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John Lithgow

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

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Alice (Lee) Roosevelt

First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Tristam Coffin

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Jotham Carpenter Jr.

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Hunt

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Ava Michelle

Model and Actress

11th cousin 2 times removed
via John Root

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Francis Billington

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

8th cousin
via Andrew Warner

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Nathaniel Lawrence

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Nicholas Danforth

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.

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Marcus Morton

16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Tupper Jr.

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Amber Stevens West

TV and Movie Actress

19th cousin
via Sir Philip le Despencer

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Philip le Despencer

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Gardner

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Zach Braff

TV, Film and Stage Actor

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Benjamin Balch

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Alice French

(aka Octave Thanet)
Novelist and Short Story Writer

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Marcus Morton

16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

6th cousin 4 times removed
via William Raymond

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Chester Arthur

21st U.S. President

7th cousin 3 times removed
via John Proctor

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George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

20th cousin
via Sir Philip le Despencer of Goxhill, Lincolnshire

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George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

18th cousin
via Sir John Howard

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George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Katherine Pabenham

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George W. Bush

43rd U.S. President

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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John Lithgow photo by David Shankbone (CC BY-SA 3.0)