Ancestry of
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
Who is John Lithgow?
John Lithgow is an American stage, television and movie actor. He is also a children's book author and has recorded children's music albums. John Lithgow has received many awards throughout his career including, but not limited to, two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and an American Comedy Award. He has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.
Famous Kin
John Lithgow is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers John Billington and William Bradford. He also has an accused witch in the family with a connection to Mary (Perkins) Bradbury who was convicted of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. John Lithgow has a number of U.S. Presidents in his family tree including James Garfield, Millard Fillmore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and both Presidents Bush. U.S. First Ladies are also represented in his family tree with kinship to Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Nancy Reagan. There is also a royal connection for John Lithgow with kinship to the late Princess Diana
John Lithgow's literary kin include author Harriet Beecher Stowe, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, author Louisa May Alcott, poet Emily Dickinson, playwright Tennessee Williams, and poet Robert Frost. Celebrity kin for John Lithgow include actress Katharine Hepburn, singer Janis Joplin, actor Henry Fonda, TV personality and chef Julia Child, actor Humphrey Bogart, actress Jodie Foster, actor Clint Eastwood, actress Sally Field, singer Amy Grant, actor Ed Helms, actor James Dean, and the Wilson brothers of The Beach Boys..
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for John Lithgow
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
7th cousin 3 times removed
via Tristam Coffin
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
7th cousin 1 time removed
via Nathaniel Lawrence
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
7th cousin 2 times removed
via Nicholas Danforth
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
5th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.
Marcus Morton
16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts
3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.
Alice French
(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer
8th cousin 3 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter
Marcus Morton
16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts
6th cousin 5 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
20th cousin
via Sir Philip le Despencer of Goxhill, Lincolnshire
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John Lithgow photo by David Shankbone (CC BY-SA 3.0)
