Famous Kin of
Gene Roddenberry
Creator of Star Trek
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William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
3rd cousin 6 times removed via Peter Tallman
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 7 times removed via Henry Sherman
Henry Crapo
14th Governor of Michigan
5th cousin 3 times removed via William Chase Jr.
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
6th cousin 2 times removed via Robert Wheaton
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
6th cousin 3 times removed via Richard Bowen
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
6th cousin 6 times removed via Henry Sherman
William Durant
Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire
7th cousin 1 time removed via William Chase Jr.
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
7th cousin 2 times removed via John Tripp
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
8th cousin via William Chase Jr.
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
8th cousin 1 time removed via Peter Tallman
Robert H. Goddard
Inventor of First Liquid-propelled Rocket
8th cousin 1 time removed via Isaac Stearns
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army - U.S. Civil War
8th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Sherman
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
9th cousin 1 time removed via Philip Sherman
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
9th cousin 1 time removed via Philip Sherman
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
9th cousin 3 times removed via John Lawrence
Charles Edward Merrill
Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company
11th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Sherman
Gene Roddenberry photo by NASA on the Commons (Public Domain)