Famous Kin of
Alan Turing
WWII German Enigma Codebreaker
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Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 13 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
5th cousin 14 times removed via Edmund Mortimer
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
6th cousin 12 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
8th cousin 7 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
8th cousin 9 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
9th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
9th cousin 6 times removed via James II, King of Scotland
John Langdon
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
9th cousin 6 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
9th cousin 7 times removed via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
9th cousin 11 times removed via Edward I, King of England
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
10th cousin 2 times removed via James V, King of Scotland
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
10th cousin 4 times removed via Henry VII, King of England
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
10th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
10th cousin 5 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
10th cousin 7 times removed via Ralph de Neville
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
11th cousin 4 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
11th cousin 4 times removed via James II, King of Scotland
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
11th cousin 4 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
George Washington
1st U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
James Madison
4th U.S. President
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Beauchamp
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
11th cousin 6 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
11th cousin 8 times removed via Edmund Mortimer
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
12th cousin via James V, King of Scotland
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
12th cousin 1 time removed via Robert Keith
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
12th cousin 3 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
12th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
12th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
John Brown
American Abolitionist
12th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
12th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
12th cousin 3 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Meriwether Lewis
Lewis and Clark Expedition
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 5 times removed via Joan Beaufort
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
12th cousin 5 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 6 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
12th cousin 7 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
12th cousin 8 times removed via Isabella de Beauchamp
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
13th cousin via James IV, King of Scotland
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
13th cousin 1 time removed via James Douglas
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
13th cousin 1 time removed via James IV, King of Scotland
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
13th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
13th cousin 2 times removed via Joan Beaufort
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
13th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
13th cousin 2 times removed via Joan Beaufort
Hugh Grant
Movie Actor
13th cousin 2 times removed via James IV, King of Scotland
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
13th cousin 4 times removed via John of Gaunt
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
13th cousin 4 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
14th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Woodville
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Woodville
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via John of Gaunt
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Beauchamp
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 6 times removed via Edward I, King of England
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
15th cousin via Thomas Erskine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
15th cousin 1 time removed via James II, King of Scotland
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
15th cousin 1 time removed via John Beaufort
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Christopher Reeve
Movie Actor
15th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Keri Russell
TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 1 time removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
15th cousin 1 time removed via Edward IV, King of England
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Beauchamp
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
15th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
15th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
15th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Beauchamp
Kate Upton
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model
15th cousin 2 times removed via Elizabeth Woodville
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
15th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
15th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
15th cousin 4 times removed via Henry Plantagenet
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edward I, King of England
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Alan la Zouche
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
16th cousin via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
16th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
16th cousin 1 time removed via Joan Beaufort
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
16th cousin 1 time removed via John Beaufort
Jeb Bush
43rd Governor of Florida
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert Erskine of the Ilk
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
16th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
16th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
16th cousin 3 times removed via Alice de Audley
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
16th cousin 3 times removed via Alice de Audley
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Edmund Mortimer
Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
17th cousin 1 time removed via John of Gaunt
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
17th cousin 1 time removed via Joan Beaufort
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
17th cousin 1 time removed via Joan Beaufort
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
17th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
17th cousin 1 time removed via Ralph de Neville
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Robert de Holland
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
17th cousin 2 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Paris Hilton
Socialite and TV Personality
17th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
17th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Sally Ride
1st American Woman in Space
17th cousin 3 times removed via John of Gaunt
Carly Fiorina
CEO of Hewlett-Packard
17th cousin 3 times removed via Ralph de Neville
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Ellen Louise (Axon) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
18th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
18th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
18th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
18th cousin 1 time removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
18th cousin 1 time removed via Eleanor Plantagenet
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Lou (Henry) Hoover
First Lady of President Herbert Hoover
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
18th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund Mortimer
Jack London
Author of “The Call of the Wild”
18th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
18th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
18th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
18th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
18th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Hugh I de Audley
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
18th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Lucille Ball
TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”
19th cousin 1 time removed via Alice de Audley
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
19th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
19th cousin 1 time removed via Henry Plantagenet
Christian Herter
59th Governor of Massachusetts
19th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Robert de Holland
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
20th cousin via Isabella de Beauchamp
Jesse James
Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer
20th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England
Vachel Lindsay
American Poet
20th cousin 1 time removed via Edward I, King of England