This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained U.S. citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scottish American or must have references showing they are Scottish American and are notable.
Actors and entertainers
John C. Reilly, American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and producer. Father was of Irish and Scottish ancestry
Seth Green, American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Of partial Scottish ancestry
Jensen Ackles, Emmy-nominated actor, of part Scottish descent
Ben Affleck, actor, writer, director, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Casey Affleck, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Richard Dean Anderson, actor, mother is of Scottish ancestry
Muriel Angelus
Jennifer Aniston, maternal grandfather of part Scottish ancestry
Andrew Arbuckle
Macklyn Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
Robert Armstrong
Samaire Armstrong, actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money; father is Scottish
Mary Astor
Lucille Ball, actress and comedian; father was part Scottish-American
Tallulah Bankhead
Al Barr
John Barrowman, born and semi-raised in Scotland
Earl W. Bascom, descendant of John Alexander, Scottish settler who founded Alexandria,Virginia, worked with cowboy actor Roy Rogers
Catherine Bell, actress and model, father was of Scottish descent
Kristen Bell, actress, of part Scottish descent
Jolene Blalock, actress and model
Alexis Bledel, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jordana Brewster, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
James Brolin, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Samantha Brown, television host on the Travel Channel
James D. Brubaker, film producer, production manager and actor
Dean Cain, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), mother is of partial Scottish heritage
Gina Carano, mixed martial artist, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Drew Carey, comedic actor and game show host
Jim Carrey, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Myra Carter
Johnny Cash
Lacey Chabert, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Charles Coburn
Lauren Cohan, actress
Michael Cole, play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment
Chris Connelly, born in Edinburgh
Keith Hirabayashi Cooke, actor and stuntman
Miriam Cooper
Stewart Copeland, drummer in the band The Police
Laird Cregar
Matt Damon, actor, father is of partial Scottish ancestry, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Ted Danson, of part Scottish descent
Mona Darkfeather
Yvonne De Carlo, mother was of Italian and Scottish descent
James Dean, actor, of part Scottish descent
Laura Dern, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Vin Diesel, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Matt Dillon, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Joanie Dodds, fashion model
Shannen Doherty, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Helen Douglas
Michael Douglas, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Gary Dourdan, African-American actor with some Scottish ancestors (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Nancy Dow, actress, father was of part Scottish ancestry
Robert Downey Jr., actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry on mother's side
David Duchovny, actor (mother Scottish)
Daniel Ducovny, brother of David (note, no "h")
Robert Duvall, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Leslie Easterbrook, actor, of part of Scottish descent
Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Aaron Eckhart, actor, mother is of partial Scottish ancestry
Andrew Eiden
George Eldredge
Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian
George Ferguson
Tina Fey, comedic actress and writer; father half German and half Scottish heritage
Jimmy Finlayson
Scott Foley, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
China Forbes, lead singer of Pink Martini; father Scottish-American, mother African-American
Glenn Ford
Edwin Forrest
Drew Fuller
Judy Garland (Milne from Aberdeenshire), small amount of Scottish ancestry
Greer Garson, actress
Ashlyn Gere
Paul Giamatti, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Mel Gibson (Clan Buchanan), actor and director (Braveheart), small amount of Scottish ancestry
Isabel Gillies
Brian Austin Green
Rebecca Hall, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Oliver Hardy, comedic actor, best known for Laurel and Hardy
Roy Ellsworth Harris, classical composer of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry
Colton Haynes, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Katharine Hepburn, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Charlton Heston, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Edward Everett Horton
Ron Howard, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Steve Howey
Felicity Huffman, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Anjelica Huston, her father, director John Huston, was of part Scottish descent
Josh Hutcherson, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jonathan Jackson, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Kendall Jenner, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Kris Jenner, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Kylie Jenner, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Spike Jonze, director, producer, screenwriter and actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Khloé Kardashian, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Kim Kardashian, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Kourtney Kardashian, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Rob Kardashian, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Cody Kasch (1987- ), television actor (Desperate Housewives)
Max Kasch (1985- ), television and film actor
Michael Keaton, small amount of Scottish ancestry
David Keith, actor
Deborah Kerr, actress
Val Kilmer, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Nancy Kwan, mother was of Scottish descent
Sunny Lane, porn star
Eva LaRue, actress
Jay Leno (1950- ), comedian, former actor, host of The Tonight Show; mother was from west lowland Scotland
Hamish Linklater, best known for his role in the series The New Adventures of Old Christine; son of Scottish vocal coach, dialect professor, actor and theater director Kristin Linklater
Heather Locklear, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Marion Lorne, actress best known for her recurring role as Aunt Clara in the series Bewitched
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Chad Lowe, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Myrna Loy
Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
Andie MacDowell, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Seth MacFarlane, writer of Family Guy, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Ali MacGraw, father was of Scottish descent, mother was of Hungarian Jewish ancestry
Alexander Mackendrick
Kyle MacLachlan, actor, Sex and the City, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Patrick Macnee, actor
Michael Madsen, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Virginia Madsen, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
John Malkovich, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Marshall Mathers, American rapper (Eminem), small amount of Scottish ancestry
Matthew McConaughey, of part Scottish descent
Gates McFadden, actress
Danica McKellar, actress
Benjamin McKenzie, of part Scottish ancestry
Kevin McKidd
Zoe McLellan
Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress
Steven R. McQueen, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Caroline McWilliams
Marian Mercer, actress
Andy Milligan
Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell, mother is native Scottish
Demi Moore, actress, mother is Scottish
Julianne Moore, actress, mother is from Scotland
Agnes Moorehead
Marilyn Monroe, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
Robert Montgomery, film and television actor, director and producer; father of actress Elizabeth Montgomery
Jim Morrison, Singer/songwriter of The Doors
Sean Murray, Australian mother and Australian-American father, both of Scottish ancestry
Jack Nicholson, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Chuck Norris, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Timothy Olyphant, actor; his surname is a variant spelling of the Scottish Clan Oliphant
Mary-Louise Parker, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Aaron Paul, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Sara Paxton, father is of part Scottish ancestry
Nia Peeples, actress and singer
Lou Diamond Phillips, biological father was of mostly Scottish descent
Elvis Presley, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Freddie Prinze, Jr., actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Burt Reynolds, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jason Ritter, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
AnnaSophia Robb, of part Scottish descent
Emma Roberts, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Julia Roberts, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Sarah Roemer, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Ginger Rogers, actress; born Virginia Katherine McMath
Mickey Rooney, actor, father was Scottish-born
Brandon Routh, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jane Russell
George C. Scott, actor
Seann William Scott, actor, Steve Stifler of American Pie, of part Scottish ancestry
Brooke Shields, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Alicia Silverstone, actress, mother is Scottish
Barbara Stanwick, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jimmy Stewart, actor, Brigadier General (USAFR)
