Famous Kin of
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
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Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
3rd cousin 3 times removed via Richard Ward
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Edmund Tapp Jr.
Aaron Burr
Killed Alexander Hamilton
4th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. Thomas Hooker
Benjamin Tallmadge
Leader of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
4th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Nash
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
5th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Lyman
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
5th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Lyman
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
5th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Trowbridge
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
5th cousin 2 times removed via Medad Pomeroy
Gail Borden III
Inventor of Condensed Milk, Founder of the Borden Company
5th cousin 4 times removed via Roger Williams
General Joseph Warren
Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
5th cousin 4 times removed via William Chaplin
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 4 times removed via William Chaplin
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
5th cousin 7 times removed via Richard Baldwin
King Henry VIII
King of England
5th cousin 11 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
6th cousin via Benjamin Lyman
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
6th cousin 1 time removed via Benjamin Lyman
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 1 time removed via Aris Jans Vanderbilt
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
6th cousin 1 time removed via Aris Jans Vanderbilt
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
6th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Trowbridge
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
6th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Flagg
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
6th cousin 2 times removed via Benjamin Lyman
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
6th cousin 2 times removed via Pardon Tillinghast
Marshall Field
Founder of Marshall Field & Co.
6th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Nash
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
6th cousin 11 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Henry Luce
Co-Founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines
7th cousin via Medad Pomeroy
Lucy (Webb) Hayes
First Lady of President Rutherford B. Hayes
7th cousin 1 time removed via Dr. Henry Woodward
Ernest Hemingway
Author of The Sun Also Rises
7th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Trowbridge
Dr. Benjamin Spock
American Pediatrician and Author on Child Care
7th cousin 1 time removed via John Lyman
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
7th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Thomas Hooker
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
7th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Thomas Hooker
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
7th cousin 3 times removed via Robert Plumb
Alexandra Breckenridge
TV and Movie Actress
7th cousin 4 times removed via John Ward
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 9 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 10 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
8th cousin 1 time removed via Evert Duycking
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
8th cousin 1 time removed via William Chaplin
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
8th cousin 1 time removed via William Chaplin
Robert H. Goddard
Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket
8th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Trowbridge
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
President and CEO of I.B.M.
8th cousin 1 time removed via John Plumb
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
8th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Lyman
Princess Diana
Princess of Wales
8th cousin 2 times removed via Dr. Henry Woodward
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
8th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
8th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Trowbridge
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
8th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Prince William
Duke of Cambridge
8th cousin 3 times removed via Dr. Henry Woodward
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam
8th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Trowbridge
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
9th cousin 1 time removed via Sylvester Baldwin Jr.
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Clarence Day
Author of Life with Father
9th cousin 1 time removed via William Chaplin
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Chaplin
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
9th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cecil
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
9th cousin 2 times removed via Roger Williams
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Chaplin
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
9th cousin 3 times removed via William Chaplin
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Wingfield
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
10th cousin via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
10th cousin via Robert Plumb
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
10th cousin via Robert Plumb
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
10th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Plumb
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
10th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Bette Davis
Movie Actress
10th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
10th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
10th cousin 7 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
10th cousin 7 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
11th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Cecil
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
11th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cecil
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
11th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cecil
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
James Madison
4th U.S. President
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Kit Harington
TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”
11th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Cecil
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
11th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Cecil
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
11th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
11th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
11th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
12th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Wingfield
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
George Washington
1st U.S. President
12th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
12th cousin 5 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
13th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Goushill
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
13th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Wingfield
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
13th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 4 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
14th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Goushill
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Daniel Carroll
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
John Carroll
Founder of Georgetown University
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
15th cousin via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
15th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
15th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
15th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
15th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
15th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert de Umfreville
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
15th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Richard FitzAlan
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
16th cousin via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
16th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
16th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
16th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
16th cousin 1 time removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Liza Minnelli
Singer and Actress
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Thomas de Umfreville
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
16th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
16th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William de Bohun
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
16th cousin 3 times removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
16th cousin 3 times removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
16th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William de Bohun
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 4 times removed via Gilbert de Clare
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir William de Bohun
Raquel Welch
Movie Actress
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
16th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
16th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
16th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Gerald Ford
38th U.S. President
16th cousin 5 times removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Chevy Chase
Comedian, Actor and Writer
16th cousin 5 times removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir William de Bohun
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
17th cousin via Edmund FitzAlan
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
17th cousin via Henry Plantagenet
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
17th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
17th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
17th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
17th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
17th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
17th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
17th cousin 1 time removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
17th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
17th cousin 2 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Bohun
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
17th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
17th cousin 3 times removed via William de Beauchamp
Jake Gyllenhaal
Movie Actor
17th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Movie Actress
17th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
17th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Lewis Henry Morgan
Pioneering Anthropologist
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Humphrey de Beauchamp
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Tilda Swinton
Movie Actress
17th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Tuesday Weld
TV and Movie Actress
17th cousin 3 times removed via Humphrey de Bohun
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
17th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
18th cousin 2 times removed via Gilbert de Clare
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
18th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
18th cousin 2 times removed via John, King of England
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
18th cousin 2 times removed via John, King of England
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
18th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Jesse James
Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer
18th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Vachel Lindsay
American Poet
18th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
19th cousin 2 times removed via Henry II, King of England
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
19th cousin 2 times removed via Henry II, King of England
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Beauchamp
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
20th cousin 1 time removed via Henry II, King of England
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
20th cousin 1 time removed via William de Beauchamp
Bess (Wallace) Truman
First Lady of President Harry S Truman
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Humphrey de Beauchamp