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Someone Online Asked, “Who Is The Most Famous Person In Your Family?”, And 30 Delivered

It’s always exciting to see someone famous in a place where you didn’t expect them to be. But what if that well-known person is related to you? Reddit user @LoveSimpleHacks decided to ask people online who is the most famous person in their family. The question that received more than 11k upvotes was answered by folks who not only revealed the names of their celebrity relatives but also shared some additional information about them.

The list not only includes some well-known names of artists and performers but also scientists and politicians. Some people also shared interesting examples of their relatives who are known for their sports and creative achievements.

Which one of these do you find most interesting? Do you have someone famous in your family that could be added to the list? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!

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Someone Online Asked, “Who Is The Most Famous Person In Your Family?”, And 30 Delivered My great great grandfather is Samuel Morse. The man who invented Morse code. And go figure, I work as a fiber optic technician. Communications runs in the family.

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Norma 2 years ago

This is so cool!!

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Someone Online Asked, “Who Is The Most Famous Person In Your Family?”, And 30 Delivered That's me, I high fived with Danny DeVito after punching the "Terminator". BUT, I asked permission for it, wasn't like some random violence. And it was like this fake punch anyways... but yeah. ME! Look at me!

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Someone Online Asked, “Who Is The Most Famous Person In Your Family?”, And 30 Delivered My dad because hes pretty much like the guy everybody calls when they need money in his hometown. It sucks a lot but he's generous

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Charlie Taube 2 years ago

The best kind of famous

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Natasha 2 years ago

I found out not too long ago my on maternal grandfathers side I’m distantly related to Edgar Allan Poe.

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Justalittleblackraincloud 2 years ago

That's crazy! I am related to him through my maternal great grandmother. If you looked at a side by side of the two of them you would think they were twins.

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

My maternal great grandmother was an author in Marathi (it's one of the languages in India). When she started writing, women had just begun to write or even come up as someone in society. Indian society when she was born (around 1892 or something) was quite orthodox and women's education or even rights had just started getting prominence. As a kid, she was based in Baroda and the king was one of the first rulers to bring in compulsory education for girls. It was big time. She got the benefit. She got some education to begin her career as a writer... be independent. She & my maternal great grandpa met through writing.. he was the editor of the magazine she wrote for. They fell in love and married... quite progressive during those times. She became a renowned names in Marathi literature. Till the end, she kept on writing and being independent. She is my idol. I am a journalist.. i guess she passed her talent to me

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Tracy Sellars 2 years ago

Definitely someone to be proud of.

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Priya 2 years ago

Same here I understand from my mom, her mother was allowed to study during british era in varanasi ( my mom is North indian from allahabad and so no typical education then to girls in her family) she did study till 11 th grade. Than was 10th. In English medium. Rest I am not sure of details she passed away

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Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago

WOW! You should write her biography! I would buy a copy!!! She sounds like a revolutionary woman :)

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BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago

I'm like third cousins through marriage with Elvis Presley. I thought my mom was just telling tales but there are actual books on my family in the local library and has the link in it. My sister had a friend as a teen that is second cousins with the Jackson five. He said he had never met them, unfortunately.

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H Edwards 2 years ago

I have two second cousins who are both quite famous in their home country of Sweden. One is an actor on a Swedish Netflix show, and the other is a music video director who is married to a very high-profile Swedish popstar.

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13 2 years ago

.... Abba.... dat u?

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Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

I don't think most of these people understood the assignment. LOL!!

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D K 2 years ago (edited)

Not at all related but when I was 10 I wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton about saving the whales. And I received a nice letter back from the White House, signed by the President… but opened by my dad before I got to it. I haven’t seen it since. I think my dad kept it. :(

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Kyndal T 2 years ago

Distantly (very distantly) related to a female serial killer who was a countess. She's pretty infamous. Also an aunt that was murdered in a super gruesome way and left in a giant dumpster behind a bar. They never caught the guy but everyone knows who did it. It was right before I was born though so I never knew her. And my great grandfather has a pic in several museums. WW2. He was holding a giant gun from a tank or something. Looked super cool too. He never came back, leaving a wife and 11 kids behind. More infamous family than famous. Oh and an ancestor who helped hide Queen Mary (the bloody one) when she was on the run. So this family has almost always sucked.

