Scots-Americans

[Ánleifr]

http://books.google.com/books?id=j9V...onists&f=false

[Ánleifr]

People of Scotland
The Scottish people are famously friendly, inventive, industrious and always ready to celebrate their national identity. But perhaps Winston Churchill said it best: 'of all the small nations on earth perhaps only the Ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind'.

http://www.scotland.org/culture/the-people/

[Graham]

Douglas MacArthur, who's grandfather Arthur MacArthur was Scottish.

[Ánleifr]

sorry, this is off-topic but couldn't resist:

The Fourteenth Annual Tartan Day Parade in New York on April the 14th.

[Graham]

sorry, this is off-topic but couldn't resist:

The Fourteenth Annual Tartan Day Parade in New York on April the 14th.

no it's completely on topic. Was going for that, Scots Born Americans or Americans of Scots ancestry or Scots culture in America.

They also have the Dressed to Kilt over there.

[Ánleifr]

just look at how long this list is!! WOW

Actors/Entertainers
Jensen Ackles, emmy-nominated actor
Muriel Angelus
Ben Affleck, actor/writer/director (father was Scottish-American)
Casey Affleck, actor
Richard Dean Anderson, actor, mother is of Scottish ancestry
Jennifer Aniston (maternal grandfather of part Scottish ancestry)
Andrew Arbuckle
Macklyn Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
Robert Armstrong
Samaire Armstrong, actress best known for her roles in The O.C. and Dirty Sexy Money[1]
Mary Astor
Tallulah Bankhead
John Barrowman (born and semi-raised in Scotland)
Lucille Ball, actress and comedienne (father was Scottish-American)
Al Barr[2]
Catherine Bell, actress and model
Kristen Bell, actress[3]
Jolene Blalock, actress and model
Samantha Brown, Television host on the Travel Channel
James D. Brubaker, film producer, production manager and actor
Dean Cain, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), mother is of partial Scottish heritage.
Drew Carey, comedic actor and game show host
Yvonne De Carlo, mother was of Italian and Scottish descent
Myra Carter
Johnny Cash
Charles Coburn
Rory Cochrane
Michael Cole, play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment
Stewart Copeland, drummer in the band The Police
Keith Hirabayashi Cooke, actor and stuntman
Miriam Cooper
Laird Cregar
Matt Damon, actor, father is of partial Scottish ancestry
Ted Danson
Mona Darkfeather
James Dean, actor
Joanie Dodds, fashion model
Helen Douglas
Gary Dourdan, African-American actor with some Scottish ancestors (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation).
Nancy Dow, actress
Robert Downey Jr, actor (mother is of German-Scottish descent)
David Duchovny, actor (mother Scottish)
Daniel Ducovny, brother of David (note, no "h")
George Eldredge
Clint Eastwood, actor and instructor
Tina Fey, Comedic actress and writer (father Scottish/German heritage)
Craig Ferguson, actor and comedian[4][5]
George Ferguson
Jimmy Finlayson
China Forbes, lead singer of Pink Martini (father Scottish-American, mother African-American)
Glenn Ford
Edwin Forrest
Drew Fuller
Judy Garland (Milne from Aberdeenshire)
Ava Gardner
Greer Garson, actress
Ashlyn Gere
Mel Gibson (Clan Buchanan), actor and director (Braveheart)[6][clarification needed]
Isabel Gillies
Cork Graham, imprisoned in Vietnam for trespassing while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.[7][8]
Oliver Hardy, comedic actor, best known for Laurel and Hardy
Roy Ellsworth Harris, Classical composer of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry
Katharine Hepburn
Charlton Heston
Edward Everett Horton[9]
Steve Howey
Anjelica Huston, her father, director John Huston, was of part Scottish decent.
Khloe Kardashian[10]
Cody Kasch (1987 - ) television actor (Desperate Housewives)[11]
Max Kasch (1985 - ) television/film actor
David Keith, actor
Deborah Kerr actress
Val Kilmer, Actor
Nancy Kwan, mother was of Scottish decent.
Sunny Lane female porn star[12]
Eva LaRue, Actress
Jay Leno (1950 - ) comedian, former actor, primarily known as host of The Tonight Show; mother was from west lowland Scotland.[13]
Hamish Linklater, best known for his role in the series The New Adventures of Old Christine, the son of Scottish vocal coach, dialect professor, actor and theater director Kristin Linklater.
Ray Liotta, actor
Heather Locklear, actress
Marion Lorne, actress best known for her recurring role as Aunt Clara in the series Bewitched
