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- John Adams and John Q. Adams 4th and 6th U.S. Presidents
- William Alexander, founder of Nova Scotia
- William Richard Allen Lt. Governor of Montana
- Jane Means Appleton (Pierce) 14th U.S. First Lady
- Chester Alan Arthur, 21th U.S. President
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper 1st Earl Shaftesbury
- Aubigny, Theodore Agrippa French Poet, soldier, and historian
- Sir Francis Bacon Philosopher, statesman, essayist
- Norma Jean Baker AKA “Marilyn Monroe“, American Actress
- Henry Baldwin United States Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- Lucille Desiree Ball, Comedienne (“I Love Lucy”)
- Edward Bates Member of Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet
- Harriet Beecher-Stowe, American Author (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”)
- Alexander Graham Bell Inventor
- Jessie Ann Benton wife of John Charles “Pathfinder” Frémont
- Berinthia Berenson, actress and photographer, killed during 9/11 attacks
- Joseph R. Biden, 47th U.S. Vice President
- Eric Arthur Blair, AKA “George Orwell” , American novelist (“1984″)
- Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Bloomer (Ford), 38th U.S. First Lady
- Humphrey Deforest Bogart, American Actor
- Daniel Boone Early American pioneer and hunter
- John Wilkes Booth Stage Actor, assassinated Pres. Lincoln
- Clare Booth-Luce U.S. Congressperson, Ambassador, writer
- Elizabeth Andrew “Lizzie” Borden, tried, acquitted in the axe murders of her parents
- Godefroi de Boulogne (Godfrey of Bouillon), a leader of the First Crusade
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (Kennedy) 35th U.S. First Lady
- Robert Boyle Chemist, inventor, physicist, philosopher
- Ray Douglas Bradbury, Author
- Amory Howe Bradford, New York Times Vice President
- William Bradford Governor of Plymouth Colony
- Mathew B. Brady, Civil War photographer, credited as the “Father of Photojournalism”
- Marlon Brando, American Actor
- Jeffry and Beau Bridges American actors and children of actor Lloyd Bridges
- Achilles Broadhead, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to survey grounds that became University of VA
- Robert Bruce/”The Bruce” Hero of Scottish Independence
- George Buchanan Historian and humanist
- Alexander Buckner, Senator from Missouri; Founder and Grand Master of Indiana Masons
- Gilbert Burnett theologian and historian
- Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
- George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, 41st and 43rd U.S. Presidents, respectively
- Richard Evelyn Byrd Commander on the expedition culminating in the first flight over the South Pole
- Edith Kermit (Roosevelt) Carow 26th U. S. First Lady
- James Earl Carter 39th U.S. President
- Robert Carter III “The First Emancipator”
- Charles “Charlemagne” Carolingien, Emperor
- John William “Johnny” Carson, Comedian, TV host (Tonight Show)
- William Cavendish brother-in-law of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- Francis (Cleveland) Folsom 22nd/24th U.S. First Lady
- Edgar Cayce, “The Sleeping Prophet”
- Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st Earl Shaftesbury
- Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney, 46th U.S. Vice-President, CEO Halliburton
- Benjamin Church Colonial carpenter, instrumental in Philip’s War
- Frederic Edwin Church, 19th C. Landscape artist
- Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, PM of Great Britain
- Ann Elizabeth Claiborne Fashion Designer. First woman to become chairperson and CEO of a Fortune 500 Company
- Capt. William Clark Explorer and diplomat
- Samuel Clemens “Mark Twain”
- Stephen Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President
- Edward Montgomery Clift, American Actor
- William Jefferson Blythe Clinton 42nd U.S. President
- George Clooney American Actor
- Rosemary Clooney American Singer and Actress
- Levi Coffin ran the Civil War Underground Railroad with his husband Catherine (White) Coffin
- Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, American Astronaut, Commander of 1965 Gemini 5 mission
- William Cosby, British Royal Governor of New York
- Charles Cotton Poet, co-author of “Compleat Angler”
- Godiva Conventry, “Lady Godiva”
- Calvin Coolidge 30th U.S. President
- Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, Actress and Comedienne of the 19th century
- Ralph Adams Cram, Architect, specializing in Gothic era churches and universities
- John Michael Crichton, American author, director, producer
- John Jordan and brother Robert F. Crittendon, both governors, of Arkansas and Kentucky, respectively
- David Stern Crockett U.S. Congressman, “King of the Wild Frontier”
- Edward Estulin “e.e.” Cummings, American Poet
- Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President, first high official of Native American and significant non-European ancestry
- Mary Ann Randolph Custis Wife of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Martha Dandridge (Washington) 1st U.S. First Lady
- Charles R. Darwin, Naturalist
- Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis, American Actress
- James Byron Dean, American Actor (East of Eden, Giant, Rebel Without A Cause)
- Julia Dent (Grant) 18th U.S. First Lady
- Emily Dickinson, Poet
- Pamela Beryl (Churchill Harriman) Digby U.S. Ambassador to France, Socialite
- Leonard Digges astronomer/scientist credited with the invention of the reflecting telescope
- John Herbert Dillinger, Depression-era bank robber/criminal
- Walter Elias Disney, co-founder of Disneyland with brother Roy
- Robert Joseph Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas
- Mamie Geneva (Eisenhower) Doud 34th U.S. First Lady
- Frank Nelson Doubleday, American Publisher
- Issur Danielovitch Demsky aka Kirk Douglas, and son Michael Douglas, both American Actors
- Charles Henry Dow, Journalist, co-founder of Dow, Jones, & Co and Wall Street Journal
- John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles(brothers), Sec. of State and CIA director, respectively
- Sir Francis Drake Explorer and Privateer
- Herbert Eastin husband of Marie Euphrosine Arceneaux, a descendant of Martin Provost, 1st white man to marry an Indian maiden.
