Category One: Blood Relations
Olivia de Havilland (American actress) is the sister of Joan Fontaine (American actress) FBR/full
Shirley MacLaine (American actress) is the sister of Warren Beatty (American actor and film director) FBR/full
Charlie Sheen (American actor) is the brother of Emilio Estevez (American actor) FBR/full
James Arness (American actor) is the brother of Peter Graves (American actor) FBR/full
Steve Forrest (American actor) is the brother of the late Dana Andrews
(American actor) FBR/full
Talia Shire (American actress) is the sister of Francis Ford Coppola (American film director) FBR/full
June Havoc (American actress) is the sister of the late Gypsy Rose Lee (American burlesque queen) FBR/full
Howard Nemerov (former American poet laureate) is the brother of the late Dianne Arbus (American photographer) FBR/full
Ann Landers (American advice columnist) is the sister of Abigail Van Buren (American advice columnist) FBR/full
George Sanders (British-American actor) was the brother of Tom Conway (British-American actor) FBR/full
Peter Marshall (American actor and TV game show host) is the brother of the late Joanne Dru (American actress) FBR/full
Larry Hagman (American actor) is the son of the late Mary Martin (American actress and singer) FBR/half
Melanie Griffith (American actress) is the daughter of Tippi Hedren (American actress) FBR/half
Gwyneth Paltrow (American actress) is the daughter of Blythe Danner (American actress) FBR/half
Carrie Fisher (American actress and screenwriter) is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds (American actress) FBR/half
Angelina Jolie (American actress) is the daughter of Jon Voight (American actor) FBR/half
Kate Hudson (American actress) is the daughter of Goldie Hawn (American actress) FBR/half
Mark Harmon (American actor) is the son of Elyse Knox (American actress) FBR/half
Dinah Manoff (American actress) is the daughter of Lee Grant (American actress) FBR/half
Isabella Rossellini (Italian-born actress) is the daughter of the late Ingrid Bergman (Swedish-American actress) FBR/half
Jennifer Ehle (British actress) is the daughter of Rosemary Harris (British actress) FBR/half
Natasha Richardson (British actress) is the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave (British actress) FBR/half
Anne Archer (American actress) is the daughter of Marjorie Lord (American actress) FBR/half
Jennifer Jason Leigh (American actress) is the daughter of the late Vic Morrow (American actor) FBR/half
Dina Merrill (American actress) is the daughter of the late E.F. Hutton (leading American stockbroker) FBR/half
Mia Farrow (American actress) is the daughter of the late Maureen O'Sullivan (American actress) FBR/half
Cokie Roberts (American TV personality) is the daughter of the late Hale Boggs (U.S. congressman and House leader) FBR/half
Ann Taylor Fleming (American TV essayist) is the daughter of the late Don Taylor (American actor and film director) FBR/half
Jerry Lee Lewis (American performer) is the first cousin of Jimmy Swaggart (American TV evangelist) FBR/half
Sissy Spacek (American actress) is the first cousin of Rip Torn (American actor) FBR/half
Leslie Nielsen (American actor) is the nephew of the late Jean Hersholt (American actor) FBR/half
Nicolas Cage (American actor) is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola (American film director) FBR/half
Bruce Dern (American actor) is the nephew of the late Archibald MacLeish (American poet and playwright) FBR/half
Arthur Levitt, Jr. (former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman) is the nephew of the late Ethel Merman (American actress and singer) FBR/half
John Foster Dulles (U.S. secretary of state under Eisenhower) was the nephew of Robert Lansing (secretary of state under Wilson) FBR/half
Marcel Duchamp (French Dada painter) was the half brother of Jacques Villon (French painter) FBR/half
Hernando Cortez (Spanish conqueror of Mexico) was the first cousin of Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conqueror of Peru) FBR/half
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (U.S. treasury secretary under Franklin Roosevelt) was the nephew of Herbert Lehman (New York governor and political leader) FBR/half
