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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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