The closest I come is this. My cousin's cousin's (on the other side) husband is Sean Aston of Lord of the Rings and Rudy fame. I've met him three times.

Way far back on my mother's side I am apparently related to Sir Francis Drake...by marriage.

No, I am not. My uncle's wife is from Korea, and her family are close friends with the Lees. I had a signed Brandon Lee t-shirt when I was a kid. I confess that I had no idea who he was at the time.

My great-great-great grandfather is Reese Witherspoon's great-great-great-great grandfather. How's that for a reach?

jessica alba...distant

Well hes not famous but if you remember the old school jenny jones show where jenny jones invited this gay guy on to the show for a secret crush,well the guy who was straight who freaked out on that gay guy was my cousin.

Writers of Casablanca and the manager of the Red Sox.

Jesse James...both of them. I guess you could call them both a celebRITY.

Chris Cross - the bassist from Ultravox.

On a trip two years ago to San Francisco to visit relatives (I was born there) I discovered that my grandmother's great uncle designed the Golden Gate bridge. His name was Joseph B. Strauss and he designed and built the bridge in 1937.

No, but I once had relations with a really popular girl in high school.

I'm still hoping I'm related to the Bee Gees, because they are worth quite a bit!

Well, according to my grandfather, I'm related to Daniel Boone...And I know a guy, who's name is Mike Chapman, who is a cousin to Jake Gyllenhaal...That's about it though.

My grandfather was one of the richest men in Australia in the 1940's and 1950's, and his wife (my grandmother) ran her own cooking show on TV in the 1970's.

Ummmm...my cousin is married to Stuart Pearce, who is a famous soccer player in England.

my great grandmother is che guevara's great grandmother

Somehow I'm related to the late Johnny Cash. o-o Don't know how, he was like some... really distant cousion.

well, my great great uncle or something was a shortstop for the yankees a long time ago

If you really look at it at a reach I have people in my family who are related to Hitler,He's famous right?(As soon as I can find a good link to information for the Priory of Scion I'm going to see if I'm relate to Jesus.=P)<~~~~~~Exclude that part

Mr.Bob Sapp, Marvin Sapp and Warren Sapp all blood line... originated in Fla; Georgia, Grand Rapids Mich.and New York. Most of us was raised in sports and Music...Bob Sapp is a kick boxing Champ. Cousin Marvin is a Pastor of lighthouse full life center and vocalist..Cuz Warren Sapp we all know from his foot ball abilities. I don't talk about it much to home towners, because of the disbelief or the questions,questions,questions! I enjoy living the good life sharing my skills and talents to serve GOD. I play bass guitar, drums and some chords. My best instrument have been my vocals....

My Mother was a bit of a Rock chick in the 60s and is close friends with a lot of the groups and their wives from that era. Which is why I have so many of the original albums

Keanu Reeves is my moms cousin by marriage.

Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records. William the Conqueror (supposedly - who knows how accurate the research is).

Kabir Bedi, (Bollywood and in some Holywood), an actor is my dad's far related cousin.

I am a direct decendent of Col. William Barret Travis of the Alamo fame.

Steve Young is my mom's cousins brother in law. I think thats how it goes.

My great-great uncle was hung for stealing horses in Lousiana back a long time ago. I guess that dont count. Not like he was a famous outlaw or anything, I mean, he couldnt even steal a horse without getting caught.

President George Washington... well, by marraige. His sioster married into our family. So I guess he is a distant uncle of sorts??

Well since I'm adopted I really don't know anything about my bloodline which is fabulous because I can pretend to be anyone I want to be but also bad because sadly I bear a very strong resemblance to Jeffrey Dahmer which is. Really. Frightening.

no...but my friend chris is cousins with the actor "cyclops" from x-men and my nieces boyfriend is a clanton,from the clanton gang. like in the movie tombstone

I am related to W.G. Grace - famous English cricketer with beard (dad's side) Brian Boru - High King of Ireland beginning of 9th century for a few years (mum's side although I'm not sure how she knows this)

Okay, not necessarilty proud of the fact (or ashamed either), but I freaked a little when my dad told me that my great great grandmother was the 2nd wife of Joseph Smith. Does that potentially make me Mormon Royalty? I don't *feel* polygomous...

No, sorry, just historical figures. However, one of my cousins embezzled from the Osmonds.

not that i know of but my aunt says i look like james mcCarthy.my ex wife used to baby sit niki taylor

You wouldn't know him but he is a famous creator of a place that is bad for many people...

Yeah. One of my distant relatives came out on the news with some controversial statements a few years back. He's in the military, and not famous-famous, but enough so for my taste. I've never met him.

this question's a duplicate, but i'll answer it anyways...jessica alba...i'm not going to flag your question, because i don't feel like being a prick.

Sir Francis Drake, and Winston Churchill.

Yes, I am related to Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr. They named a state after him! -gasp- He was my... 17th great grandfather if I'm not mistaken.

Yes, King Richard the Lion Hearted. Or so I'm told.

yeah the sister of franklin delano roosevelt.

Someone in my family mentioned we were a descendant of a Declaration of Independence signer. I have no idea which one. [edit] The fact that I don't know the signer is significant because I am adopted and have only known my biological family for 15 years. And that's only holiday gatherings.