Myrna Loy
Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
Seth MacFarlane writer of Family Guy
Andie MacDowell[14]
Ali MacGraw
Alexander Mackendrick
Kyle MacLachlan, actor, Sex and the City
John Malkovich
Danica McKellar, actress
Benjamin McKenzie
Zoe McLellan
Marshall Mathers, American rapper (Eminem)[15]
Caroline McWilliams
Andy Milligan
Cameron Mitchell
Agnes Moorehead
Julianne Moore, actress, mother is from Scotland.
Marilyn Monroe
Sara Paxton (father is of part Scottish ancestry)
Nia Peeples, actrees and singles
Lou Diamond Phillips, biological father was of mostly Scottish decent.
Elvis Presley (mother Scots-Irish and French, father Scottish and German)
Anna Sophia Robb[16]
Ginger Rogers, actress; born Virginia Katherine McMath
Mickey Rooney, actor
Jane Russell
Seann William Scott actor, Steve Stifler of American Pie[17]
Alicia Silverstone, actress
Barbara Stanwick
David Strathairn, actor, The River Wild
Jimmy Stewart, actor, Brigadier General (USAFR)
John Stewart, musician
Donald Sutherland, actor
Kiefer Sutherland, actor
Michael Tait, musician
Milo Ventimiglia
Jurgen Vsych, film director, screenwriter and author
Christopher Walken, actor[18]
John Wayne, actor (both parents Scottish and Scots-Irish)
Sigourney Weaver, actress[19]
Reese Witherspoon, actress (Scottish ancestor John D. Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence)
Steven Wright, comedian, actor and writer (Scottish and Italian descent)
Dani Woodward
Cyma Zarghami, current president of Nickelodeon and MTV Network's Kids and Family Group (father Iranian, mother Scottish)[20]
[edit]Artists
Alexander Anderson, illustrator
Alexander Calder
Herbert A. Collins
John M. Donaldson artist and architect
Leslie Erganian
John Mackie Falconer
Joseph Glasco
Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
Jackson Pollock, artist
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
[edit]Athletes
Tommy Armour III, professional golfer
Lance Armstrong, 7 time Tour de France winner
Max Baer
Don Budge, tennis player
Gordon Burness
Roy Carlyle
Mickey Cochrane, Hall of Famer
Keith Cooke, martial artist (mother Scottish-American, father Japanese-American)
Walter Dick, soccer player
Brandon Forsyth, ice skater
Patrick Galbraith
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
David Gould, USA national soccer coach and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
John Harkes
Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers outfielder
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
Dominic Kinnear (born in Glasgow) USA international soccer player and current head coach of Houston Dynamo
Bob MacDonald, former Major League Baseball player
Nate McLouth, Baseballer currently playing for the Atlanta Braves
Seth McClung
Charlie McCully, soccer player who won 11 caps for the US national team
Brandon McDonald
Shaun McDonald, American football player
Tommy McFarlane
Parker McLachlin
Jason McLaughlin, soccer player
Fred McLeod
Doug McMillan
Jamie McMurray
Joe Ogilvie
Michael Phelps[21]
Arnold Palmer, golfer
Roddy Piper, wrestler
Frank Ramsey
Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach
Bobby Thomson, baseball player
Lawrence Tynes
Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame pitcher
[edit]Business
James Abernethy, entrepreneur and first ever governor of Oregon
Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour and Company, a meatpacking firm[22]
William M. Blair
David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Motor Company
Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist and Steel
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel the 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
Joseph Barlow Forbes
James Grant Forbes, businessman who made his fortune from the opium trade
John Malcolm Forbes
John Murray Forbes
William Cameron Forbes
Bill Gates, mother was of Scottish descent.[23]
Jay Gould, railroad developer
Archibald Gracie, shipping magnate
Cyrus McCormick (International Harvester)
Harold Fowler McCormick
I.O. McDaniel
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born chairman and director of NewsCorp
Allan Pinkerton, detective and director of a security business
Alexander Turney Stewart, born on Ireland to Scottish parents
Donald Trump, business magnate and television personality, mother was an immigrant from Scotland
[edit]Musicians/Singers


