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Jenny Aubry (1903–1987), French psychiatrist and psychanalyst 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.[68][69]
Pierre Bovet (1878–1965), psychologist, translator of Boy Scouts guides into French, co-founder of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva, father of Daniel Bovet.[71]
Peter Chamberlen, physician, obstetrician, invented delivery via forceps.[2]
George de Benneville (1702–1793), physician, left Huguenot background for unorthodox religious beliefs.[72]
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.[76][77]
Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), psychiatrist, writer and mental patient.[78]
Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician, diplomat and President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain.[42]
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.[106]
Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767–1859), opera singer and composer, daughter of François-Hippolyte Barthélémon.[2]
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.[2]
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.[42]
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American actor, descended from Huguenot refugees in the Netherlands.[116][117]
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).[19][131]
Charles Chauvel (1897–1959), Australian film-maker, ancestors from Blois in the Loire Valley.[21][132]
Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948-), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian.[136][137][138]
Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family.[139][140]
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.)[141]
Eddie Izzard, English comedian, actor, family thought to originate in the Pyrenees.[192][193]
Derek Jacobi (1938–), English actor, descended from the financier Joseph de la Plaigne of Bordeaux.[194][195]
Julian Jarrold (1960-), English film-maker, descended from the prominent Jarrold's family of Norwich, known for the department store and publishing businesses, family of Huguenot or Dutch descent.[196]
Ethel Lavenu (1842–1917), British actress, mother of Tyrone Power and grandmother of Tyrone Power junior, descended from the Huguenots, Hector Francois Chataigner de Cramahé and Salomon Blosset de Loche, both of whom fought for William of Orange.[203]
Claudin Le Jeune (1530–1600), composer and music publisher of the Genevan Psalter, from Valenciennes.[205]
Bill Le Sage (1927–2001), British jazz musician, descendant of a Valenciennes journeyman silkweaver, Jacques Le Sage, and his son, also a journeyman silkweaver, Pierre Le Sage (born Leiden, died Spitalfields, married into the Le Grand family of Saint-Quentin. Later Le Sage descendants in Spitalfields married with the Levesques, weavers originally from Bolbec, and with the Le Maréchals of Caen. (One branch of this Le Sage family later emigrated to Australia whilst another branch went to the Philadelphia-New Jersey area in the United States.)[206][207]
Hal LeSueur (1903–1963), American actor and the brother of actress, Joan Crawford.[120][143]
Zachary Levi (real name: Zachary Pugh) (1980-), American actor and practising Christian, descended from François De Puy of Calais.[208][209][210]
Lorna Luft (1952–), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland.[173][174]
César Malan (1787–1864), hymnwriter ("Everyday I Will Bless You", "It Is Not Death to Die", "O Holy Spirit Blessed Comforter", "What Are the Pleasures of the World?" and "My Saviour's Praises I Will Sing"), originator of the modern hymn movement in the French Reformed Church, pastor and novelist.[213]
Clément Marot (1496–1544), poet who versified the Psalms into French (Genevan Psalter).[214]
Liza Minnelli (1946–), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland.[173][174]
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989), English actor, descendant of Pastor Jerome Olivier, chaplain to the Prince of Orange,[19][216][217] family originally from Nay in the Pyrenees.[218]
Jon Pertwee (1919–1996), English actor, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221][222]
Michael Pertwee (1916–1991), playwright and screenwriter, son of Roland Pertwee and brother of Jon Pertwee, descendant of the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Roland Pertwee (1885–1963), playwright and screenwriter, father of Jon Pertwee and Michael Pertwee, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Sean Pertwee (1964–), English actor, son of Jon Pertwee, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Miranda Raison (1977–), English screen and stage actress.
Robert Redford (1936–), American actor, descended from Philippe de La Noye (
Philip Delano) of the Leiden Huguenot refugee community (the family originated in Lannoy, near Tourcoing).[228][229][230]
Renaud (1952-), pop-rock singer, anti-military activist, agnostic from a Protestant family.[232]
Keith Richards (1943-), English blues and rock guitarist, descended from the Dupree family of silkweavers.[233][234]
André Rieu (1949–) Dutch violinist, descendant of the Rieu family of the Auvergne.[235][236]
Ruben Saillens (1855–1942), Huguenot-born Baptist pastor, leader of the Evangelical Mission Populaire and hymn writer (Torrents d’amour et de grâce, La Cevenole).[237][238][239][240]
Jérôme Seydoux, head of Pathé, head of Charges Réunies, shareholder in Olympique Lyonnais Football Club.[111][243]
Léa Seydoux (1985–), French actress, patron of the charity Empire des enfants,[244] atheist member of the Protestant Schlumberger and Seydoux families.[245][246][247]
Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), actress and film-maker, member of an intellectual Protestant family from Alsace.[248]
Charlize Theron (1975–), South African actress, descended from the pioneering South African farmer, Jacques Therond, originally of Nîmes, Languedoc.[250][251][252]
Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnwriter ("When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World" and "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"), pastor and theologian, descended from the Taunton family. Key work: Logic, or the Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth.[257][258]
Orson Welles, American actor and director, descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Wil Wheaton (1972-), American actor, atheist with distant Huguenot ancestry from Montserrat on his mother's side.[259][260]
Brian Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Carl Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Dennis Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Joanne Woodward (1930–), American actress and philanthropist, descended from the Gignilliat family of Switzerland.[261][262][263]
James Whatman Bosanquet (1804–1877), English banker and theologian. (Key work: Messiah the Prince, or the Inspiration of the Prophecies of Daniel.)[265][266]
Edward Cazalet (1827–1833), merchant and industrialist, promoter of Zionism.[269]
Philip Cazenove, stockbroker, philanthropist (supported Jewish domestic charities - Calvinists, religious non-Conformists felt a special affiliation for them as fellow-marginalised people).[269]
Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), merchant, slave trader and philanthropist.[280]
John Minet Fector (1754–1821), Dover shipping magnate, banker, smuggled gold out of England to finance Napoleon Bonaparte. Charles Darnay from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be based on him. Son of Peter Fector.[281][282][283]
