Famous Kin of
Anna Gunn
TV and Movie Actress
Click on the names below to see their relationship charts
Ida (Saxton) McKinley
First Lady of President William McKinley
2nd great-grandaunt via James A. Saxton
John Adams
2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 8 times removed via Joseph Adams
Samuel Adams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 8 times removed via Joseph Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
2nd cousin 8 times removed via Thomas Paine Jr.
General George B. McClellan
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
3rd cousin 5 times removed via Joshua Abbe
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
3rd cousin 7 times removed via Joseph Adams
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
3rd cousin 8 times removed via John Prescott
Noah Webster
Published first American Dictionary
3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
3rd cousin 14 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
John Wellborn Root
1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition Architect
4th cousin 5 times removed via Joseph Root III
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
5th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. James Fitch
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
5th cousin 5 times removed via John Backus
George Eastman
Founder of Eastman Kodak Company
5th cousin 5 times removed via Joshua Ripley
Millard Fillmore
13th U.S. President
5th cousin 6 times removed via John Bronson
Charles Goodyear
Inventor, and namesake of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
5th cousin 6 times removed via William Bunnell
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
5th cousin 7 times removed via William Preston
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
5th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Tupper
Henry David Thoreau
American Author and Poet
5th cousin 7 times removed via Elizabeth
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 7 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
General Joseph Warren
Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
5th cousin 8 times removed via William Chaplin
William Williams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 8 times removed via William Chaplin
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
5th cousin 10 times removed via John Lawrence
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
5th cousin 10 times removed via Richard Baldwin
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 14 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 14 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
6th cousin 2 times removed via Jireh Swift
Thomas Pynchon
American Novelist
6th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Solomon Paine
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
6th cousin 3 times removed via Obadiah Sawtell
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
6th cousin 4 times removed via John Backus
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
6th cousin 4 times removed via Moses Cleveland
Henry Lee Higginson
Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
6th cousin 4 times removed via Moses Cleveland
Gilbert Clifford Noble
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
6th cousin 4 times removed via Moses Cleveland
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American “Fireside” Poet
6th cousin 5 times removed via Richard Warren
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
6th cousin 5 times removed via John Doane
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
6th cousin 5 times removed via John Russell
Louisa May Alcott
Author of Little Women
6th cousin 5 times removed via John Bronson
William Robbins Barnes
Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble
6th cousin 5 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
6th cousin 6 times removed via William Stebbins
Levi Parsons Morton
22nd U.S. Vice-President
6th cousin 6 times removed via Stephen Hopkins
Frank W. Woolworth
Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company
6th cousin 6 times removed via William Preston
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
6th cousin 11 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
John Lithgow
Stage, TV, and Movie Actor
7th cousin 2 times removed via Joseph Root III
Laura Ingalls-Wilder
Author of Little House on the Prairie
7th cousin 3 times removed via Nathaniel Warren
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Doane Jr.
Charles Edward Merrill
Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Whitmarsh Jr.
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Backus
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
7th cousin 3 times removed via John Backus
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
7th cousin 4 times removed via Richard Warren
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author of Tarzan and John Carter
7th cousin 4 times removed via Gregory Baxter
Lewis Henry Lapham
Co-Founder of Texaco
7th cousin 4 times removed via John Doane
Clarence Day
Author of Life with Father
7th cousin 4 times removed via Robert Day
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
7th cousin 4 times removed via William Backus
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
7th cousin 4 times removed via William Backus
Thomas Edmund Dewey
47th Governor of New York
7th cousin 4 times removed via Thomas Bingham
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
7th cousin 5 times removed via John Plumb
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
7th cousin 5 times removed via Alice Carpenter
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
7th cousin 5 times removed via William Pratt
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
7th cousin 5 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
7th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Richards
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
7th cousin 6 times removed via Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
7th cousin 7 times removed via Robert Plumb
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
7th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
7th cousin 10 times removed via Sir James Harington
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
7th cousin 10 times removed via Sir James Harington
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
8th cousin 1 time removed via Stephen Belden
Linda Hamilton
TV and Movie Actress
8th cousin 1 time removed via Edward Spalding
Jordana Brewster
TV and Movie Actress
8th cousin 1 time removed via Ebenezer Burgess
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Bates
Herbert Hoover
31st U.S. President
8th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Sawtell
Ernest Hemingway
Author of The Sun Also Rises
8th cousin 2 times removed via John Plumb
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
8th cousin 2 times removed via Nathaniel Warren
Albert G. Spalding
Co-Founder of Spalding Sporting Goods Co.
8th cousin 2 times removed via Edward Spalding
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
8th cousin 2 times removed via William Swift
Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge
First Lady of President Calvin Coolidge
8th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Warren
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
8th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Warren
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Russell
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Russell
Hugh Hefner
Founder of Playboy Magazine
8th cousin 3 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
8th cousin 3 times removed via John Abbe
Julia Child
American Chef, Author and TV Personality
8th cousin 3 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
8th cousin 4 times removed via William Pratt
Francis Harrington Glidden
Co-Founder of Glidden Company
8th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Squire
Barbara Hutton
Socialite (aka “Poor Little Rich Girl”)
8th cousin 4 times removed via William Preston
Francis Edward Hinckley
Co-Founder of the University of Chicago
8th cousin 5 times removed via William Chaplin
George Washington
1st U.S. President
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Robert Talboys
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
8th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Robert Talboys
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
8th cousin 9 times removed via Sir James Harington
James Madison
4th U.S. President
8th cousin 9 times removed via Sir James Harington
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
8th cousin 9 times removed via Sir James Harington
Amy Grant
Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter
9th cousin 1 time removed via John Marsh
Elizabeth Smart
Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation
9th cousin 1 time removed via John Johnson
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Prescott
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
9th cousin 2 times removed via John Whitmarsh
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
9th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Day
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
9th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Burgess
Johnny Carson
TV Host - “The Tonight Show”
9th cousin 2 times removed via Benjamin Nye
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
9th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Warren
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Bradford Jr.