John Stewart, musician
David Strathairn, actor, The River Wild, of part Scottish ancestry
Donald Sutherland, actor, of part Scottish descent
Kiefer Sutherland, actor, of mostly Scottish descent
Michael Tait, musician
Kate Upton, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Casper Van Dien, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Milo Ventimiglia, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Jurgen Vsych, film director, screenwriter and author
Christopher Walken, actor; mother was a Scottish immigrant
Kerry Washington, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
John Wayne, actor (both parents of part Scottish and Scots-Irish ancestry)
Sigourney Weaver, actress, father was of part Scottish ancestry
Kristen Wiig, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Olivia Wilde, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Michelle Williams, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Patrick Wilson, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Reese Witherspoon, actress; Scottish ancestor John D. Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence
Steven Wright, comedian, actor and writer; Scottish and Italian descent
Cyma Zarghami, current president of Nickelodeon and MTV Network's Kids and Family Group (father Iranian, mother Scottish)
Alexander Anderson, illustrator
Earl W. Bascom, cowboy artist and sculptor
Alexander Calder
Herbert A. Collins
John M. Donaldson, artist and architect
Leslie Erganian
John Mackie Falconer
Joseph Glasco
Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
Jackson Pollock, artist
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Tommy Armour III, professional golfer
Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France winner
Max Baer
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo pioneer, hall of fame inductee, "Father of Modern Rodeo"
Don Budge, tennis player
Gordon Burness
Roy Carlyle
Mickey Cochrane, Hall of Famer
Keith Cooke, martial artist (mother Scottish-American, father Japanese-American)
Walter Dick, soccer player
Brandon Forsyth, ice skater
Patrick Galbraith
Jimmy Gallagher, soccer player who was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
Malcolm Goldie, soccer player who won one cap for the US national team
David Gould, USA national soccer coach and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
John Harkes
Dan Henderson, wrestler
Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers outfielder
Euan Holden, American soccer player currently playing for Danish team Vejle BK
Stuart Holden, US international soccer player, currently playing for Houston Dynamo
April Hunter, professional wrestler
Jock Hutchison
Dominic Kinnear, USA international soccer player and current head coach of Houston Dynamo, born in Glasgow
Bob MacDonald, former Major League Baseball player
Danny MacFayden, baseball player
Seth McClung
Charlie McCully, soccer player who won 11 caps for the US national team
Brandon McDonald
Shaun McDonald, American football player
Tommy McFarlane
Parker McLachlin
Jason McLaughlin, soccer player
Fred McLeod
Nate McLouth, baseballer currently playing for the Atlanta Braves
Doug McMillan
Jamie McMurray
Joe Ogilvie
Arnold Palmer, golfer
Michael Phelps
Roddy Piper, wrestler
Frank Ramsey
Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach
Tim Tebow
Bobby Thomson, baseball player
Lawrence Tynes
Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame pitcher
Melia Wood, half Scottish; shark enthusiast
James Abernethy, entrepreneur and first ever governor of Oregon
Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour and Company, a meatpacking firm
William M. Blair
David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company
William Wallace Cargill, son of a Scottish sea captain
Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist and steel
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery; Scottish-Welsh American; his grandmother, Elizabeth Callaway, was born in Scotland
David Eccles, Utah's first ever millionaire
John Malcolm Forbes
John Murray Forbes
Joseph Barlow Forbes
William Cameron Forbes
Bill Gates, mother was of Scottish descent
Jay Gould, railroad developer
Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate
Cyrus McCormick, International Harvester
Harold Fowler McCormick
I.O. McDaniel
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born chairman and director of NewsCorp
Allan Pinkerton, detective and director of a security business
Alexander Turney Stewart, born in Ireland to Scottish parents
Donald Trump, business magnate, television personality, President of the United States, mother was an immigrant from Scotland
Musicians and singers
Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and guitarist for Green Day
Tim Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist for Rancid
Emilie Autumn
