- Source: List of Scottish Americans
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.
Artists
Alexander Anderson, illustrator
Earl W. Bascom, cowboy artist and sculptor
Alexander Calder, sculptor
Herbert A. Collins, landscape and portrait painter
John M. Donaldson, artist and architect
Leslie Erganian, artist and author
John Mackie Falconer, etcher, painter, and watercolorist
Joseph Glasco, abstract expressionist painter, draftsman and sculptor
Tim Gunn, author, academic, and television personality who served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design
Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
Jackson Pollock, artist
Christopher Ross, sculptor, designer and collector
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
Business and philanthropy
Alexander Graham Bell, founder of AT&T
Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour and Company, a meatpacking firm
William M. Blair, financier
Glen Bell, founder of Taco Bell
David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company
William Wallace Cargill, businessman and founder of Cargill Incorporated
Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist and steel
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery
David Eccles, Utah's first millionaire
John Malcolm Forbes, businessman and sportsman
John Murray Forbes, railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist
William Cameron Forbes, investment banker and diplomat
Jay Gould, railroad developer
Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate
W.K. Kellogg, industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company
James Lenox, philanthropist, bibliophile whose books became part of the founding collection of the New York Public Library
Malco(l)m McLean, 'Father of Containerization'
Cyrus McCormick, International Harvester
Harold Fowler McCormick, businessman
Ira O. McDaniel, cotton merchant, farmer and newspaper man
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, dry goods entrepreneur
Arch West, executive; developer of Doritos
Entertainment
Jensen Ackles, actor
Ben Affleck, actor, writer, director
Casey Affleck, actor
Richard Dean Anderson, actor
Muriel Angelus, actor
Jennifer Aniston, actor
Karen Allen, film and stage actress
Andrew Arbuckle, actor
Macklyn Arbuckle, actor
Roscoe Arbuckle, actor, director, screenwriter
Robert Armstrong, actor
Samaire Armstrong, actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money
Mary Astor, actor
Clara Bow, actress
Harry Belafonte, actor, singer
Lucille Ball, actress and comedian
Hailey Baldwin, model, television personality
Alison Brie, actress
Tallulah Bankhead, actor
Al Barr, musician
Luna Blaise, actress
Cate Blanchett, actress
Patricia Breslin, actress
Haley Bennett, actress, singer
John Barrowman, actor
Earl W. Bascom, painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and actor
Catherine Bell, actress and model
Scott Clifton, actor, musician
Kristen Bell, actress
Alexis Bledel, actress
Jordana Brewster, actress
James Brolin, actor
Samantha Brown, television host on the Travel Channel
James D. Brubaker, film producer, production manager and actor
Gina Carano, actor and mixed martial artist
Jim Carrey, actor
Myra Carter, actor
Lacey Chabert, actress
Charles Coburn, producer
Chris Connelly, musician
Miriam Cooper, silent film actress
Stewart Copeland, drummer in the band The Police
Laird Cregar, actor
Matt Damon, actor
Ted Danson, actor
Mona Darkfeather, actor
Yvonne De Carlo, actor
James Dean, actor
Laura Dern, actress
Vin Diesel, actor
Matt Dillon, actor
Joanie Dodds, fashion model
Shannen Doherty, actress
Helen Douglas, actress and politician
Michael Douglas, actor and film producer
Gary Dourdan, actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Nancy Dow, actress
Robert Downey Jr., actor
Hilary Duff, actress and singer
Minnie Driver, actor
David Duchovny, actor
Daniel Ducovny, director
Robert Duvall, actor
Leslie Easterbrook, actor
Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor
Aaron Eckhart, actor
George Eldredge, actor
Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian
George Ferguson, stage and silent film actor
