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Any famoux folks in your lineage?

On my mother's side are the Bissells, they of the vacuum-cleaner fame. None of their dough ever made it this way, though.

Supposedly, somewhere, Daniel Boone factors into the Adams lore.

And my great-great-grandfather was a decorated general for the Confederate Army, killed in action at Franklin, TN in November 1864.

And you?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A distant relation on my mother's side was Stanley Baker, the actor who starred in 'Zulu'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nigel Havers is my godfather, if they count.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm my own grandpa.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My great-great-uncle is (well, was) Avram Harkavi, famous Yiddish man of letters whose Hebrew/English/Yiddish dictionary is still in use! This fact makes me a very popular guy everywhere I go--discos, art openings etc.

but the great thing about it is we found a movie from the '20s documenting his visit to Novogorodnik, the town that much of my family springs from.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I had sex with a Rockefeller

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm related to Matt Groening.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

as previously documented.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Supposedly I'm related to the Clooneys, but I'm not sure if I buy it. A lot of my mom's family is from the same town in Kentucky, though.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My aunt (through marriage--she married my dad's brother) was the toast of Broadway a while back.
And on the other side of my family, if you go back far enough, you'll find Herbert Hoover.
And back to the paternal side, my Irish Catholic roots extend back to Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland who didn't look like such a hotshot in that Braveheart movie. I don't know how the Irish Catholic thing works, except that of course, you have a few very small islands in that part of the world.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee is winning, so far.

Lee, how often do you see Matt, if ever? How feelthy rich is he?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm full Chinese, so that should explain how often.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ernest rutherford ( split the atom ) was my great uncle.

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm...my sister's ex-husband was on a soap opera and spokesperson for Hardee's for a while. He was also in the tv movie "The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite!" (which was....as I'm sure we all know.... the sequel to the tv movie, "The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything!").

My wife was "blurbed" (quoted) on the initial runs of the novel "Brigitte Jone's Diary".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be related to Bob Costas thru marriage but that's no longer a going relationship. My dad is under the impression we're related to every single settler who founded a US town named "Kearney", but I think he might be delusional. Especially since he's also convinced he's somehow related to several Viking kings, despite not actually being, um, nordic.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Cave is my second (or third?) cousin. I haven't met him, but I have met his grandmother.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Keith Richards is my second cousin. I have met him, he didn't make a great deal of sense.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't everyone in the UK second cousins though?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

By UK do you mean University of Kentucky?

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course I do, Brooooce.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Second cousins share a pair of great grandparents. So Horace, no. THERE ARE 50 MILLION OF US.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I am related to cricketer (retired) John Emburey by marriage and very distantly.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just horsing around on the popular notion in the USA that just because the Royal Family is inbred all of its subjects are too. That would be like thinking all Americans are dumb puppets of their daddy's friends.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My cousin wrote and directed "Pump up the Volume." That, and I'm related in some crazy way to this horrible Quebecois comic Peter MacLeod. Hence, many folks in Quebec are quite upset that my French (or perhaps my ability to tell jokes about priests) aint that fantastique.

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

my great aunt and uncle are buried next to william faulkner.
(just to the right in this photo:)

http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/livemiss/graphics/oxford/oxf4.jpg

obviously they are not as famous as he (they merely taught at ole miss with him) but she was the first female professor at ole miss.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Allan Moyle is your cousin cybele?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesse James was a cousin of some sort. Oddly, I don't look wholly unlike him.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm related to someone who was involved with a fairly high-profile kidnapping case.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody Beth is the Lindbergh baby.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yup...my Dad used to call him "bozo" and it caught on. I think in some early film he was in he actually called himself Allan "Bozo" Moyle.

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

well next time you see him say thanks for me for the movie; it's a sentimental favorite and probably a pretty large part of my being a DJ myself. I guess this kinda makes me the most famous person in my family.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

my great great grandad married Kate Shepard (suffragist)

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

No famous relations, but our family lived near the Rodriguez family (you know, Robert Rodriguez of Spy Kids and El Mariachi fame), and his youngest sister Elizabeth babysat me a few times. His youngest brother David was known the neighborhood over as "the cutest boy" and many a young girl would swoon over him.

I have no idea where any of them are right now. Hmph.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 13 June 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Suddenly, memories of watching VH1's "Crossroads" come flooding back to my mind. Namely, the memory of seeing the eventual overplaying of Del Amitri's "Roll With Me" video, which is pleasant and disturbing at the same time.

Hey Momus, I Googled you and am ashamed I didn't discover you earlier! I *big heart* proper pop music (vs. assembly-line pop, that is), and you seem to be the right sort of musical artist to be into. Ok if I see out some MP3s of your music so I can get a sampling of your music?

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Good God. "Seek into", not "see into".

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, that is, "seek out", not "seek into".

Nevermind.

*crawls back into hole*

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I just found out about this guy tonight, he's my great uncle, he's hardly famous but he does have a Wiki page: Bobby Nutley.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2016 00:00 (eight years ago)

I would have thought that in my widespread multinational family someone might have at some point achieved something of note, but not as far as I am aware of. I was told as a child I was descended from Black Bart Roberts, but I think that is a family legend that I have never looked into cos cmon, no way that is true. It was more of use to me as a pick up line, not cos it ever actually worked, just cos I was on the lookout for anyone whos pirate fetish matched mine.
My Grandpa was in the papers for a while as John Stonehouse's right-hand man, he was cleared in a court of law of any wrongdoing but it fucked his career forever, to the extent that all I remember of him was a bitter old man in a chair, pretty far from a celebrity.
I was the last baby born in Stonehaven, might have made me famous in the event of some Children Of Men type scenario, but alas, no dystopian society quite yet, I shall die in obscurity...

― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 5 December 2016 01:18 (eight years ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Babcock

― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 December 2016 03:05 (eight years ago)

LOL, the reason I found about Bobby Nutley is because my sister is trying to find relatives of ours who were born in Ireland - Brexit!

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2016 09:32 (eight years ago)

... and coming over during the Famine is too long ago, so no Irish passport for me.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 5 December 2016 09:34 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

My sister's bestie is a cousin of the late Hugh Hefner and let me tell you one test of whether to keep or dump a friend is whether people make a big deal out of stuff like this.

I mean they know each other but it's not like their families hung out growing up, fame being the way it is.

I've had a few relatives who were or are famous, it's really lame that people don't realize this is common in or around a big city.

If I look up "Hefner" in the local phone book, there are about twelve of them, it's a big German family with a lot of branches.

Starstruck people, I just can't handle 'em.

― Loud Tsu (I M Losted), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:32 (three years ago)

Andre Agassi. Not too distantly, but we've never met. I think my grandmother and great uncles knew his dad.

In middle school or high school, i got quite a lot of "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Pete Sampras?", his rival, at the height of their rivalry. Which led to a lot of "funny you should say that..." kind of responses. I think I disliked the idea that I looked like a jock at that time.

It hasn't really come up since.

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:56 (three years ago)

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