (English and French)

20th President 1881–81[84]

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 and English)

25th President 1897–1901

Theodore Roosevelt (Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English and French)

26th President 1901–1909[85]

William Taft (Scotch-Irish and English)

27th President 1909–1913[86]

Woodrow Wilson (Scotch-Irish and English)

28th President 1913–1921 (Wilson's mother Janet was born in Carlisle)

Warren G. Harding (Scotch-Irish and English)

29th President 1921–23

Calvin Coolidge (English)

30th President 1923–1929[87]

Herbert Hoover (German, Swiss, Scots-Irish, English)

31st President 1929–1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dutch, French and English)

32nd President 1933–45

Harry S Truman (Scotch-Irish, English and German)

33rd President 1945–53

Lyndon B. Johnson (English)

36th President 1963–69

Richard Nixon (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English and German)

37th President 1969–74 (English and Irish descent)

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)[88]

Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)

40th President 1981–1989[89]

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)[90]

Barack Obama (Luo, English and Irish)

44th President 2009–2017 (his mother Ann Dunham's heritage is mostly English and Irish)[91]

Joe Biden (Irish, French, and English)

46th President 2021-present (William Biden from Sussex, England emigrated before 1822 to Baltimore, Maryland)

• 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

• 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

• Philip P. 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
• Samuel Dibble – South Carolins
• 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 (U.S. senator) – New Jersey
• Norton Strange Townshend – Ohio
• David Gardiner Tyler – Virginia
• William D. Washburn – Minnesota
• Robert Charles Winthrop – Massachusetts
• Thomas Contee Worthington – Maryland

• Elizabeth Blackburn
• Thomas Bland – doctor, founder of the National Indian Defense Association
• 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 (economist)
• 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 founders of Mayo Clinic
• William James Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, one of seven founders of Mayo Clinic
• William Worrall Mayo – medical doctor and chemist, one of seven founders of the Mayo Clinic
• George Minot – Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
• Joseph Priestley – chemist
• James Renwick (physicist)
• J. Alan Robinson – philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist
• Roger Sanders
• Albert Schatz (scientist)
• 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

• 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

• Oliver Ellsworth
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• John Marshall
• Sandra Day O'Connor[93]
• William Rehnquist[94]
• George Sutherland
• Byron White
• Levi Woodbury
• William Burnham Woods

• 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
• Richard B. Spencer – public speaker and activist on behalf of the alt-right movement
• Jerry Springer – TV presenter