- Clint Eastwood, American Actor
- Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor
- Edmonds, Sarah E. Successful Civil War Union spy in the guise of a man
- Dwight David Eisenhower 34th U.S. President
- William H. English Politician, V.P. Candidate in 1880
- Charles Hector d’Estaing French Admiral
- Billy Sol Estes Financier, associate of Lyndon B. Johnson
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth, inventor of the television
- Guy “Guido” Fawkes “The Gunpowder Plot”
- Hon. Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
- Hamilton Fish, U.S. Senator from New York
- Ian Lancaster Fleming Author, creator of James Bond adventures
- Jane and Peter Fonda American actors and children of actor Henry Fonda
- Gerald Rudolph Ford 38th U.S. President [baptized Leslie Lynch King]
- Alberto Franchetti, Italian Operatic symphony composer
- Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of U.S.A., scientist/inventor, author/ publisher
- John C. Fremont, American Explorer
- Matthew Freud, owner of Freud Communications, son-in law of media mogul Keith Rupert Murdoch
- Robert Lee Frost American Poet
- Julia Gardiner (Tyler), 10th U.S. First Lady
- James Abram Garfield, 20th U.S. President
- Robert Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil Prime Minister of Great Britain
- William Henry Gates Founder of Microsoft
- Guillaume de Gellone, founded Saint-Guilhem-le-desert in year 806
- Eliza Rosanna “Lola Montez” Gilbert eclectic 19th Century adventuress
- John H Glenn II 1st American Astronaut to orbit Earth
- Grace Anna Goodhue (Coolidge), 30th U.S. First Lady
- Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, founder of what became B.F. Goodrich Tire Co.
- Albert Arnold Gore II, 45th U.S. Vice President
- Thomas Pryor “The Blind Orator” Gore U.S. Senator for Oklahoma
- Hiram Ulysses S. Grant Civil War Union General and18th U.S. President
- William Greenleaf, read the Declaration of Independence to the people of Boston in 1775
- Samuel Greg – Founder of the still-running 18th-century Quarry Bank textile mill in Styal, Cheshire, England.
- Lucy Grimes wife of Thomas Nelson II Governor of VA and signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom 2nd American Astronaut
- Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American Publisher – National Geographic
- Alexander Hamilton 1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Thomas Jeffry Hanks American Actor
- Benjamin Harrison 23rd U.S. President
- William Harrison 9th U.S. President
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway American Author and Journalist
- William Lewis Herndon, U.S. Naval Commander, famous for his exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
- Louella Henry (Hoover) 31st U.S. First Lady
- Patrick “Give Me Liberty” Henry Orator, 1st Governor of independent Virginia
- Katherine H. Hepburn American Actress
- Helen Louise Herron (Taft), 27th U.S. First Lady
- Mary Adelaide Barron, wife of Conrad Hilton, founder Hilton Hotels
- Gordon Bitney Hinckley, 15th president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) 1995-2008
- John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981
- John Hinton, Royal Physician, appointed Fleet Surgeon on the 1657 sailing of a different Mayflower
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician, and Oliver W. Holmes Jr, , jurist
- Benjamin Leroy Holt, American Inventor, patented 1st practical crawler-type tread tractor (now Caterpillar Co)
- Herbert Clark Hoover 31st U.S. President
- Stephen Hopkins, Mayflower pilgrim (after surviving “Sea Venture” shipwreck)
- Alanson Bigelow Houghton, President, Corning Glass works; U.S. Ambassador to Germany and to Great Britain
- Philip Howard One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Elias Howe Invented the sewing machine
- Clementine Ogilvy Hozier Baroness, wife of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
- Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, wife of inventor Alexander Graham Bell
- Howard Robard Hughes, American aviator, industrialist, philanthropist
- Everett Howard Hunt American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy
- Aldous Leonard Huxley, Writer, “Brave New World”
- Anne (Stewart) Hyde Queen of England
- Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, Civil War confederate general
- Jesse Woodson James “Outlaw Jesse James
- Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President
- John Major Jenkins Author, scholar on ancient Mayan cosmology
- Louisa Catherine (Adams) Johnson 6th U.S. First Lady
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 36th U.S. President