Fergie


Johnny Cash


Jeff Baxter wearing Clan MacMillan badge
Billie Joe Armstrong, Singer/Guitarist for Green Day
Tim Armstrong, lead singer/guitarist for Rancid
Emilie Autumn
Lindsey "Lyn-Z" Ballato, Bassist for Mindless Self Indulgence
Joan Baez, singer, songwriter and activist (her mother was born in Edinburgh).
Jeff Baxter, guitarist for Steely Dan
Drake Bell
Shannon Bex, former member of Danity Kane
Wes Borland, of the band Limp Bizkit
David Byrne, Musician/Songwriter/Artist. Born in Dumbarton.
David Campbell
Glen Campbell, singer
Johnny Cash, singer
Rosanne Cash singer-songwriter daughter of Johnny Cash
Kurt Cobain
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
Hilary Duff, actress and singer
Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, singer best known with The Black Eyed Peas
Brandon Flowers, singer and keyboardist of The Killers
Alison Fraser
Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Kim Gordon, singer/guitarist for Sonic Youth
Oscar Hammerstein II, writer of musicals of "Rodgers and Hammerstein" fame, Scottish grandparent[24]
Gil-Scott Heron
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
Chris Kirkpatrick, former member of N'Sync
Joanna Levesque, better known by her stage name JoJo
Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence
Jesse McCartney, American singer
Adam MacDougall
Ian MacKaye, Early Hardcore and Emo personality, noted for Minor Threat and Fugazi
Talitha MacKenzie singer
Tony MacAlpine, African American guitarist with Scottish ancestry
Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish
Ed McTaggart
Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, Rapper
Tim McAllister
Paul McCoy
Tim McGraw, American country music singer (father is Scots-Irish, mother is Italian-Irish)
Don McLean
Ray McKinley
Jon McLaughlin, singer-songwriter
Katharine McPhee, pop and R'n'B
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
Brad Paisley, country music singer
Elvis Presley, singer[25][26]
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 from Scottish German descent)
Ryan Ross, Musician, previously with Panic at the Disco and now with The Young Veins
Ashlee Simpson, singer/actress
Jessica Simpson, singer
Layne Staley, original lead singer of Alice in Chains
Gwen Stefani, singer
Izzy Stradlin, rock musician
Taylor Swift, country singer[27][28]
Carrie Underwood, country singer
Brendon Urie, Lead singer of Panic at the Disco
Tom Waits, singer/songwriter
Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
Meat Loaf
Mikey Way, bass guitarist for My Chemical Romance
Jack White aka John Anthony Gillis, of The White Stripes


Lyndon B. Johnson
[edit]Government and military
Creighton Abrams, US Army general who commanded military operations in Vietnam from 1968–1972
William Alexander, American major-general during the American Revolutionary War
Neil Armstrong, astronaut
Chester A. Arthur, American president
James Barbour, officer in the Confederate Navy
Maryanne Trump Barry
Alan Bean, astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon
James B. Beck
Jim Bowie, frontiersman and a defender of the Alamo
Albert Bryant, Jr
Bay Buchanan
James Buchanan, American president
Pat Buchanan
Irvine Bulloch
Ambrose Burnside
George W. Bush, American president
Omar N. Bradley, American general
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
William Claflin, Governor of Massachusetts
Grover Cleveland, American president
Merian C. Cooper
Samuel W. Crawford, US Army surgeon and Union general in the American Civil War
Davy Crockett, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and a defender of the Alamo
Jefferson Finis Davis, President of the Confederacy
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Alexander J. Dallas (U.S. Navy officer)
George M. Dallas, US Senator from Pennsylvania
James E. Ferguson
Millard Fillmore, American president
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general
Alexander Garden (soldier), American Revolutionary War soldier
James Lorraine Geddes
Newt Gingrich, American politician
James Gilfillan, 13th Treasurer of the United States
John Brown Gordon
Archibald Gracie III
Ulysses S. Grant, military leader and American president
Charles McNeill Gray
Robert Gray
John B. Gordon, Confederate war hero
Arthur F. Gorham, World War II paratrooper and hero during the invasion of Sicily
William Halsey, Jr
Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury
John Hancock, first signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
Warren G. Harding, American president
Rutherford B. Hayes, American president
William Hooper
Sam Houston, president of Texas and afterwards governor
Rufus Ingalls
Andrew Jackson, American president
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
Thomas Jefferson, American president
Andrew Johnson, American president
Lyndon B. Johnson, American president
Samuel Johnston
John Paul Jones, American Revolutionary War naval hero
John Kerry
Roberta Lawson
Hugh Swinton Legaré lawyer and politician of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry
Matthew B. Lowrie
Arthur MacArthur, American general
Douglas MacArthur, American general
John Lewis MacDonald
Duncan McArthur
Tom McClintock
Irvin McDowell, American officer
Samuel McDowell
Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary
George B. McClellan
Clark MacGregor
John J. McCloy
James McHenry (Scots-Irish)
Tom Ed McHugh
Lachlan McIntosh
Mike McIntyre
Archibald T. MacIntyre, American politician
Kenneth McKellar
Alexander McKenzie
William McKinley, American president
Mack McLarty
Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank
James Monroe, American president
Richard Nixon, American president
Barack Obama, American president[29]
George S. Patton, American general
James K. Polk, American president
Colin Powell, Chief of Staff
Ronald Reagan, American president
John McCain, Senator of Arizona
Theodore Roosevelt, American president
Winfield Scott, American general
Jeb Stuart, Confederate war hero
William Howard Taft, American president
Harry S. Truman, American president
Woodrow Wilson, American president
John Witherspoon, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
[edit]Inventors, engineers and academics
Thomas Addis, physician and scientist
Sextus Barbour
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Alexander Melville Bell
James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary
George Harold Brown
Nicholas Murray Butler
Allan McLeod Cormack
Donald J. Cram, shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen
William Harkness
Walter Houser Brattain, inventor of the transistor
James McGill Buchanan, economist
Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology
William Wallace Campbell, astronomer
Alexander Garden (naturalist), botanist whose name lives on in the Gardenia flower, though he was also a physician and zoologist
Irving Langmuir
David MacAdam, color scientist
Kevin B. MacDonald, psychology professor at California State University
James Ross MacDonald, physicist
Colin Munro MacLeod
Katherine McAlpine
Richard Sears McCulloh
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, historian
Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
[edit]Writers
Helen Adam
Paul Dayton Bailey
Lesley Bannatyne
Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 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
Esther Forbes, novelist and children's writer
Robert Frost, poet
Alex Haley, author of Roots[30][31][32]
Alice Henderson
Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan fantasy series
Washington Irving
Garrison Keillor
Steven Keillor
Will Leitch
Amy MacDonald
Sally MacKenzie
Sean McAdam
Helen McCloy
David McCullough
Richard McCulloch
Dennis McDougal
Al McIntosh, distinguished newspaper editor
James Alan McPherson
Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It etc.
Archibald MacLeish, modernist poet, Pulitzer Prize winner and Librarian of Congress.
Larry McMurty
Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer, poet and critic
J. D. Salinger, writer of Catcher in the Rye[33]
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[34]
[edit]Native American leaders


