John Adams

Famous Kin of
John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

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John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

Son

John Alden

Mayflower Passenger

2nd great-grandfather

John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

4th great-grandson

Raquel Welch

Movie Actress

1st cousin 6 times removed via Joseph Adams Jr.

Samuel Adams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

2nd cousin via Joseph Adams

Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

2nd cousin via Benjamin White

William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

2nd cousin 4 times removed via Joseph Adams

Erskine Childers

4th President of Ireland

2nd cousin 5 times removed via John Bass

Anna Gunn

TV and Movie Actress

2nd cousin 8 times removed via Joseph Adams

Abigail (Smith) Adams

First Lady of President John Adams

3rd cousin via Thomas Boylston

John Trumbull

American Painter

3rd cousin 1 time removed via John Alden

Oliver Winchester

Founder of Winchester Repeating Arms Co.

3rd cousin 1 time removed via John White

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

3rd cousin 1 time removed via William Cogswell

William Cullen Bryant

American “Fireside” Poet

3rd cousin 2 times removed via John Alden

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

3rd cousin 2 times removed via William Cogswell

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

3rd cousin 3 times removed via John Alden

Sir Robert Laird Borden

8th Prime Minister of Canada

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr

Richard Warren Sears

Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

3rd cousin 3 times removed via John Alden

J.P. Morgan, Jr.

American Banker and Philanthropist

3rd cousin 4 times removed via William Cogswell

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author of Tarzan and John Carter

3rd cousin 4 times removed via Gregory Baxter

Emily Dickinson

American Poet

3rd cousin 4 times removed via Henry Adams

Shanghai Pierce

Texas Cattleman

3rd cousin 4 times removed via John Alden

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

3rd cousin 4 times removed via William Cogswell

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Calvin Coolidge

30th U.S. President

3rd cousin 5 times removed via John Alden

Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell

Henry Sturgis Morgan

Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley

3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell

Emily Post

American Author on Etiquette

3rd cousin 5 times removed via John Alden

Lou (Henry) Hoover

First Lady of President Herbert Hoover

3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell

Charles Edward Merrill

Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

3rd cousin 5 times removed via John Alden

Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Cogswell

Nancy (Davis) Reagan

First Lady of President Ronald Reagan

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Samuel Bass

Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Alden

King Leka I

King of the Albanians

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Henry Adams

John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Henry Adams

Orson Welles

Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor

3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Alden

Julia Child

American Chef, Author and TV Personality

3rd cousin 6 times removed via John Alden

Princess Diana

Princess of Wales

3rd cousin 7 times removed via William Cogswell

Dick Van Dyke

TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

3rd cousin 7 times removed via John Alden

Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

3rd cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr

James Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

3rd cousin 7 times removed via William Cogswell

Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

3rd cousin 7 times removed via John Alden

Prince William

Duke of Cambridge

3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Cogswell

Prince Harry

Prince of Wales

3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Cogswell

Josh Brolin

TV and Movie Actor

3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Cogswell

Paget Brewster

TV Actress

3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Alden

Kim Kardashian

TV Personality

3rd cousin 8 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr

Oliver Platt

Movie Actor

3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Cogswell

Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Alden

Linda Hamilton

TV and Movie Actress

3rd cousin 8 times removed via Henry Adams

Sarah Palin

9th Governor of Alaska

3rd cousin 8 times removed via Henry Adams

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Zac Efron

Movie Actor

3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Alden

Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Alden

John Cena

Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler

3rd cousin 9 times removed via Samuel Bass

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

4th cousin 1 time removed via John Cogswell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Scarlet Letter

4th cousin 1 time removed via John Cogswell

Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

4th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Gardner

Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

4th cousin 2 times removed via John Cogswell

Millard Fillmore

13th U.S. President

4th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Squire

Joseph Glidden

Inventor of Barbed Wire

4th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Squire

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Charles Dawes

30th U.S. Vice-President

4th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Gardner

Burgess Meredith

TV and Movie Actor

4th cousin 4 times removed via John Cogswell

Francis Harrington Glidden

Co-Founder of Glidden Company

4th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Squire

Sir Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

4th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Squire

William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

4th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Squire

Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower

First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Cogswell

Lee Remick

Movie Actress

4th cousin 6 times removed via John Cogswell

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Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

4th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Gardner