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This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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List of notable Americans with Scottish ancestry
Actors/Entertainers
- Jensen Ackles, emmy-nominated actor
- Buck Adams
- Muriel Angelus
- Ben Affleck, actor (father was Scottish-American)
- Casey Affleck, actor
- Richard Dean Anderson, actor
- Jennifer Aniston (maternal grandfather of Scottish ancestry)
- Alicia Alighatti
- Andrew Arbuckle
- Macklyn Arbuckle
- Roscoe Arbuckle
- Samaire Armstrong, actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money
- Mary Astor
- John Barrowman (born and semi-raised in Scotland)
- Lucille Ball, actress and comedienne (father was Scottish-American)
- Catherine Bell, actress and model
- Kristin Bell, actress
- Linda Blair, most famous for her role in the 1973 film The Exorcist
- Jack Black, Actor, Singer, and Comedian
- Jolene Blalock, actress and model
- Samantha Brown, Television and host on the Travel Channel
- James D. Brubaker, film producer, production manager and actor
- Shelbie Bruce
- Bryan Callen
- Drew Carey, comedic actor and game show host
- David Carradine, actor, director, and martial artist
- Myra Carter
- Rory Cochrane
- Michael Cole, play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment
- Keith Hirabayashi Cooke, actor and stuntman
- Miriam Cooper
- Laird Cregar
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Miley Cyrus
- Matt Damon, actor
- Mona Darkfeather
- James Dean, actor
- Joanie Dodds, fashion model
- Helen Douglas
- Nancy Dow, actress, father was a distant decendant of Mary Queen of Scots.
- Robert Downey Jr, actor (mother is of German-Scottish decent)
- David Duchovny, actor (mother Scottish)
- Daniel Ducovny, brother of David (note, no "h")
- George Eldredge
- Sam Elliott, actor
- Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor
- Tina Fey, Comedic actress and writer (father Scottish/German heritage)
- Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian[1]
- George Ferguson
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Jimmy Finlayson
- China Forbes, lead singer of Pink Martini (father Scottish-American, mother African-American]]
- Glenn Ford
- Drew Fuller
- Greer Garson, actress
- Ashlyn Gere
- Mel Gibson (Clan Buchanan), actor and director (Braveheart)[2]
- Isabel Gillies
- Cork Graham, imprisoned in Vietnam for trespassing while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.[3][4]
- Larry Hagman, Actor, best known for J R Ewing in Dallas
- Oliver Hardy, Comedic actor, best known for Laurel and Hardy
- Lisa Joyner, TV presenter
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, producer, and singer
- Josh Holloway,Georgia Raised, Highland bred
- Samuel Jackson, African-American actor with Scots ancestry
- Cody Kasch (1987 - ) television actor (Desperate Housewives)[5]
- Max Kasch (1985 - ) television/film actor
- Val Kilmer, Actor
- Sunny Lane female porn star [6]
- Eva LaRue, Actress
- Jay Leno (1950 - ) comedian, former actor, known as host of The Tonight Show[7]
- Ray Liotta, actor
- Heather Locklear, actress
- Seth MacFarlane writer of Family Guy
- John James "Jimmy" MacDonald voice of Mickey Mouse
- Jennette McCurdy, child actress
- Danica McKellar, actress
- Benjamin McKenzie,
- Kyle MacLachlan, actor, Sex And The City
- Steve McQueen, American actor
- Tobey McGuire, American actor
- Marshall Mathers, American rapper (Eminem)
- Kristy McNichol
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
- Julianne Moore, actress
- Lou Diamond Phillips
- Mickey Rooney, actor
- Jerry Sadowitz, comedian and conjurer
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- Tom Selleck, actor
- Alicia Silverstone, actress
- Michelle Anne Sinclair, stage name Belladonna, pornographic actress
- David Strathairn, actor, The River Wild
- Jimmy Stewart, actor, Brigadier General (USAFR)
- John Stewart, musician, former member of the Kingston Trio
- Stoya, porn star [8]
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Keifer Sutherland, actor
- Michael Tait, musician
- Skeet Ulrich Father German, mother Scottish
- Carrie Underwood - Country singer
- Jurgen Vsych, film director, screenwriter and author
- Christopher Walken, actor[9]
- John Wayne, actor (mother Scots-Irish, father Scottish)
- Rainn Wilson
- Reese Witherspoon, actress (Scottish ancestor John D. Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence)
- Cyma Zarghami, current president of Nickelodeon and MTV Network's Kids and Family Group (father Iranian, mother Scottish)
Artists
- Alexander Anderson, illustrator
- Alexander Calder
- Herbert A. Collins[10]
- John M. Donaldson artist and architect
- Joseph Glasco
- Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
- Jackson Pollock, artist
Athletes
- Tommy Armour III, professional golfer
- Lance Armstrong, 7 time Tour de France winner
- Don Budge, tennis player
- Mickey Cochrane, Hall of Famer
- Keith Cooke, martial artist (mother Scottish-American, father Japanese-American)
- Walter Dick, soccer player
- Patrick Galbraith
- Jimmy Gallagher, soccer player who was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Malcolm Goldie soccer player who won one cap for the US national team
- Stuart Holden, US international soccer player, currently playing for Houston Dynamo
- April Hunter, professional wrestler
- Shaun McDonald, American football player
- Arnold Palmer, golfer
- Bobby Thomson, baseball player
- Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame pitcher
Business
- James Abernethy, entrepreneur and first ever governor of Oregon
- William M. Blair
- David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company
- Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist and Steel
- Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (Scottish-Welsh American his grandmother Elizabeth Callaway was born in Scotland)
- David Eccles, Utah's first ever millionaire
- James Grant Forbes, businessman who made his fortune from the opium trade
- Bill Gates, mother was of Scottish descent[11].
