List of people with Huguenot ancestry

Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include:

Architects Salomon de Brosse (1571–1626), French architect. Isaac de Caus (1590–1648), architect, garden designer.French London Kelly Cornick sas.ac.uk Samuel Fortrey (1622–1681), architect, designer of Kew Palace, descendant of de La Forteries. James Gandon (1742–1823), Anglo-Irish Georgian architect. Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), British-born architect of the United States Capitol. Le Corbusier (1887–1965), architect, occultist with Huguenot ancestry. Richard Leplastrier (1939–), Australian architect. Gabriel Manigault (1758–1809), American architect, descendant of Pierre Manigault from La Rochelle. Daniel Marot (1661–1752), architect and furniture designer, ancestor of actress Audrey Hepburn. Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), German architect, art critic.Mallgrave, Harry Francis (1996). Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 11. Retrieved 2017-06-03. Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873), British Victorian Architect. John E. Tourtellotte (1869–1939), American architect.

Artists Henry Barraud (1811–1874), British portrait, subject, and animal painter. Francis Barraud (1856–1924), English painter, best known for his painting His Master's Voice. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), French sculptor, designer of the Statue of Liberty (French Lutheran). Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), American artist, sculptor, rodeo cowboy, descendant of Robert Bascom. Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), French Impressionist painter. Jean Bellette (1908–1991), Tasmanian artist. Samuel Bernard (1615–1687), French artist. Abraham Bosse (1604–1676), artist, printmaker. Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671), French painter. Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") (1815–1882), British illustrator of Charles Dickens. Louis Buvelot (1814–1888), Swiss-born Australian artist and photographer. Mary Cassatt, French-American impressionist painter. Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953), Australian photographer. Louis Chéron (1660–1725), artist. Maximilian Colt (died 1641), sculptor. Jacques d'Agar (1640–1715), artist. Jean de Beauchesne (1538–1620), calligrapher. William De Morgan, British art potter, tile designer, author. François Dubois (c. 1529–1584), French artist. Gainsborough Dupont (1754–1797), artist, nephew of Thomas Gainsborough. Townsend Duryea (1823–1888), American photographer. Benjamin Duterrau (1767–1851), English-born Tasmanian artist. Robert Du Val (1639–1732), painter. Isaac Gosset (1713–1799), wax sculptor. Esther Inglis (1571–1624), calligrapher. Pierre-Antoine Labouchère (1807–1873), painter. François Morellon la Cave (1696–1768), French artist. Victor Lardent (1905–1968), British advertising designer who drew Times New Roman. Louis Laguerre (1663–1721), decorative painter. Marcellus Laroon (1653–1702), artist. Marcellus Laroon the Younger (1679–1772), artist. Max Leenhardt (1853–1941), French artist. Jacques Le Moyne (1533–1588), French artist, explorer (Laudonniere expedition). Hubert Le Sueur (1580–1658), sculptor. Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702–1789), Swiss painter. Jeanne Lombard (1865–1945), French painter. Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), artist. Philip Mercier (1689–1760), portrait painter. Jean Michelin (1616–1670), artist, son of Jean Michelin the First and nephew of Girault Michelin. John Everett Millais (1829–1896), British artist.Musical echoes nla.gov.au Louise Moillon (1610–1696), French artist, daughter of Nicolas Moillon. Karl Oenike (1862–1924), German landscape painter Isaac Oliver (1565–1617), ornamental and miniatures painter. Bernard Palissy (1510–1589), French potter. William Piguenit (1836–1914), Australian landscape artist. Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical illustrator. Barthélemy Prieur (1536–1611), sculptor. Frederic Remington, American artist, sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac (1702–1762), sculptor. Briton Rivière (1840–1920), English artist of Huguenot descent. Daniel Riviere (1780–1854), miniaturist and grandfather of Briton Rivière. William Riviere (1806–1876), English painter and father of Briton Rivière. Jacques Rousseau (1630–1693), artist. Daniel Soreau (died 1743), artist and picture restorer. John Spencer-Churchill (1909–1992), English painter and sculptor and nephew of Sir Winston Churchill. John Tenniel (1820–1914), cartoonist. Louis Testelin (1615–1655), French artist. Cephas Thompson, American artist, descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu. Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon (1825–1876), German painter specialized in religious and historical subjects and portraits Beyer, et al., eds. 2021.Benezit 2011.

Chefs and restaurateurs Nataniël Le Roux, television food show host. Sally Lunn, baker. Ian Parmenter (1946–2024), English-born Australian celebrity chef. Key work: Cooking with Passion. Alexis Soyer (1810–1858), celebrity chef and philanthropist. Key work: A Shilling Cookery Book for the People. Paul Tremo (1733–1810), the head chef at the court of King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski of Poland.