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

Bathory is it?? Elizabeth Bathory?

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Sonja Ayala 2 years ago

John Marion Morrison, aka, John Wayne.

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Jess Ornstein 2 years ago

I'm related to Jacqueline Bouvier!

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Troux 2 years ago

My great (x6) grandmother was Barbara Yoder, widowed matron of the first Amish family in America, who arrived from Rotterdam on Sept. 21, 1742. The best connection I've ever heard was my friend whose great-great grandfather was Gurmukh Singh, one of the 21 Sikhs who fought and died at the Battle of Saragarhi, which I recommend you all read about! These 21 - alone - took on 10,000 Afghan forces, knowing they would die.

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bxttery_bxby 2 years ago

Amelia Earhart is my great great aunt

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Felix Feline 2 years ago

My great-great grandfather was Hermann von Wedel-Jarlsberg. Scandinavians will know who that is.

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

Fun. I just want names!

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Dutch artist Adolf le Comte is my great grandfather. My grandfather was the first orthodontist in the Netherlands. My maternal great grandfather, P.A. Daum was a well known Dutch author and founder of Batavian Newspaper and pissed off a lot of white Dutch people LOL.

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MysteriousLegBruise 2 years ago

One of my nieces is cousin to Danny Trejo, who is, from what I've heard, one of the NICEST men you'd ever meet

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Katie O'Brien 2 years ago

My aunt was Vicki in the old doctor who

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Bex 2 years ago

My sister was the first baby (and hence is now the oldest living person) to survive being born with a diaphragmatic hernia, which resulted in her being born with only 1 lung, blue, not breathing and with no heartbeat. The surgery she immediately had was pioneered by her Dr and he went on to not just save her life, but to teach others the surgery and as a rest, to help save thousands of babies lives. Her case is still taught through medical journals and textbooks, and that was 50 years ago.

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GoddessOdd 2 years ago

I'm related to President James Monroe, also the Barons of Fowlis, Firth of Crowmarty, County Ross, Scotland. The first Baron was Hugh Munro in 1126

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Kim Fielding 2 years ago

My great grandfather was a member of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's guard. I have no idea if he was on duty in Sarajevo that day!

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Petra, princess of Brigid 2 years ago (edited)

I'm Ulysses S. Grant's great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter. My dad even took a DNA test. We all thought my grandma was kidding.

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GoddessOdd 2 years ago

He is one of my personal heroes. An incredible man.

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Chancey 2 years ago

I am told that I am related to Kaiser Wilhelm. Hope to some day work on my genealogy to find out.

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MaggieWest 2 years ago

My grandma was the last one in her province to get polio...

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Maxximus Prime 2 years ago

My family is literally related to royalty(Not enough to be like actually royalty) my grandma's maiden name was Lancaster and several other dead family members had that name. We did an ancestor check and weirdly enough my very white american family is 30% South Asian/Indian and 50% British. It was a shock for me but my mom and dad knew. I think I may change my last name to Lancaster because I think it's really pretty. Also my dad was on TV once because he is a hedge fund annalist and wall street fancy dude. Also the same grandma was a well known painter in her community. Not a famous family but we are old and have mildly well knownish members.

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Thomas Stead 2 years ago (edited)

Apparently my family was 5th-ish in line to the French throne just before the revolution. I'm also related to Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas William Stead.

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Memere 2 years ago

On my dad's mother's side, we're supposedly distantly related to President Rutherford B. Hayes - her paternal grandfather was his father's brother.

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Lisa T 2 years ago

My first cousin was the bass player/backing vocals in Air Supply for a couple of years in the 70’s

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Jaaawn 2 years ago (edited)

I'm closely related to Jon Landau (film producer- one of his movies is 1997s Titanic.) Even have the same surname.