- Cyrus McCormick (International Harvester)
- Harold Fowler McCormick
- Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born chairman and managing director of NewsCorp
- Allan Pinkerton, detective and director of a security business
- Donald Trump, business magnate and television personality
Musicians/Singers
- Billie Joe Armstrong, Singer/Guitarist for Green Day
- Emilie Autumn
- Lindsey "Lyn-Z" Ballato, Bassist for Mindless Self Indulgence
- Joan Baez
- Jeff Baxter, guitarist for Steely Dan
- Drake Bell
- Shannon Bex, former member of Danity Kane
- Wes Borland, of the band Limp Bizkit
- David Byrne, Musician/Songwriter/Artist. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland
- Glen Campbell, singer
- Johnny Cash, singer
- Roseanne Cash singer-songwriter daughter of Johnny Cash
- Alice Cooper, Rock Singer
- Glen Danzig, singer known for work with Misfits and Danzig
- Jonathan Davis, lead singer and songwriter for Korn
- Hilary Duff, actress and singer
- Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer best known with The Black Eyed Peas
- Brandon Flowers, singer and keyboardist of The Killers
- Alison Fraser
- Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- Oscar Hammerstein II, writer of musicals of "Rodgers and Hammerstein" fame, Scottish grandparent [12]
- James Hetfield, singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
- John Hilliard, composer
- Joanna Levesque, better known by her stage name JoJo
- Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence
- Talitha MacKenzie singer
- Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish
- Ian MacKaye, Early Hardcore and Emo personality, noted for Minor Threat and Fugazi
- Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, Rapper
- Tim McAllister
- Tim McGraw, American singer (father is Scots-Irish, mother is Italian-Irish)
- Don McLean
- Katharine McPhee, pop and R'n'B
- Brian Molko, lead singer of Placebo(mother Scottish)
- Jim Morrison, singer/poet. Father of Scottish descent, mother of English descent.
- Michael Nesmith, Musician/Actor "The Monkees"
- Elvis Presley, singer [13][14]
- Bonnie Raitt, singer/songwriter
- John Raitt, Broadway musical star
- Doug Robb, musician and lead singer of rock band Hoobastank.
- Ginger Rogers, born Virginia Katherine McMath
- Ryan Ross, Guitarist/Lyricist/Songwriter for Panic at the Disco
- Ashlee Simpson, singer/actress
- Jessica Simpson, singer
- Gwen Stefani, singer
- Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
- Carrie Underwood, country singer
- Brendon Urie, Lead singer of Panic at the Disco
- Tom Waits, singer/songwriter
- Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
- Mikey Way, bass guitarist for My Chemical Romance
- Jack White aka John Anthony Gillis, of The White Stripes
- Axel Rose (lead singer from Guns and Roses from Scottish German descent)
Government and military
- Creighton Abrams, US Army general who commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968-1972
- William Alexander, American major-general during the American Revolutionary War
- Neil Armstrong, astronaut
- Chester A. Arthur, American president
- James Barbour, officer in the Confederate Navy
- Maryanne Trump Barry
- Alan Bean astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon
- Jim Bowie, Frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
- Bay Buchanan
- James Buchanan, American president
- Pat Buchanan
- Irvine Bulloch
- Ambrose Burnside
- Omar N. Bradley, American General
- Thomas Mitchell Campbell
- William J. Campbell
- Wooda Nicholas Carr
- Grover Cleveland, American President
- Samuel W. Crawford, US Army surgeon and Union general in the American Civil War
- Davy Crockett, Frontiersman, U.S. Congressman, and a defender of the Alamo
- Alexander J. Dallas
- James E. Ferguson
- Millard Fillmore, American president
- Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general
- James Gilfillan, 13th Treasurer of the United States
- Alexander Garden (soldier), American Revolutionary War soldier
- Newt Gingrich, American politician
- Ulysses S. Grant, military leader and American president
- John B. Gordon, Confederate War Hero
- Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury
- John Hancock, first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
- Warren G. Harding, American president
- Rutherford B. Hayes, American president
- Sam Houston, president of Texas and afterwards governor
- Andrew Jackson, American President
- Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
- Thomas Jefferson, American president
- Andrew Johnson, American president
- Lyndon B. Johnson, American president
- John Paul Jones, American Revolutionary War naval hero
- John Kerry
- Arthur MacArthur, American General
- Douglas MacArthur, American general
- Samuel McDowell
- Scott McClellan, Former U.S secretary of Press
- George B. McClellan
- Clark MacGregor
- James McHenry (Scots-Irish)
- Lachlan McIntosh
- Mike McIntyre
- Archibald T. MacIntyre, American politician
- Alexander McKenzie
- William McKinley, American president
- James Monroe, American president
- Richard Nixon, American president
- George S. Patton, American General
- James K. Polk, American president
- Colin Powell, Chief of Staff
- Ronald Reagan, American president
- John McCain, Senator of Arizona
- Theodore Roosevelt, American president
- Winfield Scott, American general
- Jeb Stuart,Confederate War Hero
- William Howard Taft, American president
- Harry S. Truman, American president
- Woodrow Wilson, American president
- John Witherspoon, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
Inventors, engineers and academics
- Thomas Addis, physician and scientist
- Alexander Graham Bell, telephone.
