Famous Kin of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

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Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

William Bradford

(1589/90 - 1657)
Mayflower passenger 1620

8th great-grandfather

Thomas Richards

(c1596 - 1650/1)
Great Migration Immigrant 1633

8th great-grandfather

Samuel Smith

(c1602 - c1680/1)
Elizabeth passenger 1634

9th great-grandfather

Thomas Bourne

(c1581 - 1664)
Great Migration Immigrant 1636

9th great-grandfather

Thomas Bliss

(c1590 - c1650/1)
Great Migration Immigrant 1639

9th great-grandfather

Thomas Andrews

(c1572 - 1643)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

9th great-grandfather

Thomas Southworth

(c1617-1669)
Great Migration Immigrant 1628

7th great-granduncle
via Alice Carpenter

Constant Southworth

(c1612 - 1678/9)
Great Migration Immigrant 1628

7th great-granduncle
via Alice Carpenter

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Noah Webster

Published first American Dictionary

3rd cousin 5 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

3rd cousin 5 times removed
via Nathaniel Foote

Deborah Samson

Female Revolutionary War Veteran

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Gov. William Bradford

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Lewis Henry Morgan

Pioneering Anthropologist

4th cousin 4 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

4th cousin 4 times removed
via Nathaniel Foote

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Morgan Bulkeley

54th Governor of Connecticut

4th cousin 4 times removed
via Nathaniel Foote

Jane G. Austin

Author

4th cousin 4 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

4th cousin 4 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

Benedict Arnold

Traitor of the American Revolution

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

5th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

John Brown

American Abolitionist

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Nathaniel Bliss

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James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Nehemiah Smith

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

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Mary Lyon

Founder of Mount Holyoke College

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Smith

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Deming

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Richard Chamberlain

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin
via Jonathan Foote

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