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Bex 2 years ago

Also, my ex boyfriend is first cousins with Jon and Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block. And FYI, I totally got the best of the three of them lol

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Miss Cellania 2 years ago

My great great great (...) grandfather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bolling married Pocahontas' granddaughter. But my ancestors came from his second wife. I have a third cousin who played major league baseball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Ausmus

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ThePostLaroi 2 years ago

It's not direct descent, he's more like my great greatx10 uncle, but I'm related on my mothers side to a man Named John Rankin who was an abolitionist around the 1850's and some of his writing influenced the author of uncle tom's cabin! Pretty cool I think!

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BusLady 2 years ago

I'm distantly related to Alban Barkley, who served as Vice President under Truman. My mother's grandfather was a cousin to him. I recently bought a biography of his and gave it to mom as a gift. She was excited to get it.

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LW 2 years ago

I have a few: Roy Rogers was a close family friend. That's how my grandfather met and then married actress Linda Hays. Former NFL player Joe Theismann married into that side of the family as well. I'm related to inventor George Westinghouse. Also to Frederick and Louis Upton (founders of the Whirlpool Corp.) Model Kate Upton is a distant cousin and she's married to MLB star Justin Verlander. Congressional Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan is also a distant relation. A distant relative on my maternal grandfather's side was Wyatt Earp's attorney. There's also a decendant of outlaw John Wesley Harden. Also on that side of the family is a man who, with his family, was among the original Anabaptists (Amish/Mennonite) that fled religious persecution in Switzerland and boarded a ship chartered by William Penn and given asylum in Pennsylvania. There's a hill in northern West Virginia named after the family surname in honor of a relative who was killed by a Native American tribe.

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

James Fenimore Cooper (author of Last of the Mohicans, which is his most recognizable work, even though he wrote a lot more books) is supposed to be a distant cousin of mine. Another, more recent distant cousin was Richard Deacon, who played Mel Cooley on the D**k van Dyke Show, had small parts in a load of other TV shows and movies, plus played Horace Vandergelder to Phyllis Driller’s Dolly in Hello Dolly on Broadway. When she watched him play Mel Cooley, my grandmother used to say he had the family nose, called “The Deacon Beacon”. I got the nose from the other side of the family, which is a blessing (Google him and just look at that schnozz!).

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PupperPanda 2 years ago

My second cousin is the Duchess of Cambridge, future Queen of England. I sh*t you not. My mum is her mum's cousin.

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Chancey 2 years ago

"I s**t you not" made me laugh! I could tell from that comment you have royal connections. lol

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Mad Mar 2 years ago

I'm related to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Francis Scott Key. On my mothers side. And indirectly to Lizzy Borden.

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Suzi Q 2 years ago

My Mom's second cousins with Joe DiMaggio. He used to play baseball with the family when he lived in Pittsburg, CA. In those days, Pittsburg was an Italian town with many Italian Immigrants, (my great grandparents immigrated there.)

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Suzi Q 2 years ago

Mom was related to Marilyn Monroe when she was married to DiMaggio.

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bonnyatlast 2 years ago

Dad+ more. Chief Petty Officer on the largest plane the Navy had. Constellation class with 3 tails. NOAA says he was famous for Project Magnet-corrected Longitudes and Latitudes of our world maps back in the 50's-60's. Pre calculators. Skipped 3 grades and was like the NASA ladies when it came to math. NOAA said the measurements were so accurate they are still used today. He also was an artist and Warner Brothers gave him permission to paint Wylie Coyote and the Road Runner on his plane. (Second plane) T Boone Pickens is a cousin of my Grandfather, Francis Pickens-Gov of S. Carolina is a relative. His wife Lucy is on the Confederate Dollar bill. He grandfather Andrew was a Brigadier General in the Rev. War-served on the first House of Reps and co-wrote the first American Indian treaty to protect the Cherokee on his land from scalping. (The Patriot movie was based on him and a couple others) Pickens-we are descendants of the Picts of Scotland. 6 state governors. +more...

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Bella Trainer 2 years ago

My great uncle holds the patent for the burnt orange paint used for cars. No one knows his name but his work is everywhere.

