Famous Kin of
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
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Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
1st cousin 7 times removed via Robert Livingston
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
1st cousin 8 times removed via Benjamin Wellington
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
2nd cousin 6 times removed via John Child Jr.
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
2nd cousin 9 times removed via John Chipman
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
2nd cousin 14 times removed via Sir John Howard
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
2nd cousin 14 times removed via Sir John Howard
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
2nd cousin 16 times removed via Sir Thomas Greene Jr.
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Edward Bulkeley
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
3rd cousin 7 times removed via William Allen
James Garfield
20th U.S. President
4th cousin 3 times removed via James Wheeler Jr.
Louisa May Alcott
Author of Little Women
4th cousin 3 times removed via John May III
Samuel Colt
Inventor of the Colt Revolver
4th cousin 3 times removed via George Stillman
Elias Howe
Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine
4th cousin 4 times removed via Nathaniel Richardson Jr.
Henry Crapo
14th Governor of Michigan
4th cousin 5 times removed via John Sherman
Elisha Otis
Founder of the Otis Elevator Company
4th cousin 5 times removed via Nathaniel Thomas Jr.
Mary Lyon
Founder of Mount Holyoke College
4th cousin 5 times removed via Ephraim Clarke
Ezra Cornell
Co-Founder of Cornell University,
Founder of Western Union
4th cousin 5 times removed via Ephraim Pierce
Thomas Davenport
Inventor of 1st U.S. DC Electric Motor
4th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Davenport
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
4th cousin 6 times removed via Charles Hoar
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
4th cousin 6 times removed via William Allen
Nathaniel Gorham
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
4th cousin 6 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 7 times removed via Robert Stanley
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 14 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
King Ferdinand II of Aragon
1st King of a united Spain
4th cousin 15 times removed via Diego Gomez de Toledo
Julia Child
American Chef, Author and TV Personality
5th cousin 1 time removed via Ephraim Smith
Jordana Brewster
TV and Movie Actress
5th cousin 2 times removed via Ephraim Smith
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Gallop Jr.
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
5th cousin 3 times removed via John Gallop Jr.
John Wellborn Root
1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect
5th cousin 3 times removed via Benjamin Carpenter
Samuel F. B. Morse
Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code
5th cousin 4 times removed via William French
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American “Fireside” Poet
5th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Pope
Charles Goodyear
Inventor, and namesake of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
5th cousin 4 times removed via William French
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
5th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Bullock
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
5th cousin 4 times removed via Samuel Mayo
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
5th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Bulkeley
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
5th cousin 4 times removed via John Breck
Joseph Smith
Founder of the Mormon Church
5th cousin 4 times removed via Sarah Goldstone
Nathaniel Currier
Lithographer (Currier & Ives)
5th cousin 4 times removed via Susanna
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
5th cousin 4 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
5th cousin 5 times removed via Charles Hoar
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
5th cousin 5 times removed via Philip Sherman
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
5th cousin 5 times removed via Gov. Thomas Mayhew
Levi Parsons Morton
22nd U.S. Vice-President
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Frary
Louis Comfort Tiffany
American Stained Glass Artist
5th cousin 5 times removed via Nathaniel Whiting
Brigham Young
2nd President of the Mormon Church
5th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Brigham
Sir Benjamin Thompson
Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford
5th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Richardson
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
5th cousin 6 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
King Henry VIII
King of England
5th cousin 15 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 1 time removed via John May III
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
6th cousin 2 times removed via Andrew Phillips Jr.
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
6th cousin 2 times removed via Col. Robert Bolling
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
6th cousin 2 times removed via John Gallop Jr.
