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Alan Turing

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Alan Turing

WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine


Who was Alan Turing?

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He is often referred to as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

During World War II, Alan Turing joined a secret code breaking unit based at Bletchley Park. He was instrumental in developing a machine that was able to find the settings used by the German Enigma machine enabling the allies to decrypt German messages. It’s been estimated that this accomplishment, the subject of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game, shortened the war by a couple of years and saved millions of lives.

Famous Kin

Alan Turing’s known famous kin tend to be through royal connections. He is a direct descendant of King Edward I and a number of Magna Carta sureties including Hugh le Bigod, John FitzRobert, Sir Saher de Quincy, and Henry de Bohun. One of Alan Turing’s more interesting connections is a kinship to actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch is the actor who portrayed Turing in the movie The Imitation Game. Another interesting family connection for Alan Turing is to German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Not only did Braun help develop the United States’ Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the moon, but Braun also helped develop the German V-2 rocket which killed thousands of British and Belgian citizens during the war.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Alan Turing

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Hugh I de Audley

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

16th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

21st cousin
via Elizabeth de Badlesmere

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Elizabeth de Badlesmere

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Plantagenet

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

20th cousin
via Sir Hugh I de Audley

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Margaret of France

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

19th cousin
via Sir Robert de Holland

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Mark Gordon

33rd Governor of Wyoming

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Plantagenet

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

20th cousin
via Sir Hugh I de Audley

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Margaret of France

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Alonzo M. Clark

16th Governor of Wyoming

19th cousin
via Sir Robert de Holland

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Plantagenet

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Hugh I de Audley

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Margaret of France

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Robert de Holland

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Henry B. Quinby

52nd Governor of New Hampshire

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England

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