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memyselfandI 2 years ago

I’m apparently the great great something granddaughter of one of the guys who drove the Golden Stake into the Transcontinental Railroad in America, so that’s cool. Also my dad’s side of the family can be traced back to one of the four original families who founded the city we still live in, so that’s cool. There’s a road named after my grandma.

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chappi 1436 2 years ago

I'm a descendant of John Chapman, an American pioneer and arborist in the late 1700's to early 1800's. Most people know of him by his nickname "Johnny Appleseed".

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Melissa Dickson 2 years ago

I have an uncle who spent a night in jail with Bob Segar. The only other thing I can think of was quite a few of the older generations on one side of my family were part of the southern Italian mafia then joined some Detroit ones when they came to America.

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

I'm not sure of I'm being copied or someone out there is one of my cousins who I haven't seen in forever, the one about Avril Lavigne is me. It's almost word for word with the exception that I only met that side of the family once, when I was 16, not 12.

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NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago

My mother's second cousin was Robert E. Lee. Not that I really want the world to know we're related to a horrible person. But here we are.

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Potato Puffin 2 years ago

Tommy Morgan (Scottish comedian) is my first cousin 4x removed

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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 2 years ago

Either Jane Withers, Stephen Semel, or Mary Ellen Withers (Who Bruce Willis called Tex) are the ones I know of in my family.

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Jen Uzelac 2 years ago

I'm related to William the conqueror from my mom's side

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Bex 2 years ago

On my Mom's side, one of our ancestors last names was Appleton. The name was given to them by William the Conquerer. Apparently my ancestor betrayed his country to assist William when he invaded, and as a thank you/reward, he was given land covered in apple trees and the new name. :)

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Jods 2 years ago

I’m related by marriage to Annie Ross. Fantastic singer, part of The Logan Family (if you’re Scottish you’ll understand), sister of Jimmy Logan. She was also in one of the Christopher Reeve era of Superman films, amongst other TV and film appearances. You see what can be achieved in a pandemic lockdown! Hello to John, my newly discovered cousin.

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Redheaded1 2 years ago

My great x 5 Grandfather was Chief Blackhawk!

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M O'Connell 2 years ago

I have an uncle who appears in a televised PSA about wearing your seatbelt... because he doesn't wear his seatbelt :|

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CrazyRedHead 2 years ago

I'm related to James Bowie🗡️

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JeannevB 2 years ago

My great uncle William van Berkel produced the famous Berkel slicing machines and balances.

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Rider 2 years ago

I have an ancestor who was on the Mayflower. No idea how my aunt figured that one out, but she's been researching out lineage for 50yrs she's pro at this point.

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Jenna Lanham 2 years ago

MY GRANDFATHER'S NEPHEW IS JOE ANDOE, A FAMOUS ARTIST IN NEW YORK. I'VE MET JOE ONE TIME WHEN I WAS 12, HE SHOWED MY SISTER DIFFERENT STYLES TO DRAW (SHE'S VERY ARTISTIC) HE KEPT HIS DRAWINGS SO WE WOULDN'T TRY AND SELL THEM (NOT THAT WE WOULD), ONE WAS A 3D CANDLE.

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Jenna Lanham 2 years ago

I have one of his originals in my house, my Uncle has about 8, one of them is a 10ft X 10ft canvas painting. He painted my late cousin for him as well, only one exists.

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Nichola howard 2 years ago

My great great uncle or something, I don't know the actual connection of the top of my head, is the founder of American Pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce.

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

I have a cousin who was a major character in Superman II. My great-uncle was instrumental in plastic surgery for repairing men who were blown up in WWII and has some scalpels named after him. I'm listed in IMdB, but under my maiden name, so no one will ever find me! That's it for fame in my family!

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Fred L. 2 years ago

In my family probably one of my great-grandfathers. He was a town mayor when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and was in another party. He didn´t join the Nazi party, refused their calls to resign or retire and eventually was ousted by them in 1935.

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Leodavinci 2 years ago

Have an actor cousin who appeared in some well-known 80s TV shows and was the lead in several low-budget, action/adventure and sword & sorcery films. Also supposedly distantly related to a once well-known Ohio Senator.

