User:Kestenbaum/List of Republican celebrities of the past

This list of Republican celebrities of the past includes deceased Americans widely renowned outside of politics who were supporters of the Republican Party.

Roy Acuff - country singer, ran for governor of Tennessee (#4, #16)

Pearl Bailey - singer and actress
P.T. Barnum - circus operator, Connecticut legislator (#16)
Rex Bell - actor, Lt. Governor of Nevada (#16)
Ward Bond - actor
Sonny Bono - singer, member of Congress (#16)
Walter Brennan - actor
Oscar Brown, Jr. - singer, actor, songwriter, media personality ([1])
James Cagney - actor (#7)
Frank Capra - film director (#3)
Nell Carter - actress (#9)
Wilt Chamberlain - basketball player (#13)
Nat King Cole - singer (#14)
Perry Como - singer and television host
Chuck Connors - actor
Gary Cooper - actor (#7)
Bing Crosby - singer and actor (#7)
Sammy Davis Jr - singer and actor
Cecil B. DeMille - film producer and director, Republican convention delegate (#16)
Joe DiMaggio - baseball player (#25)
Walt Disney - film producer, candidate for Republican presidential elector (#16)
Frederick Douglass - abolitionist and orator (#22)
Irene Dunne - actress (#7)
Dale Earnhardt - race car driver (#21)
Eazy-E - rapper (#29)
Buddy Ebsen - actor (#2)
Victor Fleming - director
Errol Flynn - actor (#7)
Glenn Ford - actor
Clark Gable - actor (#7)
Lillian Gish - actress
Jackie Gleason - actor (#6)
Samuel Goldwyn - film producer
Cary Grant - actor
Lorne Greene - actor
D. W. Griffith - director
Lionel Hampton - jazz musician (#11)
Helen Hayes - actress
Charlton Heston - actor
William Holden - actor (#10)
Bob Hope - actor and comedian (#7)
Hedda Hopper - actress and gossip columnist, ran for City Council, campaigned for Nixon & GOP [2]
Rock Hudson - actor (#24)
Walter Johnson - baseball pitcher, ran for Congress (#17)
Al Jolson - singer
Jack Kerouac - close friends with William F. Buckley
Michael Landon - actor
Tom Landry - football coach (#23)
Harold Lloyd - actor, Republican convention delegate (#16)
Victor McLaglen - actor
Fred MacMurray - actor (#7)
Dean Martin - singer and actor
Raymond Massey - actor
Victor Mature - actor [3]
Louis B. Mayer - motion picture executive, state Republican chairman (#16)
Adolphe Menjou - actor (#7)
George Mikan - basketball player, ran for Congress in 1956
Robert Mitchum - actor
Robert Montgomery - actor (#7)
George Murphy - actor, U.S. Senator (#16)
Jesse Owens - athlete (#12)
Mary Pickford - actress, candidate for Republican presidential elector (#16)
Elvis Presley - singer and actor
Johnny Ramone - punk rocker (#18)
Ronald Reagan - actor, U.S. President (#10, #16)
Jackie Robinson - baseball player (#26)
Ginger Rogers - actress (#5, #7)
Roy Rogers - actor (#15)
Cesar Romero - actor [4] [5]
Lillian Russell - actress
David O. Selznick - movie producer, Republican convention delegate (#16, #19)
Frank Sinatra - singer and actor
Jimmy Stewart - actor (#7)
Robert Taylor - actor (#7)
Booker T. Washington - famous educator (#8)
John Wayne - actor (#1, #7)
Ted Williams - baseball player (#20)
Noble Willingham - actor, ran for Congress
Cy Young - baseball pitcher, elected to Tuscarawas County GOP central committee in 1930

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