François Lévesque (1732–1787), French-born Canadian merchant, justice of the peace and politician, of the Lévesque family of weavers originally from Bolbec, Normandy.[295]
Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, reality TV star, son of philanthropist and disabled people's rights activisit, Louise Ravenel Dougherty.[303][304][305]
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), American capitalist, descended from the Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille family.[306]
Jean Palairet (1697–1774), French cartographer, French tutor to the children of King George II of the United Kingdom, partly responsible for introducing the game of cricket to the Netherlands.[317]
Élie Reclus (1827–1904), ethnographer and anarchist, son of Pastor Jacques Reclus.[318]
Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer and anarchist, son of Pastor Jacques Reclus.[318]
Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard (1949-), historian, vice-president of the Society for the History of French Protestantism and a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee for Life and Health Sciences.[324]
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794–1872), historian and pastor, descendant of Agrippa d'Aubigné. Key work: Discourse on the History of Christianity.[326][327]
Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was one of the very earliest advocates of Imperial Federation, suggested the foudantion of the Imperial Federation League and later its secretary, member of the council of the Royal Colonial Institute, and the first person to suggest the annexation of Eastern New Guinea.[336][337]
Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), English film critic, opponent of structuralism and its associated far-left politics, advocate of frequently-derided film-maker Michael Powell, opponent of left wing intellectuals, supporter of working-class culture, descended from French Huguenot refugees who fled to Switzerland.[370]
Gideon Joubert (1923–2010), South African science journalist and Intelligent Design proponent.[371][166]
Rian Malan (1954–), South African journalist and memoirist, descended from Jacques Malan of Provence and South African Prime Minister, Daniel Malan. Key work: My Traitor's Heart.[372][373][166]
Matthieu Maty (1718–1776), journalist, founded Journal Brittanique which helped to familiarize French readers with English literature, member of the Royal Society, under-librarian of the British Museum, from Dauphiné.[2]
Pierre Motteux (1718–1776), journalist, founder of Gentleman's Journal, from Rouen.[2]
Louise Weiss (1893–1983), French journalist and politician, international affairs expert and pacifist. She was the daughter of an Alsatian Protestant mining engineer and philanthropist, Paul Louis Weiss (1867–1945), and a Jewish mother.[374][375]
Emile Arnaud, lawyer, coined the term, "pacifism",[377] president de la Ligue internationale de la Paix et de la Liberté fondée.[378][379] Key work: L'Organisation de la paix.[380][381][382][383]
Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1800–1882), English barrister and writer on legal, social and theological subjects. (Key work: The First Seal: Short Homilies on the Gospel According to St. Matthew.)[384][265]
Jean Carbonnier (1908–2003), jurist, father of Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard, converted from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism.[386]
Peter Manigault (1731–1773), attorney, plantation owner and slave owner, wealthiest man in North America at the time of his death, descended from the Manigault family of La Rochelle.[392]
John Silvester (1745–1822), lawyer, son of Sir John Baptist Silvester (doctor at the French Hospital).[397][398]
Robert Percy Smith(1770–1845), British lawyer, Member of Parliament, and Judge Advocate-General of Bengal, India, brother of Sydney Smith, descended from the Olier family.[399]
William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (1883–1948), British Barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[400]
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), linguist and semiotician, whose mother was from a wealthy Protestant banking family, and whose father's family consisted of a long line of Huguenot academics who had fled to Geneva to escape persecution.[410]
Paul Passy (1859–1940), linguist, Social Christianity advocate, lived according to 'primitive Christian' ideals, son of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Frédéric Passy.[411]
Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), lexicographer, creator of Roget's Thesaurus, physician.[289]
Charles de Quellenec (1548–1572), baron of Pont-l'Abbé, first husband of Catherine de Parthenay, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre).[426]
Charles de Téligny (1535–1572), French diplomat, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre), first husband of Louise de Coligny.[427][428]
Anne du Bourg (1530–1559), martyr, magistrate, counsellor of France.[429]
Marie Durand (1711–1776), from Bouchet du Pransles in Vivarais, prisoner of conscience (Tower of Constance). Key work: Lettres de Marie Durand (1711-1776): Prisonnière à la Tour de Constance de 1730 à 1768.[430][431][432]
Jean Goujon (1510–1572), sculptor, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre).[424]
La Renaudie (died 1560), pseudonym for aristocrat, conspirator, martyr (Amboise Conspiracy).[434]
Jean Marteilhe (1684–1777), from Bergerac, prisoner of conscience (galley slave) and memoirist. Key work: The Huguenot Galley-Slave: Being the Autobiography of a French Protestant Condemned to the Galleys for the Sake of His Religion.[435]
Gabriel Maturin, left crippled by twenty-six years' confinement in the Bastille,[212] ancestor of clergyman and author, Charles Maturin.[436]
Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre), philosopher.[437]
Jean Ribault (1520–1565), early colonizer of America, he and other Huguenot colonists were massacred by the Spanish for their faith.[438]
John André (1751–1780), head of British intelligence operations in America during the Revolutionary War, associate of Benedict Arnold, hanged for spying.[440][441][442]
Ulrich de Maizière (1912–2006), German general, descended from a noble family of French Huguenot origin, originally from Maizières-lès-Metz in Lorraine.[457]
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (1680–1770), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, fought against the French in the Seven Years' War, governor of the French Hospital from 1748 to 1770. The son of Louis de Ligonier of Castres, he escaped to Dublin as a child during the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.[463]
George Pickett, American Civil War general (Confederate)
Charles Portal, British Chief of the Air Staff 1940–1945 Combined Chiefs of Staff 1942–1945
Paul Revere (1735–1818), American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the
American War of Independence, descended from the Rivoire family from Riocaud, in the Gironde valley, near Bordeaux.[470]
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), Indian-born Anglo-Irish leader of the East India Company Army from an old Waterford family, of Huguenot origin.[471]
Wilhelm Anton Souchon (1864–1946), German admiral in World War I. Souchon commanded the Kaiserliche Marine's Mediterranean squadron in the early days of the war.
Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey (1847–1914), better known as Koos de la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War.
