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Taylor Swift

Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter


Who is Taylor Swift?

Taylor Swift is an American country music singer and song-writer born on December 13, 1989, in Pennsylvania. She is said to be the youngest song-writer ever hired by the Sony/ATV publishing house and in 2008 she received a Best New Artist nomination at the Grammy Awards for her first album. At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift's second album Fearless won the Album of the Year award making her the youngest ever to receive that award. The album was also the first in history to receive the American Music Award, Academy of Country Music Award, Country Music Association Award, and Grammy Award for Album of the Year in the same year. She has also added acting to her resume with appearances in both movies and television episodes.

Famous Kin

Taylor Swift has a number of famous kin. One of the more interesting is fellow singer Bing Crosby. Bing is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century with over a half a billion records in circulation. Taylor Swift is also a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and has a number of presidential kin including Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She has connections to the Old West through her kinship to Wild Bill Hickok and Laura Ingalls-Wilder.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Taylor Swift

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Colin Jost

Comedian, Actor, Writer

12th cousin
via John Johnson

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

11th cousin
via Francis Billington

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Harry Gordon Selfridge

Founder, Selfridges & Co.

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Jonathan Gillett

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

12th cousin
via William Lumpkin

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Henry John Heinz II

CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Jonathan Shaw

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Henry John Heinz III

U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Gibbs Jr.

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Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

10th cousin
via Jonathan Shaw

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Henry John Heinz III

U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Jonathan Shaw

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Henry John Heinz II

CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company

8th cousin
via Thomas Gibbs Jr.

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Jonathan Shaw

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Robert F. Bradford

57th Governor of Massachusetts

8th cousin 4 times removed
via William Collier

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Samuel Mayo

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Mark Snow

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Robert F. Bradford

57th Governor of Massachusetts

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Jane Gates

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Sidney Dillon Ripley

Secy. of the Smithsonian, WWII Spy

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Mark Snow

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Robert F. Bradford

57th Governor of Massachusetts

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren

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Abby (Gray) Borden

Murdered Step-Mother of Lizzie Borden

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Abigail Johnson

President and CEO of Fidelity Investments

11th cousin
via Edward Bangs

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George Plimpton

Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren

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Adelbert Ames

27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Warren

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George Plimpton

Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist

9th cousin
via Gov. Thomas Mayhew

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Tonya Harding

Olympic Figure Skater

11th cousin
via Gov. Thomas Prence

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Abigail Johnson

President and CEO of Fidelity Investments

11th cousin
via Roger Mowry

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Harry Hopkins

8th U. S. Secretary of Commerce

8th cousin 4 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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Taylor Swift photo by Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0)