Doctors and medical practitioners Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Charles Angibaud, French-born British apothecary. Jenny Aubry (1903–1987), French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst from a Protestant-Jewish family and a protege of Jacques Lacan, she was one of the first female doctors to qualify in France. Sister of Louise Weiss and mother of Élisabeth Roudinesco. Daniel Bovet (1907–1992), pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner. Pierre Bovet (1878–1965), psychologist, translator of Boy Scouts guides into French, co-founder of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva, father of Daniel Bovet. Peter Chamberlen, physician, obstetrician, invented delivery via forceps. George de Benneville (1702–1793), physician, left Huguenot background for unorthodox religious beliefs. Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, physician. Campbell De Morgan (1811–1876), British surgeon. Antoine Dubois (died 1572), French surgeon, martyr, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Daniel Peter Layard (1721–1802), doctor and midwife. John Misaubin, French-born British physician Lucie Odier (1886–1984), nurse, member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, expert on relief actions for civilians, outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany. Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), psychiatrist, writer and mental patient. Ambroise Paré (1509–1590), French surgeon. Louis Perrier, physician, mineral water company founder. Samuel Pozzi (1846–1918), doctor. Paul Reclus (1847–1914), doctor. Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944–), French Protestant-Jewish psychoanalyst, daughter of Jenny Aubry. Paul-Louis Simond, medical researcher. Raphael Thorius (died 1625), physician and poet.

Educationalists John Bascom (1827–1911), American university president, writer. Jean Belmain (died after 1557), French scholar, French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), American Quaker educator and abolitionist, from Saint-Quentin. Jacques Bongars (1554–1612), scholar. David Renaud Boullier (1699–1759), Dutch theologian.Popkin, Richard Henry; Watson, Richard A; Force, James E. (1993). The High Road to Pyrrhonism. Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 356-360. James Bowdoin III (1752–1811), founder of Bowdoin College. Ferdinand Buisson (1841–1932), educator, academic, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner. Isaac Casaubon, scholar. Méric Casaubon (1599–1671), scholar, translator, Anglican minister, son of Isaac Casaubon. Pierre Courthial, founding dean, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence. Daniel de Superville (1696–1773), founder of the University of Erlangen. Reinhart Dozy (1820–1883), academic at Leiden. Esther Duflo (1972–), French economist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and pacifist. Clarisse Herrenschmidt (1946–), archaeologist, historian, philologist, journalist, and linguist. Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician, diplomat and President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain. Augustin Marlorat (1506–1562), theologian and martyr. David Martin (1639–1721), French theologian. Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), French economist, author and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies, joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 for his work in the European peace movement, a convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism. Daniel Patte, French-American theologian. Félix Pécaut (1828–1898), educationalist, founder of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, and pacifist. Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist. Évelyne Sullerot (1924–2017), sociologist.

Entertainers, performers, composers and film-makers James Agee (1909–1955), American screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Marc Allégret (1900–1973), Film-maker, son of Protestant missionary Elie Allégret. Yves Allégret (1905–1987), French film-maker, pacifist, son of Protestant missionary Elie Allégret. René Allio (1924–1995), French film-maker. Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767–1859), opera singer and composer, daughter of François-Hippolyte Barthélémon. François Hippolyte Barthélémon (1741–1808), composer of operas, masques, symphonies, chamber music and hymns (Awake my soul, and with the sun, Mighty God While Angels Bless Thee), from Bordeaux. Anna Bishop (1810–1884), English operaric soprano, aunt of Briton Riviere, believed to be the inspiration for the title character in George du Maurier's Trilby. Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American actor, descended from Huguenot refugees in the Netherlands. Dion Boucicault (1820–1890), Irish actor and playwright. Loys Bourgeois (1510–1559), Psalm music composer (the "Old 100th"). Marlon Brando (1924–2004), American actor, descended from Chretien DuBois of the Comté of Coupigny, near Lille in Artois. Edmond Louis Budry (1854–1932), hymnwriter ("Thine Be the Glory"). Godfrey Cass (1867–1951), Australian actor, descendant of the Castieau family. Christopher Cazenove (1943–2010), English actor. Timothée Chalamet (1995–), French-American actor. Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977), British actor, likely to have had Huguenot ancestry but this has not yet been fully confirmed. Cyd Charisse (1921–2008), American actress and dancer. Jessica Chastain (1977–), American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress 2022, descended from Dr Pierre Chastain who came from near the village of Chârost (his family had earlier lived in Bourges). Charles Chauvel (1897–1959), Australian film-maker, ancestors from Blois in the Loire Valley. William Christopher (1932–2016), American actor. George Clooney (1961–), American actor, nephew of Rosemary Clooney, descended from the Koch family of Alsace-Lorraine. Rosemary Clooney (1928–2002), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, descended from the Koch family of Alsace-Lorraine. Olivia Colman (1974–), English actress, descended from Anne Foissin of Paris. Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948–), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian. Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family. Daniel Craig (1968–), English actor, descended from Pastor Daniel Chamier of Le Mont, near Mocas, west of Grenoble. (Chamier's father, in turn, came from Avignon.) Joan Crawford (1905–1977), American actress, descended from the Huguenots, Dr Pierre Chastain and Chretien DuBois, on her father's side. Konstanze Dahn (real name Constanze Le Gaye) (1814–1894), German actress. Bette Davis (1908–1989), American actress, descended from the Favor family. on her mother's side. Jean Delannoy (1908–2008), French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Paschal de l'Estocart (1538–1587), Psalm music composer. Cara Delevingne (1992–), English actress and model, French Huguenot ancestry. Poppy Delevingne (1986–), English actress and model, sister of Cara, French Huguenot ancestry.