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Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer


Who was Amelia Earhart?

Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. On January 5, 1939, she was declared legally dead.

Famous Kin

Amelia Earhart is a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and has a family connection to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She also has a few family connections to patriots of the American Revolution. These include signers of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock and William Ellery, signers of the U.S. Constitution Nathaniel Gorham and Nicholas Gilman, and Boston Tea Party Participant Amos Lincoln.

Presidential kinships for Amelia Earhart include, but are not limited to, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George Washington. First Ladies or presidential wives in Amelia Earhart's family tree include Abigail (Smith) Adams, Ellen Louise (Axon) Wilson, Edith (Carow) Roosevelt, Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield, and Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge.

Literary kin for Amelia Earhart include Laura Ingalls-Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She also has kinship to the current royal family through connections to Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, as well as some more distant royal connections to King Henry VIII and his 2nd wife Anne Boleyn.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Amelia Earhart

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

12th cousin
via Adam Winthrop Jr.

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Rev. John Lothrop

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

9th cousin
via Richard Warren

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

19th cousin
via Ralph de Stafford

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

9th cousin
via Rev. John Lothrop

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

6th cousin
via Job Otis

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Rev. John Lothrop

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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

6th cousin 1 time removed
via Ephraim Little

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert White

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Belva Ann Lockwood

Women's Rights Activist

5th cousin 2 times removed
via Clement King

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Robert Fuller

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Louis L'Amour

Western Author

21st cousin
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane

21st cousin
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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John Ritter

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Rev. John Lothrop

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

7th cousin 2 times removed
via John Porter

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Stanley

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Vanessa Hudgens

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Porter

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Amelia Earhart photo by Pacific Aviation Museum (CC BY 2.0)