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Mazer 2 years ago

On the tree…people in Scotland pissing off other people, notes taken. Priscilla Mullins & John Alden (Mayflower riders), President John Adams and John Q Adams and Abigail, and my g-grandfather, the first guy to install indoor pumpkins in his home in Illinois, gets ridiculed, jokes on them, he pals around with Annie Oakley, General Bradley and Abraham Lincoln (his friend had a unique name the President liked, my ancestor was annoyed he was being ignored), he was saved by a freak rain squall that saved his ass from certain death by natives for being at the pipestone quarry, cousins mom was Secretary to Queen Mary, she played with Elizabeth when they were young, she was allowed to sail to England on the Queen Mary when it was s transport ship during the war, I was in the movie Freebee and the Bean, got paid $80 as an extra when filming at Candlestick Park, I’m running so fast, I’m just a blur. Graham County Kansas named after family

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Alexis Draskinis 2 years ago

Granted, they are a distant relative but we are related to Mario Lanza the opera singer. And on the same side we're related to a current movie director. She is not extremely well known, she directs more indie type films BUT her ex husband (and son's father) is a much better known director in Hollywood.

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Calyfan Yelood 2 years ago

I think my ancestors started the first school in Australia. Also, my first cousin thrice removed (or something like that) was an opener in Don Bradman's 'invincibles' team a while back. The cricket ground in Sydney has a gate named after him

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

How awesome,

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KombatBunni 2 years ago

Great Uncle on my Grandpa’s side invented Pitman shorthand. Not sure if it’s actually true but I never knew my Grandpa to lie so I’ll take it as truth :)

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

A great-great uncle Don was a self-taught musical prodigy, played a ton of instruments. Made his own electric violin in the 1950s, used to jam with Les Paul.

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Seymour Heiney 2 years ago

Found out I’m a cousin 7 times removed of Daniel Boone.

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Lady Goldberry 2 years ago

My dad was an extra in Quadrophenia.

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Priya 2 years ago

Well my dad's cousin, his grand mother was from the manjarekar family. So the famous yester year cricketer and current marathi actor cum director is my uncle and he was also in hand to my parents runaways marriage... Pretty cool for me . I have not let h in years but neen told as being first child in both families, as baby met thm n played with them

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Katelyn Ver Helst 2 years ago

my Great great great great great aunt is Annie Oakley or Little Ms sure shot

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YourWorstNightmare 2 years ago (edited)

My great grandfather who was named Virgil Freeman, was the lead trombonist in D**k Jurgens Band for a while. And I got to wear his bow tie while playing on my trombone at a concert

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YourWorstNightmare 2 years ago

Jesus christ, its just a name

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Seabeast 2 years ago

No famous people in my ancestry that I know of, but no real villains either. We're pretty boring. 🙂

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Beep Boop 2 years ago

Turns out im related to Hitlers right hand man Heinrich Himmler. I guess I see why Im called Nazi by English.

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Beep Boop 2 years ago

So apparently I'm related to Heimlich Himmler. Not surprised due to us moving to America from Germany. Not proud but it's there.

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gridsleep 2 years ago (edited)

My mother's father was cousin to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary. As a poor relation, his family lived on the royal estate until they emigrated to America. The Emperor's son Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, which gave Kaiser Wilhelm all the excuse he needed to start World War I. In America my grandfather was a window washer who cleaned the windows of the Empire State Building.

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Cat Bessing 2 years ago

My cousin Dave Volz is a world-famous athlete specializing in the pole vault. That's impressive, but what he is famous for is his ability to steady the bar as he vaults over it. It *wasn't* against the rules at the time, but now "Volzing the bar" is not permitted.

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Ellen Midgley 2 years ago

I'm (unfortunately) related to the guy who put led in petrol. ....but we don't talk about that part of the family

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gridsleep 2 years ago

No worse than asbestos children's pajamas or spraying DDT on people at a picnic to prove it's harmless.

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Buggycas 2 years ago

On my grandfather's side he claims to be related to Calvin Coolidge, my grandma claims to be related to The Campbell family. Like soup.

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deanna woods 2 years ago

My paternal great grandmother helped Bonnie and Clyde by hiding them from the authorities and going into town to get supplies for them. I know that they are criminals and killed people, but it's still pretty cool.

