List of Huguenots
Some notable Huguenots or people with Huguenot ancestry include:
Arts & Entertainment
- James Agee, American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author
- Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet
- Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor
- Pierre Bayle, French author and philosopher
- Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter
- Sébastien Bourdon, French painter
- Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), British illustrator of Charles Dickens
- Samuel Chappuzeau, French author, poet, and playwright
- Jessica Chastain, American actress
- William Christopher, American actor
- Marie De Cotteblanche (c1520-c1584) known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.
- Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer
- Joan Crawford, American actress
- Davy Crockett, American folk hero
- John Theophilus Desaguliers was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.
- Jean Delannoy, French actor, film editor, screenwriter, and film director
- Louis de Rochemont, filmmaker
- Richard de Rochemont, filmmaker
- William De Morgan, British art potter, tile designer, and author
- Johnny Depp, American actor
- Sean Else, is a South African writer and film maker
- G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, British writer and historian
- Daphne du Maurier, English writer
- George du Maurier, English author and cartoonist
- Gerald du Maurier, English actor
- Brooke D'Orsay, Canadian actress
- I. D. du Plessis, South African writer, member of the Dertigers group
- Max du Preez, is a South African author, columnist and documentary filmmaker and was the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad.
- Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster, English author
- Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet
- Johnny Fourie, South African Jazz guitarist.
- Philip Morin Freneau, American poet
- Judy Garland, actress and singer
- David Garrick, English actor
- André Gide, French author
- Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor
- Dashiell Hammett, American author
- Eddie Izzard, English comedian and actor
- Derek Jacobi, English actor
- Elsa Joubert, South African novelist
- Victor Lardent, British advertising designer who drew Times New Roman
- William Larminie, Irish poet
- Christian Ignatius Latrobe, British clergyman, composer, and musician
- Simon Le Bon, English musician and frontman of 1980s group, Duran Duran.
- Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer
- Jacques Le Moyne, French artist and explorer
- Madeleine L'Engle, American author
- Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
- Pierre Loti, French Orientalist writer
- Pierre des Maizeaux, author
- Charles Maturin, Irish Gothic writer
- Jacques-Louis Monod, pianist, composer, and teacher
- Laurence Olivier, English actor
- Karl Oenike, 1862 - 1924 German Landscape Painter
- Bernard Palissy, French potter
- Tom Paulin, British poet and critic
- Jon Pertwee, English actor
- Sean Pertwee, English actor
- James Planché, British dramatist and officer of arms
- Tyrone Power, actor
- Tyrone Power, Sr., actor
- Frederic Remington, American artist and sculptor
- Keith Richards, English musician
- Damon Runyon, American author
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet
- Julia Sawalha, British actress of Huguenot and Jordanian ancestry
- John Spencer-Churchill (artist), English painter and sculptor and nephew of Sir Winston Churchill
- Charlize Theron, South African actress
- Henry David Thoreau, American writer
- Théophile de Viau, poet and dramatist
- Dorothea Viehmann, German storyteller, source for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Alexander von Roon, American Actor and Director
- John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet
Education
- Hosea Ballou II, first president of Tufts University
- Jean Belmain, French scholar, French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I
- Anthony Benezet, American Quaker educator and abolitionist
- Jacques Bongars, scholar
- Ferdinand Buisson, educator, academic, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Isaac Casaubon, scholar
- Meric Casaubon, scholar and translator
- Harriet Martineau, English writer and educational and economic reformer
- James Martineau, English philosopher, educator, and Unitarian minister
- Lewis Page Mercier, British translator of Jules Verne into English
- Gabriel Monod, historian
- Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée), French humanist, logician, and educational reformer
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist
Entrepreneurs and businesspeople
- Celest de Villiers, South-Africa Entrepreneur
- Salomon de Brosse, French architect
- Warren Buffett, investor, wealthiest person in the world in 1995 and 2008
- Jean Calas, French merchant, son's murder case championed by Voltaire
- Jean Chardin (later Sir John Chardin), French jeweller and traveller
- Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman
- Samuel Courtauld (industrialist), American-born British industrialist
- Samuel Courtauld (art collector), grandnephew of the industrialist, businessman, and art collector
- Robert Champion de Crespigny, Australian businessman
- E. I. du Pont, founder of the duPont Company (USA)
- Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweller
- Gustav Fabergé, Russian jeweller
- James Gandon, Anglo - Irish Georgian architect
- Charles Gide, French economist
- Jean Francois Hobler, watch and clock maker
- Howard Hughes, American inventor, industrialist and billionaire [1]