Joan Baez, singer, songwriter and activist; her mother was born in Edinburgh
Lindsey "Lyn-Z" Ballato, bassist for Mindless Self Indulgence
Jeff Baxter, guitarist for Steely Dan
Shannon Bex, former member of Danity Kane
Wes Borland, of the band Limp Bizkit
Roy Buchanan, guitarist and blues musician; a pioneer of the Telecaster sound
David Byrne, musician, songwriter, artist; born in Dumbarton
David Campbell
Glen Campbell, singer
Aaron Carter, singer
Nick Carter, singer
Johnny Cash, singer
Rosanne Cash, singer-songwriter; daughter of Johnny Cash
Kurt Cobain, American musician who was the lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana, of partial Scottish ancestry
Alice Cooper, rock singer
Brann Dailor, drummer for Mastodon
Glen Danzig, singer known for work with Misfits and Danzig
Jonathan Davis, lead singer and songwriter for Korn
Hilary Duff, actress and singer
Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer best known as part of the The Black Eyed Peas
Brandon Flowers, singer and keyboardist of The Killers
Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Alison Fraser
Kim Gordon, singer/guitarist for Sonic Youth
Kina Grannis
Oscar Hammerstein II, writer of musicals of "Rodgers and Hammerstein" fame, Scottish grandparent
Gil-Scott Heron
James Hetfield, singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
Faith Hill
John S. Hilliard, composer
Brent Hinds, singer/guitarist for Mastodon
David Homyk
Alan Hovhaness
Alicia Keys, mother of Scottish descent
Chris Kirkpatrick, former member of N'Sync
Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence
Joanna Levesque, better known by her stage name JoJo
Tony MacAlpine, African American guitarist with Scottish ancestry
Adam MacDougall
Ian MacKaye, early hardcore and emo personality, noted for Minor Threat and Fugazi
Talitha MacKenzie, singer
Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, rapper
Tim McAllister
Jesse McCartney, singer
Paul McCoy
Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish
Tim McGraw, country music singer; father is Scots-Irish, mother is Italian-Irish
Ray McKinley
Jon McLaughlin, singer-songwriter
Don McLean
Katharine McPhee, pop and R&B musician
Ed McTaggart
Meat Loaf
Johnny Mercer
Brian Molko, lead singer of Placebo(mother Scottish)
Jim Morrison, singer, poet; father and mother of Scottish descent
Michael Nesmith, musician, actor, The Monkees
Mike Ness, guitarist and songwriter in the band Social Distortion
Wayne Newton, singer
Brad Paisley, country music singer
Tom Petty, guitarist and vocalist in the band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Elvis Presley, singer
Bonnie Raitt, singer/songwriter
John Raitt, Broadway musical star
Lana Del Rey, singer/songwriter; father and mother of Scottish descent/ancestry; family roots in Lanarkshire
Doug Robb, musician and lead singer of rock band Hoobastank
Axl Rose, lead singer from Guns and Roses; of Scottish German descent
Ryan Ross, musician, previously with Panic! at the Disco and now with The Young Veins
Ashlee Simpson, singer, actress
Jessica Simpson, singer
Britney Spears, singer
Layne Staley, original lead singer of Alice in Chains
Gwen Stefani, singer
Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
Taylor Swift, country/pop singer
Carrie Underwood, singer, songwriter, and actress
Brendon Urie, lead singer of Panic! at the Disco
Gene Vincent, rockabilly singer
Kate Voegele, singer
Tom Waits, singer/songwriter
Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
Mikey Way, bass guitarist for My Chemical Romance
Jack White aka John Anthony Gillis, of The White Stripes
Government and military
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Distant Scottish ancestry, his patrilineal Kennedy line traces back to Scotland, and President Kennedy had Scottish-born ancestors in the 1600s.
Creighton Abrams, US Army general, commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968–1972
John Adair
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, US Air Force pilot and astronaut, second man to walk on the moon, Apollo 11
William Alexander, major-general during the American Revolutionary War
John Anderson, colonial governor of New Jersey in 1736
Matthew Arbuckle, general, closely identified with the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) for the last thirty years of his life; commanded Fort Smith near Indian Territory; established Forts Gibson and Towson in Indian Territory
Neil Armstrong, Naval aviator and astronaut, first man to walk on the moon, Apollo 11
Chester A. Arthur, American president
James Barbour, officer in the Confederate Navy
John S. Barbour, Jr.
Maryanne Trump Barry
Alan Bean, astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon, Apollo 12
James B. Beck
Austin Blair
Jim Bowie, frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
Omar N. Bradley, general
John Breathitt
George A. Bruce
Albert Bryant, Jr.
