List of Scots-Irish Americans
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The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to Ulster Scots people from Scotland, but through Northern Ireland.
This is a list of notable Scots-Irish Americans, ordered by surname within section.
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[edit] Entertainment
- James Coburn, (actor)
- Eddie Cochran, (musician)
- Rory Cochrane, (actor)
- Ava Gardner (movie star)
- Edna Goodrich Broadway and Silent Screen Actress, 1901-1920; Floradora girl
- Michael Keaton (1951 - ) (actor)
- Robert Mitchum (actor)
- Audie Murphy (soldier and actor)
- Dolly Parton (1946 - ) country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress[1]
- Christina Ricci (1980 - ) actress, former teen star[2]
- Axl Rose (1962 - ) (singer)
- George C. Scott (actor)
- Jimmy Stewart (actor}
- John Wayne (actor)
[edit] Literature
- Stephen King (author)
- David McCullough (Historian)
[edit] Politics/history
- Chester Alan Arthur (President)
- John C. Calhoun, (Vice President)
- Grover Cleveland (President)
- Bill Clinton (President)
- Jefferson Davis (Confederacy President)
- John Dunlap (Revolutionary politician)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (President)
- Benjamin Harrison (President)
- Sam Houston (Texan statesman)
- Andrew Jackson (president)
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate General)
- Andrew Johnson (president)
- John McCain (Senator, U.S. Presidential Candidate)
- George B. McClellan (Union General)
- William McKinley (President)
- Francis Makemie (Presbyterian minister)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (President)
- George S. Patton (US General)
- James Knox Polk (President)
- Theodore Roosevelt (President)
- J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate General)
- Charles Thomson (Revolutionary politician)
- James H. Webb (Marine, U.S. Senator)
- Woodrow Wilson (President)
[edit] Sports
- Mickey Cochrane, (sportsman)
- Jeff Gordon (NASCAR driver)
- Arnold Palmer (golfer)
[edit] Other
- Neil Armstrong, (astronaut)
- Davy Crockett (frontiersman)
- Sir Henry Worth Thornton President, Canadian National Railways; Coach, Vanderbilt University Football Team
- William Wheeler Thornton Judge, author, Indiana Supreme Ct. Librarian
- Andrew W. Mellon (banker)
(Evelyn Nesbit)(artists'model,actress) ==References==With a surname like Nesbit and her Pennsylvania birth-where most Scots-Irish landed, what else could she be apart from English which is where Winfield probably derives?
- ^ Parton - [1] "Dolly Parton the Queen of Country spoke of her pride at being Scotch Irish just before a sellout gig in Belfast. In an interview with Northern Ireland newspaper the Belfast Telegraph she said, " there is no reason why I haven't played Belfast in the past. But with my Scotch Irish ancestry its ridiculous that I haven't been here before. Obviously my roots have been a massive influence on my music" Dolly then said that she would love to return to Northern Ireland being very proud of her heritage she would love to find out more. The Ulster Scots Agency who presented Dolly with a Ulster Scots translated version of her hit "Jolene" said she would be very welcome, " Dolly is just one of 22 Million Scotch-Irish in America who are enthusiastically following up their Ulster Scots roots. I am delighted she is in town and hope she finds out more about her roots. I am sure she will find us very welcoming and will come back again to visit where her forefather's came from"
- ^ Ricci - [2] "R icci, as you might expect, is an Italian name. "But the Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish.""
