The Welsh, currently at 0.6% of the US population, have had an enormous influence on America
John Adams- President of the United States, Vice President of the United States (1735-1826)
John Quincy Adams – President of the United States, 8th Secretary of State (1767–1848)
Calvin Coolidge – twenty-ninth Vice President (1921–1923) and thirtieth President of the United States (1923–1929)
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) – soldier, politician, and first and only President of the Confederate States (1862–1865)
Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States, 1st Secretary of States
Robert E. Lee – Confederate general
Francis Lewis – United States Declaration of Independence signatory
Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States
James Madison – 4th President of the United StatesJohn Marshall – statesman, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
James Monroe (1758–1831) fifth president of the US
William Penn (1644–1718) Founder of Pennsylvania
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) United States Senator and Secretary of State
J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) banker
William Fargo (1818–1881) pioneer expressman
Howard Hughes (1905–1976) pioneering American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer
Daniel Boone (1734–1820) American pioneer
John L. Lewis (1880–1969) organized labor union leader
Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) explorer
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) journalist/explorer
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century
Elihu Yale (1649–1721) first benefactor of Yale University
Jesse James, cowboy/outlaw.
Tom Cruise (born 1962)
Bette Davis (1908–1989) two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television
Glenn Ford (1916–2006) film actor
Anthony Perkins (1932–1992) An Academy Award-nominated stage and screen actor
D. W. Griffith (1875–1948) early film director
Bob Hope (1903–2003) actor/comedian
Sir Anthony Hopkins (born 1937) Academy-Award winning film/stage actor
Myrna Loy (1905–1993) actress
Susan Sarandon (born 1946) Oscar-winning actress
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) novelist/playwright
Jack London (1876–1916) author