List of Huguenots

John Theophilus Desaguliers was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.

Pierre des Maizeaux, author

G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, British writer and historian

Théophile de Viau, poet and dramatist

Brooke D'Orsay, Canadian actress

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet

Daphne du Maurier, English writer

George du Maurier, English author and cartoonist

Gerald du Maurier, English actor

I. D. du Plessis, South African writer, member of the Dertigers group

Max du Preez, is a South African author, columnist and documentary filmmaker and was the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad.

Sean Else, is a South African writer and film maker

Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster, English author

Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet

Johnny Fourie, South African Jazz guitarist

Philip Morin Freneau, American poet

Judy Garland, actress and singer

David Garrick, English actor

André Gide, French author, Nobel Prize winner

Jean-Luc Godard, French film director

Dashiell Hammett, American author

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor

Eddie Izzard, English comedian and actor

Derek Jacobi, English actor

Elsa Joubert, South African novelist

Victor Lardent, British advertising designer who drew Times New Roman

William Larminie, Irish poet

Christian Ignatius Latrobe, British clergyman, composer, and musician

Simon Le Bon, English musician and frontman of 1980s group, Duran Duran.

Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer

Jacques Le Moyne, French artist and explorer

Madeleine L'Engle, American author

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

Pierre Loti, French Orientalist writer

Charles Maturin, Irish Gothic writer

Jacques-Louis Monod, pianist, composer, and teacher

Karl Oenike, 1862 - 1924 German Landscape Painter

Laurence Olivier, English actor

Bernard Palissy, French potter

Tom Paulin, British poet and critic

Jon Pertwee, English actor

Sean Pertwee, English actor

James Planché, British dramatist and officer of arms

Tyrone Power, actor

Tyrone Power, Sr., actor

Frederic Remington, American artist and sculptor

Keith Richards, English musician

Damon Runyon, American author

Julia Sawalha, British actress of Huguenot and Jordanian ancestry

John Spencer-Churchill (artist), English painter and sculptor and nephew of Sir Winston Churchill

Charlize Theron, South African actress

Henry David Thoreau, American writer

Dorothea Viehmann, German storyteller, source for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm

Alexander von Roon, American Actor and Director

John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet

Education

Hosea Ballou II, first president of Tufts University

Jean Belmain, French scholar, French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I

Anthony Benezet, American Quaker educator and abolitionist

Jacques Bongars, scholar

Ferdinand Buisson, educator, academic, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Isaac Casaubon, scholar

Meric Casaubon, scholar and translator

Harriet Martineau, English writer and educational and economic reformer

James Martineau, English philosopher, educator, and Unitarian minister

Lewis Page Mercier, British translator of Jules Verne into English

Gabriel Monod, historian

Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée), French humanist, logician, and educational reformer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

Warren Buffett, investor, wealthiest person in the world in 1995 and 2008

Jean Calas, French merchant, son's murder case championed by Voltaire

Jean Chardin (later Sir John Chardin), French jeweller and traveller

Samuel Courtauld (industrialist), American-born British industrialist

Samuel Courtauld (art collector), grandnephew of the industrialist, businessman, and art collector

Salomon de Brosse, French architect

Simon De Charmes, Successful Watch and Clockmaker

Robert Champion de Crespigny, Australian businessman

Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor

Celest de Villiers, South-Africa Entrepreneur

E. I. du Pont, founder of the duPont Company (USA)

Simone Dupont, Danish descendant

Gustav Fabergé, Russian jeweller

Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweller

James Gandon, Anglo - Irish Georgian architect

Charles Gide, French economist

Jean Francois Hobler, watchmaker and clockmaker

Howard Hughes, American inventor, industrialist and billionaire

Leonard Jerome, American financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, British-born architect of the United States Capitol

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, American engineer

Henry Laurens, American merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress

Daniel Myron LeFever, American gunmaker

Richard Leplastrier, Australian architect

John Pintard, American merchant and philanthropist

Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, and reality TV star

John D. Rockefeller, American capitalist

Robert Lewis Roumieu, British architect

Marvin Travis Runyon, American business executive

Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman

John E. Tourtellotte, American architect

Marc Vangrootel, Canadian Web Designer/Developer

Obadiah Williams, Irish merchant

Journalism

Tom Brokaw, American television journalist and author

Rian Malan, South African journalist

Giles Romilly, British journalist, Nazi POW, nephew of Winston Churchill

Alexander von Roon, American writer & journalist

Peregrine Worsthorne, British journalist

Law

Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat

Antoine Court, French reformer

Warder Cresson, American writer, first U. S. consul to Jerusalem, and convert to Judaism

John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court

Paul Ricœur, philosopher

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly, English judge

Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, German jurist

Friedrich Karl von Savigny, German jurist

Medicine

Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author

Charles Angibaud, French-born British apothecary

George de Benneville, physician and early Universalist

Campbell De Morgan, British surgeon

John Misaubin, French-born British physician

Ambroise Paré, French surgeon

Peter Mark Roget, British physician and compiler of the thesaurus

Military

John André, British officer and spy

Francis Beaufort, hydrographer of the British Admiralty

Salomon Blosset de Loche, French general

John Blossett, British soldier, led British expedition to aid Simon Bolivar in the wars of independence against Spain

Marquis Calmes, general, Veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Union General in the US Civil War, Governor of the state of Maine.