Jane Fonda, actress, writer, producer
Jimmy Finlayson, actor
Scott Foley, actor
China Forbes, lead singer of Pink Martini
Glenn Ford, actor
Edwin Forrest, Shakespearean actor
Drew Fuller, actor and former model
Judy Garland, actress and singer
Lauren Graham, actress
Gloria Grahame, actress
Greer Garson, actress
Ashlyn Gere, actress
Paul Giamatti, actor
Isabel Gillies, author and actor
Brian Austin Green, actor
Andy Griffith, comedian, actor and singer best known for The Andy Griffith Show
Rebecca Hall, actress
Oliver Hardy, comedic actor, best known for Laurel and Hardy
Roy Ellsworth Harris, classical composer
Colton Haynes, actor
Katharine Hepburn, actor
Charlton Heston, actor
Paris Hilton, actress, model
Edward Everett Horton, actor
Ron Howard, actor and director
Steve Howey, actor
Felicity Huffman, actress
Anjelica Huston, actor
Jonathan Jackson, actor
Caitlyn Jenner, media personality and former athlete
Kendall Jenner, model and businesswoman
Kris Jenner, media personality and businesswoman
Kylie Jenner, media personality and businesswoman
Spike Jonze, director, producer, screenwriter and actor, small amount of Scottish ancestry
Khloé Kardashian, media personality and businesswoman
Kim Kardashian, media personality and businesswoman
Kourtney Kardashian, media personality and businesswoman
Rob Kardashian, media personality
Cody Kasch, television actor (Desperate Housewives)
Max Kasch, television and film actor
Michael Keaton, actor
David Keith, actor
Anna Kendrick, actress
Deborah Kerr, actress
Val Kilmer, actor
Nancy Kwan, actress
Sunny Lane, porn star
Brie Larson, actress, filmmaker
Eva LaRue, actress, model
Jennifer Lawrence, actress
Jay Leno, comedian, former actor, host of The Tonight Show
Hamish Linklater, best known for his role in the series The New Adventures of Old Christine
Ray Liotta, actor
Marion Lorne, actress best known for her recurring role as Aunt Clara in the series Bewitched
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
Chad Lowe, actor
Myrna Loy, actor
Kate McKinnon, actress, comedian
Karen McDougal, model, actress
Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
Andie MacDowell, actor
Seth MacFarlane, writer of Family Guy
Ali MacGraw, actor
Alexander Mackendrick, director and professor
Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Twin Peaks)
Patrick Macnee, actor
Michael Madsen, actor
Virginia Madsen, actress
John Malkovich, actor
Matthew McConaughey, actor
Ross McCorkell, drag queen known as Rosé
Gates McFadden, actress
Danica McKellar, actress
Benjamin McKenzie, actor and author
Kevin McKidd, actor and director
Zoe McLellan, actor
Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress
Steve McQueen, actor
Steven R. McQueen, actor
Caroline McWilliams, actor
Donald Meek, actor
Marian Mercer, actress
Andy Milligan, playwright, screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker
Cameron Mitchell, actor
John Cameron Mitchell, actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director
Demi Moore, actress
Julianne Moore, actress
Agnes Moorehead, actress
Marilyn Monroe, actress
Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
Robert Montgomery, film and television actor, director and producer
Jennifer Morrison, actress, director, producer, and former child model
Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter of The Doors
Sean Murray, actor
Timothy Olyphant, actor
Mary-Louise Parker, actress
Aaron Paul, actor and producer
Sara Paxton, actress and singer
Nia Peeples, actress and singer
Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
Margaret Qualley, actress
Rachael Ray, television personality, chef
Burt Reynolds, actor
Jason Ritter, actor
AnnaSophia Robb, actress, model, and singer
Amber Rose, model, actress
Emma Roberts, actor
Julia Roberts, actor
Sarah Roemer, actor
Ginger Rogers, actress; born Virginia Katherine McMath
Mickey Rooney, actor
Brandon Routh, actor
Christina Ricci, actress
Jane Russell, actor
George C. Scott, actor
Seann William Scott, actor, Steve Stifler of American Pie,
Brooke Shields, actor
Alicia Silverstone, actress
Barbara Stanwyck, actor
Jimmy Stewart, actor, Brigadier General (USAFR)
John Stewart, musician