Bay Buchanan
James Buchanan, American president
Pat Buchanan
Irvine Bulloch
Ambrose Burnside
Joseph R. Burton
George W. Bush, American president
John C. Caldwell
Archibald Campbell
Bill Campbell
George W. Campbell
John B. T. Campbell III
Thomas Mitchell Campbell
William Joseph Campbell
Wooda Nicholas Carr
Kit Carson
Richard Caswell
William Claflin, Governor of Massachusetts
George Rogers Clark
Grover Cleveland, American president
Jack Coghill
Merian C. Cooper
Samuel W. Crawford, US Army surgeon and Union general in the American Civil War
Davy Crockett, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and a defender of the Alamo
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Alexander J. Dallas
George M. Dallas, US Senator from Pennsylvania
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont
John Edwards
James E. Ferguson
Millard Fillmore, American president
William Fleming
James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general
John B. Frazier
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Alexander Garden, American Revolutionary War soldier
James Lorraine Geddes
James Gilfillan, 13th Treasurer of the United States
Henry Bell Gilkeson
Newt Gingrich, politician
John Glenn, former US Senator from Ohio, Marine Corps aviator and astronaut; first American to orbit the earth, Mercury/Friendship 7
John B. Gordon, Confederate general
Arthur F. Gorham, World War II paratrooper and hero during the invasion of Sicily
Archibald Gracie III
Ulysses S. Grant, Union Army General, General of the armies in American Civil War and American president
Charles McNeill Gray
Robert Gray
William Halsey, Jr., Fleet Admiral during World War II in the Pacific theater
Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury
John Hancock, first signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
Warren G. Harding, American president
Rutherford B. Hayes, American president, Civil War officer in the 23rd Ohio, Brevetted to Brigadier General then Major General during the Civil War
Patrick Henry, Revolutionary War officer, colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry, known for the "give me liberty, or give me death!" speech
Harold G. Hoffman, Governor of New Jersey
William Hooper
Sam Houston, president of Texas and afterwards governor
John Houstoun
Rufus Ingalls
James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina
Andrew Jackson, American president
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
Thomas Jefferson, American president
Andrew Johnson, American president
Lyndon B. Johnson, American president
Samuel Johnston
John Paul Jones, Scottish-born, American Revolutionary War naval officer, American Admiral and Rear Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy
Tim Kaine
John Kerry, former US Senator from Massachusetts, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, US Secretary of State in Obama Administration
Henry Latimer
Roberta Lawson
Hugh Swinton Legaré, lawyer and politician of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry
Edward Livingston
Matthew B. Lowrie
Dan Lungren
Nathaniel Lyon, American general, first Union general killed in the Civil War in 1861 at the Battle of Wilson's Creek
Arthur MacArthur, Union officer during the Civil War, American general, father of General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur, five-star American Army General in the Pacific theater during World War II and commander of American forces in Korean War
John Lewis MacDonald
Clark MacGregor
Archibald T. MacIntyre, politician
George MacKinnon
Franklin MacVeagh
Duncan McArthur
Tom McClintock
Henry Dickerson McDaniel, Governor of Georgia
James McDivitt, Brig Gen, USAF, Ret., former astronaut, test pilot and aeronautical engineer who flew in the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions
Irvin McDowell, American general, commanded Union forces at the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)
Samuel McDowell
John McCain, Senator of Arizona
George B. McClellan, Union major general during the American Civil War; Democratic presidential nominee in 1864; later Governor of New Jersey; organized the Army of the Potomac; served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army
Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary
John J. McCloy
Tom Ed McHugh
Lachlan McIntosh
Mike McIntyre
Kenneth McKellar
Alexander McKenzie
William McKinley, American president
John McLane
Mack McLarty
James C. McLaughlin
Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank
Dan K. McNeill, American general
David Brydie Mitchell, Governor of Georgia
Walter Mondale, US Senator from Minnesota, 1984 Democratic presidential nominee
James Monroe, American president
Thomas Z. Morrow, Colonel of the 32nd Kentucky Infantry during the American Civil War
William Moultrie
Patty Murray
Hugh Nelson
Francis G. Newlands
Gavin Newsom
Samuel D. Nicholson
Richard Nixon, American president
Barack Obama, American president
David Paterson
George S. Patton, American general, commanded troops in North Africa and in Europe during World War 2
Thomas Baldwin Peddie
James K. Polk, American president
Colin Powell, former US general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Secretary of State
Samuel Ralston, Governor of Indiana and US Senator
Ronald Reagan, American president, governor of California, president of the Screen Actors Guild, film actor and radio announcer
Jim Risch
Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee
Theodore Roosevelt, American president
Winfield Scott, general, veteran of War of 1812, commanded American Army of Occupation during the Mexican–American War