- Arthur Johnston Royal Stewart Physician and Author
- John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator
- Francis Scott Key writer of American anthem The Star Spangled Banner
- Stephen King American Author of horror and science fiction
- Elizabeth Kortwright (Monroe), 5th U.S. First Lady
- Alan Wallbridge Ladd, American Actor (Shane, Blue Dahlia, This Gun for Hire)
- Peter Lawford American Actor, m. Patricia Kennedy
- Gen. Robert E. Lee Civil War Confederate General
- Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President
- Charles A. Lindberg, Aviator
- Alexander Livingston, Regent for future king James II, instrumental in the “Black Dinner of 1440“
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American Poet
- Percival Lowell, Astronomer, founder Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ
- Henry Robinson Luce, Publisher, Co-Founder Time-Life Publications
- Douglas MacArthur American General
- James Madison II 4th U.S. President
- Charles Milles Manson, lead conspirator of `Manson Family` Tate/LaBianca murders
- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV American Actor Tom Cruise
- Peter Massey son-in-law of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, first Earl of Shaftsbury
- Amonute Matoaka, Confederacy of Powhatan “Pocahontas”
- John Sidney McCain IV U.S. Senator, Arizona
- William McKinley, 25th U.S. President
- Terrence Stephen “Steve” McQueen, American Actor
- Margaret Mead American Anthropologist
- Merovech Merovingian, King of the Franks
- Albert Abraham Michelson, American Physicist
- Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, Became Duchess of Cambridge upon her marriage to Prince William Windsor
- Mitkiewicz, “Count” Eugene, International adventurer, banking syndicator
- Edith Starr Miller,,Queenborough, Author
- James Monroe, 5th U.S. President
- Clement Clark Moore Author of “Twas The Night Before Christmas….”
- Christopher D. Morley Playwright
- Felix Muskett Morley, Pulitzer Prize for Journalist
- Ann Spencer Morrow American Aviator and wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh American Aviator
- Levi Parsons Morton, 22nd U.S. Vice President, Banker
- John Muir Naturalist
- Keith Rupert Murdoch, Media mogul
- Anna Murat Paternal granddaughter of Joachim Murat King of Naples and Italy
- John Napier Mathematician; Invented Logarithms, Decimal notation and ‘Napier’s Bones’.
- Nassau, William III “William of Orange”
- Horatio Nelson, Admiral English hero of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Thomas Nelson II Governor of VA and signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Paul Newman American Actor and race car driver
- Sir Isaac Newton Physicist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer
- Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th U.S. President
- William “The Conquerer” of Normandy
- Barak Hussein Obama 44th U.S. President
- Christian Oldenburg, King of Denmark and Norway, founded Univ. of Copenhagen in 1479
- Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy
- Katherine Parr Queen of England
- George Smith Patton WWII General
- Dolley Todd (Madison) Payne 4th U.S. First Lady
- Claiborne de Borda Pell, U.S. Senator, sponsor of Pell Grant
- Barbara (Bush) Pierce 41st U.S. First Lady
- Mary Wortley Pierrepont, Author, Socalite and son Edward Wortley Montagu II Author, Traveler, Diplomat
- Albert Pike Soldier, lawyer, Freemason
- William Bradley Pitt American Actor
- Edward I “Longshanks” Plantagenet, King of England
- Anthony Perkins, American Actor
- Jane Alice Peters AKA Carole Lombard American comedienne
- Franklin Pierce 14th U.S. President
- James Knox Polk, 11th U.S. President
- Cole Albert Porter, Composer
- Abigail (Fillmore) Powers, 13th U.S. First Lady
- Elvis Aaron Presley, American Singer/Actor “The King”
- Vincent Leonard Price, American actor, writer
- John Pym MP, Orator, Revolutionary leader of the political opposition to King Charles
- Richard Quain, Physician – editor of first edition of Dictionary of Medicine
- James Danforth “Dan” Quayle, 44th U.S. Vice President
- Walter Raleigh Navigator, Author, Poet
- Basil Rathbone, British Actor (Sherlock Holmes)
- Monroe Jackson Rathbone, American Actor
- Charles Robert Redford II American Actor
- Christopher Reeve American Actor and Activist
- Keano Reeves Canadian actor
- Stephen Van Rensselaer, U.S. Senator from NY; founded Rensselaer Polytech Institute
- Lionel Brockman Richie, American Singer/Songwriter
- Diana Rigg, British Actress
- Michelle Robinson (Obama) 44th U.S. First Lady
- Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller 41st U.S. Vice President
