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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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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Peter Worden Jr.

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin
via Edmund Freeman

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin
via Henry Howland

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Walter F. Lansil

American Painter

6th cousin 2 times removed
via John Freeman

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Alice Carpenter

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

10th cousin
via Alice Carpenter

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Orson Bean

TV Actor

10th cousin
via Alice Carpenter

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William H. Avery

37th Governor of Kansas

7th cousin
via Kenelm Winslow Jr.

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Stephen Tracy

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Stephen King

Author of The Stand

11th cousin
via Alexander Carpenter

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Jonathan Sparrow

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Constant Southworth

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Orrin Hatch

U.S. Senator from Utah

7th cousin 2 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

8th cousin 3 times removed
via John Doane

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

7th cousin 3 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Stephen Tracy

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Jonathan Sparrow

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