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List of Americans of English descent

This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are English American or must have references showing they are English American and are notable.

List

Visual artists

Assassins, outlaws, and criminals

Astronauts

Astronomers

Directors, producers

Descendants of Mayflower passengers

Actors

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Authors and writers

Musicians

Entrepreneurs, executives

First Ladies of the United States

(in order by their husband's presidency)

Governors of states

Historical figures

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

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)
John Adams (English)
2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583, Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts)
Thomas Jefferson (English)
3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph)
James Madison (English)
4th President 1809–17
John Quincy Adams (English)
6th President 1825–29 (Henry Adams born 1583 Barton St David, Somerset, England)
William Henry Harrison (English)
9th President 1841–1841
John Tyler (English)
10th President 1841–1845
Zachary Taylor (English)
12th President 1849–50
Millard Fillmore (English)
13th President 1850–1853
Franklin Pierce (English)
14th President 1853–1857
Abraham Lincoln (English and Welsh)
16th President 1861–65 (Samuel Lincoln baptised 1622 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, died in Hingham, Massachusetts).
Andrew Johnson (Scotch-Irish and English)
17th President 1865–1869
Ulysses S. Grant (Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and English)
18th President 1869–77
Rutherford Hayes (English)
19th President 1877–1881
James A. Garfield (English and French)
20th President 1881–81
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
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)
Ronald Reagan (Scotch-Irish, Irish, English & Scottish)
40th President 1981–1989
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)
Barack Obama (Luo, English)
44th President 2009–2017 (his mother Ann Dunham's heritage is mostly English)
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

Members of the United States House of Representatives

Scientists, researchers

Senators

Sports

United States Supreme Court justices

Other

References

External links