List of Scotch-Irish Americans
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This is a list of notable Scots-Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to Lowland Scottish and Northern English people, but through having stayed a few generations in Ulster. This list is ordered by surname within section. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scots-Irish American or must have references showing they are Scots-Irish American and are notable.
"Mullis" as a Scots-Irish surname is debatable.[1]
List
Entertainment
- Karen Allen (actress), of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent.[2]
- Mary Astor (movie star), maternal grandmother was of Scots Irish heritage
- Alec Baldwin (actor)
- Daniel Baldwin (actor)
- Stephen Baldwin (actor)
- William Baldwin (actor)
- Tallulah Bankhead (actress)
- Kim Basinger (actress)
- Warren Beatty (actor, producer, director), of part Scotch-Irish descent
- Johnny Cash (musician)
- June Carter Cash (musician)
- Jessica Chastain (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Eddie Cochran (musician)
- Rory Cochrane (actor)
- Emily Deschanel (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Janice Dickinson (model), father of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Shannen Doherty (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Michael Douglas (actor), his Bermudian mother Diana Dill is of part Ulster Scots ancestry
- Haylie Duff (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Carrie Fisher (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Megan Fox (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Zach Galifianakis (actor), mother is of part Scotch-Irish descent
- Crystal Gayle (singer)
- Mel Gibson (actor)
- Summer Glau (actress, classically trained ballet dancer), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Edna Goodrich (Broadway and silent screen actress; Florodora girl)
- Martha Graham (dancer, choreographer)
- Moby (Musician, DJ, Vegan) small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Merle Haggard (musician)
- Barbara Hale (actress)
- Armie Hammer (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Colton Haynes (actor)
- Smith Hart (wrestler)
- Bruce Hart (wrestler)
- Keith Hart (wrestler)
- Wayne Hart (wrestler)
- Dean Hart (wrestler)
- Bret Hart (wrestler)
- Ross Hart (wrestler)
- Diana Hart (wrestling valet)
- Owen Hart (wrestler)
- Kate Hudson (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Oliver Hudson (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Michael Keaton (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- David Lynch (director), Scotch-Irish father
- Loretta Lynn (singer)
- Shirley MacLaine (actress, dancer, author), of part Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Steve Martin (actor)
- Frank McCown, aka Rory Calhoun (actor)
- Reba McEntire (singer, actress), of part Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Robert Mitchum (actor), of part Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Agnes Moorehead (actress)
- Mary-Louise Parker (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Dolly Parton[3] (country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Lou Diamond Phillips (actor), father was partly of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Elvis Presley (musician, actor), of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Burt Reynolds (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Debbie Reynolds (actress)
- Christina Ricci (actress), of part Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Peter Sarsgaard (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Ricky Skaggs (singer)
- James Stewart (actor), of mostly Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Hilary Swank (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Maria Tallchief (prima ballerina)
- John Wayne (actor), of Scotch-Irish ancestry
- Hank Williams (singer), Scotch-Irish mother
- Jonathan Winters (actor), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
Literature
- Cork Graham (author)
- Stephen King (author)
- David McCullough (historian)
- Edgar Allan Poe (author), paternal side of his family were Ulster Scots from County Cavan
- John Steinbeck (author)
- Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens (author, wit), family were from County Antrim
Political/military
- James L. Alcorn (U.S. senator)
- Lamar Alexander (governor of Tennessee)
- Chester A. Arthur (president)
- Theodore G. Bilbo (U.S. Senator)
- John P. Buchanan (governor of Tennessee)
