List of Scots-Irish Americans
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This is a list of famous Scots-Irish Americans.
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Contents |
[edit] Entertainment
- Ben Affleck (actor)
- Tallulah Bankhead (actress)
- Johnny Cash, (singer)
- James Coburn, (actor)
- Eddie Cochran, (musician)
- Ava Gardner (movie star)
- Judy Garland (singer/actress)
- Anjelica Huston (actress)
- John Huston (director)
- Walter Huston (actor)
- Reba McEntire (singer)
- Steve McQueen (actor)
- Robert Mitchum (actor)
- Audie Murphy (soldier and actor)
- Dolly Parton (1946 - ) country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress[1]
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977) (singer)
- Christina Ricci (1980 - ) actress, former teen star[2]
- George C. Scott (actor)
- Jimmy Stewart (actor and USAF General)
- John Wayne (actor)
[edit] Literature
- David McCullough (Historian)
- Edgar Allan Poe (author, mainly of short horror stories)
- Mark Twain (author)
- S.M. Stirling (author)
[edit] Politics/history
- Chester Alan Arthur (President)
- James Buchanan (President)
- George Herbert Walker Bush (President)
- George W. Bush (President)
- John C. Calhoun, (Vice President)
- Grover Cleveland (President)
- Bill Clinton (President)
- Davy Crockett (western pioneer)
- John Dunlap (Revolutionary politician)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (President)
- Benjamin Harrison (President)
- Sam Houston (Texan statesman)
- Andrew Jackson (president)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate General)
- Andrew Johnson (president)
- John McCain (Senator)
- George B. McClellan (Union General)
- William McKinley (President)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (President)
- George S. Patton (US General)
- James Knox Polk (President)
- Theodore Roosevelt (President)
- J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate General)
- Charles Thomson (Revolutionary politician)
- James H. Webb (Marine, U.S. Senator)
- Woodrow Wilson (President)
[edit] Sports
- Mickey Cochrane, (sportsman)
- Jeff Gordon (NASCAR driver)
- Arnold Palmer (golfer)
[edit] Other
- Neil Armstrong, (astronaut)
- Jessica Lynch (soldier)
- Andrew W. Mellon (banker)
- Chelsea Clinton (daughter of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Parton - [1] "Dolly Parton the Queen of Country spoke of her pride at being Scotch Irish just before a sellout gig in Belfast. In an interview with Northern Ireland newspaper the Belfast Telegraph she said, " there is no reason why I haven't played Belfast in the past. But with my Scotch Irish ancestry its ridiculous that I haven't been here before. Obviously my roots have been a massive influence on my music" Dolly then said that she would love to return to Northern Ireland being very proud of her heritage she would love to find out more. The Ulster Scots Agency who presented Dolly with a Ulster Scots translated version of her hit "Jolene" said she would be very welcome, " Dolly is just one of 22 Million Scotch-Irish in America who are enthusiastically following up their Ulster Scots roots. I am delighted she is in town and hope she finds out more about her roots. I am sure she will find us very welcoming and will come back again to visit where her forefather's came from"
- ^ Ricci - [2] "R icci, as you might expect, is an Italian name. "But the Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish.""