Robert Frost
Poet and Playwright
6th cousin 2 times removed via Jonathan Prescott
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
6th cousin 3 times removed via Wilhelmus Hendricksen "William" Beekman
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
6th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Davenport
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
6th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Smith
William Durant
Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Sherman
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 3 times removed via John Sherman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
6th cousin 3 times removed via Nathaniel Foote
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
6th cousin 3 times removed via Ephraim Pierce
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
6th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund Reade
Sir Robert Laird Borden
8th Prime Minister of Canada
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Lathrop
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer and Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 4 times removed via William Sumner
Salmon P. Chase
Sec. of Treasury and Namesake of JP Morgan Chase
6th cousin 4 times removed via John Wheeler
Lewis Henry Lapham
Co-Founder of Texaco
6th cousin 4 times removed via Philip Sherman
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Blossom
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
6th cousin 4 times removed via Deming
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott
Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate
6th cousin 4 times removed via Gov. Thomas Mayhew
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
6th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. Peter Bulkeley
Julius Sterling Morton
Founder of Arbor Day
6th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Brigham
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President
6th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Johnny Appleseed
aka John Chapman
6th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Richardson
Clara Barton
Founder of the American Red Cross
6th cousin 5 times removed via William Learned
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
6th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
6th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
6th cousin 7 times removed via Henry Sherman
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
6th cousin 7 times removed via Henry Howland
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
6th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
6th cousin 12 times removed via Sir Baldwin Freville
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
7th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Livingston
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Goffe
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
7th cousin 1 time removed via Simon Newcomb
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
7th cousin 2 times removed via Susanna
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
7th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Smith
Cole Porter
American Composer and Songwriter
7th cousin 2 times removed via Mark St. John
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
7th cousin 2 times removed via Edward Bangs
William Robbins Barnes
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
7th cousin 2 times removed via Susanna
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
7th cousin 3 times removed via Samuel Hinckley
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
7th cousin 3 times removed via Gov. Thomas Mayhew
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
7th cousin 3 times removed via Pieter Tjercks of Emden
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
7th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Blossom
Frederick Upton
Co-Founder of Whirlpool Corporation
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Frary
George Eastman
Founder of Eastman Kodak Company
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Frary
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
7th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Richards
Joy Morton
Founder of Morton Salt Company
7th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Brigham
Henry A. Wallace
33rd U.S. Vice-President
7th cousin 3 times removed via William Sabin
Alvin Woolson
Founder of Woolson Spice Co. (Lion Coffee)
7th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Upham
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
7th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Gilman
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
7th cousin 4 times removed via John Warren
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
7th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Mitchell
Shanghai Pierce
Texas Cattleman
7th cousin 4 times removed via William Hutchinson
General Tom Thumb
Dwarf Circus Performer
7th cousin 4 times removed via Jeffery Hanford of Alverdiscott, Devonshire
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
7th cousin 4 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
7th cousin 5 times removed via Edward Hutchinson
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
7th cousin 8 times removed via Sir James Harington
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
7th cousin 8 times removed via Sir James Harington
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
8th cousin via John Gallop Jr.
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
8th cousin 1 time removed via William French
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8th cousin 1 time removed via William Sumner Jr.
John Hinckley, Jr.
Shot President Ronald Reagan
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Gallop Jr.
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
8th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Keeler
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
8th cousin 1 time removed via Edward Bulkeley
Albert G. Spalding
Co-Founder of Spalding Sporting Goods Co.
8th cousin 1 time removed via William French
Mike Huckabee
44th Governor of Arkansas
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Whitney
Pete Seeger
American Folk Singer
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Washburn Jr.
David Hyde Pierce
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Gallop Jr.
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
8th cousin 1 time removed via Hannah Brackett
Elizabeth Smart
Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation
8th cousin 1 time removed via Nathaniel Millard
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
8th cousin 1 time removed via William Sumner Jr.
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Sabin
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
8th cousin 2 times removed via French
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
8th cousin 2 times removed via Samuel Hinckley
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
8th cousin 2 times removed via Gov. Thomas Mayhew
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Frary
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Taylor Swift
Singer and Songwriter
8th cousin 2 times removed via Jonathan Bangs
Alec Baldwin
Television and Movie Actor
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Gallop Jr.
Harry Chapin
Singer and Songwriter
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Fellows
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nicholas Jacob
Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge
First Lady of President Calvin Coolidge
8th cousin 3 times removed via Anthony Eames
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
8th cousin 3 times removed via William Clap
Charles Edward Merrill
Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Warren
Henry Lee Higginson
Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
8th cousin 3 times removed via Robert Stanley
Robert H. Goddard
Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket
8th cousin 3 times removed via Wolstone Childe
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
8th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
8th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen
Murderer in Erik Larson's “Thunderstruck”
8th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author of Tarzan and John Carter
8th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Frost
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
8th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Sherman
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
8th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Sherman
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
8th cousin 6 times removed via William Eliot of Cottered, Herts
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir James Harington
James Madison
4th U.S. President
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir James Harington
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir James Harington
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
8th cousin 10 times removed via Sir John Howard
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Read
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
9th cousin 1 time removed via Nathaniel Foote
Dick Cheney
46th U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 1 time removed via William French
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Spooner
Hugh Hefner
Founder of Playboy Magazine
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Richards
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
9th cousin 1 time removed via Experience Mitchell
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
9th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Reade
Grace Slick
Singer, Songwriter - Jefferson Airplane
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Sabin
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
9th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Reade
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
9th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Hinckley
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
9th cousin 1 time removed via Nathaniel Thomas Jr.