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Babie J Johnson 2 years ago

My great great great great grand-uncle wrote the book on grammar. He was one of the founding fathers of Duke University.

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Destinee Davis 2 years ago (edited)

My closest is my grandma's uncle (I believe) is Orville Redenbacher the business man most known for the brand of popcorn. We also have some guy who challenged the Catholic church when they were trying to make that the one religion and got burned at the steak. I don't know how he's related but there's a plaque where he died of his and the other man's name. (I don't remember his name right off)

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Amy Stoesser 2 years ago

My great great great uncle was Jack Daniels.

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Alexis in Texas 2 years ago

A distant cousin of mine was the crazy grandmother in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” lol!

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GayFireTruck 2 years ago

I'm related to Mary Queen of Scotts (Bloody Mary), I have an aunt who got away with murder (by torture and starvation) she was never prosecuted even though everyone knew she did it.

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Freddyfrizzbear 2 years ago

My Grandma's aunt saw Dr. Martin Luther King Jr when he gave his "I Have A Dream" speech and she also met Nelson Mandela

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Chloe J 2 years ago

Awhile back before he was famous, Elon Musk asked out my Aunt. Although he was refused, so I could have had a famous family member.

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ADHORTATOR 2 years ago

I come from a long line of steel workers and farm workers, the only "famous" guy is a professional italian football player, he is the son of my fathers cousin :-)

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MS 2 years ago

My ex’s brother wrote the screenplays for “Crimson Tide”, “Peacemaker” (the Clooney movie), “Colors”, “Lean on Me”, and doctored several other scripts uncredited. He apparently suggested the tic-tac-toe ending for “War Games”

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Bryn 2 years ago

Not my family, but I do know the guy who created d'nealian cursive

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ZooMom 2 years ago

There is a really loose interpretation of famous vs. accomplished on these lists. While I am happy for people to celebrate four generations back of a person who was successful but no one knew even in their own time...seems a stretch. The very definition of famous is "known by many". An accomplishment in ones field may be applauded... if they aren't a recognized person then it's irrelevant

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Phyllis Gerstenfeld 2 years ago

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ChickenNugget 2 years ago

if you go back really far im related to some french royalty

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KiwiBubbles 2 years ago

My great grandmother's brother (so... my great-great-uncle?) founded the African Heritage House and did all sorts of work preserving African art/culture and things. He also won several awards for that work. I may have met him once as a baby, but I don't remember him. He passed away recently 😔 but I think his legacy might live on forever.

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Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago

My grandfather welded the fan which saved the fog game during the 1975 Stanley Cup. My brother has designed a number of large projects in NYC. I am a nobody, just the way i like.

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Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago

An unclearly linked distant cousin of mine was Chick Corea.

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Natasha 2 years ago

I found out not too long ago my on maternal grandfathers side I’m distantly related to Edgar Allan Poe.

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Justalittleblackraincloud 2 years ago

That's crazy! I am related to him through my maternal great grandmother. If you looked at a side by side of the two of them you would think they were twins.

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

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Tracy Sellars 2 years ago

Definitely someone to be proud of.

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Priya 2 years ago

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Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago

WOW! You should write her biography! I would buy a copy!!! She sounds like a revolutionary woman :)

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BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago

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H Edwards 2 years ago

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13 2 years ago

.... Abba.... dat u?

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Kristin Ingersoll 2 years ago

I don't think most of these people understood the assignment. LOL!!

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D K 2 years ago (edited)

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Kyndal T 2 years ago

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

Bathory is it?? Elizabeth Bathory?

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Sonja Ayala 2 years ago

John Marion Morrison, aka, John Wayne.

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Jess Ornstein 2 years ago

I'm related to Jacqueline Bouvier!

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Troux 2 years ago

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bxttery_bxby 2 years ago

Amelia Earhart is my great great aunt

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Felix Feline 2 years ago

My great-great grandfather was Hermann von Wedel-Jarlsberg. Scandinavians will know who that is.

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

Fun. I just want names!

