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This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are English American or must have references showing they are English American and are notable.
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)
The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation. The group is also extended to include some early colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans ...
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.6 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.
Norman Angell (1872–1967), British internationalist and economist; William Beveridge (1879–1963), economist and social reformer; Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), economist and historian; Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist; Ronald Coase (1910–2013), Nobel Prize–winning economist; Martin Ellison, consultant to the Bank ...
Carnegie founded a steel company that bore his name that he eventually sold to J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel, at which point he embarked on a famous campaign of philanthropy and charity.
Became an American citizen in 1980. Janice Biala – Born in Poland. Became an American citizen in 1929. Dorothy Brett – Born in the United Kingdom. Became a U.S. citizen in 1938; Rudolf Cronau – Born in Germany. Became a U.S. citizen in 1901. Marcel Duchamp – Born and raised in France. Became a U.S. citizen in 1955. [7]
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