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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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