Lawrence Summers (U.S. treasury secretary under Bill Clinton) is the nephew of Paul Samuelson (American economist and Nobel laureate) FBR/half
V.M. Molotov (Russian foreign minister and aide to Stalin) was the nephew of Alexander Scriabin (Russian composer and pianist) FBR/half
Karl Marx (political philosopher and communist) was the nephew of Lion Philips (capitalist and founder of giant Philips Electric) FBR/half
Oliver Heaviside (British physicist famous for radio transmission theory) was the nephew of Charles Wheatstone (British scientist and noted inventor) FBR/half
Charles Darwin (British scientist) was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood (British potter and inventor) FBR/fourth
Agnes de Mille (American ballerina and choreographer) was the granddaughter of Henry George (American economist and founder of the Single-Tax movement) FBR/fourth
Ann Baxter (American actress) was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect) FBR/fourth
Jason Patric (American actor) is the grandson of the late Jackie Gleason (American actor and comedian) FBR/fourth
Geraldine Chaplin (American actress) is the granddaughter of the late Eugene O'Neill (American playwright) FBR/fourth
Marisa Berenson (American actress) is the granddaughter of the late Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian fashion designer) FBR/fourth
Cesar Romero (American actor) was the grandson of Jose Marti (Cuban patriot and revolutionary leader) FBR/fourth
John Foster Dulles (U.S. secretary of state under Eisenhower) was the grandson of John Watson Foster (secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison) FBR/fourth
Aaron Burr (U.S. senator, vice president, and malefactor) was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards (leading New England theologian) FBR/fourth
Robert McCormick (American publisher and owner of the Chicago Tribune) was the grandson of Joseph Medill (newspaper publisher, a founder of the Republican party, and mayor of Chicago) FBR/fourth
Dina Merrill (American actress) is the granddaughter of the late Charles Post (producer of Postum and Post Toasties) FBR/fourth
Jean-Paul Sartre (French philosopher and novelist) was the first cousin once removed of Albert Schweitzer (German theologian and medical missionary) FBR/fourth
Charles Darwin (British scientist and father of evolution) was the half-first cousin of Sir Francis Galton (British scientist and father of eugenics) FBR/fourth
Joseph Alsop (American journalist) was the grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt (American president) FBR/fourth
John Gielgud (British actor) was the grandnephew of Ellen Terry (British stage actress) FBR/fourth
Boris Karloff (American actor) was the grandnephew of Anna Leonowens (of Anna and the King of Siam fame) FBR/fourth
Ralph Vaughn Williams (British composer) was the grandnephew of Charles Darwin (British scientist) FBR/fourth
Steve Ballmer (Computer industry executive) is the second cousin of the late Gilda Radner (American TV personality) FBR/fourth
Ernie Banks (baseball MVP) is the second cousin of O.J. Simpson (football MVP and malefactor) FBR/fourth
Jessamyn West (American author) was the second cousin of Richard Nixon (American president) FBR/fourth
Zachary Taylor (American president) was the second cousin of James Madison (American president) FBR/fourth
Black Elk (famous Sioux holy man) was the second cousin of Crazy Horse (Sioux chief and warrior) FBR/fourth
Barbara Tuchman (American historian) was the granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (U.S. treasury secretary under Franklin Roosevelt) FBR/fourth
Friedrich Hayek (Austrian economist and Nobel laureate) was the second cousin of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian language philosopher) FBR/fourth
Dolley Madison (American first lady) was the first cousin once removed of Patrick Henry (American Revolutionary patriot) FBR/fourth
Joseph Alsop (American journalist) was the first cousin once removed of Eleanor Roosevelt (American first lady and diplomat) FBR/fourth
Phillip Mountbatten (consort to Queen Elizabeth II) is the first cousin once removed of the late Nicholas Romanov (last czar of Russia) FBR/fourth
Elizabeth Tudor (Queen Elizabeth I ) was the first cousin once removed of Mary Stuart (ill-fated last queen of Scotland) FBR/fourth
