Famous Kin of
Avril Lavigne

Singer and Songwriter

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

John Doane

(c1590 - 1685/6)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630

11th great-grandfather

Thomas Harris

(c1590 - c1634)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630

11th great-grandfather

Edward Bangs

(c1591 - 1677/8)
Anne passenger 1623

11th great-grandfather

Joseph Weld

(c1599 - 1646)
Great Migration Immigrant 1635

11th great-grandfather

Ralph Smith

(c1616 - 1685)
Great Migration Immigrant 1633

11th great-grandfather

Stephen Hopkins

(c1582 - 1644)
Mayflower 1620 & Jamestowne 1610

12th great-grandfather

Gabriel Whelden

(c1590 - c1653/4)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

12th great-grandfather

Thomas Weld

(c1595 - 1660/1)
William & Francis passenger 1632

11th great-granduncle
via Edmund Weld

Edmund Sears

Boston Tea Party Participant

3rd cousin 9 times removed
via Edward Bangs

Robert Treat Paine

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

4th cousin 9 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

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William Henry Burleigh

Poet and Journalist

5th cousin 6 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Harris

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Dr. Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Samuel Doane

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Charles Dawes

30th U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Josiah Cooke

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William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

Edwin Grozier

Owner of The Boston Post

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Josiah Cooke

Susan B. Anthony

Women's Rights Advocate

6th cousin 6 times removed
via John Doane

Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 7 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Horatio Collins King

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

6th cousin 7 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Jane G. Austin

Author

6th cousin 7 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

6th cousin 7 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Charles Dudley Warner

Author

6th cousin 7 times removed
via Stephen Hopkins

Ryan Gosling

Movie Star

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Joseph Dion-Guyon

Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

7th cousin 4 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

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Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper

United States Navy

7th cousin 4 times removed
via John Doane Jr.

Lewis Henry Lapham

Co-Founder of Texaco

7th cousin 5 times removed
via John Doane

Eugene Foss

45th Governor of Massachusetts

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Bangs

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Merrill C. Meigs

Publisher, Chicago Herald & Examiner

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Ralph Smith

Henry Hastings Sibley

1st Governor of Minnesota

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Harris

Sir Hiram Maxim

Machine Gun Inventor

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Bangs

Avril Lavigne photo by Mikhail Pribadi (CC BY-SA 3.0)