Frederick Cockayne Elton, Crimean War recipient of the Victoria Cross

Piet Cronje, leader of the Transvaal Republic's military forces during the First and Second Anglo-Boer Wars

François de Beauvais, Seigneur de Briquemault, French soldier

Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, general

Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, general

Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, British Army Lieutenant Colonel, member of the Special Operations Executive

John de Chastelain, Canadian diplomat, General and Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces

Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral

Hector Francois Chataigner de Cramahé, French soldier, assisted William of Orange in the taking of the British throne

Peter de la Billière, British Military Commander

François de la Noue, French soldier, called Bras-de-Fer (Iron Arm)

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French soldier, prince of Sedan and Marshal of France

Ulrich de Maizière, German general

Henri, duc de Rohan, French soldier

Jacques de Sores, pirate, nicknamed L'Ange Exterminateur (The Exterminating Angel)

Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat

Jean du Casse, French buccaneer and admiral

Christiaan du Toit, South African military commander

Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer), British Army officer

Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage, Major General in the British Army

Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe General and World War II fighter ace

Henri Guisan, Commander in Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II

Peter Horry, American Revolutionary War General

Benjamin Huger, American Civil War general (Confederate)

Petrus Jacobus Joubert, Boer commandant-general of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900

Jean L'Archevêque, French explorer, soldier and merchant-trader

John Laurens, American Revolutionary War hero

François le Clerc, pirate known as Jambe de Bois (or Wooden Leg)

Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq, Prussian general

John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier Commander-in-Chief of the British Army

Adolph Malan, South African World War II fighter pilot ace

Magnus Malan, former South African Minister of Defence, Chief of the South African Defence Force, and Chief of the South African Army

Arthur Middleton Manigault, American Civil War general (Confederate)

Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter

Hans-Joachim Marseille, German Luftwaffe ace

Peter Mawney, Colonel, Rhode Island militia

Charles Manigault Morris, American Navy officer (Confederate)

George S Patton, Jr, US Army General, WWII

J. Johnston Pettigrew, Confederate general in the American Civil War

George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War

Charles Portal, British Chief of the Air Staff 1940-1945 Combined Chiefs of Staff 1942-1945

Paul Revere, American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence.

Jean Ribault, naval officer and colonizer

Barry St. Leger, British officer

Charles C. Tew Colonel CSA-killed 1862

John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Army and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War II, a descendant of the Delancey family

Constand Viljoen, leader of the South African Freedom Front and SADF general

John Bordenave Villepigue, Confederate general

John C. Villepigue Medal of Honor winner

Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière highest scoring German U-boat commander of World War I

Curt von François, German soldier and administrator in German South-West Africa (now Namibia)

Hermann von François, German World War I general

Politics and government

John Bascom, American university president, writer

Ruth Bascom, American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon

Isaac Barré, British politician, gave his name to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Barre, Massachusetts; and Barre, Vermont

James A. Bayard, U. S. Congressman

Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, British Ambassador to Italy and Ambassador to France

Jessie Boucherett, English campaigner for women's rights

Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress

James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts

James Bowdoin III, American statesman and philanthropist, benefactor of Bowdoin College

Bryant Butler Brooks, Governor of Wyoming

William Byrd I, early Virginia settler

François Caron, French Director-General of the Dutch East India Company and the French East Indies Company

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Winston Churchill, British prime minister

Sarel Cilliers, Boer Voortrekker

Richard Walther Darré, NSDAP Reich Agricultural Minister

Constant d'Aubigné, French nobleman, father of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV

Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Marshal of France

François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, French statesman

Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founded Québec City, born into a Huguenot family, died a Roman Catholic

Louise de Coligny, wife of William the Silent

Hector Theophilus de Cramahé, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, titular Lieutenant-Governor of Detroit

Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa serving from September 1989 to May 1994

Johannes de la Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam and Vice-Director of New Netherland

James DeLancey, Governor of New York

Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval, first lieutenant governor of French Canada

René Goulaine de Laudonnière, French explorer

Lothar de Maizière, German politician

Thomas de Maizière, German politician

Maurice Couve de Murville, French prime minister

Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse, Countess of Wilhelmsburg, grandmother of King George II of England

Louis Dubois, colonist to New Netherland, co-founded New Paltz, New York

Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts, French colonizer of Canada

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French writer, economist, and government official

Alexander du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1806 - 1811.

D. F. du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners

S. G. du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners

Stephanus Jacobus du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners

Mareen Duvall, early Maryland settler

Nigel Farage, British politician, leader of UKIP party

Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster, British Conservative politician

Peter Force, American politician and archivist

Jacobus Johannes Fouché, State President of South Africa 1968-1975

Frederick the Great of Prussia, son of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover and nephew of George II of Great Britain was matrilineally descended from Alexander II d'Esmiers, Marquis d'Olbreuse, a Huguenot.

