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.

"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
 * Jenna Boyd (actress, director), father of small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
 * Cayden Boyd (actor, director, writer), father of small amount of Scotch-Irish ancestry
 * 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 (referee)
 * 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)