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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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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Brewster

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

10th cousin 3 times removed
via William Collier

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

9th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Tracy

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

8th cousin
via Peter Worden Jr.

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Lowell Mason Maxham

Medal of Honor Recipient
U. S. Civil War

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

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Lowell Mason Maxham

Medal of Honor Recipient
U. S. Civil War

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Stephen Tracy

(c1596 - p1654/5)
Anne passenger 1623

8th great-grandfather

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Danny Ainge

NBA Player and Coach

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

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Danny Ainge

NBA Player and Coach

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard FitzAlan

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Richard FitzAlan

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via William Brewster

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via William Collier

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Marcus Morton

16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

21st cousin
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

19th cousin
via Richard FitzAlan

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward Winslow

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John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard FitzAlan

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir William de Bohun

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Hal Holbrook

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Edward I, King of England

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