Talk:List of Scottish Americans

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Sources[edit]

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)[reply]

Apparently Ben Affleck does have some Scottish ancestry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck 12.41.255.10 (talk) 16:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Hilfiger[edit]

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)[reply]

Carrie Underwood error[edit]

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)[reply]

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