Erskine Childers
4th President of Ireland
9th cousin 2 times removed via Richard Warren
Marie-Chantal Miller
Crown Princess of Greece
9th cousin 2 times removed via William Ford
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
9th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Squire
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
9th cousin 3 times removed via Henry Squire
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
9th cousin 3 times removed via William Pratt
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
9th cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Bourne
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
9th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Dr. Benjamin Spock
American Pediatrician and Author on Child Care
9th cousin 3 times removed via John Plumb
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
9th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. Peter Hobart
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 3 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
9th cousin 3 times removed via Benjamin Wilmot
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
9th cousin 4 times removed via Edward Sale of Chesham
Warren G. Harding
29th U.S. President
9th cousin 4 times removed via William Chaplin
Henry Luce
Co-Founder of Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated magazines
9th cousin 4 times removed via John Root
Henry A. Wallace
33rd U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 4 times removed via Robert Peck
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
9th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Robert Talboys
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir James Harington
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Edward Lloyd V
13th Governor of Maryland
9th cousin 8 times removed via Sir James Harington
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
9th cousin 10 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
9th cousin 11 times removed via Sir William de Ros
Clint Eastwood
TV & Film Actor and Director
10th cousin 1 time removed via William Bradford Jr.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam
10th cousin 1 time removed via William Ford
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
10th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Warren
Avril Lavigne
Singer and Songwriter
10th cousin 1 time removed via John Doane Jr.
Donnie Wahlberg
Singer and Movie Actor
10th cousin 1 time removed via Richard Sawtell
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
10th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Day
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
10th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Nancy (Davis) Reagan
First Lady of President Ronald Reagan
10th cousin 2 times removed via William Stebbins
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
10th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Richards
Dick Clark
Radio and TV Host
10th cousin 2 times removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
10th cousin 2 times removed via Thomas Richards
Bess (Wallace) Truman
First Lady of President Harry S Truman
10th cousin 3 times removed via John Root
William Durant
Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire
10th cousin 5 times removed via John Lawrence
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
10th cousin 7 times removed via Sir James Harington
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
11th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Richards
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
11th cousin 1 time removed via William Pratt
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
11th cousin 1 time removed via Rev. Edward Bulkeley
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
11th cousin 2 times removed via William Chaplin
John Hinckley, Jr.
Shot President Ronald Reagan
11th cousin 2 times removed via William Chaplin
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
11th cousin 5 times removed via William Mainwaring
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir James Harington
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
12th cousin 4 times removed via William Mainwaring
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
13th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Talboys
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
13th cousin 2 times removed via John Lawrence
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir James Harington
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
13th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
Capt. William Lewis Herndon
Captain of the ill fated S.S. Central America
13th cousin 6 times removed via Sir William Harington
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 7 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 7 times removed via John de Mowbray
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 7 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
14th cousin 2 times removed via William Mainwaring
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William Bonville
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
Ellen (Herndon) Arthur
Wife of President Chester A. Arthur
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir William Harington
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir William de Ros
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Philip le Despencer of Goxhill, Lincolnshire
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
14th cousin 6 times removed via John de Mowbray
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Daniel Carroll
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
John Carroll
Founder of Georgetown University
14th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
14th cousin 7 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
15th cousin via Sir Robert Talboys
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
15th cousin 1 time removed via William Mainwaring
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 1 time removed via William Mainwaring
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Corbet
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
15th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
15th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
15th cousin 5 times removed via John de Mowbray
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
15th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Charles Goldsborough
16th Governor of Maryland
15th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
16th cousin via Sir Robert Constable
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Movie Actress
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
16th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert Constable
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
16th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
16th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
16th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
16th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
16th cousin 4 times removed via John de Mowbray
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
16th cousin 5 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir William de Boteler
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
16th cousin 5 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Meghan Markle
Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Roger Wentworth
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
17th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Nicholas Harington
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
17th cousin 4 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold de Grey
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Reynold Grey
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
18th cousin 2 times removed via John de Mowbray
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
18th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Stafford
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
18th cousin 2 times removed via John de Mowbray
Adlai Stevenson II
31st Governor of Illinois
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Nicholas Harington
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William de Ros
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
18th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Lewis Carroll
Author of Alice in Wonderland
18th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Guillermo Billinghurst
31st President of Peru
18th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
19th cousin 1 time removed via John de Mowbray
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
19th cousin 1 time removed via John de Mowbray
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
19th cousin 1 time removed via John de Mowbray
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
19th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Stafford
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
20th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William de Boteler
Susana Ferrari Billinghurst
Argentine Aviation Pioneer
20th cousin 1 time removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
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