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Bing Crosby

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Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor


Who was Bing Crosby?

Bing Crosby was an American singer and movie actor. His record albums have sold over half a billion copies and he has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He is the first actor to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the same character, Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's. He won the award for Going My Way.

Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby on 03 May 1903 in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Harry Lincoln Crosby (aka Harry Lowe Crosby) and Catherine Harrigan. It is said that his nickname Bing was derived from “Bingo from Bingville” which a neighborhood kid had taken to calling him. The name was a reference to humorist Newton Newkirks hillbilly parody The Bingville Bugle which was a feature in the Sunday edition of the Spokane newspaper The Spokesman-Review.

Famous Kin

Bing Crosby has a number of Mayflower kinships. He is the direct descendant of William Brewster and a 7th great-grandnephew of John Howland and Edward Winslow. His presidential connections include Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S. Grant and others. He has a kinship to the current royal family of Queen Elizabeth II and to the infamous, accused murderess Lizzie Borden.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Bing Crosby

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William Egan

1st Governor of Alaska

10th cousin
via William Brewster

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Zoeth Howland

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Brewster

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Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via William Brewster

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via Alice Carpenter

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin
via William Collier

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Stephen Tracy

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via William Brewster

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin
via Constant Southworth

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Chord Overstreet

Musician, TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Constant Southworth

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Ray Stanton Avery

Founder, Avery Dennison Corp.

8th cousin 2 times removed
via William Brewster

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

9th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Winslow

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

10th cousin
via Alice Carpenter

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George Herbert

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

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Winslow

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Stephen Tracy

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward Winslow

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George Herbert

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

8th cousin 4 times removed
via John Doane

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