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List of Scotch-Irish Americans

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.

Contents

"Mullis" as a Scots-Irish surname is debatable.

Entertainment

  • Karen Allen (actress), of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent.
  • 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 (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)
  • 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
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead (actress), small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
  • 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")
  • 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)
  • Rosa Parks (Civil Rights activist)
  • Tammy Bruce (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

    List of Scotch-Irish Americans Wikipedia
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