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John Lithgow

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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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Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

9th cousin
via Christian Penn

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

14th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir John Fray

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

15th cousin 4 times removed
via Katherine Pabenham

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

9th cousin
via Christian Penn

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

11th cousin
via Alexander Carpenter

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

7th cousin 2 times removed
via John Gorham

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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Samuel P. Goddard

12th Governor of Arizona

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

15th cousin 4 times removed
via Katherine Pabenham

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

16th cousin 3 times removed
via Katherine Pabenham

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Andrew Warner

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Benton MacKaye

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Dick Van Dyke

TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

10th cousin
via Thomas Tupper

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Admiral Richard Worsam Meade III

Union Navy - U.S. Civil War

7th cousin 2 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Francis Billington

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

10th cousin 3 times removed
via John Howland

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Rob Cantor

Singer and Songwriter

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Tupper

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Louis L'Amour

Western Author

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Grace Slick

Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Richard Hatch

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

President and CEO of I.B.M.

10th cousin
via Gov. Thomas Mayhew

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Henry Howard Sessions

Railroad Car Inventor

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Howland

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