- James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary
- Donald J. Cram, shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen
- Walter Houser Brattain, inventor of the transistor
- James McGill Buchanan, economist
- Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology
- William Wallace Campbell, astronomer
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Alexander Garden (naturalist) - botanist whose name lives on in the Gardenia flower, though he was also a physician and zoologist
- David MacAdam, color scientist
- John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer, road-builder and inventor.
- Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Writers
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer
- Taylor Caldwell
- John Dickson Carr
- Michael Crichton, author
- William Faulkner, author
- Esther Forbes, novelist and children's writer
- Robert Frost, poet
- Alex Haley, author of Roots [4] [5] [6]
- Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan fantasy series
- Washington Irving
- Amy MacDonald
- Sean McAdam
- Al McIntosh, distinguished newspaper editor
- Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It etc
- Archibald MacLeish, modernist poet, Pulitzer Prize winner and Librarian of Congress.
- Larry McMurty
- Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet, critic
- J. D. Salinger, writer of Catcher in the Rye[15]
- Phyllis Schlafly, politically conservative, pro-life activist and writer
- Mark Twain, author
- Thomas Clayton Wolfe,author whose mother was Scots-Irish[16]
Native American leaders Of Scottish descent
- Alexander McGillivray, Creek (Muscogee) chief
- William McIntosh, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
- Peter McQueen, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
- Menawa, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
- John Norton, Mohawk chief
- John Ross, Cherokee chief
- William Weatherford, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
Other
- Alfred Blalock, surgeon
- Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement
- William Henry Farquhar
- Ilan Hall, chef
- Indiana Jones, fictional archeologist, associate dean, college professor, adventurer, soldier
- John Muir, naturalist
- Kim Kardashian, socialite and television personality
- Malcolm X, militant and religious leader.[17]
- Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising)
- Jane McCrea
- Lisa McPherson, Scientologist whose death was a source of much controversy for the Church
References
- ^ "Craig Ferguson's got a date at the White House". San Francisco Chronicle (Associated Press). 6 February 2008. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/06/DDHOUSF80.DTL&hw=colbert&sn=252&sc=207. Retrieved 19 September 2009. and
Craig Ferguson, host. (2008-02-05) (in English). Craig Ferguson takes Oath of Allegiance. [Television production]. CBS. Event occurs at 7:58. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLAyZGexPYg. Retrieved 19 September 2009. - ^ Derek Lambie, ‘Sporran Legion’, The Express on Sunday (30 May 2004), p. 49.
- ^ REUTERS (May 18, 1984). "AROUND THE WORLD; Hanoi Frees American 11 Months After Capture". New York Times. p. 5, Col. 6. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/18/world/around-the-world-hanoi-frees-american-11-months-after-capture.html. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ Branigin, William (12 May 1984). "Tracking Captain Kidd's Treasure Puts Pair in Vietnamese Captivity". The Washington Post.
- ^ [1] "Cody Kasch, who plays Zach Young on Desperate Housewives, wore an argyle sweater with a burgundy tie. "I wore the sweater because I'm Scottish," he said."
- ^ http://www.xcitement.com/interview/?page_id=290
- ^ Leno - [2] "he's Italian and Scottish" [3] "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian. Which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
- ^ http://www.adultfilmdatabase.com/actor.cfm?actorid=45017
- ^ Camillo Fracassini, 'White trash on menu as Macbeth gets meaty', Scotland on Sunday (13 January 2002).
- ^ Family tree of Herbert A. Collins
- ^ "Scottish Americans". albawest.com. http://www.albawest.com/scottish-americans.html. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ Fordin, Hugh (1995), Getting to Know Him:A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306806681
- ^ 'Elvis Presley's Scottish Ancestry'
- ^ Elvis Presley's Roots
- ^ Skow, John (1961-09-15). "Sonny: An Introduction". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938775,00.html. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ^ David Herbert Donald, 'Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe', Fawcett Columbine, NY, 1987, p.6
- ^ The Autobiography of Malcolm X. with the assistance of Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, 1965, pp. 4–5. X's mother was born in Grenada - her father was Scottish. Initially he felt it was a status symbol to be light-skinned, but later he would say that he "hated every drop of that white rapist's blood that is in me." His mother had been born in Grenada, with a white father and black mother.
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