Missionaries
Élie Allégret (1865–1940), French pastor and missionary in Africa and pacifist.[114]
François Coillard (1834–1904), missionary in Africa for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.[479]
François Daumas, missionary in Orange Free State, member of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.[480]
Maurice Leenhardt (1878–1954), missionary, pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia.[481][482]
Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Scottish founder of the Popular Evangelical Mission of France, for the Parisian working class and which is still currently in existence.[320]
Pierre Stouppe (1690–1760), Huguenot pastor then low church/evangelical Anglican minister, missionary to African-American slaves.[483][484][485]
Cecil John Cadoux, British theologian and pacifist with Huguenot ancestry. Key work: The Early Christian Attitude To War: a contribution to the history of Christian ethics.[508]
John Calvin (1509–1564), French theologian, pastor, and reformer. Key work: Institutes of the Christian Religion.[509][510]
Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (1795–1868), liberal theologian, elected deputy of the Constituent Assembly after the revolution of February 1848.[517]
Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820–1875), liberal theologian, co-founder of the Historical Society of French Protestantism. Key work: La Saint-Barthélémy.[518][519]
Antoine Court (1695–1760), pastor. Key work: An Historical Memorial of the Most Remarkable Proceedings Against the Protestants in France from 1744-51.[521]
Pierre Courthial (1914–2009), pastor and neo-Calvinist theologian, participated in the writing of the Pomeyrol Theses which called for spiritual resistance to Nazism, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work: From Bible to Bible.[522]
Jean Crespin (1520–1572), martyrologist. Key work: Lives of the Martyrs.[523]
Jean Daillé (1594–1670), French theologian. Key work: Apology for the French Reformed Churches.[525]
Lambert Daneau (1530–1590), theologian. Key work: Wonderful Workmanship of the World.[526]
Charles Daubuz (1673–1713), pastor, theologian, eschatologist. Key work: A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John.[527]
Luke de Beaulieu, cleric. Key work: A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.[528][529]
Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891), student of Alexandre Vinet, theologian, pastor, writer, first president of the Human Rights League, father of Francis de Pressensé. Key work: Jesus Christ : his times, life, and work.[543]
Roland de Pury (1907–1979), pastor, anti-Nazi activist, saviour of Jews in World War Two, opponent of the use of torture in the Algerian War and anti-Communist. He is the author of a Cell Journal written during his captivity by the Nazis. He was a signatory of the Pomeyrol Theses.[544][545]
Pierre Du Moulin (1568–1658), pastor. Key works: Tyranny that the Popes Exercised for Some Centuries Over the kings of England and The Christian Combate, or, A treatise of Affliction: with a Prayer and Meditation of the Faithfull Soule.[550]
John Durel, pastor who later became an Anglican minister.[2]
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (1711–1797), Huguenot pastor, journaqlist, author, educator, secretary of the Berlin Academy of Science, man of letters, theologian and historian.[557][558]
François Gaussen (1790–1863), pastor and eschatologist,[565] Calvinist who was influential on the early Seventh Day Adventists.[566] Key works: Theopneusty; Or, the Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures and The Prophet Daniel Explained. In a Series of Readings for Young Persons.[567]
Pierre Jurieu, French pastor, orthodox Calvinist theologian[573] and eschatologist. Key work: Pastoral Letters.[574]
Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676), theologian, writer and lawyer, forced to convert to Roman Catholicism, retract his writings and spend his final years in a monastery.[575]
Jean Lasserre (1908–1983), conservative, Biblically orthodox theologian, pastor and pacifist. Key work: War and the Gospel[576][577]
Auguste Lecerf (1872–1943), pastor, neo-Calvinist theologian, specialist on the thought of Jean Calvin, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work: An Introduction to Reformed Dogmatics.[578][579]
Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), theologian, journalist and man of letters.[580]
Wilfred Monod (1867–1943), liberal theologian, Social Christianity supporter, founder of the Order of Watchers, argued for rehabilitation of Marcion and for the removal of omnipotence and omnipresence from the conception of God.[597]
Pierre Mouchon (1733–1797), pastor and grandfather of journalist and social worker, Eugénie Niboyet.[598]
Andrew Murray, South African, pastor, teacher and writer, Huguenot descendant on his mother's side.[599]
Elias Palairet (1713–1765), brother of Jean Palairet, passtor successively at the French church at Greenwich, Saint John's Church, Spitalfields, and the Dutch chapel at Saint James's, Westminster, classical and Biblical philologist.[317]
Auguste Sabatier (1839–1901), symbolofideist, called by some "the greatest French theologian since Calvin", expert on dogma and the links between theology and culture (French Lutheran).[617]
Jacques Saurin (1677–1730), pastor, Threadneedle Street and the Netherlands refugee communities, early advocate of religious tolerance. Key work: Sermons on Diverse Texts of the Scriptures.[618][619]
Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Essex-born Anglican minister and humorist, founder of the Edinburgh Review, lecturer at the Royal Institution and remembered for his comical rhyming recipe for salad dressing, descendant of Olier family.[399]
André Trocmé (1901–1971), French Biblically conservative but socially progressive[628] pastor, Christian pacifist, saviour of Jews in World War Two and anti-nuclear campaigner. Key work: Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution.[629][630][631]
Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), theologian, considered the most important thinker of nineteenth century French-speaking Protestantism. Key work: Homiletics; or the Theory of Preaching.[632]
Pierre Viret (1511–1572), theologian. Key work: Thou Shalt Not Kill.[633]
Charles Wagner (1852–1918), pastor, liberal theologian, Social Christianity advocate.[554]
Philanthropists and charity workers
Madeleine Barot (1909–1995), laywoman, saviour of Jews in World War Two, co-writer of the Pomeyrol Theses, evangelist, ecumenist, vice-president of Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture, general secretary of La Cimade.[634][545]
John Bost (1817–1881), pastor, musician and philanthropist, founder of La Famille (the Family) asylum at La Force in Dordogne for children, orphans, the disabled and incurables. It was followed by a number of other asylums, run today by the John Bost Foundation.[635][636]
Henri Dunant (1828–1910), founder of the Red Cross, Nobel Peace Prize winner.[644]
Jane Franklin (1791–1875), wife of Sir
John Franklin, First Lady of Tasmania, philanthropist, patron of the arts, descended from the Griffin and Guillemard silkweaving families.[21][645][646]
Daniel Legrand (1783–1858), philanthropist and industrialist, grandfather of Tommy Fallot.[647]
Eugénie Niboyet (1796–1883), French social worker, journalist, founder of continental Europe's first avowedly pacifist newspaper, La Paix de Deux Mondes, granddaughter of pastor Pierre Mouchon and the physicist Georges-Louis Le Sage, philanthropist, feminist, imperialist and writer. Key work: De la nécessité d'abolir la peine de mort (The necessity to abolish the death penalty).[651][652][653][654]
J. F. Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor, philanthropist and social reformer (French Lutheran).[655]
