Notable Huguenots or people from Huguenot descent United States

Arts & Entertainment

• James Agee, American screenwriter and Pulitzer prize winning author
• Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo cowboy, artist, and sculptor
• William Christopher, American actor
• Joan Crawford, American actress
• Davy Crockett , American folk hero
• Johnny Depp, American actor
• Philip Morin Freneau, American poet
• Judy Garland , actress and singer
• Dashiell Hammett, American author
• Madeleine L'Engle , American author
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American poet
• Frederic Remington, American artist and sculptor
• Henry David Thoreau , American writer
• John Greenleaf Whittier , American poet
• Peter Griffin, American brewer, toy-maker, deposed President of Petoria (self-described Huguenot)

Education

• Anthony Benezet, American Quaker educator and abolitionist

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

• Samuel Courtauld (industrialist), American-born British industrialist
• Leonard Jerome , American financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe , American engineer and archtiect
• Henry Laurens , American merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress
• Daniel Myron LeFever, American gunmaker
• John Pintard, American merchant and philanthropist
• John D. Rockefeller , American capitalist
• John E. Tourtellotte, American architect

Journalism

• Tom Brokaw , American television journalist and author

Law

• Warder Cresson, American writer, first U. S. consul to Jerusalem, and convert to Judaism

Military

• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain , Union General in the US Civil War, Governor of the state of Maine.
• Peter Horry , American Revolutionary War General
• Benjamin Huger , American Civil War general (Confederate)
• John Laurens , American Revolutionary War hero
• Arthur Middleton Manigault , American Civil War general (Confederate)
• Francis Marion , American Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter
• Peter Mawney , Colonel, Rhode Island militia
• Charles Manigault Morris , American Navy officer (Confederate)
• George S Patton , Jr, US Army General, WWII
• James Johnston Pettigrew , Confederate general in the American Civil War
• George Pickett , Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Paul Revere, American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence.

Politics and government

• James A. Bayard , U. S. Congressman
• 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
• James DeLancey , Governor of New York
• Louis Dubois , colonist to New Netherland, co-founded New Paltz, New York
• Peter Force , American politician and archivist
• Alonzo Garcelon, Governor of Maine
• Al Gore , former Vice-President of the United States
• Alexander Hamilton , American Secretary of the Treasury
• George Izard, Major General and Governor of Arkansas
• Ralph Izard , U.S. Senator, President pro tempore of U.S. Senate
• Gouverneur Morris , American statesman, represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention
• Oscar Neebe, American labor movement leader
• Daniel Perrin, one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York

Religion

• Hosea Ballou , American preacher, co-founder of Universalist theology in America
• Henry Bidleman Bascom, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop

Science

• Florence Bascom, American geologist