Talk:List of Scottish Americans

Sources

This list should be sourced in accordance with Wikipedia's No Original Research and Verifiability policies. Basically, anyone described by a reliable source as "Scottish" or "Scottish-American" (i.e. as opposed to "of Scottish descent", "Scottish mother", etc.) is on the list. I'll be moving the people I couldn't find anything for here. If you have a reliable source that fits that please restore the names:

• Ben Affleck
• Jennifer Aniston
• Warren Beatty
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Clint Eastwood
• Melvyn Douglas
• Judy Garland, actress and singer
• Michael Keaton
• Stephen King, author
• Shirley MacLaine, actress
• Steve Martin actor and comedian
• Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• Ronald Reagan, actor and American president
• Robert Redford actor
• Alicia Silverstone, actress
• Kaavya Viswanathan, one-time novelist, noted plagiarist

Mad Jack O'Lantern 06:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Apparently Ben Affleck does have some Scottish ancestry. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Ben_Affleck 12.41.255.10 (talk) 16:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Tommy Hilfiger

How can Tommy Hilfiger be a Scottish American if he is an Irish Catholic American???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

• Tommy Helfinger claims Scottish decent direct descent from Robert Burns. http://www.scotland.org/about/innovation-and-creativity/features/culture/tartan.html Celtic Harper (talk) 15:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Carrie Underwood error

See [1], a CMT interview in which Carrie Underwood claims her inclusion in this list is an error. So I've removed her, pending further discussion. Dcoetzee 15:03, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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