List of Huguenots

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Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include:

Arts and entertainment[]

  • James Agee (1909-1955), American screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  • Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995), American rodeo cowboy, artist, sculptor
  • Pierre Bayle, French author, philosopher
  • Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter
  • Marlon Brando, American actor
  • Sébastien Bourdon, French painter
  • Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens
  • Timothée Chalamet, French and American actor
  • Samuel Chappuzeau, French author, poet, 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, author
  • Johnny Depp, American actor
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer, 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, historian
  • Théophile de Viau, poet, dramatist
  • Brooke D'Orsay, Canadian actress
  • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet
  • Daphne du Maurier, English writer
  • George du Maurier, English author, cartoonist
  • Gerald du Maurier, English actor
  • I. D. du Plessis, South African writer, member of the Dertigers group
  • Max du Preez, South African author, columnist and documentary filmmaker, founding editor of Vrye Weekblad.
  • Sean Else, South African writer, filmmaker
  • Wilhelmina FitzClarence, English author
  • Theodor Fontane, German novelist, poet
    Theodor Fontane
  • Johnny Fourie, South African Jazz guitarist
  • Philip Morin Freneau, American poet
  • Judy Garland, American actress, 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, 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 pop-rock band Duran Duran
  • Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer
  • Jacques Le Moyne, French artist, 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, teacher
  • Karl Oenike, German landscape painter
  • Laurence Olivier, English actor
  • Bernard Palissy, French potter
  • Tom Paulin, British poet, critic
  • Jon Pertwee, English actor
  • Sean Pertwee, English actor
  • James Planché, British dramatist, officer of arms
  • Tyrone Power, actor
  • Tyrone Power, Sr., actor
  • André Raison, French Baroque composer and organist.
  • Kate Raison, Australian actress
  • Miranda Raison, English screen and stage actress
  • Frederic Remington, American artist, sculptor
  • Keith Richards, English musician
  • Damon Runyon, American author
  • Julia Sawalha and Nadia Sawalha, British actress's of Huguenot and Jordanian ancestry
  • John Spencer-Churchill, English painter and sculptor and nephew of Sir Winston Churchill
  • Charlize Theron, South African actress
  • Henry David Thoreau, American writer
  • Mary Travers, American pop singer, member of the group Peter, Paul and Mary
  • , Film Director and Founder of Marmalade Magazine
  • Samuel Sanders Teulon, British Victorian Architect
  • Dorothea Viehmann (1755-1816), German storyteller, source for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
  • John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
  • , Canadian Musician

Education[]

  • Hosea Ballou II (1796-1861), first president of Tufts University
  • Jean Belmain (d. after 1557), French scholar, French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I
  • Anthony Benezet (1713-1784), American Quaker educator and abolitionist
  • Jacques Bongars (1554-1612), scholar
  • James Bowdoin III (1752-1811), founder of Bowdoin College
  • Ferdinand Buisson, educator, academic, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
  • Isaac Casaubon, scholar
  • Meric Casaubon, scholar, translator
  • Harriet Martineau, English writer, educational and economic reformer
  • James Martineau, English philosopher, educator, Unitarian minister
  • Lewis Page Mercier, British translator of Jules Verne into English
  • Gabriel Monod, historian
  • Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée), French humanist, logician, educational reformer
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople[]

  • Karl Benz (1844-1929), German inventor
    Karl Benz
    [1]
  • Warren Buffett (b. 1930), investor, wealthiest person in the world in 1995 and 2008
  • Jean Calas (1698-1762), French merchant, son's murder case championed by Voltaire
  • Jean Chardin (later Sir John Chardin) (1643-1713), French jeweller, traveller
  • Samuel Courtauld (industrialist) (1793-1881), American-born British industrialist
  • Samuel Courtauld (art collector), grandnephew of the industrialist, businessman, art collector
  • Salomon de Brosse, French architect
  • Robert Champion de Crespigny, Australian businessman
  • Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer, inventor
  • E. I. du Pont, founder of the duPont Company (US)
  • Gustav Fabergé, Russian jeweller
  • Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweller
  • James Gandon, Anglo-Irish Georgian architect
  • Charles Gide, French economist
  • Jean Francois Hobler, watch and clockmaker
  • Howard Hughes, American inventor, industrialist, billionaire [2]
  • Leonard Jerome, American financier, 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, delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Daniel Myron LeFever, American gunmaker
  • Richard Leplastrier, Australian architect

Pieter Francois Roux ,South African Renewable energy

  • John Pintard, American merchant, philanthropist
  • Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, reality TV star
  • John D. Rockefeller, American capitalist
  • Robert Lewis Roumieu, British architect
  • Marvin Travis Runyon, American business executive
  • Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, businessman
  • Gottfried Semper, German architect, art critic[3]
  • John E. Tourtellotte, American architect
  • Sam Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club
  • Obadiah Williams, Irish merchant

Journalism[]

  • Reginald Bosanquet (1932-1984), British journalist and broadcaster
  • Tom Brokaw (b. 1940), American television journalist, author
  • Frank Deford (1938-2017), American sportswriter
  • Rian Malan (b. 1954), South African journalist
  • Giles Romilly (1916-1967),[citation needed] British journalist, Nazi POW, nephew of Winston Churchill
  • Peregrine Worsthorne (1923-2020), British journalist
  • John Merry Le Sage (1837-1926), British journalist

Law[]