- Leonard Jerome, American financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, British-born architect of the United States Capitol
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, American engineer
- Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor
- Henry Laurens, American merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress
- Daniel Myron LeFever, American gunmaker
- John Pintard, American merchant and philanthropist
- Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, and reality TV star
- John D. Rockefeller, American capitalist
- Robert Lewis Roumieu. British architect
- Marvin Travis Runyon, American business executive
- John E. Tourtellotte, American architect
- Obadiah Williams, Irish merchant
- Simon De Charmes, Successful Watch and Clockmaker
- Simone Dupont, Danish descendant
- Marc Vangrootel, Canadian Web Designer/Developer[2]
Journalism
- Tom Brokaw, American television journalist and author
- Rian Malan, South African journalist
- Giles Romilly, British journalist, Nazi POW, nephew of Winston Churchill
- Alexander von Roon, American writer & journalist
- Peregrine Worsthorne, British journalist
Law
- Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat
- Antoine Court, French reformer
- Warder Cresson, American writer, first U. S. consul to Jerusalem, and convert to Judaism
- John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
- Paul Ricœur, philosopher
- John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly, English judge
- Friedrich Karl von Savigny, German jurist
- Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, German jurist
Medicine
- Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author
- Charles Angibaud, French-born British apothecary
- George de Benneville, physician and early Universalist
- Campbell De Morgan, British surgeon
- John Misaubin, French-born British physician
- Ambroise Paré, French surgeon
- Peter Mark Roget, British physician and compiler of the thesaurus
Military
- John André, British officer and spy
- Francis Beaufort, hydrographer of the British Admiralty
- François de Beauvais, Seigneur de Briquemault, French soldier
- John Blossett, British soldier, led British expedition to aid Simon Bolivar in the wars of independence against Spain
- Salomon Blosset de Loche, French general
- Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, general
- Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, general
- Marquis Calmes, general, Veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Union General in the US Civil War, Governor of the state of Maine.
- Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, British Army Lieutenant Colonel, member of the Special Operations Executive
- John de Chastelain, Canadian diplomat, General and Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces
- Gaspard de Coligny, French admiral
- Piet Cronje, leader of the Transvaal Republic's military forces during the First and Second Anglo-Boer Wars
- Hector Francois Chataigner de Cramahé, French soldier, assisted William of Orange in the taking of the British throne
- Peter de la Billière, British Military Commander
- Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière highest scoring German U-boat commander of World War I
- Jean du Casse, French buccaneer and admiral
- Christiaan du Toit, South African military commander
- Curt von François, German soldier and administrator in German South-West Africa (now Namibia)
- Frederick Cockayne Elton, Crimean War recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Hermann von François, German World War I general
- Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer), British Army officer
- Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage, Major General in the British Army
- Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe General and World War II fighter ace
- Dr. Elizabeth Gerow, Medical Doctor practiced in Poughkeepsie, NY after Graduating from University of Michigan in 1875. She also studied at Women's Hospital in Boston. She died August 16, 1933.
- Henri Guisan, Commander in Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II
- Peter Horry, American Revolutionary War General
- Benjamin Huger, American Civil War general (Confederate)
- Petrus Jacobus Joubert, Boer commandant-general of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900
- François de la Noue, French soldier, called Bras-de-Fer (Iron Arm)
- Jean L'Archevêque, French explorer, soldier. and merchant-trader
- Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French soldier, prince of Sedan and Marshal of France
- John Laurens, American Revolutionary War hero
- François le Clerc, pirate known as Jambe de Bois (or Wooden Leg)
- Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq, Prussian general
- John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier Commander-in-Chief of the British Army
- Adolph Malan, South African World War II fighter pilot ace
- Magnus Malan, former South African Minister of Defence, Chief of the South African Defence Force, and Chief of the South African Army
- Ulrich de Maizière, German general
- Arthur Middleton Manigault, American Civil War general (Confederate)
- Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter
- Hans-Joachim Marseille, German Luftwaffe ace
- Peter Mawney, Colonel, Rhode Island militia
- Charles Manigault Morris, American Navy officer (Confederate)
- George S Patton, Jr, US Army General, WWII
- J. Johnston Pettigrew, Confederate general in the American Civil War
- George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War
- Charles Portal, British Chief of the Air Staff 1940-1945 Combined Chiefs of Staff 1942-1945
- Paul Revere, American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence.
