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
- Jessica Chastain, American actress
Education===
- Anthony Benezet, American Quaker educator and abolitionist
Entrepreneurs and businesspeople===
- Samuel Courtauld (industrialist), American-born British industrialist
- A.J. Cassatt (Pennsylvania Railroad)
- descended from the French Huguenot Jacques Cossart, who came to New Amsterdam in 1662
- 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