Emma Stone, actress
David Strathairn, actor, The River Wild
Donald Sutherland, actor
Kiefer Sutherland, actor
Michael Tait, musician
Kate Upton, actress, model
Casper Van Dien, actor
Milo Ventimiglia, actor
Jurgen Vsych, film director, screenwriter and author
Christopher Walken, actor
Kerry Washington, actress
John Wayne, actor
Sigourney Weaver, actress
Kristen Wiig, actress
Olivia Wilde, actress
Michelle Williams, actress
Patrick Wilson, actor
Katherine Waterston, actress
Tuesday Weld, actress
Reese Witherspoon, actress
Steven Wright, comedian, actor and writer
Alan Young, actor
Joe Yule, comedian, burlesque and motion pictures
Cyma Zarghami, current president of Nickelodeon and MTV's Kids and Family Group
Zendaya, actress, singer
Government and military
Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general, commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968–1972
John Adair, eighth governor of Kentucky
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., politician from Virginia
Maryanne Trump Barry, judge
Alan Bean, astronaut and fourth person to walk on the Moon in 1969 on Apollo 12
James B. Beck, politician from Kentucky
Austin Blair, politician from Michigan
Sherrod Brown, senator from Ohio
Jim Bowie, frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
Omar N. Bradley, general
John Breathitt, 11th governor of Kentucky
George A. Bruce, politician from New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Albert Bryant Jr., U.S. Army brigadier general
Bay Buchanan, Treasurer of the United States (1981-1983)
Pat Buchanan, author, political commentator, and politician
Irvine Bulloch, officer in the Confederate Navy
Ambrose Burnside, U.S. Army officer and politician
Joseph R. Burton, politician from Kansas
George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States
Jeb Bush, former Republican governor of Florida
John C. Caldwell, teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat
Archibald Campbell, politician from New York
Bill Campbell, politician from California
George W. Campbell, politician, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury
John Campbell, politician from California
Thomas Mitchell Campbell, 12th governor of Texas
William Joseph Campbell, district judge in Illinois
Wooda Nicholas Carr, politician from Pennsylvania
Kit Carson, frontiersman and Union Army officer
Richard Caswell, 1st and 5th governor of North Carolina
Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey
William Claflin, governor of Massachusetts
George Rogers Clark, surveyor and military officer during the American Revolutionary War
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
Jack Coghill, 6th lieutenant governor of Alaska
Merian C. Cooper, pilot and officer in Army Air Service, filmmaker, actor, and producer
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, Confederate States of America politician
Alexander J. Dallas, U. S. Navy officer
George M. Dallas, vice president of the United States, US senator from Pennsylvania, mayor of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Treasury, US Minister to Court of St. James and Russia
Howard Dean, governor of Vermont
John Edwards, lawyer and politician from North Carolina
James E. Ferguson, 26th governor of Texas
Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States
William Fleming, physician, soldier, politician, and planter; briefly governor of Virginia during the American Revolutionary War
James Florio, governor of New Jersey
John B. Frazier, U. S. Navy officer
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Alexander Garden, American Revolutionary War soldier
James Lorraine Geddes, brigade commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War
James Gilfillan, 13th Treasurer of the United States
Henry Bell Gilkeson, lawyer, politician, school administrator, and banker in West Virginia
Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. senator from New York
Newt Gingrich, former U.S. congressman and Speaker of the House.
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, U.S. Army officer and Confederate brigadier general
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.