Alan Shepard, Naval aviator and astronaut; first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon, Apollo 14
George Spalding
John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator
Jeb Stuart, Confederate cavalry general; commanded the cavalry corps in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia; killed at Battle of Yellow Tavern
William Howard Taft, American president, Chief Justice of the United States, United States Secretary of War, 1st Provisional Governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, United States Solicitor General
Edward Telfair, Governor of Georgia
David P. Thompson
George Troup, Governor of Georgia
Harry S. Truman, American president
Donald Trump, 45th American President
James Webb, U. S. Senator, author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (2004)
Alexander White
Heather Wilson
Malcolm Wilson
Woodrow Wilson, American president
Henry A. Wise, Confederate Brigadier General and Governor of Virginia
John Witherspoon, Scots Presbyterian minister and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
Inventors, engineers and academics
Thomas Addis, physician and scientist
Sextus Barbour
Earl W. Bascom, inventor of rodeo equipment
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Alexander Melville Bell
James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary
Walter Houser Brattain, inventor of the transistor
George Harold Brown
James McGill Buchanan, economist
Nicholas Murray Butler
Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology
William Wallace Campbell, astronomer
Allan McLeod Cormack
Donald J. Cram, shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen
Alexander Garden, botanist; namesake of gardenia flower; physician and zoologist
William Harkness
Irving Langmuir
David MacAdam, color scientist
James Ross MacDonald, physicist
Kevin B. MacDonald, psychology professor at California State University
Colin Munro MacLeod
Katherine McAlpine
Richard Sears McCulloh
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, historian
Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Helen Adam
Louis Auchincloss
Paul Dayton Bailey
Lesley Bannatyne
Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer
Carol Brink
Fredric Brown, short story writer
Erskine Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell
John Dickson Carr
Michael Crichton, author
Laurie York Erskine
William Faulkner, author
Alex Finlayson
B.C. Forbes, journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine
Esther Forbes, novelist and children's writer
Robert Frost, poet
Cork Graham, author; imprisoned in Vietnam for trespassing while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd
Alex Haley, author of Roots
Alice Henderson
Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan fantasy series
Washington Irving
Garrison Keillor, author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality; host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion
Steven Keillor
Will Leitch
Amy MacDonald
Sally MacKenzie
Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It
Archibald MacLeish, modernist poet, Pulitzer Prize winner and Librarian of Congress
Sean McAdam
Helen McCloy
David McCullough
Richard McCulloch
Dennis McDougal
Al McIntosh, distinguished newspaper editor
Larry McMurty
James Alan McPherson
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet and critic
J. D. Salinger, writer of Catcher in the Rye
Phyllis Schlafly, politically conservative, pro-life activist and writer
Upton Sinclair, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Mark Twain, author
Thomas Clayton Wolfe, author whose mother was Scots-Irish
Alexander McGillivray, Creek (Muscogee) chief
William McIntosh, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
Peter McQueen, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
Menawa, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
John Norton, Mohawk chief
John Ross, Cherokee chief
William Weatherford, Creek (Muscogee) military leader
George Grant
John Menzies Macfarlane, hymn writer
Mike MacIntosh
David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Scottish father
Scotty McLennan
Pat Robertson, founder and host of the 700 Club
Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, through his mother Lucy Mack Smith
Tom Bendelow
Alfred Blalock, surgeon
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Pat Buchanan, paleoconservative political commentator, nativist, author, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster; former conservative host of CNN Crossfire
Erin Burnett, news anchor; maternal great-grandfather was a Scottish immigrant
Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990), Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, first runner-up in 1924
Butch Cassidy
William Sloane Coffin
Virgil Earp
Wyatt Earp
Krazy Dave Eckler, Lizard Lick Towing cast member
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement
William Henry Farquhar
Ilan Hall, chef
Arlo Hemphill
Laura Ingraham, conservative radio host and Fox News contributor
Indiana Jones, fictional archeologist, associate dean, college professor, adventurer and soldier
Barbour Lathrop
Malcolm X, militant and religious leader
Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising)
Ranald MacDonald, first person to teach the English language in Japan
Catharine MacKinnon
Jane McCrea
George Henry Mckenzie
Lisa McPherson, Scientologist whose death was a source of much controversy for the Church of Scientology
Lee Miller
John Muir, naturalist
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