This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and were the principal founders of the United States, 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.
Assassins, outlaws and criminals
Clyde Barrow
John Wilkes Booth – Abraham Lincoln assassin
Lizzie Borden – the 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
Charles J. Guiteau – James Garfield assassin
Jesse James – train and bank robber
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
John Glenn
Christa McAuliffe - Irish, Lebanese, German, English, and Native American ancestry
Alan Shepard
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
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 – actor
Nick Folk – football player
Jodie Foster – actress
Richard Gere – actor
Martha Graham – dancer
Ulysses S. Grant – Union Army general; US President
Linda Hamilton – actress
Hugh Hefner – founder, majority owner, editor-in-chief, and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises
Katharine Hepburn – iconic American actress of film, television and stage
Ashley Judd – actress
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
Anthony Perkins – actor
Anne Ramsey – actress
Christopher Reeve – actor
Bill Richardson – Governor of New Mexico (although he is 3/4 Latino)
Franklin D. Roosevelt – US 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 –
Noah Webster – American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, word enthusiast, and editor
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