List

Entertainment

• Joe E. Brown (born 1892) actor, maternal grandfather Evan Evans.
• Tom Cruise (born 1962) film star^[1]
• Bette Davis (1908?1989) two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television^[2]
• Donny Osmond (born 1957) half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie. Traced his ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil. ^[3]
• Tommy Lee (born 1963) drummer for hard rock/heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Ex-husband of Pamela Anderson
• Bill Evans (1929?1980), jazz pianist
• Glenn Ford (1916?2006)' film actor^[4]
• Andy Griffith television, stage and film actor
• Osgood Perkins (May 16, 1892 - September 21, 1937) was an American actor.
• Anthony Perkins (1932?1992), Academy Award-nominated stage and screen actor
• Blake Lewis (born 1981), American Idol contestant and singer ^[5]

Blake: Welsh, German, and Irish. I'm a mutt."

• D. W. Griffith (1875?1948) early film director^[6]
• Bob Hope (1903?2003) actor/comedian^[7]
• Isham Jones (1894?1956) songwriter, Big Band era orchestra leader, former coal miner
• Sir Anthony Hopkins (born 1937), Academy-Award winning film/stage actor^[8]
• Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), actor^[9]
• Myrna Loy (1905?1993) actress^[10]
• Ray Milland (1905?1986), actor^[11]
• Susan Sarandon (born 1946), Oscar-winning actress
• Nick Carter (born 1980), member of the Backstreet Boys
• Tiffani Thiessen (born 1974), actress
• Seth MacFarlane, comic writer and actor.
• Treat Williams, actor
• Gena Rowlands, actress
• Dean Cain, actor
• Kelly Clarkson, singer
• Bob Lewis (born 1947), co-founder of the musical group Devo
• Juliette Lewis, actress and singer ^[12]

Literature

• Sinclair Lewis (1885?1951) novelist/playwright^[13]
• Jack London (1876?1916) author^[14]
• Edgar Lee Masters (1868?1950) poet/biographer/dramatist
• Ogden Nash (1902?1971) wrote clever humorous poetry
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811?1896) abolitionist/writer^[13]

Politics

• John Adams- President of the United States, Vice President of the United States (1735-1826)
• John Quincy Adams - President of the United States, 8th Secretary of State (1767?1848)^[15]
• Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810?1903) abolitionist
• Calvin Coolidge - twenty-ninth Vice President (1921?1923) and thirtieth President of the United States (1923?1929)^[15]
• James J. Davis (1873?1947), U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania^[16]
• Jefferson Davis (1808?1889) - soldier, politician, and first and only President of the Confederate States (1862?1865)^[13]
• William Floyd - United States Declaration of Independence signatory^[17]
• Button Gwinnett - United States Declaration of Independence signatory^[18]
• Charles Evans Hughes - Governor of New York^[19]
• Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States, 1st Secretary of States^[15][20]
• Robert E. Lee - Confederate general^[21]
• Francis Lewis - United States Declaration of Independence signatory^[17]
• Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States^[15]
• James Madison - 4th President of the United States^[15]
• John Marshall - statesman, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court^[13]
• James Monroe (1758?1831) fifth president of the US^[15]
• Lewis Morris - United States Declaration of Independence signatory^[17]
• Robert Morris - United States Declaration of Independence signatory^[13]
• William Penn (1644?1718) Founder of Pennsylvania^[13]
• Thomas Rees (unknown dates) US Congressman, parents/grandparents from Wales
• Daniel Webster (1782?1852) United States Senator and Secretary of State^[22]
• Thomas Wynne (1627?1691) - Physician to William Penn and speaker of the first Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly^[23]
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (born 1947) Democratic U.S. Senator, former First Lady, Presidential candidate.^[24]

Industrial and business

• David Thomas (http://www.welshdragon.net/resources/Historical/wales_timeline2.shtml
• Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel - Tennessee-born founder of Jack Daniel's whiskey
• Bob Evans (restaurateur) (1918?2007) founder of Bob Evans Restaurants
• Howard Stringer (born 1942) businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation^[25]
• J. P. Morgan (1837?1913) banker
• William Fargo (1818?1881) pioneer expressman
• Howard Hughes (1905?1976) pioneering American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

Other

• Daniel Boone (1734?1820) American pioneer^[26]
• Evan Ellis (1972-) Promoter of Welsh Global Awareness
• Lewis Evans (1700?1756) colonial surveyor and geographer^[27]
• Cowboy Morgan Evans (1903-1969) Texas Rancher, 1928 World Series Rodeo Bulldogging champion, and competition Bull rider, Oil production Roughneck, drilling foreman, and oilman.
• Oliver Evans (1755?1819) inventor^[13][28]
• Murray Humphreys (1899?1965) Chicago mobster, chief political and labor racketeer in the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition^[29]
• George Jones (1811?1891) 'New-York Daily Times co-founder^[13]
• John L. Lewis (1880?1969) organized labor union leader^[13]
• Meriwether Lewis (1774?1809) explorer^[26][30]
• Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) Brigadier General in the American Revolution in the Contiental Army. Served in the United Sates House of Representatives representing Virginia.
• William Farrand Prosser (1834?1911) Union Colonel in the American Civil War. Served in the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee
• Isaac Shelby (1750?1826) soldier and the first Governor of Kentucky^[31]
• Henry Morton Stanley (1841?1904) journalist/explorer
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867?1959) one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century^[13][32]
• Elihu Yale (1649?1721) first benefactor of Yale University^[13][33]
• Colonel Donald Roderick Perkins (1927 - 2004) active member of the American Legion; the American Military Institute; the Army War College Foundation; the Reserve Officers Association; the Retired Officers Association; the Augustan Society; the Company of Military Historians; the Council on America?s Military Past; the Historical Society of the Militia and National Guard; the International Chivalric Institute; and the Military History Society of the Southwest; member of the Saint David's Welsh-American Society; the National Guard Association of the United States; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; New England Historical and Genealogical Society; and the New Mexico Historical Society
• Jesse James, cowboy/outlaw.

References

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