Scottish Americans
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Scottish Americans are American citizens whose ancestry originated wholly or partly in Scotland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. The majority of Scots who immigrated to the USA were originally from Northern England and Lowland Scotland before migrating to the province of Ulster in Ireland (Scots-Irish) and colonists. Large immigration from Scotland to the USA begin in the 1700s.[source?]
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The Ulster-Scots originally came from the Lowlands and the Scottish border before migrating to the province of Ulster, Ireland. From there, they would have emigrated in large numbers five generations later to North America during the eighteenth century.[source?]
Today, most Americans of Scottish ancestry are concentrated in New England and the American South, with Florida, Ohio, Washington, Utah, New York and Pennsylvania also having large Scottish populations.[source?]
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Many people believe that Uncle Sam, the national personification of the United States and its people, was inspired by Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, whose grandfather, Robert Wilson, was a Scottish immigrant from Greenock, Scotland to Massachusetts Bay Colony.[source?]
Notable Scottish Americans
- George W. Bush
- Reese Witherspoon
- Seth MacFarlane
- Gregory Peck
- Eminem
- Justin Timberlake
- John C. Reilly
- Donald Trump
- Mark Wahlberg
- Jared Padalecki
- Jensen Ackles
- Matt Bomer
- James Monroe
- John Witherspoon
- Ronald Reagan
- Matt Damon
- Taylor Swift
- Neil Armstrong
- Brad Pitt
- George Clooney
- Nicole Kidman
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- John F. Kennedy
- James Stewart
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