Charles McNeill Gray, mayor of Chicago
Robert Gray, sea captain and explorer
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
Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States and major general during the Civil War
George Hairston, politician
Robert Hairston, politician, military officer
John Hay, statesman and diplomat, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, served under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
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, Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from North Carolina
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, lawyer and politician from Georgia
Rufus Ingalls, 16th Quartermaster General of the United States Army
James Iredell Jr., governor of North Carolina
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States
Samuel Johnston, 6th governor of North Carolina
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
Daniel S. Lamont, United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland's second term
Henry Latimer, physician and politician from Delaware
Roberta Lawson, head of the Women's Division of the Oklahoma Council of Defense during World War I
Hugh Swinton Legaré, lawyer and politician of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry
Edward Livingston, jurist, politician from Louisiana and New York; minister to France from 1833 to 1835; 46th mayor of New York City
Matthew B. Lowrie, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dan Lungren, lawyer and politician from California
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, politician from Minnesota
Clark MacGregor, politician from Minnesota
Archibald T. MacIntyre, politician
George MacKinnon, politician from Minnesota
Franklin MacVeagh, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
Duncan McArthur, military officer and politician from Ohio
Tom McClintock, politician from California
Henry Dickerson McDaniel, governor of Georgia
James McDivitt, USAF brigadier general, former astronaut, test pilot and aeronautical engineer who flew in the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions
Irvin McDowell, general, commanded Union forces at the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)
Samuel McDowell, soldier in three wars and political leader in Virginia and Kentucky
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, lawyer, diplomat, banker, and presidential advisor
Lachlan McIntosh, military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States
Mike McIntyre, politician from North Carolina
Kenneth McKellar, politician from Tennessee
Alexander McKenzie, U.S. Navy Medal of Honor recipient
William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, 3rd US president to be assassinated
John McLane, 50th governor of New Hampshire
Mack McLarty, White House Chief of Staff (1993-1994)
James C. McLaughlin, politician from Michigan
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, general in American Revolutionary War
Patty Murray, U.S. senator from Washington
Hugh Nelson, politician from Virginia
Francis G. Newlands, politician from Nevada
Gavin Newsom, 40th governor of California
Samuel D. Nicholson, politician from Colorado
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States, first Black president of the United States, elected in 2008
David Paterson, politician from New York
George S. Patton, American general, commanded troops in North Africa and in Europe during World War 2
Thomas Baldwin Peddie, politician from New Jersey
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
Marilyn Quayle, lawyer, wife of former vice president of the United States Dan Quayle; former second Lady of the United States
William Wilson Quinn, director of the Strategic Service Unit, American general
Samuel Ralston, governor of Indiana and U.S. senator
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of United States, governor of California
Jim Risch, politician from Idaho
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
Alan Shepard, naval aviator and astronaut; first American in space and fifth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14
George Spalding, politician from Michigan
John C. Stennis, U.S. senator from Mississippi
Ted Stevens, U.S. senator from Alaska, U.S. Attorney and Solicitor of Interior
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, governor of the Idaho Territory
George Troup, governor of Georgia
Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States
J. D. Vance, U.S. senator from Ohio, vicepresidential nominee for the Republican Party
James Webb, U. S. senator, author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (2004)
Alexander White, politician from Virginia
Heather Wilson, 24th Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Malcolm Wilson, 50th governor of New York
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, physician and planter
Earl W. Bascom, inventor of rodeo equipment
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Alexander Melville Bell, teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics
James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary
Walter Houser Brattain, inventor of the transistor
George Harold Brown, research engineer
James McGill Buchanan, economist
Nicholas Murray Butler, philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology
William Wallace Campbell, astronomer
Allan McLeod Cormack, physicist
