and businessman. Derrick Williams Others "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" – born Molly Tobin; Irish father R. Nicholas Burns – diplomat, Harvard professor, columnist and lecturer; 19th Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; 17th United States Permanent Representative to NATO; US Ambassador to Greece 1997–2001 Eileen Collins – first female commander of a Space Shuttle George Croghan - colonial Irish American Indian trader Pamela Kyle Crossley – historian Ann Dunham – anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama John Dunlap – printer, printed the first copies of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Fitzpatrick -mountain man Henry Louis Gates – professor at Harvard University Ann Glover – hanged as a witch in Boston Sasha Grey – pornographic actress Dan Harrington – world poker champion James Healy – Bishop of Portland America's first African-American bishop; born a slave according to the laws of Georgia to an Irish immigrant and his African wife; first graduate and valedictorian of Holy Cross College in Massachusetts Michael Healy – Captain of the Revenue Cutter Bear; defender of Alaska's Native Americans; inspiration for Jack London's The Sea Wolf; prominent figure in James Michener's Alaska; younger brother of James and Patrick Healy Patrick Healy – President of Georgetown University, considered its second founder; brother of James Healy; first African-American president of an American university; priest in the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) James Hoban – architect of the White House Mary Jemison – frontierswoman; born on board ship as her parents were emigrating to the US Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady; her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, is of mostly Irish descent Martin Luther King Jr. – African-American civil rights leader, activist, and pastor; his paternal line traces directly back to Ireland Bat Masterson – lawman Christa McAuliffe – teacher and astronaut who was killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Dwight C. Miner – historian and professor Paul Charles Morphy (1837–1884) – chess player Michael Patrick Mulroy – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Jim Mattis, CIA officer, U.S. Marine, documentary film maker and Irish American. Michael Patrick Murphy – U.S. Navy SEAL, Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Navy Ship named in his honor the USS Michael Murphy Richard T. Nolan – writer, Episcopal Church canon, retired philosophy and religion professor Frank Sheeran – WWII army vet, hitman, topic of 2019 movie The Irishman Ellen Ewing Sherman – stepsister and wife of William Tecumseh Sherman David Steele