Ancestry of
Dave Cowens
NBA Hall of Famer
Who is Dave Cowens?
Dave Cowens is a NBA Hall of Fame basketball player and coach. He is a 2-time NBA Champion with the Boston Celtics (1974, 1976), NBA Rookie of the Year (1971), NBA Most Valuable Player (1973), NBA All-Star Game MVP (1973), and a former head coach. His jersey (#18) was retired by the Boston Celtics as was his college jersey (#13) by Florida State.
Famous Kin
Dave Cowens is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster, Richard Warren, and Peter Brown. His U.S. Presidential kin include Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and both Presidents Bush.
Celebrity kin of Dave Cowens include Bing Crosby, Orson Welles, Julia Child, Dick Van Dyke, Taylor Swift, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Upton, Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, James Spader, Ted Danson, and numerous others. Other notable kin include author and poet Henry David Thoreau, accused murderess Lizzie Borden, artist Georgia O’Keefe, author Laura Ingalls-Wilder, astronaut Alan Shepard, and aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Dave Cowens
George Albert Smith
8th President of the Mormon Church
8th cousin 4 times removed
via Edmund Freeman
Fannie Farmer
Author of original Fannie Farmer Cookbook
9th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren
Benjamin Silliman
Founder, American Journal of Science
5th cousin 7 times removed
via Richard Warren
Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears
Author, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
5th cousin 6 times removed
via John Freeman
Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears
Author, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
5th cousin 6 times removed
via Richard Knowles
George Albert Smith
8th President of the Mormon Church
8th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Church
Horatio Collins King
Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War
7th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Warren
Horatio Collins King
Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War
5th cousin 5 times removed
via Jonathan Shaw
Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood
Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 5 times removed
via Peter Brown
George Barstow
(c1614 - 1652/3)
New England Immigrant 1635
10th great-granduncle
via Unknown Barstow
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