Famous Kin of
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
2nd great-grandniece via Peter Jefferson
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
1st cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Jefferson Jr.
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
2nd cousin 1 time removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
2nd cousin 1 time removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
2nd cousin 2 times removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
2nd cousin 3 times removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
2nd cousin 5 times removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
2nd cousin 7 times removed via Col. William Randolph of Turkey Island
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety
2nd cousin 19 times removed via Maud of Northumberland
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Richard Cave
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
3rd cousin 8 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
King Henry VIII
King of England
3rd cousin 8 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
3rd cousin 8 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
6th cousin 7 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cave
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cave
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cave
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Cave
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
8th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
8th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Cave
John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona
8th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Cave
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
8th cousin 8 times removed via Richard Cave
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
10th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
10th cousin 2 times removed via John of Gaunt
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
10th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
10th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
10th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Edward Neville
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin via Sir Ralph Neville
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin via Sir Ralph Neville
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin via Sir Ralph Neville
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin via Sir Ralph Neville
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 1 time removed via Joan Beaufort
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
11th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
11th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
11th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
11th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
11th cousin 4 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
11th cousin 5 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
11th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
William H. Macy
TV and Movie Actor
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
11th cousin 7 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
11th cousin 7 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Carly Fiorina
CEO of Hewlett-Packard
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Robert Howard
Kit Harington
TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”
11th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Ralph Neville
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
12th cousin via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
12th cousin 1 time removed via John of Gaunt
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
12th cousin 2 times removed via John of Gaunt
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
12th cousin 2 times removed via John of Gaunt
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
12th cousin 2 times removed via John of Gaunt
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
12th cousin 2 times removed via John of Gaunt
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
12th cousin 3 times removed via John of Gaunt
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
12th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
12th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
12th cousin 3 times removed via John of Gaunt
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
12th cousin 4 times removed via James Touchet
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
12th cousin 4 times removed via John of Gaunt
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
12th cousin 4 times removed via John of Gaunt
Robert Frost
Poet and Playwright
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
12th cousin 5 times removed via John of Gaunt
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
12th cousin 5 times removed via John of Gaunt
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
12th cousin 5 times removed via John of Gaunt
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
12th cousin 5 times removed via William de Braiose
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
12th cousin 6 times removed via John of Gaunt
Sally Ride
1st American Woman in Space
12th cousin 6 times removed via James Touchet
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Thomas Mowbray
Wernher von Braun
Rocket Scientist
12th cousin 7 times removed via John of Gaunt
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via John de Mowbray
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
13th cousin 2 times removed via John de Mowbray
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
13th cousin 2 times removed via John de Mowbray
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
13th cousin 3 times removed via John de Mowbray
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
13th cousin 3 times removed via John de Mowbray
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
13th cousin 4 times removed via John de Mowbray
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
13th cousin 4 times removed via John de Mowbray
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
13th cousin 4 times removed via John de Mowbray
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
13th cousin 5 times removed via John de Mowbray
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
13th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
13th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
13th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Thomas Pynchon
American Novelist
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Linda Hamilton
TV and Movie Actress
13th cousin 7 times removed via John de Mowbray
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
13th cousin 7 times removed via John de Mowbray
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
13th cousin 8 times removed via John de Mowbray
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
14th cousin via Sir John Howard
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Marshall Field
Founder of Marshall Field & Co.
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
John Brown
American Abolitionist
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
14th cousin 4 times removed via Hugh de Kevelioc
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Herbert Hoover
31st U.S. President
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
George Hamilton
TV and Movie Actor
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
J. K. Simmons
TV and Movie Actor
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Marie-Chantal Miller
Crown Princess of Greece
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Jesse James
Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer
14th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Vachel Lindsay
American Poet
14th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin via Edward I, King of England
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
15th cousin via Henry Plantagenet
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
15th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Edmund Mortimer
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Herman Melville
Author of Moby Dick
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
15th cousin 2 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
15th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
15th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
15th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
15th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Adlai Stevenson II
31st Governor of Illinois
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Valerie Bertinelli
Television Actress
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
15th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
15th cousin 5 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
Shanghai Pierce
Texas Cattleman
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
15th cousin 6 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 1 time removed via Alan la Zouche
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger de Quincy
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
16th cousin 2 times removed via Isabella de Beauchamp
Adam Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
16th cousin 2 times removed via Alan la Zouche
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
16th cousin 3 times removed via Isabella de Beauchamp
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
16th cousin 4 times removed via Isabella de Beauchamp
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Marshal
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Mainwaring
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
17th cousin 1 time removed via William de Beauchamp
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Mainwaring
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
17th cousin 2 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Mainwaring
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger de Quincy
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
17th cousin 3 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
William Stoughton
Chief Judge and Prosecutor, Salem Witch Trials 1692
17th cousin 3 times removed via Saher I de Quincy
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger de Quincy
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Roger de Quincy
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Mainwaring
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
17th cousin 4 times removed via Isabelle of Angoulême
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
17th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Mainwaring
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Roger de Quincy
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Marshal
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
18th cousin 2 times removed via Hugh de Kevelioc
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
18th cousin 3 times removed via William de Beauchamp
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers