Ancestry of
Edward Norton
Movie Actor
Who is Edward Norton?
Edward Norton is an American movie actor and filmmaker. He has won a number of film awards and has been nominated for three Academy Awards. In 1997, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Primal Fear. He followed that in 1998 with a nomination for Best Actor for his role in the film American History X. More recently, Edward Norton was nominated in 2014 for Best Supporting Actor for the film Birdman.
Famous Kin
Edward Norton is a direct descendant of the legendary Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe. His U.S. Presidential kin include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Zachary Taylor, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and both Presidents Bush. His royal family connections include King Ferdinand II of Spain, King Henry VIII and some of his wives, along with members of the current royal family including Queen Elizabeth II, the late Princess Diana, and Catherine Middleton.
Edward Norton’s historically significant kin include Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1st U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton, explorer Meriwether Lewis, inventor Thomas Edison, polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, women’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony, and many others. Fellow celebrities found in his family tree include Johnny Depp, Christopher Lloyd, Ted Danson, Roy Rogers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Kardashian, John Wayne, Anderson Cooper, James Spader, Oliver Platt, Jodie Foster, and many others.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Edward Norton
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Ralph de Stafford
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
13th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Thomas Blount
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger
New York Times Publisher
11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Bradford Jr.
Melville Fuller
8th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
6th cousin 6 times removed
via William Keeney
Rev. John Whittingham
(c1616 - 1639)
Great Migration Immigrant 1637
1st cousin 12 times removed
via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
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Edward Norton photo by David Shankbone (CC BY 3.0)