Donald J. Cram, shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen
J. Presper Eckert, computer pioneer, co-designed the ENIAC
Alexander Garden, botanist; namesake of gardenia flower; physician and zoologist
William Harkness, astronomer
Irving Langmuir, chemist, physicist, and engineer
David MacAdam, physicist and color scientist
James Ross MacDonald, physicist
Kevin B. MacDonald, psychology professor at California State University
Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal scholar, activist, and author
Colin Munro MacLeod, geneticist
Katherine McAlpine, science journalist
Richard Sears McCulloh, civil engineer
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, historian
Norman Ramsey Jr., Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Musicians and singers
Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and guitarist for Green Day
Billie Eilish, singer-songwriter
Tim Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist for Rancid
Emilie Autumn, singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist
Joan Baez, singer-songwriter and activist
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
David Campbell, composer
Glen Campbell, singer
Aaron Carter, singer
Nick Carter, singer
Johnny Cash, singer
Rosanne Cash, singer-songwriter; daughter of Johnny Cash
Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana
Alice Cooper, rock singer
Miley Cyrus, pop and country singer, songwriter, actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, sister of Noah Cyrus
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
Lana Del Rey, singer-songwriter
Brandon Flowers, singer and keyboardist of The Killers
Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Alison Fraser, singer and actress
G-Eazy, (born 1989), rapper
Lady Gaga, singer, songwriter, and actress
Kim Gordon, singer/guitarist for Sonic Youth
Kina Grannis, guitarist, singer, and YouTuber
Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie
Oscar Hammerstein II, writer of musicals of "Rodgers and Hammerstein" fame, Scottish grandparent
Gil-Scott Heron, jazz poet, singer, musician, and author
James Hetfield, singer/rhythm guitarist of Metallica
Faith Hill, singer
John S. Hilliard, composer
Brent Hinds, singer/guitarist for Mastodon
David Homyk, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, model, and television personality
Alan Hovhaness, composer
Alicia Keys, singer
Chris Kirkpatrick, former member of N'Sync
Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence
Joanna Levesque, better known by her stage name JoJo, singer
Tony MacAlpine, guitarist
Adam MacDougall, keyboardist
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, classical saxophonist and music educator
Jesse McCartney, singer
Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish
Tim McGraw, country music singer
Ray McKinley, jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader
Jon McLaughlin, singer-songwriter
Don McLean, singer-songwriter
Katharine McPhee, pop and R&B musician
Johnny Mercer, lyricist, songwriter, singer, and co-founder of Capitol Records
Brian Molko, lead singer of Placebo
Jim Morrison, singer, poet
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
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
Ryan Ross, musician, previously with Panic! at the Disco and now with The Young Veins
Hillary Scott, singer-songwriter
Jessica Simpson, singer
Layne Staley, original lead singer of Alice in Chains
Gwen Stefani, singer
Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
Taylor Swift, country/pop singer
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
Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and the Machine
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
William Sloane Coffin, clergyman
George Grant, evangelical writer and a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) pastor
John Menzies Macfarlane, hymn writer
Mike MacIntosh, senior pastor of Horizon Christian Fellowship
David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Scottish father
Scotty McLennan, Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, professor
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
Robert Archibald, first Scottish NBA player
Tommy Armour III, professional golfer
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo pioneer, hall of fame inductee, "Father of Modern Rodeo"
Don Budge, tennis player
Gordon Burness, soccer player
Roy Carlyle, baseball player
Mickey Cochrane, baseball Hall of Famer
Jason Castro, MLB player for Minnesota Twins
Meryl Davis, ice skater
Walter Dick, soccer player
Julian Edelman, professional football player
Brandon Forsyth, ice skater
Patrick Galbraith, tennis player
Tony Gonzalez, former professional football player
Jimmy Gallagher, soccer player who was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
Malcolm Goldie, soccer player who won one cap for the US national team
Drew Galloway, professional wrestler
Hulk Hogan, former professional wrestler
John Harkes, soccer coach
Dan Henderson, wrestler
Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers outfielder
Jack Hobens, golfer
Euan Holden, American soccer player currently playing for Danish team Vejle BK
Stuart Holden, US international soccer player, currently playing for Houston Dynamo
April Hunter, professional wrestler
Jock Hutchison, professional golfer
Chris Jericho, professional wrestler
