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==Entertainment== ==Entertainment==
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*] (1962 - ) high-level film star<ref> "We're about to prove that Tom Cruise is a Welshman. A mission impossible, you might think, but you'd be wrong. Cruise, best known for talking into the mobile phones of strangers at film premieres, has deep roots in Wales. His great great grandfather Dylan Henry Mapother emigrated from Flint in North Wales to Louisville in Kentucky in 1850, at the age of 16. Tom's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, and many generations of Mapothers have lived in Wales. Nicole Kidman's ex was surprised to learn of his Welsh ancestry, which he discovered in a January 2004 episode of the US TV show Inside The Actor's Studio, which reveals family trees of the rich and famous."</ref> *] (1962 - ) high-level film star<ref> "We're about to prove that Tom Cruise is a Welshman. A mission impossible, you might think, but you'd be wrong. Cruise, best known for talking into the mobile phones of strangers at film premieres, has deep roots in Wales. His great great grandfather Dylan Henry Mapother emigrated from Flint in North Wales to Louisville in Kentucky in 1850, at the age of 16. Tom's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, and many generations of Mapothers have lived in Wales. Nicole Kidman's ex was surprised to learn of his Welsh ancestry, which he discovered in a January 2004 episode of the US TV show Inside The Actor's Studio, which reveals family trees of the rich and famous."</ref>
*] (1908 - 1989) two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television<ref> "Bette Davis, just one of the many famous Welsh actors... Bette Davis has Welsh connections from here father Harlow Davies whose family hail from Wales. She even visited Wales when in Britain acting to trace her family roots"</ref> *] (1908 - 1989) two-time Academy Award-winning actress of stage, screen and television<ref> "Bette Davis, just one of the many famous Welsh actors... Bette Davis has Welsh connections from here father Harlow Davies whose family hail from Wales. She even visited Wales when in Britain acting to trace her family roots"</ref>

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This is a list of famous Welsh Americans.

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  1. "We're about to prove that Tom Cruise is a Welshman. A mission impossible, you might think, but you'd be wrong. Cruise, best known for talking into the mobile phones of strangers at film premieres, has deep roots in Wales. His great great grandfather Dylan Henry Mapother emigrated from Flint in North Wales to Louisville in Kentucky in 1850, at the age of 16. Tom's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, and many generations of Mapothers have lived in Wales. Nicole Kidman's ex was surprised to learn of his Welsh ancestry, which he discovered in a January 2004 episode of the US TV show Inside The Actor's Studio, which reveals family trees of the rich and famous."
  2. "Bette Davis, just one of the many famous Welsh actors... Bette Davis has Welsh connections from here father Harlow Davies whose family hail from Wales. She even visited Wales when in Britain acting to trace her family roots"
  3. mentioned as one of "100 Welsh Stars"
  5. "Welsh Americans have helped settle the American frontier, build our cities, and defend our liberty... to the sharp wit of Bob Hope"
  6. "classically trained and highly regarded Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins" "Later, at a brief press conference, Hopkins, who was born in Wales, was asked why he recently became an American citizen. "I've lived here some years. I feel at home in America. I suppose it was a pretty bold decision, but America has been very generous to me. There was a bit of an outburst in the British press. I was branded as some sort of turncoat, but so be it.""
  7. included in the book "100 Great Welsh Women" "Although she is of Scotch and Welsh descent, she has been accused of being Egyptian, Chinese, Eurasian and other nationalities."
  8. "Welsh-born U.S. actor."
  9. ^ Listed as one of several "Welsh-American Presidents"
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference welsh2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. "James J. Davis, a Welsh-born puddler who served as US Secretary of Labor from 1921-1930"
  12. ^ mentioned as several people who were "Welsh" or "Welsh American"
  13. ^ "Of the four New York signatories, three were Welsh; Lewis Morris, Francis Lewis and William Floyd."
  14. "Gwinnett, it reasoned, was almost certainly a small man; for one thing, he was part Welsh, and the Welsh are usually small." "BUTTON GWINNETT was born at Down Hatherly, Gloucestshire, England in 1735, the son of a Welsh clergyman and an English mother."
  15. mentioned as one of several "Welsh Americans" at , "The only child of a pious American Baptist mother and an immigrant Welsh minister"
  16. "His father's name was Peter Jefferson. His ancestors were Welsh people."
  17. "Robert E. Lee... also were Welsh Americans..."
  18. mentioned as one of several Welsh-Americans here
  19. ^ "Meriwether Lewis himself was Welsh American, as was frontiersman Daniel Boone" "Daniel Boone’s mother, Sarah Morgan, was a member of a Welsh family that came to Pennsylvania in 1683 and later settled in Gwynedd"
  20. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/NLWjournals.html
  21. "A Welsh-American invented the first automobile"
  22. "No Gangster More Bold: Murray Humphreys, the Welsh Political Genius Who Corrupted America"
  23. "His great grandfather, Robert Lewis, a Welsh officer in the British Army... The Meriwether family was also Welsh, well connected, and land-rich with sizable holdings near Charlottesville. Lucy's father was a respected friend of Thomas Jefferson."
  24. "The illegitimate son of an astrologer and a Welsh farm girl"
  25. "General Isaac Shelby (born in 1750), a Maryland-born Welsh American"
  26. "Welsh-born Howard Stringer"
  27. "Frank Lloyd Wright was of Welsh ethnic heritage"
  28. "Elihu Yale - The Great Welsh American"
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