Famous Kin of
Bill Paxton

TV and Movie Actor

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

General Elisha F. Paxton

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

2nd great-grandfather

Maj. Gen. Richard Gentry

War of 1812, Black Hawk and Seminole Wars

3rd great-grandfather

Henry Cook

(c1614 - 1661)
Great Migration Immigrant 1638

9th great-grandfather

Sam Houston

1st President of the Republic of Texas

2nd cousin 4 times removed
via John Paxton

Ethan Allen

Revolutionary War Hero

3rd cousin 6 times removed
via Samuel Allen

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Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor

4th cousin 1 time removed
via Elisha Hays Paxton

Nathan Hale

America's First Spy

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Samuel Allen

Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Cook

John Dewey

Philosopher and Education Reformer

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Frances

Meredith Baxter

TV and Movie Actress

6th cousin
via Christopher Harris

J. K. Simmons

TV and Movie Actor

6th cousin 1 time removed
via John Paxton

Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Edward Kibbe

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Elisha Kibbe

Nathaniel P. Banks

24th Governor of Massachusetts

6th cousin 3 times removed
via Samuel Allen

Julius Sterling Morton

Founder of Arbor Day

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Frances

Frank Kellogg

45th U.S. Secretary of State
Nobel Peace Prize Winner

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Frances

Daniel Burnham

World's Columbian Expo Architect

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Frances

Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Frances

Frederick Law Olmsted

Landscape Architect

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Henry Cook

Sara Paxton

TV and Movie Actress

7th cousin
via Samuel Paxton

Roy Rogers

Cowboy movie actor and singer

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward Kibbe

Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Elisha Kibbe

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Gilbert Clifford Noble

Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble

7th cousin 2 times removed
via William Hannum

Hiram Bingham

69th Governor of Connecticut

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Samuel Allen

Joy Morton

Founder of Morton Salt Company

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Frances

Admiral George Dewey

Admiral of the Navy

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Frances

Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Frances

Lowell Thomas

Radio and TV Commentator

8th cousin 1 time removed
via William Hannum

Ding Darling

Cartoonist and Founder of National Wildlife Federation

8th cousin 1 time removed
via William Hannum

Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Frances

Bill Paxton photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY 2.0)