Famous Kin of
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
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Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
2nd cousin 13 times removed via Sir Philip Wentworth
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 14 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
6th cousin 2 times removed via Elisha Kibbe
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
6th cousin 13 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
7th cousin 1 time removed via Elisha Kibbe
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Abbe
Gilbert Clifford Noble
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
7th cousin 2 times removed via Frances
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
7th cousin 9 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
7th cousin 9 times removed via Sir John Clifford
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 13 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Philip Wentworth
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
9th cousin via Rev. William Skepper
Charlie Munger
Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
9th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Cooke
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
9th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. William Skepper
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
10th cousin 10 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
10th cousin 10 times removed via Sir William la Zouche
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Philip Wentworth
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Clifford
George Washington
1st U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
11th cousin 8 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
11th cousin 9 times removed via Edward III of England
Patrick Henry
1st and 6th Governor of Virginia
11th cousin 9 times removed via Edward III of England
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Clifford
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Daniel Carroll
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
John Carroll
Founder of Georgetown University
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
James Madison
4th U.S. President
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 8 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
13th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
13th cousin 7 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 7 times removed via Edward III of England
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 7 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Hastings
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Hildyard
Princess Diana
Princess of Wales
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Hildyard
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Clifford
Prince William
Duke of Cambridge
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Hildyard
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Hildyard
Lewis Carroll
Author of Alice in Wonderland
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Philip le Despencer of Goxhill, Lincolnshire
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
14th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
14th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
14th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
14th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
15th cousin via Sir Philip Wentworth
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Hastings
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Hastings
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Philip Wentworth
Bob Taft
67th Governor of Ohio
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Hastings
E. M. Forster
English Novelist
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Horace Gray
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Hastings
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
15th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
15th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
15th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
15th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Neville
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
15th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
15th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
15th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward III of England
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward III of England
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
15th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
16th cousin via Sir Roger Wentworth
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
16th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Morley
Kit Harington
TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Linda Hamilton
TV and Movie Actress
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
16th cousin 3 times removed via Alice de Audley
Paris Hilton
Socialite and TV Personality
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Clifford
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
16th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Joan Fontaine
Movie Actress
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
16th cousin 3 times removed via Alice de Audley
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
16th cousin 4 times removed via Edward III of England
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
James Youngs Smith
29th Governor of Rhode Island
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Edmund Mortimer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
17th cousin via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Jesse James
Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Vachel Lindsay
American Poet
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Linda Hunt
TV and Movie Actress
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Norman Rockwell
American Artist
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Shanghai Pierce
Texas Cattleman
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Story Musgrave
NASA Astronaut
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward III of England
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
17th cousin 3 times removed via William de Montagu
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
17th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
William Sprague
27th Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward III of England
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
17th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
17th cousin 3 times removed via William de Montagu
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
17th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Carly Fiorina
CEO of Hewlett-Packard
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward III of England
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir James de Audley
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
18th cousin via Sir Michael de la Pole
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Hugh de Stafford
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jeb Bush
43rd Governor of Florida
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
18th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Dick Clark
Radio and TV Host
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
18th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Mortimer
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
18th cousin 2 times removed via William de Montagu
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
18th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Adlai Stevenson II
31st Governor of Illinois
18th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Valerie Bertinelli
Television Actress
18th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
18th cousin 2 times removed via Edward III of England
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
18th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Guillermo Billinghurst
31st President of Peru
18th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir James de Audley
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
19th cousin via Ralph de Stafford
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
19th cousin via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
19th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
19th cousin 1 time removed via Alice de Audley
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
19th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
19th cousin 1 time removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
19th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Vincent Price
Movie Actor
19th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
19th cousin 1 time removed via Edward III of England
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
19th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Christian Herter
59th Governor of Massachusetts
19th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Pete Seeger
American Folk Singer
19th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
19th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
19th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
19th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
Owen Brewster
54th Governor of Maine
19th cousin 1 time removed via Alice de Audley
Gerald Ford
38th U.S. President
19th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
19th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Chevy Chase
Comedian, Actor and Writer
19th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
19th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Susana Ferrari Billinghurst
Argentine Aviation Pioneer
20th cousin via Henry Plantagenet
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir James de Audley
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir James de Audley
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