Master Surname Index



What's new on FamousKin.com!


A new category has been added in partnership with 10 Million Names featuring family trees and famous kin from the project. 10 Million Names is a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America prior to 1865. Go to the new 10M Names category.

Recently Added or Updated Family Trees and Famous Kin

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

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Hoyt Vandenberg

2nd Director Central Intelligence

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

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William H. Avery

37th Governor of Kansas

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

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Richard Thomas

TV and Movie Actor

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Wallace Rider Farrington

6th Terr. Governor of Hawaii

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Roland L. Bragg

Silver Star Recipient - WWII
Fort Bragg Namesake (2025)

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Dallas West

Hall of Fame Pool Player

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

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Charles A. Sprague

22nd Governor of Oregon

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Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla, Founder and CEO of SpaceX

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Abram A. Hammond

12th Governor of Indiana

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Silas Stillman Soule

Underground Railroad Abolitionist

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Ruth Gordon

Actress, Playwright and Screenwriter

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John Kitzhaber

35th and 37th Governor of Oregon

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Rabbit Maranville

MLB Hall of Fame

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

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Charles Dudley Warner

Author

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Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

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Charles King

9th President of Columbia College

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Mark Gordon

33rd Governor of Wyoming

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

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David Lynch

TV and Filmmaker

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Joan Staley

TV and Movie Actress

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

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Israel Broussard

TV and Movie Actor

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

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Alonzo H. Clark

Editor of Smithsonian Institution

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Dana Carvey

Comedian, TV and Movie Actor

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Adrian Grenier

TV and Movie Actor

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Martha Plimpton

TV, Movie & Stage Actress

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Jerry Van Dyke

TV and Movie Actor

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John Carradine

TV and Movie Actor

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Levi Coffin

Unofficial Underground Railroad President

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Samuel P. Colt

Founder of U.S. Rubber Co. (now Uniroyal)

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Livvy Dunne

LSU Gymnast and Online Influencer

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Jalen Hurts

NFL Quarterback

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Stephen 'tWitch' Boss

Television Personality and Dancer

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Noah Mills

TV and Movie Actor

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Henry B. Quinby

52nd Governor of New Hampshire

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Betty Gilpin

TV and Movie Actress

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Meldrim Thomson Jr.

73rd Governor of New Hampshire

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Colin Jost

Comedian, Actor, Writer

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Anthony Edwards

TV and Movie Actor

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Amy Schumer

Comedian and Actress

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Mike Castle

69th Governor of Delaware

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Tim Walz

41st Governor of Minnesota

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

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Charles H. Sawyer

41st Governor of New Hampshire

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Harry Gordon Selfridge

Founder, Selfridges & Co.

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Justin Hartley

TV and Movie Actor

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Henry John Heinz II

CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company

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Sidney Dillon Ripley

Secy. of the Smithsonian, WWII Spy

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Robert F. Bradford

57th Governor of Massachusetts

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

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William A. Buckingham

41st Governor of Connecticut

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George Plimpton

Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

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Tonya Harding

Olympic Figure Skater

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Harry Hopkins

8th U. S. Secretary of Commerce

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Abby (Gray) Borden

Murdered Step-Mother of Lizzie Borden

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Oliver Ames

35th Governor of Massachusetts

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Abigail Johnson

President and CEO of Fidelity Investments

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Adelbert Ames

27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi

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Edward C. Johnson II

Founder of Fidelity Investments

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Ann Morgan Guilbert

TV and Movie Actress

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Andrew Card

21st White House Chief of Staff

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William Haile

26th Governor of New Hampshire

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

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Robert Patrick

TV and Movie Actor

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

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Maj. Gen. George Meade

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

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Belva Ann Lockwood

Women's Rights Activist

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

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Thomas Kean

48th Governor of New Jersey

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Zach Snyder

Filmmaker

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

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William Egan

1st Governor of Alaska

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Stephen Harper

22nd Prime Minister of Canada

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

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John Howard Pyle

9th Governor of Arizona

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Tamera Mowry

TV Actress

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

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Chord Overstreet

Musician, TV and Movie Actor

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

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Alpheus Felch

5th Governor of Michigan

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

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Penn Jillette

Magician

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Styles Bridges

63rd Governor of New Hampshire

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

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Jackson Browne

Singer and Songwriter

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