Robert Lewis Roumieu (1814–1877), British architect, governor of the Foundling Hospital, London; honorary architect and director of the French Hospital, co-founder of the Huguenot Society of which he was treasurer and later president.[656][657][25]
Magda Trocmé (1901–1996), laywoman, wife of André Trocmé, saviour of Jews in World War Two, anti-nuclear activist.[658][659][660]
Randolph Vigne (1928–2016), South African, President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain, editor of its publications, director and treasurer of the French Hospital of London, Huguenot researcher and contributor to various publications on Huguenot history.[661][662]
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), philosopher from Protestant family, converted to Roman Catholicism, drafter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[666]
James Martineau (1805–1900), English philosopher, educator,
Unitarian minister, descended from Gaston Martineau, a Huguenot surgeon and refugee.[667]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist, descended from Huguenot wine merchant, Didier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques converted to an unorthodox form of Calvinism himself,[669] rejecting original sin and some other key tenets of mainstream Calvinist faith.[670][671]
Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American folk hero and the descendant of one Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV, whose family converted to Protestantism, fled France and settled in the north of Ireland.[675]
Daniel Perrin (1642–1719), one of the first permanent European inhabitants of
Staten Island, New York originally from Normandy, ancestor of American actress Valerie Perrine.[689]
Pierre Richier (1506–1580), pastor, French Antarctique colonist, later took lead role in turning La Rochelle into a leading Huguenot centre.[690]
Marie Byles (1900–1979), Australian environmentalist, feminist and Buddhist, solicitor, descended from the Beuzeville family of Normandy.[21][6]
Pierre-Joseph Cambon (1756–1820), French revolutionary, opponent of Robespierre, advocate of the separation of church and state, member of the Feuillants.[693][697]
Victor Cazalet (1896–1943), British Conservative Party politician, supporter of Zionism, grandson of Edward Cazalet, godson of Queen Victoria, Huguenot ancestors were from Languedoc.[269]
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Marxist, possibly descended from a Huguenot named L'Ange,[726][727] Engels was raised as a Calvinist before exploring pandeism and then becoming an atheist.[728]
John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), Governor of Tasmania, cousin of Thomas Langlois Lefroy.[748]
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), Irish politician and judge, suitor of Jane Austen, opponent of Irish Catholic emancipation, ancestors from Cambrai.[748][749][750]
David Provoost (1611–1656), Head of the Nine Men in New Amsterdam 1652, Notary Public, first sheriff of Breukelen (Brooklyn), counselor and attorney, descended from Prévost family.[760]
Jacques Antoine Rabaut-Pommier (1744–1820), Girondist, French revolutionary, pastor, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte, vaccination advocate, brother of Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne.[761][762]
Auguste Scheurer-Kestner (1833–1899), French Republican political leader and Dreyfus supporter, chemist, industrialist and politician. A republican, he was opposed to the empire of Napoleon III.[111][771]
Charles Tupper (1821–1915), Canadian father of Confederation, Premier of Nova Scotia (1864–1867), 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896) was reputed to be a Huguenot descendant.
Jean-Henri Voulland (1751–1801), French revolutionary, member of the Committee of General Security, opponent of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, involved in the overthrow of Robespierre.[697]
George Washington (1732–1799), American revolutionary and the first President of the United States, descendant of Nicholas Martiau.[391][777]
Jean Zay (1904–1944), French anti-fascist politician.[778]
Catherine of Bourbon (1559–1604), Navarrese regent princess and writer of sonnets, daughter of Queen Jeanne d'Albret and sister of King Henri IV of France.[787]
Charles III (1948–), British monarch, descended from the Bourbon Montpensier, Coligny, d'Olbreuse, Rohan and Ruvigny families.[556]
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), descended from the Bourbon Vendome, Bulteel, Guinand, Navarre, Rochefoucauld, Ruvigny, Schomberg, and Thellusson families.[556]
Elizabeth II (1926–2022), British monarch, descended from the Bourbon Montpensier, Coligny, d'Olbreuse, Rohan and Ruvigny families.[556]
William, Prince of Wales (1982–), heir to the British throne, has Huguenot ancestors on both sides of his family, including William of Orange, Charlotte de Bourbon Montpensier, the Marquis de Ruvigny, Viscount de Rohan, Gaspard de Coligny, Duke de Schonberg and the Rochefoucaulds.[367]
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist and zoologist, founder of paleontology, opponent of evolutionary theory, proponent of the theory of catastrophism,[809][810] creationist.[811][812]
Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754), French mathematician (de Moivre's Formula and Binet's Formula), insurance industry founder, member of the Royal Society of London, friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley, imprisoned for his faith after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes before fleeing to London.[2][815][816]
Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator of German language books who did much to make Germany familiar to English readers.[297]
Pierre Coste (1668–1747), translator, member of the Rainbow Coffee House Group.[2][317]
Marie De Cotteblanche (1520–1583), French noblewoman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.[847]
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), translator, major figure in British Freemasonry, natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer, was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton, born in La Rochelle.[2][848]
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), author. His great-grandfather François III, count de La Rochefoucauld, was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Key work: Maxims.[880]
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English novelist and travel writer, educational and economic reformer, sociologist, atheist and advocate of Darwinian evolution, descended from a Huguenot family.[45][910]
Charles Maturin (1780–1824), Irish Gothic writer and Church of Ireland clergyman, descendant of Huguenot and crippled Bastille prisoner, Gabriel Maturin. Key work: Melmoth the Wanderer.[587][436]
Kate Mosse, English author. Key work: The Burning Chambers.[911]
Edith Olivier (1872–1948), British novelist, Christian, Conservative Party activist, opponent of Suffragette movement, founder of Wiltshire branch of Women's Land Army in 1916, daughter of the Dean of Wiltshire and related to Sir Laurence Olivier. Key work: The Love Child.[912][913]
Louise von François (1817–1893), Prussian novelist, member of the Huguenot nobility-descended von François family. Key work: The Last Lady of Reckenburg.[917]
Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), German writer, Nobel Prize for Literature nominee. Key work: Memories of an Idealist.[919]
Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), novelist, screenwriter, Freikorps fighter, far-right figure.[920]
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), author, Roman Catholic with Huguenot ancestry.[921]
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, had a Huguenot great-great-grandfather, who came from the French Palatinate to participate in the founding of New Rochelle. Key work:Age of Innocence.[922]
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), American writer and libertarian, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Key work: Let the Hurricane Roar (later retitled Young Pioneers).[230]