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
9th cousin 1 time removed via Nicholas Jacob
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
9th cousin 1 time removed via Nicholas Jacob
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Warren
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Adcocke
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Hutchinson
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
9th cousin 2 times removed via Joshua Pratt
Dr. Benjamin Spock
American Pediatrician and Author on Child Care
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Chipman
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
9th cousin 2 times removed via Francis Cooke
Erskine Childers
4th President of Ireland
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Dwight
Mike Love
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
9th cousin 3 times removed via Edward Hutchinson
Laura Ingalls-Wilder
Author of Little House on the Prairie
9th cousin 3 times removed via Jacques? Mahieu
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam
9th cousin 3 times removed via Edward Bangs
Sarah Jessica Parker
TV and Movie Actress
9th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph Keeler
Kevin Love
NBA All-Star Player
9th cousin 3 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir James Harington
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
9th cousin 6 times removed via John Aston
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir William Dennis
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir James Harington
George Washington
1st U.S. President
9th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
10th cousin via Philip Sherman
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
10th cousin via Gov. Thomas Mayhew
Ethan Hawke
Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Novelist
10th cousin via William Sabin
Dick Van Dyke
TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
10th cousin 1 time removed via Francis Cooke
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
10th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Clint Eastwood
TV & Film Actor and Director
10th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. John Lathrop
Christian Herter
59th Governor of Massachusetts
10th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Stanley
Carly Fiorina
CEO of Hewlett-Packard
10th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Richards
Donnie Wahlberg
Singer and Movie Actor
10th cousin 2 times removed via William Read
Chevy Chase
Comedian, Actor and Writer
10th cousin 2 times removed via John Howland
Mizuo Peck
TV and Movie Actress
10th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Peter Bulkeley
John Steinbeck
Author of The Grapes of Wrath
10th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Howland
Johnny Carson
TV Host - “The Tonight Show”
10th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Howland
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir William Cope
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir James Harington
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 8 times removed via Katherine Pabenham
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Greene Jr.
Daniel Carroll
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Greene Jr.
John Carroll
Founder of Georgetown University
10th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Thomas Greene Jr.
Linda Hamilton
TV and Movie Actress
11th cousin 1 time removed via Bennett Eliot
David Angell
TV Producer - 9/11 Victim
11th cousin 1 time removed via John Adcocke
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
11th cousin 1 time removed via Francis Cooke
Dan Quayle
44th U.S. Vice-President
11th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Whitman
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Berkeley
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir James Harington
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Thomas Hoo
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
11th cousin 7 times removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
11th cousin 10 times removed via John IV le Strange
Meghan Markle
Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress
12th cousin 1 time removed via Isabel Baker
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas West
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
12th cousin 2 times removed via William Eliot of Cottered, Herts
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
12th cousin 2 times removed via William Eliot of Cottered, Herts
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Thomas Blount
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Walter Blount
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
13th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Edward Aston
Capt. William Lewis Herndon
Captain of the ill fated S.S. Central America
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir William Harington
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Wingfield
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Herman Melville
Author of Moby Dick
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter Hungerford
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
13th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
13th cousin 6 times removed via William le Boteler
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Robert de Umfreville
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
14th cousin 1 time removed via William Mainwaring
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas West
Ellen (Herndon) Arthur
Wife of President Chester A. Arthur
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William Harington
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Wingfield
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
14th cousin 4 times removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Michael de la Pole
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
14th cousin 7 times removed via Alice de Audley
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
15th cousin via William Mainwaring
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir David Lindsay
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Paris Hilton
Socialite and TV Personality
15th cousin 2 times removed via John Aston
Randolph Scott
Movie Actor
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
15th cousin 3 times removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
15th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert de Umfreville
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
16th cousin via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
16th cousin via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Adlai Stevenson II
31st Governor of Illinois
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Howard
Charlie Munger
Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey Stafford
Emily Post
American Author on Etiquette
16th cousin 2 times removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Baldwin Freville
Wernher von Braun
Rocket Scientist
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Gilbert Talbot
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Lionel de Welles
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
17th cousin 4 times removed via John IV le Strange
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
18th cousin via Sir Michael de la Pole
Jesse James
Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer
18th cousin via Sir Michael de la Pole
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author of Treasure Island
18th cousin via Robert II, King of Scotland
Joanne Woodward
Movie Actress
18th cousin 1 time removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
Hugh Grant
Movie Actor
18th cousin 2 times removed via Robert II, King of Scotland
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
18th cousin 3 times removed via Alice de Audley
Judy Garland
Singer and Movie Actress
18th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert de Umfreville
Liza Minnelli
Singer and Actress
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert de Umfreville