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Aaron Rodgers

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Aaron Rodgers

NFL Quarterback


Who is Aaron Rodgers?

Aaron Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, he led the Packers to a Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP, and he was voted the league MVP in both 2011 and 2014. Currently Rodgers is said to be the NFL's all-time career leader in passer rating and the only one with a career rating over 100. He is also said to have the best touchdown-to-interception ratio and lowest career passing interception percentage during the regular season.

Famous Kin

Aaron Rodgers can count a number of U.S. Presidents as kin including William H. Taft, Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover, and both Presidents Bush. His family connections to U.S. First Ladies include Edith Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Ellen Wilson, Nancy Reagan, and Bess Truman.

Aaron Rodgers also has a number of celebrity kin including Richard Gere, Vincent Price, Humphrey Bogart, Oliver Platt, Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Liv Tyler, Jodie Foster, Ed Helms, Christopher Lloyd, and Janis Joplin. Some of his historical kin include Aaron Burr (killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel), Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin), John Brown (abolitionist), and Declaration of Independence signers Robert Treat Paine and Roger Sherman.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Aaron Rodgers

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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

1st President of Radcliff College

8th cousin 5 times removed
via Edmund Sherman

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Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Agnes Harris

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Samuel P. Colt

Founder of U.S. Rubber Co. (now Uniroyal)

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Edward Griswold

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Henry John Heinz III

U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Peter Ward

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Henry John Heinz II

CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Peter Ward

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William A. Buckingham

41st Governor of Connecticut

5th cousin 6 times removed
via John Meigs

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Meigs

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Buell

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Ann M. Martin

Children's Author

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Andrew Ward

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

10th cousin 4 times removed
via John Collamore

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Benjamin Buell

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

13th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Sherman

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John Howard Pyle

9th Governor of Arizona

12th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Sherman

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

14th cousin
via Henry Sherman

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Dewey F. Bartlett

19th Governor of Oklahoma

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Gerard Spencer

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Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert Poyntz

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Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

14th cousin
via John Collamore

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 7 times removed
via George Griswold

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George Winston

New Age Pianist

11th cousin
via Andrew Ward

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George Winston

New Age Pianist

11th cousin
via Edward Griswold

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Hal Holbrook

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin
via Robert Poyntz

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Gerard Spencer

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Andrew Ward Jr.

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Louie Anderson

Comedian and Game Show Host

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Spencer

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Charlie Day

TV and Movie Actor

13th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Sherman

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Aaron Rodgers image by Mike Morbeck (CC BY-SA 2.0)