Famous Kin of
Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

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William Malet

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

William de Huntingfield

Magna Carta Surety

24th great-grandfather

William the Conqueror

King of England

28th great-grandfather

King Robert I

King of France

31st great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

35th great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

36th great-grandfather

William Greene

2nd Governor of Rhode Island

2nd cousin 7 times removed via John Greene Jr.

Catherine Parr

6th Wife of King Henry VIII

2nd cousin 13 times removed via Sir John Fogge

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Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene

American Revolution

3rd cousin 6 times removed via Giles Slocum

William Ellery

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 7 times removed via William Almy

King Henry VIII

King of England

3rd cousin 14 times removed via Richard Woodville

Samuel Ward King

15th Governor of Rhode Island

4th cousin 5 times removed via John Greene Jr.

Robert Townsend

Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution

4th cousin 6 times removed via William Almy

Anne Boleyn

2nd Wife of King Henry VIII

4th cousin 13 times removed via Katherine Pabenham

Jane Seymour

3rd Wife of King Henry VIII

4th cousin 13 times removed via Katherine Pabenham

Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

4th cousin 13 times removed via Katherine Pabenham

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Queen Elizabeth I

Queen of England

4th cousin 13 times removed via Richard Woodville

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J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

5th cousin 4 times removed via Giles Slocum

Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

5th cousin 4 times removed via John Greene Jr.

Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

5th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Cook

Mary Stuart

Queen of Scots

5th cousin 12 times removed via Richard Woodville

Warren G. Harding

29th U.S. President

6th cousin 1 time removed via Caleb Carr Jr.

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Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

6th cousin 3 times removed via Giles Slocum

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Hetty Green

“The Witch of Wall Street”

6th cousin 3 times removed via Giles Slocum

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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

6th cousin 4 times removed via John Greene

Thomas Edison

Inventor

6th cousin 4 times removed via Nathaniel Merriman

George Romney

43rd Governor of Michigan

7th cousin 1 time removed via Philippa Greene

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Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

7th cousin 2 times removed via John Munger

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Sir Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

7th cousin 3 times removed via Nathaniel Merriman

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

7th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Cook

Charlie Munger photo by Nick Webb (CC BY 2.0)