- John C. Calhoun (vice president)
- William B. Campbell (governor of Tennessee)
- William A. Clark (U.S. senator from Montana, industrialist, banker)
- Grover Cleveland (president)
- Bill Clinton (president)
- Charlie Crist (governor of Florida)
- David Crockett (frontiersman, U.S. congressman)
- Charles Croswell (governor of Michigan)
- Jefferson Davis (Confederate president)
- John Dunlap (revolutionary politician)
- David Farragut (U.S. Navy)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate general)
- William Gamble (Union general)
- William Alexander Graham (governor of North Carolina)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (president)
- Benjamin Harrison (president)
- William Henry Harrison (president)
- Sam Houston (Texas statesman)
- Andrew Jackson (president)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate general)
- Andrew Johnson (president)
- John J. Kennedy (Republic of Texas politician)
- Beriah Magoffin (governor of Kentucky)
- Francis Makemie (Presbyterian minister)
- George Mathews (governor of Georgia)
- Henry M. Mathews (governor of West Virginia)
- John McCain (Senator, U.S. presidential candidate)
- George B. McClellan (Union general)
- John P. McCown (Confederate general)
- Benjamin McCulloch (Confederate general)
- Andrew Ryan McGill (governor of Minnesota)
- James McHenry (American statesman)
- Thomas McKean (governor of Pennsylvania)
- William McKinley (president)
- Alexander McNair (governor of Missouri)
- Jeremiah Morrow (governor of Ohio)
- Thomas Z. Morrow (colonel of the 32nd Kentucky infantry during the American Civil War)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (president)
- Arthur Noble (lieutenant-colonel)
- Barack Obama (president), mother had ancestral connection to Ulster
- George S. Patton (U.S. general)
- Andrew Pickens (governor of South Carolina)
- P.B.S. Pinchback (governor of Louisiana)
- James Knox Polk (president)
- Archibald Roane (governor of North Carolina)
- James S. Rollins (representative, "Father of the University of Missouri")[4]
- Theodore Roosevelt (president)
- Edward Rutledge (governor of South Carolina)
- John Rutledge (governor of South Carolina)
- William Sharkey (governor of Mississippi)
- Adlai Stevenson I (vice president)
- Adlai Stevenson II (governor of Illinois)
- Adlai Stevenson III (U.S senator)
- J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate general)
- William S. Taylor (governor of Kentucky)
- Charles Thomson (Revolutionary politician)
- Harry S. Truman (president)
- James H. Webb (Marine, U.S. senator)
- George Henry White (U.S. senator)
- Hugh Lawson White (U.S. senator)
- James White (frontiersman, founder of Knoxville, Tennessee)
- Woodrow Wilson (president)
Sports
- Mickey Cochrane (sportsman)
- Jack Dempsey (boxer)
- Jeff Gordon (NASCAR driver)
- Josh McCown (NFL quarterback)
- Luke McCown (NFL quarterback)
- Randy McCown (Texas A&M Aggies quarterback)
- Arnold Palmer (golfer)
- David Wright (MLB third baseman)
Other
- Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
- Tammy Bruce[5] (radio talk show host)
- Kit Carson (frontiersman)
- James Creelman (journalist)
- Samuel Dale (soldier and pioneer)
- Charles Stark Draper (inventor of inertial navigation)
- Timothy Eaton (founder of the Eaton's department store)
- Bill Gates (chairman of Microsoft)
- Hugh Glass (mountain man, fur trapper, pioneer)
- John Honeyman (spy, War of Independence)
- James Irwin (astronaut)
- Bruce McCandless II (astronaut)
- Robert R. McCormick (owner of Chicago Tribune)
- Andrew W. Mellon (banker)
- Kary Mullis (inventor of PCR, Nobel Prize winner)
- Harry Gordon Selfridge (founder of eponymous department store)
- Alexander Turney Stewart (retail innovator)
- Sir Henry Worth Thornton (President, Canadian National Railways; Coach, Vanderbilt University football team)
- William Wheeler Thornton (judge, author, Indiana Supreme Ct. Librarian)
References
- ↑ Mullies, Wm. A., A Documentary History of the English Mullis Surname: 1053-1660, Ft. Worth: Etcetery Publishing LLC, 2014, pp. 186–187.
- ↑ Wloszczyna, Susan (September 9, 2010). "Allen and Riegert tend to the 'White Irish Drinkers'". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.scotchirish.net/Country%20Music.php4
- ↑ Rollins - Floyd Calvin Shoemaker, Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians, Missouri Book Company, 1918, p. 184.
- ↑ Tammy Bruce: "I'm Italian and Scotch-Irish", Tammy Bruce Show, Los Angeles, Talk Radio Network (May 14, 2009), radio commentary.
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