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This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both 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.


List[]

Artists[]

  • 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
  • Tim Gunn
  • Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
  • Jackson Pollock, artist
  • Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

Business[]

Alexander Graham Bell
David Dunbar Buick
  • Alexander Graham Bell, founder of AT&T[1]
  • James Abernethy, entrepreneur and first ever governor of Oregon
  • Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour and Company, a meatpacking firm[2]
  • William M. Blair
  • Glen Bell, founder of Taco Bell
  • David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company[3]
  • 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
  • William Cameron Forbes
  • Jay Gould, railroad developer
  • Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate
  • W.K. Kellogg, industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company
  • Cyrus McCormick, International Harvester
  • Harold Fowler McCormick
  • Ira O. McDaniel
  • Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born chairman and director of NewsCorp
  • Allan Pinkerton, detective and director of a security business
  • Ross Perot, entrepreneur, founder of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems
  • Alexander Turney Stewart, born in Ireland to Scottish parents
  • Arch West, executive; developer of Doritos[4]

Entertainment[]

Ben Affleck
Jennifer Aniston
Lucille Ball
Kristen Bell
Matt Damon
Robert Downey Jr.
Tina Fey
Judy Garland
Anna Kendrick
Jay Leno
Ray Liotta
Marilyn Monroe
Julianne Moore
Julia Roberts
Emma Stone
Kate Upton
Reese Witherspoon
  • Jensen Ackles, Emmy-nominated actor, of part Scottish descent
  • Ben Affleck, actor, writer, director, small amount of Scottish ancestry[5]
  • 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[6]
  • Karen Allen, film and stage actress[7]
  • Andrew Arbuckle
  • Macklyn Arbuckle
  • Roscoe Arbuckle
  • Robert Armstrong
  • Samaire Armstrong,[8] actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money; father is Scottish
  • Mary Astor
  • Clara Bow, actress
  • Harry Belafonte, actor, singer[9]
  • Lucille Ball, actress and comedian; father was part Scottish American
  • Hailey Baldwin, model, television personality, small amount of Scottish ancestry[10]
  • Alison Brie, actress, of partial Scottish descent[11]
  • Tallulah Bankhead
  • Al Barr[12]
  • Cate Blanchett, actress
  • Patricia Breslin, actress[13]
  • Haley Bennett, actress, singer
  • 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
  • Scott Clifton, actor, musician, of half Scottish ancestry
  • Kristen Bell, actress, of part Scottish descent[14]
  • Alexis Bledel, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Jordana Brewster, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry[15]
  • 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
  • Gina Carano, mixed martial artist, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Jim Carrey, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Myra Carter
  • Lacey Chabert, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry[16]
  • Charles Coburn
  • 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[17]
  • Ted Danson, actor, of part Scottish descent[18]
  • 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[19]
  • 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[20]
  • Hilary Duff, actress and singer[21]
  • Minnie Driver
  • David Duchovny, actor (mother Scottish)
  • Daniel Ducovny, brother of David (note, no "h")
  • Robert Duvall, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Leslie Easterbrook, actor, of partial Scottish descent
  • Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor, of partial Scottish ancestry[22]
  • Aaron Eckhart, actor, mother is of partial Scottish ancestry
  • Andrew Eiden
  • George Eldredge
  • Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian[23][24]
  • George Ferguson
  • Tina Fey, comedic actress and writer; father half German and half Scottish heritage[25]
  • Jane Fonda, actress, writer, producer
  • 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), of part Scottish ancestry[26]
  • Lauren Graham, actress[27]
  • Greer Garson, actress
  • Ashlyn Gere
  • Paul Giamatti, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Isabel Gillies
  • Brian Austin Green
  • Andy Griffith, comedian, actor and singer best known for The Andy Griffith Show
  • 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
  • Paris Hilton, actress, model, of partial Scottish ancestry
  • Edward Everett Horton[28]
  • 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,[29] actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Caitlyn Jenner, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Kendall Jenner, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Kris Jenner, of partial Scottish ancestry[31]
  • Kylie Jenner, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Spike Jonze, director, producer, screenwriter and actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Khloé Kardashian, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Kim Kardashian, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Kourtney Kardashian, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Rob Kardashian, of partial Scottish ancestry[30]
  • Cody Kasch, television actor (Desperate Housewives)[32]
  • Max Kasch, television and film actor
  • Michael Keaton, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • David Keith, actor
  • Anna Kendrick, actress, mother is of Scottish descent[33]
  • Deborah Kerr, actress
  • Val Kilmer, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Nancy Kwan, mother was of Scottish descent[34]
  • Sunny Lane, porn star[35]
  • Brie Larson, actress, filmmaker
  • Eva LaRue, actress, model[36]
  • Jennifer Lawrence, actress[37]
  • Jay Leno, comedian, former actor, host of The Tonight Show; mother was from west lowland Scotland[38]
  • 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
  • Ray Liotta, actor[39]
  • 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
  • Kate McKinnon, actress, comedian, of half Scottish ancestry
  • Karen McDougal, model, actress
  • Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
  • Andie MacDowell,[40] small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Seth MacFarlane, writer of Family Guy, of partial Scottish ancestry[41]
  • Ali MacGraw, father was of Scottish descent, mother was of Hungarian Jewish ancestry
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Twin Peaks), paternal grandfather was 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
  • Matthew McConaughey, of part Scottish descent[42]
  • Ross McCorkell, drag queen known as Rosé, born in Scotland
  • Gates McFadden, actress
  • Danica McKellar, actress
  • Benjamin McKenzie, of part Scottish ancestry
  • Kevin McKidd
  • Zoe McLellan
  • Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress
  • Steve McQueen, actor, mother and father both of Scottish descent
  • Steven R. McQueen, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Caroline McWilliams
  • Donald Meek, actor
  • 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[43]
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Marilyn Monroe, actress[44][45]
  • Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
  • Robert Montgomery, film and television actor, director and producer; father of actress Elizabeth Montgomery
  • Jennifer Morrison, father is of Scottish descent
  • Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter of The Doors
  • Sean Murray, Australian mother and Australian-American father, both 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
  • Freddie Prinze Jr., actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Margaret Qualley, actress
  • Rachael Ray, television personality, chef[46]
  • Burt Reynolds, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Jason Ritter, actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • AnnaSophia Robb,[47] of part Scottish descent
  • Amber Rose, model, actress, mother is of half Scottish descent[48]
  • Emma Roberts, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Julia Roberts, small amount of Scottish ancestry[49]
  • Sarah Roemer,[50] 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,[51] 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
  • Emma Stone, actress, of part Scottish descent
  • 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, actress, model, of partial Scottish ancestry, Great-grandmother is of Scottish ancestry[52]
  • 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[53]
  • Kerry Washington,[54] 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[55]
  • Kristen Wiig, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Olivia Wilde, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry[56]
  • Michelle Williams, actress, small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Patrick Wilson,[57] small amount of Scottish ancestry
  • Katherine Waterston, actress
  • Reese Witherspoon, actress; Scottish ancestor John D. Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence[58]
  • Steven Wright, comedian, actor and writer; Scottish and Italian descent
  • Alan Young, Film and Television Actor and voice actor
  • Joe Yule, comedian, burlesque and motion pictures
  • Cyma Zarghami, current president of Nickelodeon and MTV's Kids and Family Group (father Iranian, mother Scottish)[59]
  • Zendaya, actress, singer (mother is of part Scottish descent)[60]

