Famous People of Huguenot Descent

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How Many Do You Know?

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Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress

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Eight American Presidents

1. George Washington

2. Ulysses S. Grant

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. Theodore Roosevelt

5. William Taft

6. Harry Truman

7. Gerald Ford

8. Lyndon Johnson - had significant proven Huguenot ancestry

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First Ladies

1. Martha Washington

2. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Arts and entertainment

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• Marlon Brando, American actor

• Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens

• Jessica Chastain, American actress

• Joan Crawford, American actress

• Davy Crockett, American folk hero

• Johnny Depp, American actor

• Judy Garland, American actress, singer

• Dashiell Hammett, American author

• Victor Lardent, British advertising designer who drew Times New Roman

• Simon Le Bon, English musician and frontman of pop-rock band Duran Duran

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

• Laurence Olivier, English actor

• Frederic Remington, American artist, sculptor

• Keith Richards, English musician

• Damon Runyon, American author

• John Spencer-Churchill, English painter and sculptor and nephew of Sir Winston Churchill

• Henry David Thoreau, American writer

• Charles Lewis Tiffany American jewelry and glass designed

• Mary Travers, American pop singer, member of the group Peter, Paul and Mary

• John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet

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Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

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• Warren Buffett, investor, the wealthiest person in the world in 1995 and 2008

• Samuel Courtauld (industrialist), American-born British industrialist

• Samuel Courtauld (art collector), grandnephew of the industrialist, businessman, art collector

• E. I. du Pont, founder of the duPont Company (US)

• Gustav Fabergé, Russian jeweller

• Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweller

• 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

• John Pintard, American merchant, philanthropist, creator of Santa Clause 

• Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, reality TV star

• John D. Rockefeller, American capitalist

• Marvin Travis Runyon, American business executive

• John E. Tourtellotte, American architect

• Sam Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club

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Journalists

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• Tom Brokaw (b. 1940), American television journalist, author

• Frank Deford (1938-2017), American sportswriter

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Law

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• Alexander Hamilton, Caribbean Island Immigrate, General, attorney, first Secretary of the Treasury

• John Jay, attorney, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

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Military

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• Thomas Henry Barclay - American Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and pre-Confederation Nova Scotian politician

• Marquis Calmes, a veteran of the American Revolution and general, War of 1812.

• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Union general in the US Civil War, governor of the state of Maine

• Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral, landings in Charlestown, NC and Fort Caroline, FL

• Paul Revere, American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence

• Peter Horry, American Revolutionary War general

• Benjamin Huger, American Civil War general (Confederate)

• John Laurens, American Revolutionary War hero

• François le Clerc, pirate known as Jambe de Bois (or Wooden Leg)

• Arthur Middleton Manigault, American Civil War general (Confederate)

• Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter

• Peter Mawney, colonel, Rhode Island militia

• Charles Manigault Morris, American Navy officer (Confederate)

• Lewis Nicola, American Revolutionary War General 

• George S Patton, Jr, US WWII Army general

• J. Johnston Pettigrew, American Civil War general (Confederate)

• George Pickett, American Civil War general (Confederate)

• Paul Revere, American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence

• Jean Ribault, naval officer, colonizer

• Charles C. Tew, American Civil War colonel (Confederate)

• John Bordenave Villepigue, American Civil War general (Confederate)

• John C. Villepigue, Medal of Honor winner

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Politics and Government

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• John Bascom, American university president, writer

• Ruth Bascom, American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon

• James A. Bayard, US Congressman

• John M. Berrien, United States senator from Georgia and Andrew Jackson's Attorney General

• 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

• Johannes de la Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam and Vice-Director of New Netherland

• James DeLancey, Governor of New York

• Isaac De Riemer, Mayor of New York City

• Louis Dubois, colonist to New Netherland, co-founded New Paltz, New York

• Mareen Duvall, early Maryland settler

• ​Alonzo Garcelon, Governor of Maine

• Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States

• ​George Izard, Major General and Governor of Arkansas

• Ralph Izard, US Senator, President pro tempore of US Senate

• Robert M. La Follette Sr., Senator from Wisconsin, co-founder of the Progressive Party

• Hester Mahieu, wife of Francis Cooke, captain of the Mayflower, daughter of French-speaking Calvinists Jacques and Jenne/Jeanne Mahieu

• Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention

• Sarah Palin, American politician, Governor of Alaska, US presidential candidate

• Daniel Perrin, one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York

• George Poindexter, US Congressman

• Daniel Roberdeau, Congressman, militia general

• 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

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