- Norman Rockwell American painter and illustrator
- Hillary Diane Rodham (Clinton), 42nd U.S. First Lady
- John Rogers (Rev.) “The Smithfield Martyr”
- John Rolfe, early American settler who married “Pocahontas”
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 32nd U.S. First Lady
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President
- Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild dynasty
- Victoria R. Royall daughter-in-law of Achilles Broadhead, surveyor of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia
- Lucretia (Garfield) Rudolph , 20th U.S. First Lady
- Bertrand Arthur Russell Won Nobel Peace Prize for Literature
- Ida (McKinley) Saxton, 25th U.S. First Lady
- Caroline Lavinia Scott (Harrison) 23rd U.S. First Lady
- Pete Seeger, folk singer and songwriter, social reformer and activist
- Robert Sargent Shriver, founder of Peace Corps, US Ambassador to France
- Edward Seymour, Great Chamberlain; Protector of the Realm
- William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
- Camilla Rosemary Shand-Bowles, Duchess Cornwall
- Sarah Shelton wife of Patrick “Give Me Liberty…” Henry
- Alan Bartlett Shepard, First American Astronaut in space
- William Tecumseh Sherman, American Civil War Union General
- Abigail (Adams) Smith, 2nd U.S. First Lady
- Joseph Smith II Founder of Latter Day Saint movement (Mormon)
- Rosalynn Smith (Carter) 39th First Lady
- Lady Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
- Lady Margaret Spencer (Ashley-Cooper) of Shaftesbury
- Benjamin M. Spock, physician and author of “Baby and Child Care”
- Miles Standish Military advisor for Plymouth Colony
- Thomas Stanley, English poet and philosopher
- John Ernst Steinbeck, American Author (“Grapes of Wrath”, “Cannery Row”…)
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson I, II, and III (23rd Vice President; Ambassador; and Senator from Illinois, respectively
- Charles II Stewart, last King of Scots by Acts of Parliament
- James IV Stewart (and Stewart kings)
- James “Jimmy” Maitland Stewart , American Actor
- Anna Livingston (Morton) Street, U.S. Second Lady
- Louisa Wanda Strentzel Pianist and wife of naturalist John Muir
- Archibald Stirling, Scots Guard; businessman, theatrical producer
- Mary Stuart Queen of Scots
- Patrick Swayze American Actor and Dancer
- Jonathan Swift Writer and Poet
- Anna Tuthill Symes (Harrison) 9th U.S. First Lady
- William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President
- Elizabeth Taylor, American Actress
- Zachary Taylor 12th U.S. President
- Jo Racquel Tejada AKA Raquel Welch American Actress
- Shirley Jane Temple, American child star and later diplomat
- Henry David Thoreau Essayist, Philosopher
- Mary Ann Todd (Lincoln) 16th U.S. First Lady
- Spencer Tracy American Actor
- John Troxell, first resident of Gettysburg, PA
- Harry S. Truman 33rd U.S. President
- Henry VIII Tudor, King of England
- John Tyler 10th U.S. President
- John Vassall Originally built Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow Home
- Eugene Luther “Gore Vidal” Vidal, American novelist and stage/screen plays, and political critic
- Elizabeth V. Wallace (Truman) 33rd U.S. First Lady
- William Wallace, “Braveheart“ Hero of Scottish Independence
- Izola Louise Wallingford, American Author/Journalist (said to be dau of John Wilkes Booth)
- Francis Walsingham Huguenot “Spymaster” for Queen Elizabeth I
- Samuel Moore Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club
- Carola S. Warburg Socialite, “Philanthropist”
- George Eskridge Washington 1st U.S. President
- Lucy Ware Webb (Hayes) , 19th U.S. First Lady
- Noah Webster II, compiler of the first American dictionary
- Josiah Wedgwood, originator of Wedgwood pottery.
- Laura Lane Welch (Bush) 43rd U.S. First Lady
- George Orson Welles, American actor, director, screenwriter
- Catherine (Coffin) White ran the Civil War Underground Railroad with her husband Levi Coffin
- Eli Whitney, American Inventor (the cotton gin)
- Thomas “Tennessee” Williams, Playwright, Dramatist
- Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson “The Beach Boys”
- Elizabeth II Windsor Queen of Great Britain
- Joanne Woodward American Actress
- Robert Burns Woodward, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965
- Jane Waddington Wyatt, Socialite and later American Actress, known best for “Father Knows Best” show
- Thomas Wyatt, Esq. of the Body to King Henry VIII
- Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen of England – her marriage to Edward IV reignited the War of the Roses
- York, Richard, Mayor of York, merchant of Wool staple in Calais
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