Government and military[]

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the U.S.
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the U.S.
Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York
Barack Obama, 44th President of the U.S.
John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
  • Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general, commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968–1972
  • John Adair
  • Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, U.S. Air Force pilot and astronaut, second man to walk on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 11. First mission into space was Gemini 12 in 1966.
  • 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 in 1969 on Apollo 11. First mission into space was Gemini 8 in 1966.
  • Chester A. Arthur, American president
  • John S. Barbour Jr.
  • Maryanne Trump Barry, Judge[61]
  • Alan Bean, astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon in 1969 on Apollo 12
  • James B. Beck
  • Austin Blair
  • Sherrod Brown, Democratic Senator of Ohio
  • Jim Bowie, frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
  • Omar N. Bradley, general
  • John Breathitt
  • George A. Bruce
  • Albert Bryant Jr.
  • Bay Buchanan
  • Pat Buchanan
  • Irvine Bulloch
  • Ambrose Burnside
  • Joseph R. Burton
  • George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States
  • George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States[62]
  • Jeb Bush, former Republican governor of Florida
  • 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
  • Chris Christie, former Republican governor of New Jersey[63]
  • William Claflin, Governor of Massachusetts
  • George Rogers Clark
  • Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
  • Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Senator and First Lady of the United States, mother is of Scottish ancestry[64]
  • Jack Coghill
  • Merian C. Cooper
  • Samuel W. Crawford, U.S. 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, Vice president of the United States, US Senator from Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia and Secretary of the Treasury. US Minister to Court of St. James and Russia
  • Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont
  • John Edwards
  • James E. Ferguson
  • Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States
  • William Fleming
  • James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
  • 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, former U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House.[65]
  • John Glenn, former U.S. 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
  • Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York[66]
  • Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, Union Army General, 1864 promoted to Lieutenant General and Commander of all the Union armies in American Civil War.[67]
  • 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, president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and first signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, known for his large signature
  • Steny Hoyer, Democratic House Majority leader in the 116th Congress, and a U.S. representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district[68]
  • Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
  • Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States. Colonel of the 23rd Ohio in the American Civil War, Later Brevetted to Brigadier General then Major General during the Civil War
  • George Hairston, politician[69][70]
  • Robert Hairston, politician, military officer[69][70]
  • 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, 1st and 3rd president of Texas and later 7th governor of Texas, 6th Governor of Tennessee 1827–1829, US Congressman from Tennessee and US Senator from Texas. Major General in the Texas Revolution. Defeated Santa Anna at Battle of San Jacinto. Opposed secession and remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War.
  • John Houstoun
  • Rufus Ingalls
  • James Iredell Jr., Governor of North Carolina
  • Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
  • Samuel Johnston
  • John Paul Jones, Scottish-born, American Revolutionary War naval officer, American Admiral and Rear Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy
  • Tim Kaine, US Senator from Virginia
  • 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 Jr., 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
  • 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
  • Robert Mueller, lawyer and government official
  • Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary
  • John J. McCloy
  • Lachlan McIntosh
  • Mike McIntyre
  • Kenneth McKellar
  • Alexander McKenzie
  • William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, 3rd US President to be assassinated in 1901 on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War.
  • 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, U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1984 Democratic presidential nominee
  • James Monroe, 4th President of the United States
  • George Stephen Morrison, United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator, father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Doors
  • Thomas Z. Morrow, Colonel of the 32nd Kentucky Infantry during the American Civil War
  • William Moultrie
  • Patty Murray Democratic United States Senator from Washington
  • Hugh Nelson
  • Francis G. Newlands
  • Gavin Newsom
  • Samuel D. Nicholson
  • Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, first Black president of the United States, elected in 2008[71]
  • 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, 11th president of the United States
  • Colin Powell, former U.S. general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Secretary of State[72]
  • Marilyn Quayle, lawyer, wife of former vice president of the United States Dan Quayle; former second Lady of the United States[73]
  • Samuel Ralston, Governor of Indiana and US Senator
  • Ronald Reagan, 40th president of United States, governor of California[74]
  • Jim Risch
  • Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee
  • Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, Former vice president of the United States, Governor of New York
  • Winfield Scott, general, veteran of War of 1812, commanded American Army of Occupation during the Mexican–American War in battles, i.e. Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec
  • 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[75]
  • 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, 27th president of the United States, 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
  • Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States[76][77]
  • James Webb, U. S. Senator, author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (2004)
  • Alexander White
  • Heather Wilson
  • Malcolm Wilson
  • Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States
  • 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