Tennessee Williams (real name Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–1983), American playwright, descended from the Sevier family. Key work: A Streetcar Named Desire.[923][924]
Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), female hot air balloon pioneer, aeronautics advisor to Napoleon Bonaparte, first woman to die in an aviation disaster.[925]
John Debrett (1753–1822), publisher, founder of Debrett's, a compiler of reference books on the peerage, etiquette, lists of influential people and so forth, son of Jean Louys de Bret, a cook with Huguenot ancestry.[931]
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Jenny Aubry (1903–1987), French psychiatrist and psychanalyst 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.[68][69]
Pierre Bovet (1878–1965), psychologist, translator of Boy Scouts guides into French, co-founder of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva, father of Daniel Bovet.[71]
Peter Chamberlen, physician, obstetrician, invented delivery via forceps.[2]
George de Benneville (1702–1793), physician, left Huguenot background for unorthodox religious beliefs.[72]
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.[76][77]
Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), psychiatrist, writer and mental patient.[78]
Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician, diplomat and President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain.[42]
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.[106]
Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767–1859), opera singer and composer, daughter of François-Hippolyte Barthélémon.[2]
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.[2]
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.[42]
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American actor, descended from Huguenot refugees in the Netherlands.[116][117]
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).[19][131]
Charles Chauvel (1897–1959), Australian film-maker, ancestors from Blois in the Loire Valley.[21][132]
Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948-), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian.[136][137][138]
Gary Cooper (1901–1961), American actor, descended from the Brazier family.[139][140]
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.)[141]
Eddie Izzard, English comedian, actor, family thought to originate in the Pyrenees.[192][193]
Derek Jacobi (1938–), English actor, descended from the financier Joseph de la Plaigne of Bordeaux.[194][195]
Julian Jarrold (1960-), English film-maker, descended from the prominent Jarrold's family of Norwich, known for the department store and publishing businesses, family of Huguenot or Dutch descent.[196]
Ethel Lavenu (1842–1917), British actress, mother of Tyrone Power and grandmother of Tyrone Power junior, descended from the Huguenots, Hector Francois Chataigner de Cramahé and Salomon Blosset de Loche, both of whom fought for William of Orange.[203]
Claudin Le Jeune (1530–1600), composer and music publisher of the Genevan Psalter, from Valenciennes.[205]
Bill Le Sage (1927–2001), British jazz musician, descendant of a Valenciennes journeyman silkweaver, Jacques Le Sage, and his son, also a journeyman silkweaver, Pierre Le Sage (born Leiden, died Spitalfields, married into the Le Grand family of Saint-Quentin. Later Le Sage descendants in Spitalfields married with the Levesques, weavers originally from Bolbec, and with the Le Maréchals of Caen. (One branch of this Le Sage family later emigrated to Australia whilst another branch went to the Philadelphia-New Jersey area in the United States.)[206][207]
Hal LeSueur (1903–1963), American actor and the brother of actress, Joan Crawford.[120][143]
Zachary Levi (real name: Zachary Pugh) (1980-), American actor and practising Christian, descended from François De Puy of Calais.[208][209][210]
Lorna Luft (1952–), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland.[173][174]
César Malan (1787–1864), hymnwriter ("Everyday I Will Bless You", "It Is Not Death to Die", "O Holy Spirit Blessed Comforter", "What Are the Pleasures of the World?" and "My Saviour's Praises I Will Sing"), originator of the modern hymn movement in the French Reformed Church, pastor and novelist.[213]
Clément Marot (1496–1544), poet who versified the Psalms into French (Genevan Psalter).[214]
Liza Minnelli (1946–), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland.[173][174]
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989), English actor, descendant of Pastor Jerome Olivier, chaplain to the Prince of Orange,[19][216][217] family originally from Nay in the Pyrenees.[218]
Jon Pertwee (1919–1996), English actor, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221][222]
Michael Pertwee (1916–1991), playwright and screenwriter, son of Roland Pertwee and brother of Jon Pertwee, descendant of the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Roland Pertwee (1885–1963), playwright and screenwriter, father of Jon Pertwee and Michael Pertwee, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Sean Pertwee (1964–), English actor, son of Jon Pertwee, descended from the Perthuis de Laillevault family of Provence.[221]
Miranda Raison (1977–), English screen and stage actress.
Robert Redford (1936–), American actor, descended from Philippe de La Noye (
Philip Delano) of the Leiden Huguenot refugee community (the family originated in Lannoy, near Tourcoing).[228][229][230]
Renaud (1952-), pop-rock singer, anti-military activist, agnostic from a Protestant family.[232]
Keith Richards (1943-), English blues and rock guitarist, descended from the Dupree family of silkweavers.[233][234]
André Rieu (1949–) Dutch violinist, descendant of the Rieu family of the Auvergne.[235][236]
Ruben Saillens (1855–1942), Huguenot-born Baptist pastor, leader of the Evangelical Mission Populaire and hymn writer (Torrents d’amour et de grâce, La Cevenole).[237][238][239][240]
Jérôme Seydoux, head of Pathé, head of Charges Réunies, shareholder in Olympique Lyonnais Football Club.[111][243]
Léa Seydoux (1985–), French actress, patron of the charity Empire des enfants,[244] atheist member of the Protestant Schlumberger and Seydoux families.[245][246][247]
Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), actress and film-maker, member of an intellectual Protestant family from Alsace.[248]
Charlize Theron (1975–), South African actress, descended from the pioneering South African farmer, Jacques Therond, originally of Nîmes, Languedoc.[250][251][252]
Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnwriter ("When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World" and "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"), pastor and theologian, descended from the Taunton family. Key work: Logic, or the Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth.[257][258]
Orson Welles, American actor and director, descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Wil Wheaton (1972-), American actor, atheist with distant Huguenot ancestry from Montserrat on his mother's side.[259][260]
Brian Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Carl Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Dennis Wilson, American pop musician (Beach Boys), descendant of Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke and his Huguenot wife, Hester Mahieu.[54]
Joanne Woodward (1930–), American actress and philanthropist, descended from the Gignilliat family of Switzerland.[261][262][263]
James Whatman Bosanquet (1804–1877), English banker and theologian. (Key work: Messiah the Prince, or the Inspiration of the Prophecies of Daniel.)[265][266]
Edward Cazalet (1827–1833), merchant and industrialist, promoter of Zionism.[269]
Philip Cazenove, stockbroker, philanthropist (supported Jewish domestic charities - Calvinists, religious non-Conformists felt a special affiliation for them as fellow-marginalised people).[269]
Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), merchant, slave trader and philanthropist.[280]
John Minet Fector (1754–1821), Dover shipping magnate, banker, smuggled gold out of England to finance Napoleon Bonaparte. Charles Darnay from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be based on him. Son of Peter Fector.[281][282][283]
François Lévesque (1732–1787), French-born Canadian merchant, justice of the peace and politician, of the Lévesque family of weavers originally from Bolbec, Normandy.[295]
Thomas Ravenel, American real estate developer, politician, reality TV star, son of philanthropist and disabled people's rights activisit, Louise Ravenel Dougherty.[303][304][305]
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), American capitalist, descended from the Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille family.[306]
Jean Palairet (1697–1774), French cartographer, French tutor to the children of King George II of the United Kingdom, partly responsible for introducing the game of cricket to the Netherlands.[317]
Élie Reclus (1827–1904), ethnographer and anarchist, son of Pastor Jacques Reclus.[318]
Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer and anarchist, son of Pastor Jacques Reclus.[318]
Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard (1949-), historian, vice-president of the Society for the History of French Protestantism and a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee for Life and Health Sciences.[324]
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794–1872), historian and pastor, descendant of Agrippa d'Aubigné. Key work: Discourse on the History of Christianity.[326][327]
Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was one of the very earliest advocates of Imperial Federation, suggested the foudantion of the Imperial Federation League and later its secretary, member of the council of the Royal Colonial Institute, and the first person to suggest the annexation of Eastern New Guinea.[336][337]
Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), English film critic, opponent of structuralism and its associated far-left politics, advocate of frequently-derided film-maker Michael Powell, opponent of left wing intellectuals, supporter of working-class culture, descended from French Huguenot refugees who fled to Switzerland.[370]
Gideon Joubert (1923–2010), South African science journalist and Intelligent Design proponent.[371][166]
Rian Malan (1954–), South African journalist and memoirist, descended from Jacques Malan of Provence and South African Prime Minister, Daniel Malan. Key work: My Traitor's Heart.[372][373][166]
Matthieu Maty (1718–1776), journalist, founded Journal Brittanique which helped to familiarize French readers with English literature, member of the Royal Society, under-librarian of the British Museum, from Dauphiné.[2]
Pierre Motteux (1718–1776), journalist, founder of Gentleman's Journal, from Rouen.[2]
Louise Weiss (1893–1983), French journalist and politician, international affairs expert and pacifist. She was the daughter of an Alsatian Protestant mining engineer and philanthropist, Paul Louis Weiss (1867–1945), and a Jewish mother.[374][375]
Emile Arnaud, lawyer, coined the term, "pacifism",[377] president de la Ligue internationale de la Paix et de la Liberté fondée.[378][379] Key work: L'Organisation de la paix.[380][381][382][383]
Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1800–1882), English barrister and writer on legal, social and theological subjects. (Key work: The First Seal: Short Homilies on the Gospel According to St. Matthew.)[384][265]
Jean Carbonnier (1908–2003), jurist, father of Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard, converted from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism.[386]
Peter Manigault (1731–1773), attorney, plantation owner and slave owner, wealthiest man in North America at the time of his death, descended from the Manigault family of La Rochelle.[392]
John Silvester (1745–1822), lawyer, son of Sir John Baptist Silvester (doctor at the French Hospital).[397][398]
Robert Percy Smith(1770–1845), British lawyer, Member of Parliament, and Judge Advocate-General of Bengal, India, brother of Sydney Smith, descended from the Olier family.[399]
William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (1883–1948), British Barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[400]
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), linguist and semiotician, whose mother was from a wealthy Protestant banking family, and whose father's family consisted of a long line of Huguenot academics who had fled to Geneva to escape persecution.[410]
Paul Passy (1859–1940), linguist, Social Christianity advocate, lived according to 'primitive Christian' ideals, son of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Frédéric Passy.[411]
Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), lexicographer, creator of Roget's Thesaurus, physician.[289]
Charles de Quellenec (1548–1572), baron of Pont-l'Abbé, first husband of Catherine de Parthenay, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre).[426]
Charles de Téligny (1535–1572), French diplomat, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre), first husband of Louise de Coligny.[427][428]
Anne du Bourg (1530–1559), martyr, magistrate, counsellor of France.[429]
Marie Durand (1711–1776), from Bouchet du Pransles in Vivarais, prisoner of conscience (Tower of Constance). Key work: Lettres de Marie Durand (1711-1776): Prisonnière à la Tour de Constance de 1730 à 1768.[430][431][432]
Jean Goujon (1510–1572), sculptor, martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre).[424]
La Renaudie (died 1560), pseudonym for aristocrat, conspirator, martyr (Amboise Conspiracy).[434]
Jean Marteilhe (1684–1777), from Bergerac, prisoner of conscience (galley slave) and memoirist. Key work: The Huguenot Galley-Slave: Being the Autobiography of a French Protestant Condemned to the Galleys for the Sake of His Religion.[435]
Gabriel Maturin, left crippled by twenty-six years' confinement in the Bastille,[212] ancestor of clergyman and author, Charles Maturin.[436]
Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), martyr (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre), philosopher.[437]
Jean Ribault (1520–1565), early colonizer of America, he and other Huguenot colonists were massacred by the Spanish for their faith.[438]
John André (1751–1780), head of British intelligence operations in America during the Revolutionary War, associate of Benedict Arnold, hanged for spying.[440][441][442]
Ulrich de Maizière (1912–2006), German general, descended from a noble family of French Huguenot origin, originally from Maizières-lès-Metz in Lorraine.[457]
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (1680–1770), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, fought against the French in the Seven Years' War, governor of the French Hospital from 1748 to 1770. The son of Louis de Ligonier of Castres, he escaped to Dublin as a child during the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.[463]
George Pickett, American Civil War general (Confederate)
Charles Portal, British Chief of the Air Staff 1940–1945 Combined Chiefs of Staff 1942–1945
Paul Revere (1735–1818), American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the
American War of Independence, descended from the Rivoire family from Riocaud, in the Gironde valley, near Bordeaux.[470]
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), Indian-born Anglo-Irish leader of the East India Company Army from an old Waterford family, of Huguenot origin.[471]
Wilhelm Anton Souchon (1864–1946), German admiral in World War I. Souchon commanded the Kaiserliche Marine's Mediterranean squadron in the early days of the war.
Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey (1847–1914), better known as Koos de la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War.
