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Walt Disney

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Walt Disney

Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company


Who was Walt Disney?

Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, to Elias and Flora (Call) Disney. Less than a decade earlier Walt's father Elias Disney had come to Chicago and found work on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. It has been suggested that the exposition was a source of inspiration for Walt Disney's amusement park that would become Disneyland.

Walt, along with his brother Roy Disney, founded on Octover 16, 1923, the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio which would eventually become The Walt Disney Company. It was from these studios that the immortal characters of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and countless others originated.

It is through his mother Flora (Call) Disney that Walt Disney is related to so many famous kin. One of the closest relationships is to Samuel Morse, the co-inventor of Morse Code, who is a 3rd cousin 3 times removed.

In addition he is related to a number of Presidents, the closest of which are Franklin Pierce, James Garfield and Calvin Coolidge, not to mention former Vice-President Dick Cheney.

More distantly, Presidents George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, both George Bushs and Barack Obama are all cousins.

As a decendant of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, Walt Disney also boasts a Royal kinship to both Prince William and his wife Catherine Middleton.

There are many more family relationships for Walt Disney that are too numerous to mention here. A small sampling includes Robert E. Lee, Helen Keller, Meriwether Lewis, and the Roosevelts (Eleanor, Franklin, and Theodore).


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Walt Disney

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Christian Penn

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

14th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Fray

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Beatrice de Beauchamp

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Christian Penn

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

21st cousin
via John, King of England

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Eudo la Zouche

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Beatrice de Beauchamp

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

20th cousin
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

19th cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

20th cousin
via Eudo la Zouche

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

8th cousin 4 times removed
via Francis Billington

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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

21st cousin
via John, King of England

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Thomas Bradbury

(c1610/11 - 1694/5)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

14th cousin 7 times removed
via John, King of England

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George Washington

1st U.S. President

16th cousin 5 times removed
via John, King of England

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John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

19th cousin 2 times removed
via John, King of England

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Abigail (Smith) Adams

First Lady of President John Adams

18th cousin 3 times removed
via John, King of England

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Alexander Spotswood

Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

14th cousin 7 times removed
via John, King of England

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William Henry Harrison

9th U.S. President

17th cousin 4 times removed
via John, King of England

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Benjamin Harrison

23rd U.S. President

19th cousin 2 times removed
via John, King of England

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Benjamin Harrison V

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

16th cousin 5 times removed
via John, King of England

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Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark Expedition

18th cousin 3 times removed
via John, King of England

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