William McIntosh
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
[edit]Religion
Pat Buchanan
George Grant (author)
John Menzies Macfarlane, hymn writer.
David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Scottish father.
Mike MacIntosh
Scotty McLennan
Pat Robertson
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism, through his mother Lucy Mack Smith
[edit]Other


Malcolm X
Tom Bendelow
Alfred Blalock, surgeon
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Mary Katherine Campbell (1905-1990) Miss America titleholder 1922 and 1923, First Runner-Up in 1924.[35]
William Sloane Coffin
Virgil Earp
Wyatt Earp
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement
William Henry Farquhar
Ilan Hall, chef
Arlo Hemphill
Indiana Jones, fictional archeologist, associate dean, college professor, adventurer and soldier
Barbour Lathrop
Lee Miller
John Muir, naturalist
Kim Kardashian, socialite and television personality
Malcolm X, militant and religious leader.[36]
Flora MacDonald (emigrated to America after failure of Jacobite rising)
George Henry Mckenzie
Ranald MacDonald, first person to teach the English language in Japan
Catharine MacKinnon
Jane McCrea
Lisa McPherson, Scientologist whose death was a source of much controversy for the Church of Scientology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_Americans

[007]

yes, I have often wondered why many did not retain the kilt and clan culture once here in America. I think many may have been lost with the stopover in Ireland prior to coming to America.

Well, the kilt used to be strictly Highlander garb, the Lowland Scots wouldn't have worn one at gunpoint.

[Graham]

Well, the kilt used to be strictly Highlander garb, the Lowland Scots wouldn't have worn one at gunpoint.

The Jacobites wore kilts. They were a mix of both Highlander and lowland East coast mainly North. Just like not all Highlanders wore Kilts etc.. Hanoverian supporters were mainly in South West.

[Graham]

You also have to differentiate the great highland kilt to the modern one you see today. Which would have been newish when alot of Scots left the Island.

It was more connected to the military after the banning.

[Aces High]

Johnny Cash

I went to see the great man in concert at Croydon some years ago and during the concert he said earler that day he had been to Addington which isnt far from Croydon because thats where his ancestors came from.
Same with Jerry Lee Lewis.....English.



Also Cash is a highly unlikely name for a Scotsman......small change maybe but not Cash.