Missionaries
Élie Allégret (1865–1940), French pastor and missionary in Africa and pacifist.[114]
François Coillard (1834–1904), missionary in Africa for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.[479]
François Daumas, missionary in Orange Free State, member of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.[480]
Maurice Leenhardt (1878–1954), missionary, pastor and ethnologist specialising in the Kanak people of New Caledonia.[481][482]
Robert Whitaker McAll (1821–1893), Scottish founder of the Popular Evangelical Mission of France, for the Parisian working class and which is still currently in existence.[320]
Pierre Stouppe (1690–1760), Huguenot pastor then low church/evangelical Anglican minister, missionary to African-American slaves.[483][484][485]
Cecil John Cadoux, British theologian and pacifist with Huguenot ancestry. Key work: The Early Christian Attitude To War: a contribution to the history of Christian ethics.[508]
John Calvin (1509–1564), French theologian, pastor, and reformer. Key work: Institutes of the Christian Religion.[509][510]
Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel (1795–1868), liberal theologian, elected deputy of the Constituent Assembly after the revolution of February 1848.[517]
Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820–1875), liberal theologian, co-founder of the Historical Society of French Protestantism. Key work: La Saint-Barthélémy.[518][519]
Antoine Court (1695–1760), pastor. Key work: An Historical Memorial of the Most Remarkable Proceedings Against the Protestants in France from 1744-51.[521]
Pierre Courthial (1914–2009), pastor and neo-Calvinist theologian, participated in the writing of the Pomeyrol Theses which called for spiritual resistance to Nazism, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work: From Bible to Bible.[522]
Jean Crespin (1520–1572), martyrologist. Key work: Lives of the Martyrs.[523]
Jean Daillé (1594–1670), French theologian. Key work: Apology for the French Reformed Churches.[525]
Lambert Daneau (1530–1590), theologian. Key work: Wonderful Workmanship of the World.[526]
Charles Daubuz (1673–1713), pastor, theologian, eschatologist. Key work: A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John.[527]
Luke de Beaulieu, cleric. Key work: A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.[528][529]
Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891), student of Alexandre Vinet, theologian, pastor, writer, first president of the Human Rights League, father of Francis de Pressensé. Key work: Jesus Christ : his times, life, and work.[543]
Roland de Pury (1907–1979), pastor, anti-Nazi activist, saviour of Jews in World War Two, opponent of the use of torture in the Algerian War and anti-Communist. He is the author of a Cell Journal written during his captivity by the Nazis. He was a signatory of the Pomeyrol Theses.[544][545]
Pierre Du Moulin (1568–1658), pastor. Key works: Tyranny that the Popes Exercised for Some Centuries Over the kings of England and The Christian Combate, or, A treatise of Affliction: with a Prayer and Meditation of the Faithfull Soule.[550]
John Durel, pastor who later became an Anglican minister.[2]
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (1711–1797), Huguenot pastor, journaqlist, author, educator, secretary of the Berlin Academy of Science, man of letters, theologian and historian.[557][558]
François Gaussen (1790–1863), pastor and eschatologist,[565] Calvinist who was influential on the early Seventh Day Adventists.[566] Key works: Theopneusty; Or, the Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures and The Prophet Daniel Explained. In a Series of Readings for Young Persons.[567]
Pierre Jurieu, French pastor, orthodox Calvinist theologian[573] and eschatologist. Key work: Pastoral Letters.[574]
Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676), theologian, writer and lawyer, forced to convert to Roman Catholicism, retract his writings and spend his final years in a monastery.[575]
Jean Lasserre (1908–1983), conservative, Biblically orthodox theologian, pastor and pacifist. Key work: War and the Gospel[576][577]
Auguste Lecerf (1872–1943), pastor, neo-Calvinist theologian, specialist on the thought of Jean Calvin, member of Association Sully, a now-defunct Protestant royalist movement. Key work: An Introduction to Reformed Dogmatics.[578][579]
Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), theologian, journalist and man of letters.[580]
Wilfred Monod (1867–1943), liberal theologian, Social Christianity supporter, founder of the Order of Watchers, argued for rehabilitation of Marcion and for the removal of omnipotence and omnipresence from the conception of God.[597]
Pierre Mouchon (1733–1797), pastor and grandfather of journalist and social worker, Eugénie Niboyet.[598]
Andrew Murray, South African, pastor, teacher and writer, Huguenot descendant on his mother's side.[599]
Elias Palairet (1713–1765), brother of Jean Palairet, passtor successively at the French church at Greenwich, Saint John's Church, Spitalfields, and the Dutch chapel at Saint James's, Westminster, classical and Biblical philologist.[317]
Auguste Sabatier (1839–1901), symbolofideist, called by some "the greatest French theologian since Calvin", expert on dogma and the links between theology and culture (French Lutheran).[617]
Jacques Saurin (1677–1730), pastor, Threadneedle Street and the Netherlands refugee communities, early advocate of religious tolerance. Key work: Sermons on Diverse Texts of the Scriptures.[618][619]
Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Essex-born Anglican minister and humorist, founder of the Edinburgh Review, lecturer at the Royal Institution and remembered for his comical rhyming recipe for salad dressing, descendant of Olier family.[399]
André Trocmé (1901–1971), French Biblically conservative but socially progressive[628] pastor, Christian pacifist, saviour of Jews in World War Two and anti-nuclear campaigner. Key work: Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution.[629][630][631]
Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), theologian, considered the most important thinker of nineteenth century French-speaking Protestantism. Key work: Homiletics; or the Theory of Preaching.[632]
Pierre Viret (1511–1572), theologian. Key work: Thou Shalt Not Kill.[633]
Charles Wagner (1852–1918), pastor, liberal theologian, Social Christianity advocate.[554]
Philanthropists and charity workers
Madeleine Barot (1909–1995), laywoman, saviour of Jews in World War Two, co-writer of the Pomeyrol Theses, evangelist, ecumenist, vice-president of Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture, general secretary of La Cimade.[634][545]
John Bost (1817–1881), pastor, musician and philanthropist, founder of La Famille (the Family) asylum at La Force in Dordogne for children, orphans, the disabled and incurables. It was followed by a number of other asylums, run today by the John Bost Foundation.[635][636]
Henri Dunant (1828–1910), founder of the Red Cross, Nobel Peace Prize winner.[644]
Jane Franklin (1791–1875), wife of Sir
John Franklin, First Lady of Tasmania, philanthropist, patron of the arts, descended from the Griffin and Guillemard silkweaving families.[21][645][646]
Daniel Legrand (1783–1858), philanthropist and industrialist, grandfather of Tommy Fallot.[647]
Eugénie Niboyet (1796–1883), French social worker, journalist, founder of continental Europe's first avowedly pacifist newspaper, La Paix de Deux Mondes, granddaughter of pastor Pierre Mouchon and the physicist Georges-Louis Le Sage, philanthropist, feminist, imperialist and writer. Key work: De la nécessité d'abolir la peine de mort (The necessity to abolish the death penalty).[651][652][653][654]
J. F. Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor, philanthropist and social reformer (French Lutheran).[655]
Robert Lewis Roumieu (1814–1877), British architect, governor of the Foundling Hospital, London; honorary architect and director of the French Hospital, co-founder of the Huguenot Society of which he was treasurer and later president.[656][657][25]
Magda Trocmé (1901–1996), laywoman, wife of André Trocmé, saviour of Jews in World War Two, anti-nuclear activist.[658][659][660]