Alonzo Garcelon, Governor of Maine

George II of Great Britain, son of Sophia Dorothea of Celle was matrilineally descended from Alexander II d'Esmiers, Marquis d'Olbreuse, a minor member of the French nobility and a Huguenot.

Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States

Hermann Göring, German politician, military leader, and leading member of the NSDAP

Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin), wife of Sir John Franklin

François Guizot, French historian and statesman

Alexander Hamilton, American Secretary of the Treasury

Henry IV of France, king of France

James Francis Helvetius Hobler, Chief Clerk to the Lord Mayors of London

Sir James Houblon, merchant and Member of Parliament

Sir John Houblon, First Governor of the Bank of England

George Izard, Major General and Governor of Arkansas

Ralph Izard, U.S. Senator, President pro tempore of U.S. Senate

Jeanne III of Navarre, Queen of Navarre, mother of Henry IV of France

Lionel Jospin, French prime minister

Robert M. La Follette Jr., Senator from Wisconsin, co-founder of the Progressive Party

Charles La Trobe, first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria, Australia

Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords

Hester Mahieu, wife of Francis Cooke, captain of the Mayflower, and daughter of French-speaking Calvinists Jacques and Jenne/Jeanne Mahieu.

Daniel François Malan, South African Prime Minister elected on Apartheid platform

Gideon Malherbe, co-founder of the Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners

Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian diplomat and politician

Gouverneur Morris, American statesman, represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention

Beyers Naudé, Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist and cleric

Jozua François Naudé, acting President of South Africa from 1967 to 1968

Oscar Neebe, American labor movement leader

Sarah Palin, American politician, governor of Alaska, U.S. presidential candidate

Daniel Perrin, one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York

Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist

Élisée Reclus, geographer and anarchist

Piet Retief, Boer Voortrekker

Daniel Roberdeau, Congressman and militia General

Michel Rocard, French prime minister

Esmond Romilly, British socialist and anti-fascist

Samuel Romilly, English legal reformer and Member of Parliament

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States

Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Runyon, American lawyer, politician, Civil War general, New Jersey court judge, first U.S. ambassador to Germany

William Nelson Runyon, American lawyer, politician, governor of New Jersey

Thilo Sarrazin, German economist, formerly politician and member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Jedediah Smith, American explorer and mountain man

Eugène Terre'Blanche South African political activist

Charles Tupper, Canadian father of Confederation, Premier of Nova Scotia (1864-1867) and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896) was reputed to be a Huguenot descendant.

Luis Vernet, Argentine governor of the Falkland Islands

Religion

Jacques Abbadie, French theologian

Moses Amyraut, French theologian, proponent of Amyraldism

Hosea Ballou, American preacher, co-founder of Universalist theology in America

Henry Bidleman Bascom, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop

Theodore Beza, French theologian

David Blondel, French clergyman, historian, and classical scholar

John Calvin, French-born Swiss theologian

Louis Cappel, French clergyman and Hebrew scholar

Sebastian Castellio, theologian and early proponent of freedom of conscience

Jean Daillé, French theologian

Odet de Coligny, former cardinal

Guillaume de Félice, Comte de Panzutti, French abolitionist and theologian

Jessé de Forest, leader of a group of Walloon-Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions

Josué de la Place, French theologian

William Farel, theologian

Abraham Faure, Clergyman and author in the Cape Colony

John Gano, Baptist preacher and Revolutionary War chaplain

Pierre Jurieu, French pastor and author

Paul Lorrain, secretary to Samuel Pepys, Anglican clergyman, and ordinary of Newgate Prison

Andrew Lortie, theologian

Adolphe Monod, pastor

Frédéric Monod, pastor

Samuel Provoost, American clergyman

Paul Rabaut, pastor

Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne, pastor and Girondist

Charles Spurgeon, first pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, founder of a theological college, almshouses and orphanage, and a writer

Science

Florence Bascom, American geologist

Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist

Abraham de Moivre, French-born British mathematician

Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician

John Theophilus Desaguliers was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.

Alexander du Toit, South African geologist

Daniel du Toit, South African astronomer

Paul J. Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner

Gideon Joubert, Afrikaans science non-fiction author

Matthew Fontaine Maury, father of modern oceanography and naval meteorology

Jacques Monod, biologist, Nobel Prize winner

Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer, and activist

Arthur Alcock Rambaut, Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Radcliffe Observer at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University

Roger Revelle, one of the first scientists to study global warming and tectonic plates.

Yves Rocard, French nuclear physicist

Francis Peyton Rous, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist

Sport

Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator

Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer

Roy Cazaly, Australian Rules footballer

Tony Cottee, West Ham United and England footballer

Piers Courage, English racing driver

Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer

Phil de Glanville, England rugby union international

AB De Villiers, South African cricketer

Faf du Plessis, South African cricketer

Jürgen Hahn, German handball player

Paul Michael Levesque, American pro wrestler famous under pseudonym of Triple H

Andre Nel, South African cricketer

Buddy Pelletier, Professional Surfer-Member of Surfing Hall of fame

François Pienaar captain of the Springboks

Elfrida Pigou, Canadian mountaineer

Juan Theron, South African cricketer

Other

Jane Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin

References

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