Famous Kin of
Ellie Kemper

TV and Movie Actress

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Johannes Kemper

Germanna Colonist (1714)

8th great-grandfather

Hermann Otterbach

Germanna Colonist (1714)

9th great-grandfather

Edmond Littlefield

(c1592 - 1661)
Bevis passenger 1638

10th great-grandfather

Gertrude (_____) Stuell

Executed for Witchcraft, Germany 1590

13th great-grandmother

Melchior Brombach

Germanna Colonist (1714)

1st cousin 10 times removed
via Johannes Kemper

James L. Kemper

37th Governor of Virginia

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Johannes Kemper

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

4th cousin 5 times removed
via John Sewall

Anna Jarvis

Founder of American Mother's Day

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Johannes Kemper

William Fishback

17th Governor of Arkansas

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Hermann Otterbach

Philip Fischbach

Germanna Colonist (1714)

4th cousin 10 times removed
via Theiss Fischbach

Winslow Homer

American Artist

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Sewall

James S. Kemper

Founder, Kemper Insurance Cos.

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Johannes Kemper

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Stephen Austin

Father of Texas

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Richard Austin

Charles Carroll

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Daniel Carroll

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Henry Sewall

John Carroll

Founder of Georgetown University

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

6th cousin 3 times removed
via John Sewall

Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th U.S. President

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Henry Lee Higginson

Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Millard Fillmore

13th U.S. President

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Edmond Littlefield

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th U.S. President

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Richard Austin

Helen Keller

Author and Activist

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Hans Jorgen Kemper

William Claflin

27th Governor of Massachusetts

7th cousin 4 times removed
via Edmond Littlefield

Horace Austin

6th Governor of Minnesota

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Austin

Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Sewall

Del Reeves

Country Music Singer-Songwriter

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Hermann Otterbach

Charlie Day

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin
via John Sewall

Ellie Kemper photo by jjduncan_80 (CC BY 2.0)