Famous Kin of
Hugh Hefner
Founder of Playboy Magazine
Click on the names below to see their relationship charts
Noah Webster
Published first American Dictionary
3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Deborah Samson
Female Revolutionary War Veteran
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Gov. William Bradford
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
4th cousin 4 times removed via Nathaniel Foote III
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Bourne
James Youngs Smith
29th Governor of Rhode Island
5th cousin 4 times removed via Nehemiah Smith
Mary Lyon
Founder of Mount Holyoke College
5th cousin 5 times removed via Samuel Smith
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
William Robbins Barnes
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
6th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Raymond
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
6th cousin 4 times removed via John Gallop
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
6th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Smith
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
6th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Chapin
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Bliss
Samuel Colt
Inventor of the Colt Revolver
6th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Smith
Hugh Hefner photo by Alan Light (CC BY 2.0)
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