Olivia Newton-John (Australian singer) is the granddaughter of the late Max Born (German-British physicist and Nobel laureate) FBR/fourth
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Orson Bean (American actor) is the third cousin of the late Calvin Coolidge (American president) FBR/eighth
Brooke Shields (American actress) is the second cousin once removed of Glenn Close (American actress) FBR/eighth
William T. Sherman (Union Civil war general) was the third cousin of P.T. Barnum (American circus impresario) FBR/eighth
Helena Bonham Carter (British actress) is the great-granddaughter of the late Herbert Asquith (British prime minister) FBR/eighth
Camilla Parker Bowles (mistress of Prince Charles) is the great-granddaughter of the late Alice Keppel (mistress of King Edward VII) FBR/eighth
Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (National Geographic publisher) was the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell (American inventor) FBR/eighth
Thomas Hunt Morgan (American geneticist and Nobel laureate) was the great-grandson of Francis Scott Key (composer of the American national anthem) FBR/eighth
Thomas Jefferson (American president) was the second cousin once removed of John Marshall (Supreme Court Chief Justice) FBR/eighth
Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand opera singer) is the great-grandniece of the late Arthur Sullivan (British composer of operettas) FBR/eighth
Elizabeth Mountbatten (Queen Elizabeth II) is the first cousin twice removed of the late Nicholas Romanov (last czar of Russia) FBR/eighth
Ulysses S. Grant (American president) was the first cousin three times removed of Judy Garland (American actress and singer) FBR/sixteenth
Oliver Wendell Holmes (American author and poet) was the third cousin once removed of John Adams (American president) FBR/sixteenth
Thomas E. Dewey (New York governor and twice presidential candidate) was the third cousin once removed of Orville and Wilbur Wright (inventors of the airplane) FBR/sixteenth
Harry Truman (American president) was the great-great-grandnephew of John Tyler (American president) FBR/sixteenth
George Washington (American president) was the half-first cousin twice removed of James Madison (American president) FBR/sixteenth
Martin Van Buren (American president) was the third cousin twice removed of Theodore Roosevelt (American president) FBR/thirty-second
Ulysses S. Grant (American president) was the fourth cousin once removed of Franklin Roosevelt (American president) FBR/thirty-second
Zachary Taylor (American president) was the fourth cousin once removed of Robert E. Lee (Confederate general) FBR/thirty-second
Charles Goodyear (inventor of vulcanized rubber) was the fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses S. Grant (American president) FBR/thirty-second
Benjamin Bradlee (former editor of The Washington Post) is the third cousin three times removed of the late Victoria Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Queen Victoria of England) FBR/sixty-fourth
Herman Melville (American author and poet) was the fifth cousin once removed of Louisa May Alcott (American author) FBR/sixty-fourth
Johnny Carson (American entertainer) is the fifth cousin once removed of the late Richard Nixon (American president) FBR/sixty-fourth
Samuel Morse (inventor of the telegraph) was the half-third cousin twice removed of Eli Whitney (inventor of the cotton gin) FBR/sixty-fourth
Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) was the sixth cousin of Jesse James (American outlaw) FBR/sixty-fourth
Henry Thoreau (American author, philosopher, and naturalist) was the sixth cousin of Ulysses S. Grant (American president) FBR/sixty-fourth
Harriet Beecher Stowe (American author) was the fifth cousin once removed of Ralph Waldo Emerson (American essayist and poet) FBR/sixty-fourth
George Bush (former American president) is the second cousin four times removed of the late "Wild Bill" Hickok (American frontier marshall and gunfighter) FBR/sixty-fourth
Lady Antonia Fraser (British author and historian) is the first cousin five times removed of the late Neville Chamberlain (British prime minister) FBR/sixty-fourth
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