Famous Relatives

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Do you have any relatives or ancestors that were famous?

I'm closely related to the outlaw of the west Jesse James

[Fragony]

New: Gretta Duisenberg, you probably don't know her but she is quite well known here .

Old: Charlemaine, no joke

[scooter_the_shooter]

Ex president Andrew Jackson!

[Kralizec]

New: Gretta Duisenberg, you probably don't know her but she is quite well known here .

You're kidding right?

[Fragony]

You're kidding right?

Afraid not, thrust me, she is even worse in real life She actually was my mums nanny as well.

[Lemur]

Three that I'm aware of.

Alice Baber

Asa Baber

Mary Todd

Fame is a relative concept, however.

[Duke Malcolm]

my grandmother would have been Countess of Donegal, which goes back yon to the High Kings of Ireland, until she found out she had an uncle, according to my mother...

[Geoffrey S]

New: Gretta Duisenberg, you probably don't know her but she is quite well known here.

Brilliant!

[Zalmoxis]

My cousin is a pretty well known news anchor on the TVR channel in Romania.

[Bar Kochba]

eh i have a great great grand father who was called the Bal Shem Tov hes very famous among jews

[Rodion Romanovich]

Here's another question: anyone got INFAMOUS relatives?

[Kääpäkorven Konsuli]

Kalevi Oikarainen, world champion skier.
And of course me, Home Run champion.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Tobias Thurley-Had a book written about him, Google it. I'm in direct descent from him.

Artur Mueller-Bundesliga prospect (cousin), I can't actually remember if he's been taken by a team yet. I don't think he has.



And there is a small chance I am distantly related to the House of Hohenzollern. But then, all the nobility of the world is, no?

[BDC]

Loads of minor (now forgotten) celebs from the 19th century.

I bet most the people in this forum are related to a lot of famous people from long enough ago. Probably everyone from Europe is a direct descendant from Charlemagne many times over...

[Avicenna]

I'm proud to say on my parents' behalf that they worked their way to success even though starting off with a poor background with relatively few oppurtunities. Of course, this means that their parents worked to survive, and didn't have time to go on about trying to find out who they're descended from. So, as far as I know, I'm not related to anyone famous.

[Somebody Else]

I know my children are going to have a famous father...

[Tribesman]

Loads of them on the wifes side of the family , physician to the sultan , only Physician at major British defeats , senior physician at major British victories , designer of railways throughout the British Empire , innovator of Narrow gauge Railways , Founders of the methodist church in Wales, bridge builders of the Csar , lifeboats (manx) , queens choristors , composers , conductors ,opera singers , Famous(decorated) British generals , famous (decorated )British/Indian colonels , famous civil servants and not so famous intelligence operatives.
Oympiads ,gold ,silver ,bronze medals, plus world ,olympic ,national and commonwealth titles.
Blimey it can go on and on ...

My side of the family........apart from the yanks and the scholars (hello Norway) best keep quiet , unless you want to talk infamous

[Beirut]

Ulysses S. Grant.

[Redleg]

Kit Carson - a brother to one of my distant relatives.

There are a few others - but he is the only one of major note.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Not much - someone on my grandmother's side (maybe an aunt?) worked for Dick Cheney. I think.

[Justiciar]

I know I'm of some relation to William Booth. My mother claims that her maiden name, Samnell, is somehow linked to Lambert Simnel. Not much of a claim, but if it were true I can only be glad that whole thing in his childhood ended as it did.. otherwise I might not exist!

[LeftEyeNine]

Kit Carson - a brother to one of my distant relatives.

There are a few others - but he is the only one of major note.

Well, I know one Kit Carson that is an excellent football scout.

[Samurai Waki]

I'm ashamed to say that my 7th Cousin is Pat Buchanan. Uggggggghhhhhhhhhh that fills me with so much dread saying that.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Oh yeah, someone else I got. James Denton is a cousin of mine. He plays Mike Delfino on "Desperate Housewives".

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219835/

sweet!

[Strike For The South]

John Proctor

[Divinus Arma]

Red Ryder

[Reverend Joe]

My paternal grandfather, Willard Kelly, was the deputy head of the Immigration and Naturalization service, having started in the Border Patrol. He quite literally wrote the manual for the Border Patrol, as well as making many important changes to the Border Patrol; for example, pushing a program to teach basic foreign language communication to Border Patrol officers. He also briefly locked horns with Jay Edgar Hoover, after Willard kept telling everyone about how the FBI would "announce the arrest and deportation" of someone that the INS had arrested and deported (failing to mention, of course, who had done the arresting and deporting.)

[Avicenna]

I have a classmate called Pat Buchanan He's known as 'Paddy' though.

[Red Peasant]

Wow, some people actually know who their Seventh cousins are!! I don't know some of my first cousins.

Me, Peasant by name, Peasant by nature.

The American footballer, Bobby Convey, is a very distant relative. So congrats to him on achieving promotion to the Premier League with Reading FC.

[Redleg]

Well, I know one Kit Carson that is an excellent football scout.

Wrong one I am afraid. It would be the infamous indian scout...or famous depending upon your view point of the movement west.