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Carole Lombard

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Carole Lombard

Movie Actress


Who was Carole Lombard?

Born Jane Alice Peters in 1908, Carole Lombard was an American movie actress who became one of the highest paid stars of the 1930s. She is probably best known for starring in comedies and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film My Man Godfrey. She was married to actors William Powell and Clark Gable. She and her mother died in a plane crash in 1942 while returning from a tour to sell war bonds. Their DC3 crashed into Mount Potosi in Nevada on a clear night apparently due to a navigation error.

Famous Kin

Actress Carole Lombard has a few former U.S. presidents in her family tree including Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B. Hayes, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. A number of First Ladies and Governors also have family connections to Carole Lombard including Barbara (Pierce) Bush, Helen (Herron) Taft, Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. She has kinship to a few American patriots including Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, Boston Tea Party participant Edmund Sears, and Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale.

Carole Lombard's family tree includes fellow actors Lucille Ball, Alan Ladd, Linda Hamilton, Elisabeth Shue, Ted Danson, David Hyde Pierce, and Alec Baldwin. Her literary kin include Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, and Louis Auchincloss. Carole Lombard also has family connections to a couple of more infamous characters. She has kinship to Chicago Columbian Exposition serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes (aka Devil in the White City) and to John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Carole Lombard

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Howard

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Rev. William Noyes

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

14th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Ralph Shirley

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George Herbert

8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Ralph Shirley

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Penn Jillette

Magician

15th cousin 1 time removed
via John Brome

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Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

16th cousin 1 time removed
via John Brome

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Jennifer Coolidge

TV and Movie Actress

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Martha Reade

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Seth Low

Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University

12th cousin 3 times removed
via John Denton

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

10th cousin 5 times removed
via John Denton

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Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

15th cousin 1 time removed
via John Denton

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Susan Dey

TV and Movie Actress

16th cousin
via John Brome

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Willard

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John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

20th cousin
via Sir John Howard

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

20th cousin
via Sir John Howard

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Douglas Trumbull

Film Special Effects Pioneer

20th cousin
via Sir John Howard

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Timothy Hutton

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Reade

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Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

10th cousin
via Richard Willard

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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

President and CEO of I.B.M.

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Moore

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Daniel Henry Chamberlain

76th Governor of South Carolina

7th cousin 2 times removed
via John Moore

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Amanda Bearse

TV Actress

15th cousin 1 time removed
via John Brome

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King Charles III

King of the United Kingdom

15th cousin
via John Denton

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John Cutting

(c1593 - 1659)
Great Migration Immigrant 1636

9th great-grandfather

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Albert G. Spalding

Co-Founder of Spalding Sporting Goods Co.

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Willard

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Charlie Baker

72nd Governor of Massachusetts

10th cousin
via Richard Willard

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Charlie Baker

72nd Governor of Massachusetts

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Nicholas Noyes

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