Randolph Vigne (1928–2016), South African, President of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain, editor of its publications, director and treasurer of the French Hospital of London, Huguenot researcher and contributor to various publications on Huguenot history.[661][662]
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), philosopher from Protestant family, converted to Roman Catholicism, drafter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[666]
James Martineau (1805–1900), English philosopher, educator,
Unitarian minister, descended from Gaston Martineau, a Huguenot surgeon and refugee.[667]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist, descended from Huguenot wine merchant, Didier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques converted to an unorthodox form of Calvinism himself,[669] rejecting original sin and some other key tenets of mainstream Calvinist faith.[670][671]
Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American folk hero and the descendant of one Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV, whose family converted to Protestantism, fled France and settled in the north of Ireland.[675]
Daniel Perrin (1642–1719), one of the first permanent European inhabitants of
Staten Island, New York originally from Normandy, ancestor of American actress Valerie Perrine.[689]
Pierre Richier (1506–1580), pastor, French Antarctique colonist, later took lead role in turning La Rochelle into a leading Huguenot centre.[690]
Marie Byles (1900–1979), Australian environmentalist, feminist and Buddhist, solicitor, descended from the Beuzeville family of Normandy.[21][6]
Pierre-Joseph Cambon (1756–1820), French revolutionary, opponent of Robespierre, advocate of the separation of church and state, member of the Feuillants.[693][697]
Victor Cazalet (1896–1943), British Conservative Party politician, supporter of Zionism, grandson of Edward Cazalet, godson of Queen Victoria, Huguenot ancestors were from Languedoc.[269]
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), Marxist, possibly descended from a Huguenot named L'Ange,[726][727] Engels was raised as a Calvinist before exploring pandeism and then becoming an atheist.[728]
John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), Governor of Tasmania, cousin of Thomas Langlois Lefroy.[748]
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), Irish politician and judge, suitor of Jane Austen, opponent of Irish Catholic emancipation, ancestors from Cambrai.[748][749][750]
David Provoost (1611–1656), Head of the Nine Men in New Amsterdam 1652, Notary Public, first sheriff of Breukelen (Brooklyn), counselor and attorney, descended from Prévost family.[760]
Jacques Antoine Rabaut-Pommier (1744–1820), Girondist, French revolutionary, pastor, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte, vaccination advocate, brother of Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne.[761][762]
Auguste Scheurer-Kestner (1833–1899), French Republican political leader and Dreyfus supporter, chemist, industrialist and politician. A republican, he was opposed to the empire of Napoleon III.[111][771]
Charles Tupper (1821–1915), Canadian father of Confederation, Premier of Nova Scotia (1864–1867), 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896) was reputed to be a Huguenot descendant.
Jean-Henri Voulland (1751–1801), French revolutionary, member of the Committee of General Security, opponent of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, involved in the overthrow of Robespierre.[697]
George Washington (1732–1799), American revolutionary and the first President of the United States, descendant of Nicholas Martiau.[391][777]
Jean Zay (1904–1944), French anti-fascist politician.[778]
Catherine of Bourbon (1559–1604), Navarrese regent princess and writer of sonnets, daughter of Queen Jeanne d'Albret and sister of King Henri IV of France.[787]
Charles III (1948–), British monarch, descended from the Bourbon Montpensier, Coligny, d'Olbreuse, Rohan and Ruvigny families.[556]
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), descended from the Bourbon Vendome, Bulteel, Guinand, Navarre, Rochefoucauld, Ruvigny, Schomberg, and Thellusson families.[556]
Elizabeth II (1926–2022), British monarch, descended from the Bourbon Montpensier, Coligny, d'Olbreuse, Rohan and Ruvigny families.[556]
William, Prince of Wales (1982–), heir to the British throne, has Huguenot ancestors on both sides of his family, including William of Orange, Charlotte de Bourbon Montpensier, the Marquis de Ruvigny, Viscount de Rohan, Gaspard de Coligny, Duke de Schonberg and the Rochefoucaulds.[367]
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist and zoologist, founder of paleontology, opponent of evolutionary theory, proponent of the theory of catastrophism,[809][810] creationist.[811][812]
Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754), French mathematician (de Moivre's Formula and Binet's Formula), insurance industry founder, member of the Royal Society of London, friend of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley, imprisoned for his faith after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes before fleeing to London.[2][815][816]
Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator of German language books who did much to make Germany familiar to English readers.[297]
Pierre Coste (1668–1747), translator, member of the Rainbow Coffee House Group.[2][317]
Marie De Cotteblanche (1520–1583), French noblewoman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.[847]
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), translator, major figure in British Freemasonry, natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer, was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton, born in La Rochelle.[2][848]
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), author. His great-grandfather François III, count de La Rochefoucauld, was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Key work: Maxims.[880]
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English novelist and travel writer, educational and economic reformer, sociologist, atheist and advocate of Darwinian evolution, descended from a Huguenot family.[45][910]
Charles Maturin (1780–1824), Irish Gothic writer and Church of Ireland clergyman, descendant of Huguenot and crippled Bastille prisoner, Gabriel Maturin. Key work: Melmoth the Wanderer.[587][436]
Kate Mosse, English author. Key work: The Burning Chambers.[911]
Edith Olivier (1872–1948), British novelist, Christian, Conservative Party activist, opponent of Suffragette movement, founder of Wiltshire branch of Women's Land Army in 1916, daughter of the Dean of Wiltshire and related to Sir Laurence Olivier. Key work: The Love Child.[912][913]
Louise von François (1817–1893), Prussian novelist, member of the Huguenot nobility-descended von François family. Key work: The Last Lady of Reckenburg.[917]
Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), German writer, Nobel Prize for Literature nominee. Key work: Memories of an Idealist.[919]
Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972), novelist, screenwriter, Freikorps fighter, far-right figure.[920]
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), author, Roman Catholic with Huguenot ancestry.[921]
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, had a Huguenot great-great-grandfather, who came from the French Palatinate to participate in the founding of New Rochelle. Key work:Age of Innocence.[922]
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), American writer and libertarian, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Key work: Let the Hurricane Roar (later retitled Young Pioneers).[230]
Tennessee Williams (real name Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–1983), American playwright, descended from the Sevier family. Key work: A Streetcar Named Desire.[923][924]
Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), female hot air balloon pioneer, aeronautics advisor to Napoleon Bonaparte, first woman to die in an aviation disaster.[925]
John Debrett (1753–1822), publisher, founder of Debrett's, a compiler of reference books on the peerage, etiquette, lists of influential people and so forth, son of Jean Louys de Bret, a cook with Huguenot ancestry.[931]
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