Talk:List of French Americans

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The following people should only be restored to the list with a source that actually says they are "French American" or "French" (if they are "American"), as per Wikipedia:No original research. So no French grannies, maids, ancestry, descent, etc. - the person themselves must be described as French.

• People with some kind of very, very distant or non-existant French ancestry who likely are not described as "French Americans" anywhere
  Lon Chaney, Sr., Lon Chaney, Alec Baldwin, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford
• You dont make any sense, so what if they have 1/16th of french blood. you think you're able the genetic line of everyone in the U.S. you're probably french as well, so stop trying to make the law. Abdelkweli 20:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Americans with significant French ancestry (1/4 or more) who may or may not have been described as "French" or "French American" in a good source:
• Frank Abagnale
• Danny Ardoin - not sure
• Rene Auberjonois - mother was French [2]
• Kevyn Aucoin - make-up artist and photographer - no source - may be a Cajun
• Yasmine Bleeth - mother is described as part French and part Algerian[3]
• Charles Joseph Bonaparte - paternal grandfather was Corsican[4] // CORSICA IS IN FRANCE, NAPOLEON WAS FRENCH. WIKI IS ALL ABOUT BEIGN POLITICALLY NEUTRAL MY FRIEND Abdelkweli 20:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Jules Brulatour - only paternal grandfather was French I think[5]
• JC Chasez - some French ancestry on his father's side, apparently
• Jefferson J. DeBlanc
• Ellen DeGeneres - her paternal grandfather was of French descent. Maybe a Cajun. Ellen herself has never been referred to as either French or Cajun/ SO THAT DOESNT MAKE HER FRENCH. YOU THINK ANY OF THE PPL LISTED IN GERMAN AMERICANS CONSIDER THEMSELVES GERMAN?? Abdelkweli 20:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Mike DeJean - not sure
• Summer DeLin - may be Cajun
• Catherine Dent - may be Cajun
• Caleb Deschanel - French father
• Zooey Deschanel - daughter of Caleb, "Black Irish and French ancestry"[6]
• E.J. Dionne
• Nicole duFresne
• Amy Dumas
  - no evidence
• Brett Favre
• Jeff Francoeur - not clear
• John C. Frémont - father was French, mother was not
• Chad Gaudin - not clear
• Joe Gauthreaux - may be a Cajun
• George Girard - probably a Cajun
• Barry Goudreau - not clear
• Adrian Grenier - not clear
• William J. Guste - probably Cajun
• Alexander Hamilton - mother was half French, maybe less
• Van Heflin - not clear
• Leigh Hennessy ?
• Lloyd Jacquet - not clear
• JoJo - some French ancestry
• Angelina Jolie
• Robert Jubelirer - not clear
• Emeril Lagasse
• Jack Lambert
• Nap Lajoie
• Papa Jack Laine ?
• Moon Landrieu
• Laura La Plante
• Rod La Rocque - French father
• Adam LaRoche
• Andy LaRoche
• Dave LaRoche - no info on any of the LaRoches
• Lyndon LaRouche - father might've been French Canadian?
• John Larroquette - French-Irish descent
• Jason LaRue
• Lash La Rue
  - Cajun
• Chad Lavalais - not clear
• John A. Lejeune
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Madonna - mother was 100% French Canadian, easily verifiable 70.50.3.164 00:29, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Brian Maisonneuve
• Rose McGowan
• Adolphe Menjou
• Mike Michaud
• Vincente Minnelli - mother was 100% French Canadian[7]
• Xavier Nady
• Frank Oz
• Bert Patenaude
• Louis Pelletier
• Danny Seraphine
• Elmo Patrick Sonnier - Cajun
• Oliver Stone - mother French, father not, do you need more than that? Abdelkweli 20:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Paul Theroux
• Garry Trudeau
• Ben Turpin
• David Vitter - not clear
• Jeffrey Vitter - not clear
• Robin Williams - mother described in one book as coming from a French Louisiana family

Mad Jack 01:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC) Excuse me, but if Jacqueline Onassis can be called French with having one great-grandfather,Lee H. Oswald should be included as his maternal grandfather was French.I notice at Wikipedia people who have remote Indian ancestry are listed as native americans but French-Americans need to provide a DNA test!I myself am descended from Bastien Oliveaux of Louisiana.Try telling me I'm not part French !jeanne (talk) 17:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone still keeping up on this list? seems like a lot of these issues still are here, just seems weird to include people that just have vague "French, Irish, English, and German ancestry..." etc. like Jessica Biel or Cate Blanchett or Lucille Ball. Just seems like we could include pretty much everyone on every ethnicity based list if you wanted to Boucher4 (talk) 18:16, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While Cajuns are descended from the French, the degrees of separation are so far removed as to make including them on a list of French-Americans meaningless. I've thus removed the copied and pasted list of Cajuns, as well as the reference to them in the lead. Arguments for including them should be proposed here and we can work to establish

If you say there should be two different list, it doesn't make sense. The people on the french-american list should be in one of wiki-invented list of cajuns or acadians. I understand there are some more recent french-americans who are only 1 or 2 generations-old americans but this distinction isn't made for italian-americans, german-americans. I'm surprised to see Albert Einstein a fairly recent immigrant in American history next to Katherine Heigl, a 10 to 12 generations american. \\

This is all race-based, biased because french-bashing don't stop at the bush government level.Abdelkweli 19:09, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is no reason to list the exact same names twice. It's really as simple as that. It's pointless. Mad Jack 19:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Abdelkweli, the amount of Americansjeanne (talk) 17:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC) who envy us people lucky enough to possess a portion of French ancestry is amazing.My name is Jeanne;most people react with extreme hostility when I give it.[reply]

This is a list of notable French-Americans who do not appear on the original list. All those people considered by different sources like French-American (ie, people who are direct descents of French, having a French father,to a close ancestor French, etc...) excluded from the original list on this list (Most of the people who appear in it correspond to well- Know actors and actresses). Please, if you have a reliable source to accept or reject these people as French-Americans indicate this:

• Jennifer Carpenter
• Caleb Deschanel
• Gary Dourdan, (he is an African-American actor who falls partially Europeans, among whom are French).
• Farrah Fawcett
• Solange Knowles
• Shemar Moore
• Barack Obama (mother's side).
• Annette O'Toole

--Isinbill (talk) 13:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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