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

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MysteriousLegBruise 2 years ago

One of my nieces is cousin to Danny Trejo, who is, from what I've heard, one of the NICEST men you'd ever meet

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Katie O'Brien 2 years ago

My aunt was Vicki in the old doctor who

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Bex 2 years ago

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GoddessOdd 2 years ago

I'm related to President James Monroe, also the Barons of Fowlis, Firth of Crowmarty, County Ross, Scotland. The first Baron was Hugh Munro in 1126

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Kim Fielding 2 years ago

My great grandfather was a member of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's guard. I have no idea if he was on duty in Sarajevo that day!

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Petra, princess of Brigid 2 years ago (edited)

I'm Ulysses S. Grant's great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter. My dad even took a DNA test. We all thought my grandma was kidding.

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GoddessOdd 2 years ago

He is one of my personal heroes. An incredible man.

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Chancey 2 years ago

I am told that I am related to Kaiser Wilhelm. Hope to some day work on my genealogy to find out.

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MaggieWest 2 years ago

My grandma was the last one in her province to get polio...

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Maxximus Prime 2 years ago

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Thomas Stead 2 years ago (edited)

Apparently my family was 5th-ish in line to the French throne just before the revolution. I'm also related to Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas William Stead.

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Memere 2 years ago

On my dad's mother's side, we're supposedly distantly related to President Rutherford B. Hayes - her paternal grandfather was his father's brother.

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Lisa T 2 years ago

My first cousin was the bass player/backing vocals in Air Supply for a couple of years in the 70’s

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Jaaawn 2 years ago (edited)

I'm closely related to Jon Landau (film producer- one of his movies is 1997s Titanic.) Even have the same surname.

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Bex 2 years ago

Also, my ex boyfriend is first cousins with Jon and Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block. And FYI, I totally got the best of the three of them lol

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Miss Cellania 2 years ago

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ThePostLaroi 2 years ago

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BusLady 2 years ago

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LW 2 years ago

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

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PupperPanda 2 years ago

My second cousin is the Duchess of Cambridge, future Queen of England. I sh*t you not. My mum is her mum's cousin.

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Chancey 2 years ago

"I s**t you not" made me laugh! I could tell from that comment you have royal connections. lol

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Mad Mar 2 years ago

I'm related to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Francis Scott Key. On my mothers side. And indirectly to Lizzy Borden.

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Suzi Q 2 years ago

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Suzi Q 2 years ago

Mom was related to Marilyn Monroe when she was married to DiMaggio.

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bonnyatlast 2 years ago

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Bella Trainer 2 years ago

My great uncle holds the patent for the burnt orange paint used for cars. No one knows his name but his work is everywhere.

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memyselfandI 2 years ago

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chappi 1436 2 years ago

I'm a descendant of John Chapman, an American pioneer and arborist in the late 1700's to early 1800's. Most people know of him by his nickname "Johnny Appleseed".

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Melissa Dickson 2 years ago

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

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NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago

My mother's second cousin was Robert E. Lee. Not that I really want the world to know we're related to a horrible person. But here we are.

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Potato Puffin 2 years ago

Tommy Morgan (Scottish comedian) is my first cousin 4x removed

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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 2 years ago

Either Jane Withers, Stephen Semel, or Mary Ellen Withers (Who Bruce Willis called Tex) are the ones I know of in my family.

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Jen Uzelac 2 years ago

I'm related to William the conqueror from my mom's side

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Bex 2 years ago

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Jods 2 years ago

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Redheaded1 2 years ago

My great x 5 Grandfather was Chief Blackhawk!

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M O'Connell 2 years ago

I have an uncle who appears in a televised PSA about wearing your seatbelt... because he doesn't wear his seatbelt :|

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CrazyRedHead 2 years ago

I'm related to James Bowie🗡️

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JeannevB 2 years ago

My great uncle William van Berkel produced the famous Berkel slicing machines and balances.

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Rider 2 years ago

I have an ancestor who was on the Mayflower. No idea how my aunt figured that one out, but she's been researching out lineage for 50yrs she's pro at this point.