  • Charles Ancillon (1659-1715), French jurist, diplomat
  • Claude Brousson (1647-1698), lawyer and preacher
  • Antoine Court (1696-1760), French reformer
  • Warder Cresson (1798-1860), American writer, first US consul to Jerusalem, convert to Judaism
  • John Jay (1745-1829), first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
  • Paul Ricœur (1913-2005), philosopher
  • John Romilly (1802-1874), English judge
  • Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772-1840), German jurist
  • Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779-1861), German jurist
  • William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (1883-1948), British Barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Medicine[]

Military[]

Politics and government[]

  • John Bascom, American university president, writer
  • Ruth Bascom, American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon
  • Thomas Henry Barclay, American Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and pre-Confederation Nova Scotian politician
  • Isaac Barré, British politician, gave his name to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Barre, Massachusetts; and Barre, Vermont
  • James A. Bayard, US Congressman
  • John M. Berrien, United States senator from Georgia and Andrew Jackson's Attorney General
  • Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, British Ambassador to Italy, 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, 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
  • 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, September 1989 – May 1994
  • , 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
  • Isaac De Riemer, Mayor of New York City
  • Maurice Couve de Murville, French prime minister
  • Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse, Countess of Wilhelmsburg, grandmother of King George II of Great Britain
  • 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, 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
    Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
  • Mareen Duvall, early Maryland settler
  • Nigel Farage, British politician, former leader of UKIP
  • Geoffrey FitzClarence, British Conservative politician
  • Peter Force, American politician, 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, leading member of the NSDAP[4]
  • Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin), wife of Sir John Franklin
  • François Guizot, French historian, 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, Member of Parliament
  • Sir John Houblon, First Governor of the Bank of England
  • George Izard, Major General and Governor of Arkansas
  • Ralph Izard, US Senator, President pro tempore of US Senate
  • Jeanne III of Navarre, Queen of Navarre, mother of Henry IV of France
  • Lionel Jospin, French prime minister
  • Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin, co-founder of the Progressive Party
  • Charles La Trobe, first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria, Australia
  • Charles Lyell, British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords
  • Hester Mahieu, wife of Francis Cooke, captain of the Mayflower, 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, cleric
  • Tom Naudé, acting President of South Africa 1967–1968
  • Oscar Neebe, American labor movement leader
  • Sarah Palin, American politician, Governor of Alaska, US presidential candidate
  • Daniel Perrin, one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York
  • Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist
  • George Poindexter, US Congressman
  • The Right Hon. Sir Timothy Raison, UK politician
  • Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist
  • Piet Retief, Boer Voortrekker
  • Daniel Roberdeau, Congressman, militia general
  • Michel Rocard, French Prime minister
  • Esmond Romilly, British socialist, anti-fascist
  • Samuel Romilly, English legal reformer, 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 US 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, mountain man
  • Eugène Terre'Blanche South African political activist
  • Charles Tupper (1821-1915), Canadian father of Confederation, Premier of Nova Scotia (1864–1867), 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896) was reputed to be a Huguenot descendant
  • Luis Vernet (1791-1871), Argentine Governor of the Falkland Islands
  • Joe Biden, 46th President of United Stages of America, his paternal grand mother was a Huguenot descendant.

Religion[]

Science[]

  • Florence Bascom (1862-1945), American geologist
  • Paul D. Boyer (1918-2018), American chemist, Nobel Prize winner[5]
  • Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist
  • Abraham de Moivre, French-born British mathematician
  • Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer, 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[6]
    Paul J. Flory
  • 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, activist
  • Arthur Alcock Rambaut, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 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[7]
  • Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist
  • Philipp von Jolly, German physicist and mathematician[8]
  • The Wright Brothers, American inventors and aviation pioneers

Sport[]

  • Richie Benaud (1930-2015), Australian cricketer, commentator
  • Andy Blignaut (b. 1978), Zimbabwean cricketer
  • Roy Cazaly (1893-1963), Australian Rules footballer
  • Brandi Chastain (b. 1968), US soccer player
  • Tony Cottee (b. 1965), West Ham United and England footballer
  • Piers Courage (1942-1970), English racing driver
  • Hansie Cronje (1969-2002), South African cricketer
  • Phil de Glanville (b. 1968), England rugby union international
  • AB De Villiers (b. 1984), South African cricketer
  • Faf du Plessis (b. 1984), South African cricketer
  • Jürgen Hahn (b. 1950), German handball player
  • Paul Michael Levesque (b. 1969), American pro wrestler famous under pseudonym of Triple H
  • Andre Nel (b. 1977), South African cricketer
  • François Pienaar (b. 1967), captain of the Springboks
  • Elfrida Pigou (1911-1960), Canadian mountaineer
  • Francois du Toit Roux (b.1939), Springbok rugby player
  • Juan Theron (b. 1985), South African cricketer
  • Ross Chastain (b. 1992), NASCAR driver

Other[]

  • Jane Franklin (1791-1875), wife of Sir John Franklin
  • Abraham Salle (1670-1719), immigrant and colonist
  • Fictional character Peter Griffin was called a self-described Huguenot in Family Guy. However, the character is in fact an Irish-American Catholic.

References[]

  1. ^ "The Birthplace". tribut-an-carl-benz.de. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  2. ^ Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B. Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness Norton, 2011, p. 29.
  3. ^ Mallgrave, Harry Francis (1996). Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 11. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  4. ^ Singer, Kurt D. (1940). Göring: Germany's most dangerous man. London and Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co. p. 16. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  5. ^ "Paul D. Boyer - Biographical". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  6. ^ "Paul J. Flory - Biographical". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  7. ^ "Peyton Rous - Biographical". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  8. ^ "Deutsche Biographie - Jolly". deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
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