Some notable Huguenots or people with Huguenot ancestry include:
Arts and Entertainment
James Agee, American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author
Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor
Pierre Bayle, French author and philosopher
Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter
Sébastien Bourdon, French painter
Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens
Samuel Chappuzeau, French author, poet, and playwright
Jessica Chastain, American actress
William Christopher, American actor
Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer
Joan Crawford, American actress
Davy Crockett, American folk hero
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet
Marie De Cotteblanche, known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French
Jean Delannoy, French actor, film editor, screenwriter, and film director
Louis de Rochemont, filmmaker
Richard de Rochemont, filmmaker
William De Morgan, British art potter, tile designer, and author
Johnny Depp, American actor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jane Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin
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