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Jenna Lanham 2 years ago

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Jenna Lanham 2 years ago

I have one of his originals in my house, my Uncle has about 8, one of them is a 10ft X 10ft canvas painting. He painted my late cousin for him as well, only one exists.

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Nichola howard 2 years ago

My great great uncle or something, I don't know the actual connection of the top of my head, is the founder of American Pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce.

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

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Fred L. 2 years ago

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Leodavinci 2 years ago

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Mazer 2 years ago

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Alexis Draskinis 2 years ago

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Calyfan Yelood 2 years ago

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

How awesome,

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KombatBunni 2 years ago

Great Uncle on my Grandpa’s side invented Pitman shorthand. Not sure if it’s actually true but I never knew my Grandpa to lie so I’ll take it as truth :)

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

A great-great uncle Don was a self-taught musical prodigy, played a ton of instruments. Made his own electric violin in the 1950s, used to jam with Les Paul.

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Seymour Heiney 2 years ago

Found out I’m a cousin 7 times removed of Daniel Boone.

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Lady Goldberry 2 years ago

My dad was an extra in Quadrophenia.

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Priya 2 years ago

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Katelyn Ver Helst 2 years ago

my Great great great great great aunt is Annie Oakley or Little Ms sure shot

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YourWorstNightmare 2 years ago (edited)

My great grandfather who was named Virgil Freeman, was the lead trombonist in D**k Jurgens Band for a while. And I got to wear his bow tie while playing on my trombone at a concert

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YourWorstNightmare 2 years ago

Jesus christ, its just a name

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Seabeast 2 years ago

No famous people in my ancestry that I know of, but no real villains either. We're pretty boring. 🙂

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Beep Boop 2 years ago

Turns out im related to Hitlers right hand man Heinrich Himmler. I guess I see why Im called Nazi by English.

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Beep Boop 2 years ago

So apparently I'm related to Heimlich Himmler. Not surprised due to us moving to America from Germany. Not proud but it's there.

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gridsleep 2 years ago (edited)

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Cat Bessing 2 years ago

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美美 2 years ago

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Ellen Midgley 2 years ago

I'm (unfortunately) related to the guy who put led in petrol. ....but we don't talk about that part of the family

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gridsleep 2 years ago

No worse than asbestos children's pajamas or spraying DDT on people at a picnic to prove it's harmless.

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Buggycas 2 years ago

On my grandfather's side he claims to be related to Calvin Coolidge, my grandma claims to be related to The Campbell family. Like soup.

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deanna woods 2 years ago

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Babie J Johnson 2 years ago

My great great great great grand-uncle wrote the book on grammar. He was one of the founding fathers of Duke University.

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Destinee Davis 2 years ago (edited)

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Amy Stoesser 2 years ago

My great great great uncle was Jack Daniels.

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Alexis in Texas 2 years ago

A distant cousin of mine was the crazy grandmother in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” lol!

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GayFireTruck 2 years ago

I'm related to Mary Queen of Scotts (Bloody Mary), I have an aunt who got away with murder (by torture and starvation) she was never prosecuted even though everyone knew she did it.

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Freddyfrizzbear 2 years ago

My Grandma's aunt saw Dr. Martin Luther King Jr when he gave his "I Have A Dream" speech and she also met Nelson Mandela

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Chloe J 2 years ago

Awhile back before he was famous, Elon Musk asked out my Aunt. Although he was refused, so I could have had a famous family member.

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ADHORTATOR 2 years ago

I come from a long line of steel workers and farm workers, the only "famous" guy is a professional italian football player, he is the son of my fathers cousin :-)

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MS 2 years ago

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Bryn 2 years ago

Not my family, but I do know the guy who created d'nealian cursive

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ZooMom 2 years ago

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Phyllis Gerstenfeld 2 years ago

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ChickenNugget 2 years ago

if you go back really far im related to some french royalty

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KiwiBubbles 2 years ago

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Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago

My grandfather welded the fan which saved the fog game during the 1975 Stanley Cup. My brother has designed a number of large projects in NYC. I am a nobody, just the way i like.

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Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago

An unclearly linked distant cousin of mine was Chick Corea.

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