Dominic Kinnear, US international soccer player and current head coach of Houston Dynamo, born in Glasgow
Bob MacDonald, former Major League Baseball player
Danny MacFayden, baseball player
Arthur Matsu, football player
Seth McClung, baseball player
Charlie McCully, soccer player who won 11 caps for the US national team
Brandon McDonald, soccer player
Shaun McDonald, American football player
Tommy McFarlane, soccer player
Parker McLachlin, professional golfer
Jason McLaughlin, soccer player
Fred McLeod, professional golfer
Nate McLouth, baseballer currently playing for the Atlanta Braves
Doug McMillan, soccer player
Jamie McMurray, racing driver
Tommy Morrison, boxer
James Naismith, Canadian-born innovator, invented the game of basketball, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame & FIBA Hall of Fame
Joe Ogilvie, professional golfer
Arnold Palmer, golfer
Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer
Roddy Piper, wrestler
Frank Ramsey, basketball player and coach
Aaron Rodgers, American football player
Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach
Bobby Thomson, baseball player
Lawrence Tynes, NFL player
J. J. Watt, NFL player for Houston Texans
Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame pitcher
Writers
Helen Adam, poet, collagist and photographer
Louis Auchincloss, lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist
Paul Dayton Bailey, writer and owner/publisher of Westernlore Press
Lesley Bannatyne, historian who writes extensively on Halloween
Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Quinn Bradlee, memoirist and filmmaker
Carol Brink, juvenile and adult novelist, winner of 1936 Newbery Medal
Fredric Brown, short story writer
Erskine Caldwell, novelist and short story writer
Taylor Caldwell, historical novelist
John Dickson Carr, mystery novelist
Michael Crichton, author, screenwriter and filmmaker
Laurie York Erskine, popular boys adventure author and educator
William Faulkner, novelist and short story writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
Alex Finlayson, playwright
B. C. Forbes, journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine
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
Alex Haley, author of Roots
Alice Henderson, novelist
Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan fantasy series
Langston Hughes, poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist
Washington Irving, short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century
Garrison Keillor, author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality; host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion
Steven Keillor, historian and author
Will Leitch, writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media former sports blog Deadspin
Amy MacDonald, author of children's books
Sally MacKenzie, romance novelist
Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It
Archibald MacLeish, modernist poet, Pulitzer Prize winner and Librarian of Congress
Sean McAdam, sports writer
Helen McCloy, mystery writer
David McCullough, popular historian
Dennis McDougal, author and newspaper journalist
Al McIntosh, editor of the Rock County Star-Herald of Luverne, Minnesota and president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association
Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
Judith McNaught, romance novelist
Herman Melville, novelist, short story writer, and poet; author of Moby Dick
Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet and critic
Sally Quinn, journalist and author
J. D. Salinger, writer of The Catcher in the Rye
Phyllis Schlafly, politically conservative, anti-abortion activist and writer
Upton Sinclair, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Mark Twain, writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer
Thomas Wolfe, novelist and short story writer
Other
Tom Bendelow, golf course architect
Alfred Blalock, surgeon
Catherine Wolfe Bruce, philanthropist and patron of astronomy
Pat Buchanan, paleoconservative political commentator, nativist, author, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster; former conservative host of CNN Crossfire
Erin Burnett, CNN news anchor
Mary Katherine Campbell (1905–1990), Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, first runner-up in 1924
Butch Cassidy, train and bank robber
Virgil Earp, U.S. marshal
Wyatt Earp, lawman and gambler
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement
William Henry Farquhar, contributed to the development of modern Montgomery County, Maryland
Jenna Bush Hager, journalist, news personality, author
Ilan Hall, chef
Arlo Hemphill, wilderness advocate
Doc Holliday, gambler
Kennedy, political commentator for Fox News
Barbour Lathrop, philanthropist and world traveler
Malcolm X, militant and religious leader
Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising of 1745)
Ranald MacDonald, first person to teach the English language in Japan
Jane McCrea, 18th century woman killed by Native Americans
George Henry Mackenzie, chess master
Lisa McPherson, Scientologist whose death was a source of much controversy for the Church of Scientology
Lee Miller, photographer and photojournalist
David Muir, television journalist
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
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump
Tiffany, socialite, model
See also
List of Scots
Scottish Canadians
References
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