List of Welsh Americans
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Entertainment
- Tom Cruise (1962 - )
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- Glenn Ford (1916 - 2006)
- D. W. Griffith (1875 - 1948) early film director
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Anthony Hopkins (1937 - )
- Myrna Loy (1905 - 1993) actress
- Ray Milland (1905 - 1986) actor
- Susan Sarandon
- Robin Williams (1951 - present) actor
Politics
- John Adams - 2nd President of the United States
- John Quincy Adams - President of the United States (1767-1848)
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810 - 1903) abolitionist
- Calvin Coolidge - twenty-ninth Vice President (1921-1923) and thirtieth President of the United States (1923-1929)
- James J. Davis (1873 - 1947) U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- Jefferson Davis (1808 – 1889) - soldier, politician, and first and only President of the Confederate States (1862-1865)
- William Floyd - Declaration of Independence signatory
- Button Gwinnett - Declaration of Independence signatory
- Charles Evans Hughes - Governor of New York
- Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States
- Robert E. Lee - Confederate general
- Francis Lewis - Declaration of Independence signatory
- Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States
- James Madison - 4th President of the United States
- John Marshall - statesman, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
- James Monroe (1758 - 1831) 5th president of the United States
- Lewis Morris - Declaration of Independence signatory
- Robert Morris - Declaration of Independence signatory
- William Penn (1644 - 1718) Founder of Pennsylvania
- Daniel Webster (1782 – 1852) United States Senator and Secretary of State
- Thomas Wynne (1627-1691) - Physician to William Penn and speaker of the first Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
- Aaron Carter Son of Jane Spaulding Carter who is a Mayflower descendant of Irish, Welsh and English ancestory
Other
- Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) American pioneer
- Lewis Evans (1700 - 1756) colonial surveyor and geographer
- Oliver Evans (1755 – 1819) inventor
- William Fargo (1818 - 1881) pioneer expressman
- Murray Humphreys (1899 - 1965) Chicago mobster, chief political and labor racketeer in the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition
- George Jones (1811 - 1891) 'New-York Daily Times co-founder
- John L. Lewis (1880 - 1969) organized labor union leader
- Meriwether Lewis (1774 - 1809) explorer
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) novelist/playwright<ref name="welsh1" />
- Jack London (1876 - 1916) author
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) poet/biographer/dramatist
- J. P. Morgan (1837 - 1913) banker
- Isaac Shelby (1750 - 1826) soldier and the first Governor of Kentucky
- Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904) journalist/explorer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) abolitionist/writer
- Howard Stringer (1942 - ) businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation
- Tom Whittaker mountain climber
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959) one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century
- Elihu Yale (1649 – 1721) first benefactor of Yale University