List of Welsh Americans

This is a list of notable Welsh Americans (or US citizens of Welsh descent).

Politics

• John Adams, (1735 – 1826), first Vice President (1789–1797), and second President (1797–1801), of the United States.
• Samuel Adams, (1722 – 1803), Declaration of Independence signatory, organiser of the Boston Tea Party
• Cassius Marcellus Clay , (1810 - 1903), abolitionist
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, (1947 - ), U.S. senator from New York
• Calvin Coolidge, twenty-ninth Vice President (1921-1923) and thirtieth President of the United States (1923-1929),
• Jefferson Davis, (1808 – 1889), soldier, politician, and first and only President of the Confederate States (1862-1865)
• James J. Davis (1877-1947), U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
• John Evans, (1814 – 1897), governor of Colorado Territory
• William Floyd, Declaration of Independence signatory
• James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
• John Garner, Vice President of the United States
• Button Gwinnett, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Benjamin Harrison, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
• William Harrison, 9th President of the United States
• Stephen Hopkins, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York
• Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
• Francis Henry Lightfoot Lee, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Richard Henry Lee, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Robert E. Lee, US Confederate General
• Francis Lewis, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
• James Madison, 4th President of the United States
• John Marshall, Statesman, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Arthur Middleton, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Lewis Morris, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Robert Morris, Declaration of Independence signatory
• John Morton, Declaration of Independence signatory
• Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
• John Penn, Declaration of Independence signatory
• William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania
• Daniel Webster, (1782 – 1852), United States Senator and Secretary of State
• William Williams, (1731 – 1811), merchant and political leader, Declaration of Independence signatory
• William H. Seward, US Secretary of State
• Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States

Film

• Tim Burton
• Tom Cruise [1] "Cruise was stunned when he heard his great-great grandfather had emigrated from Flint in north Wales in 1850. Cruise's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, and he is said to be descended from many generations of Mapothers living in Wales... Genealogists used by the American TV show Inside the Actor's Studio discovered that Cruise's great-great grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, emigrated from Wales to Louisville Kentucky in 1850 when he was 16. "
• D.W. Griffith
• Tom Hanks
• Bob Hope
• Anthony Hopkins
• John Lithgow
• Harold Lloyd
• Myrna Loy
• Ray Milland
• Demi Moore
• Denise Richards, half welsh
• Julia Roberts, part welsh
• Susan Sarandon, half welsh
• Kevin Spacey

Other

• Daniel Boone, (1734 - 1820), frontiersman
• Billy De Wolfe
• Ellis Potter Earle
• Morgan Edwards
• Rowland Ellis
• Oliver Evans, (1755 – 1819), inventor
• William Fargo
• Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator and one time RKO movie mogul
• Herman Humphreys
• Samuel Jones
• Tommy Lee, half welsh
• John L. Lewis
• Meriwether Lewis, explorer
• Sinclair Lewis - writer
• Jack London - writer
• George C. Marshall, Military leader
• Edgar Lee Masters
• John Pierpont Morgan, banker
• Goronwy Owen
• Henry Stanley
• John Lloyd Stevens
• Lowell Thomas, (1892 – 1981), writer and broadcaster
• Norman Thomas
• Roger Williams
• Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867 – 1959), architect
• Elihu Yale, (1649 – 1721), first benefactor of Yale University

See also

• Welsh American
• Category:Welsh-Americans