- Jean Ribault, naval officer and colonizer
- Henri, duc de Rohan, French soldier
- Jacques de Sores, pirate, nicknamed L'Ange Exterminateur (The Exterminating Angel)
- Barry St. Leger, British officer
- Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat
- Charles C. Tew Colonel CSA-killed 1862
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Army and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War II, a descendant of the Delancey family
- Constand Viljoen, leader of the South African Freedom Front and SADF general
- John Bordenave Villepigue, Confederate general
- John C. Villepigue Medal of Honor winner
Politics and government
- Constant d'Aubigné, French nobleman, father of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV
- John Bascom, American university president, writer
- Ruth Bascom, American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon
- Isaac Barré, British politician, gave his name to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Barre, Massachusetts; and Barre, Vermont
- Hester Mahieu, wife of Francis Cooke, captain of the Mayflower, and daughter of French-speaking Calvinists Jacques and Jenne/Jeanne Mahieu.
- James A. Bayard, U. S. Congressman
- Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, British Ambassador to Italy and Ambassador to France
- Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Marshal of France
- François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, French statesman
- Jessie Boucherett, English campaigner for women's rights
- Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
- James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts
- James Bowdoin III, American statesman and philanthropist, benefactor of Bowdoin College
- Bryant Butler Brooks, Governor of Wyoming
- William Byrd I, early Virginia settler
- François Caron, French Director-General of the Dutch East India Company and the French East Indies Company
- Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founded Québec City, born into a Huguenot family, died a Roman Catholic
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Sarel Cilliers, Boer Voortrekker
- Louise de Coligny, wife of William the Silent
- Maurice Couve de Murville, French prime minister
- Richard Walther Darré, NSDAP Reich Agricultural Minister
- Hector Theophilus de Cramahé, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, titular Lieutenant-Governor of Detroit
- Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa serving from September 1989 to May 1994
- James DeLancey, Governor of New York
- Louis Dubois, colonist to New Netherland, co-founded New Paltz, New York
- Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts, French colonizer of Canada
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French writer, economist, and government official
- Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Alexander du Pre, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1806 - 1811.
- D. F. du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners
- S. G. du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners
- Stephanus Jacobus du Toit, co-founder of Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners
- Mareen Duvall, early Maryland settler
- Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse, Countess of Wilhelmsburg, grandmother of King George II of England
- Nigel Farage, British politician, leader of UKIP party
- Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster, British Conservative politician
- Peter Force, American politician and archivist
- Jacobus Johannes Fouché, State President of South Africa 1968-1975
- Frederick the Great of Prussia, son of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover and nephew of George II of Great Britain was matrilineally descended from Alexander II d'Esmiers, Marquis d'Olbreuse, a Huguenot.
- Alonzo Garcelon, Governor of Maine
- George II of Great Britain, son of Sophia Dorothea of Celle was matrilineally descended from Alexander II d'Esmiers, Marquis d'Olbreuse, a minor member of the French nobility and a Huguenot.
- Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States
- Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin), wife of Sir John Franklin
- François Guizot, French historian and statesman
- Alexander Hamilton, American Secretary of the Treasury
- Henry IV of France, king of France
- James Francis Helvetius Hobler, Chief Clerk to the Lord Mayors of London
- Sir James Houblon, merchant and Member of Parliament
- Sir John Houblon, First Governor of the Bank of England
- George Izard, Major General and Governor of Arkansas
- Ralph Izard, U.S. Senator, President pro tempore of U.S. Senate
- Jeanne III of Navarre, Queen of Navarre, mother of Henry IV of France
- Lionel Jospin, French prime minister
- Robert LaFollette, Senator from Wisconsin, Founder of the Progressive Party
- Charles La Trobe, first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria, Australia
- Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords
- René Goulaine de Laudonnière, French explorer
- Daniel François Malan, South African Prime Minister elected on Apartheid platform
- Lothar de Maizière, German politician
- Thomas de Maizière, German politician
- Gideon Malherbe, co-founder of the Afrikaans language movement Society of Real Afrikaners
- Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian diplomat and politician
- Gouverneur Morris, American statesman, represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention
- Beyers Naudé, Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist and cleric
- Jozua François Naudé, acting President of South Africa from 1967 to 1968
- Oscar Neebe, American labor movement leader
- Sarah Palin, American politician, governor of Alaska, U.S. presidential candidate
- Daniel Perrin, one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York
- Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist
- Élisée Reclus, geographer and anarchist
- Piet Retief, Boer Voortrekker
- Daniel Roberdeau, Congressman and militia General
- Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval, first lieutenant governor of French Canada
- Michel Rocard, French prime minister
- Esmond Romilly, British socialist and anti-fascist
- Samuel Romilly, English legal reformer and Member of Parliament
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
- Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Runyon, American lawyer, politician, Civil War general, New Jersey court judge, first U.S. ambassador to Germany
- William Nelson Runyon, American lawyer, politician, governor of New Jersey
- Jedediah Smith, American explorer and mountain man
- Eugène Terre'Blanche South African political activist
- Charles Tupper, Canadian father of Confederation, Premier of Nova Scotia (1864-1867)and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896) was reputed to be a Huguenot descendant.
- Luis Vernet, Argentine governor of the Falkland Islands
Dr. Johannes Dr Last Montagne, aka Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam, vice- director of New Netherland, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and Beverwyck.
Religion
- Abraham Faure, Clergyman and author in the Cape Colony
- Jessé de Forest, leader of a group of Walloon-Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions
- Jacques Abbadie, French theologian
- Moses Amyraut, French theologian, proponent of Amyraldism
- Hosea Ballou, American preacher, co-founder of Universalist theology in America
- Henry Bidleman Bascom, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop
- Theodore Beza, French theologian
- David Blondel, French clergyman, historian, and classical scholar
- John Calvin, French-born Swiss theologian
- Louis Cappel, French clergyman and Hebrew scholar
- Sebastian Castellio, theologian and early proponent of freedom of conscience
- Odet de Coligny, former cardinal
- Jean Daillé, French theologian
- William Farel, theologian
- Guillaume de Félice, Comte de Panzutti, French abolitionist and theologian
- John Gano, Baptist preacher and Revolutionary War chaplain
- Pierre Jurieu, French pastor and author
- Paul Lorrain, secretary to Samuel Pepys, Anglican clergyman, and ordinary of Newgate Prison
- Andrew Lortie, theologian
- Adolphe Monod, pastor
- Frédéric Monod, pastor
- Josué de la Place, French theologian
- Paul Rabaut, pastor
- Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne, pastor and Girondist
- Charles Spurgeon, first pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, founder of a theological college, almshouses and orphanage, and a writer
Science
- John Theophilus Desaguliers was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.
- Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician
- Alexander du Toit, South African geologist
- Daniel du Toit, South African astronomer
- Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
- Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist
- Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist
- Gideon Joubert, Afrikaans science non-fiction author
- Matthew Fontaine Maury, father of modern oceanography and naval meteorology
- Florence Bascom, American geologist
- Abraham de Moivre, French-born British mathematician
- Jacques Monod, biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- Théodore Monod, naturalist, explorer, and activist
- Arthur Alcock Rambaut, Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Radcliffe Observer at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University
- Roger Revelle, one of the first scientists to study global warming and tectonic plates.
- Yves Rocard, French nuclear physicist
Sport
- Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator
- Roy Cazaly, Australian Rules footballer
- Tony Cottee, West Ham United and England footballer
- Piers Courage, English racing driver
- Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
- Phil de Glanville, England rugby union international
- Jürgen Hahn, German handball player
- Paul Michael Levesque, American pro wrestler famous under pseudonym of Triple H
- Buddy Pelletier, Professional Surfer-Member of Surfing Hall of fame
- François Pienaar captain of the Springboks
- Elfrida Pigou, Canadian mountaineer
- Juan Theron, South African cricketer
- AB De Villiers, South African cricketer
- Andre Nel, South African cricketer
- Faf du Plessis, South African cricketer
- Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
Other
- Jane Franklin wife of Sir John Franklin
References
- ↑ Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B. Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness Norton, 2011, page 29.
- ↑ "France in the Time of Paul Vachon". www.pomerleau.org. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.