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Sarah Palin

Ancestry of
Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska


Who is Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin was the 9th Governor of Alaska until she resigned in 2009. In 2008 she was the Republican nominee for Vice President, running alongside Arizona Senator John McCain. Since leaving political office, Sarah Palin has been a staunch supporter of the Republican Tea Party movement and a political commentator on Fox News. In 2014, she debuted in a new reality show on the Sportsman Channel called Amazing America with Sarah Palin. Later that same year she launched her own online news network called the Sarah Palin Channel. The channel has since been shuttered.

Famous Kin

Sarah Palin has one of the most well connected families with regards to famous people in her family tree with the possible exception of former President George W. Bush. She descends from at least five Mayflower passengers, Henry Samson, John Howland, John Tilley, Richard Warren, and William Brewster. She is also a distant cousin to Mayflower passenger Richard More.

Among her Mayflower cousins are the infamous Mayflower Madam Sydney Biddle Barrows, actress Page Brewster, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, actress Meryl Streep, singer Taylor Swift, and President Zachary Taylor. Other U.S. Presidential kin include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, William Howard Taft, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, and both Presidents Bush. Probably one of her most ironic connections is to President Barack Obama. They share John Smith and his wife Susanna Hinckley as their common ancestors.

Sarah Palin also has a number of celebrities in her family tree. They include, but are not limited to, Matt Damon, Katharine Hepburn, Raquel Welch, Kyra Sedgwick, David Hyde Pierce, John Lithgow, John Ritter, and Kevin Bacon. Some of her literary kin include poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She also has royal connections to King Henry VIII, King Leka I of Albania, Queen Elizabeth II, and the late Princess Diana.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Sarah Palin

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Daniel Burnham

World's Columbian Expo Architect

8th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Paul Giamatti

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Kate Hudson

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

7th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major League Baseball Commissioner

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Tamsin Todd

CEO, Findmypast

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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Jane G. Austin

Author

4th cousin 7 times removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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Margot Kidder

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Brooklyn Decker

Fashion Model, TV and Movie Actress

13th cousin
via Thomas Rogers

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Anthony Perkins

Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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Shanghai Pierce

Texas Cattleman

7th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Sonny Dove

NYC Basketball Hall of Fame

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Thomas Rogers

(c1571 - 1620/2)
Mayflower passenger 1620

12th great-grandfather

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Don Winslow

Author and Screenwriter

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Lizzie Doten

American Poet

4th cousin 7 times removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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David Hyde Pierce

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Viggo Mortensen

Movie Actor

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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Brewster Kahle

Founder, Internet Archive

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Kristine Rolofson

Harlequin Novelist

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Joseph Rogers

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Zac Efron

Movie Actor

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Rogers

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Jordana Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Phinney Jr.

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