Musicians and singers[]

David Gunn, rapper and singer songwriter for American band KING 810

Jeff Baxter
Billie Eilish
Johnny Cash
Lana Del Rey
Fergie
Elvis Presley
Jessica Simpson
Taylor Swift
  • Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and guitarist for Green Day
  • Billie Eilish, singer-songwriter
  • Tim Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist for Rancid
  • Emilie Autumn
  • Joan Baez, singer-songwriter and activist; her mother was born in Edinburgh
  • 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, singer-songwriter of the band Talking Heads, born in Dumbarton
  • David Campbell
  • Glen Campbell, singer
  • Aaron Carter, singer
  • Nick Carter, singer
  • Johnny Cash, singer[78]
  • 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
  • Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer best known as part of The Black Eyed Peas[79]
  • Lana Del Rey, singer-songwriter; father and mother of Scottish descent/ancestry; family roots in Lanarkshire[80]
  • 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
  • Langston Hughes, African-American musician with some Scottish ancestry[81]
  • Oscar Hammerstein II, writer of musicals of "Rodgers and Hammerstein" fame, Scottish grandparent[82]
  • Gil-Scott Heron, African-American musician with some Scottish ancestry
  • 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[83]
  • 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
  • Mandy Moore, singer
  • Tim McAllister
  • Jesse McCartney, singer
  • Paul McCoy
  • Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and 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[84][85]
  • Bonnie Raitt, singer-songwriter
  • John Raitt, Broadway musical star
  • 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
  • Hillary Scott, singer-songwriter
  • Jessica Simpson, singer[86]
  • Layne Staley, original lead singer of Alice in Chains
  • Gwen Stefani, singer[87]
  • Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
  • Taylor Swift, country/pop singer[88][89]
  • 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
  • Sheila Walsh, Christian singer
  • 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

Native American leaders[]

  • 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

Religion[]

  • 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

Sports[]

Arnold Palmer
Rube Waddell

Writers[]

  • 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[99]
  • 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[100][101]
  • Alex Haley, author of Roots[102][103][104]
  • 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
  • Judith McNaught
  • James Alan McPherson
  • Herman Melville
  • Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet and critic
  • J. D. Salinger, writer of The Catcher in the Rye[105]
  • 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[106]

Other[]

Butch Cassidy
Malcolm X
  • 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, CNN news anchor; maternal great-grandfather was a Scottish immigrant[107]
  • Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990), Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, first runner-up in 1924[108]
  • Butch Cassidy
  • William Sloane Coffin
  • Virgil Earp
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement
  • William Henry Farquhar
  • Jenna Bush Hager, journalist, news personality, author
  • Ilan Hall, chef
  • Arlo Hemphill
  • Indiana Jones, fictional archeologist, associate dean, college professor, adventurer and soldier
  • Kennedy, political commentator for Fox News
  • Barbour Lathrop
  • Malcolm X, militant and religious leader[109]
  • Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising of 1745)
  • 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
  • David Muir, television journalist. His paternal great-grandfather was Scottish
  • John Muir, naturalist
  • Charlie Rose, television journalist, talk show host
  • Trump Family
    • Barron, youngest child of Donald Trump
    • Don Jr, businessman, philanthropist
    • Eric, businessman, philanthropist
    • Ivanka, businesswoman, author, fashion designer[110]
    • Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump[111]
    • Tiffany, socialite, model

See also[]

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