I have no idea . I am the great dandaughter of quite well known in his time Sportsman but I have never bothered looking up family trees. My family is too large and come from too many different places in the world to go into it with less than committment.

My 2nd cousin Melissa married Heath Ledgers cousin, making him 2nd cousin once removed, never met him before though! Also i am realted to Lord Nelson, who is not world wide know but was the founder of the town "nelson" in new zealand =]

I have one family line that descends from every king of England before Henry IV (except the ones that didn't have kids) and goes back to Charlemagne and beyond on one side, and Chinese emperors on the other....It's not u nique. millions of people have it. but it's kind of cute, don't you think?

My cousin is Brent Seabrook from the chicago blackhawks and i guess he's somewhat famous!

Not that I really know of, but I do know someone whose uncle is Ken Hitchcock, previous coach of the Philly Flyers and current coach of Columbus Blue Jackets.

No. Not that I know of in my family tree.

sort of..like when i was in new york 10 years ago...someone mistook me for robert deniro, ya know..his crazy psycho look from taxi driver.that scene where he shaves his hair like a mohawk design, with shades..though my middle name is deniro..

Yes God

According to my mother we are direct descendants of the prirate Jean Lafitte who helped defend New Orleans against the British in the War of 1812.

distantly, like back in the middle ages. I have one line that goes back through a lot of noble families to the Plantagenets (it is a common line, nothing special and, surprisingly, most US presidents come in on it as some stage), then to famous kings like Charlemagne and his ancestor Charles Martel (all europeans are descended from them). Another branch goes back through the kings of Hungary to Byzantium, to Armenia and eventually to the Emperors of China who ruled from Xian. I say again, this is a very common line and many many people have it. I was shocked to find I came in on it...

Nope.

My family tree dates back to Adam and Eve!

Alot of people tell me I'm the descendant of some people called Adam and Eve, I don't believe them though. But it might be true.

The Beecher family (Lyman Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe). Old Lyman would have had me burned at the stake!

My grandfather was a former professsional Rugby League player for Leigh who gained a cap for England. He also was a top designer and designed the very first Jaffa Cake making machine. Although I do concede that that hasn't gone down in history

On my Grandmother's side, one of my ancestors designed the Glasgow School of Art. On my Grandfather's side, one of my ancestors wrote "Journey to Ixtlan" and " The Teachings of Don Juan".

My great-grandmother claimed that we were descended from Robert Burns (famous Scottish poet). She married a Mr Burns from Ayrshire (where Burns was from). I've never checked into it, so I don't know if it's true.

I'm a decendent of John Alden. He has a cooper (barrel maker) who came to the new world on the Mayflower. I'm also a decendent of the Wycoff family, their house is now a landmark/museum of 15th/16th century living, and is near brooklin.

not me but there was someone when i was at middle school who was a great desendent of William Shakespeare that's pretty cool - ironically she wasn't that great at English though :) :)

Yes, God.

Daniel Boones sister is my Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother, and im also related to William The Conquerer

Marta Abreu. She was involved in the cuban independence movement from Spain. There is a University in Cuba named after her:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_%22Marta_Abreu%22_of_Las_Villas One of my grandfather's first cousins traveled to Cuba in order to claim some of her inheritance. It is true because I saw it in a newspaper. All that happened before Cuba became a communist country.

This long, but I copied it from a book my uncle's writting. on us. Acording to my uncle my family is in line for both the Irish and Spanish throwns. My family name is Digman over here but over there it's Dignan, Dignum, Duignan, or Duigenan. We are descended from Milesius, King of Spain, through the line of his son Heremon. The founder of the family was Maine, ancestor of the Southern Hy Nials, and son of Nial of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland. And our family seat is located in the present County of Roscommon and the village of Castlefore or Baile-Coilte-foghair in County of Leitrim. The O'Duigenans were the Erenaghs of the Church of Kilronan, in the barony of Boyle, in the County of Roscommon, and were also the chroniclers of the Clan Mulrooney. Magnus O'Duigenan wrote the "Book of Ballymote". Dubhthach O'Duigenan was the author of two long poems, containing the chronicles of the families of the O'Neils and O'Donnells for centuries. In 1339, Ferrall Muinach O'Duigenanthe started the Church of Kilronan. In 1588, Duffy O'Duigenan wrote a history of Sept of the O'Donnells. Patrick Duigenan, LLD., who was M.P. for the borough of Old Leighlin, in the Irish Parliment of 1797, was one of the King's Counsel, Advocate General of the Admiralty, Judge of the Prerogative Court, Professor of Common Laws in the Dublin University, Vicar General of Dublin, a Doctor of Laws, Vicar General of the Diocese of Meath and Leighlin and Ferns, Advocate in the Ecclesiastical Courts. John Ballach O'Duigenan was the last Chief when the family was dispossessed of their Kilronan patrimony.And then we had to flee. Add to that my great grand mother says she was related to Daniel Boone.

My mother told me that we are related to Jean Lafitte the pirate. She said that we cannot prove it because there are no birth certificates for her mother's family from her mother on up.

I am a descendant of John Proctor, one of the people who was burned at the stake in Salem. My line descends through his 2nd wife who died a few years before all the Salem hubub. The wife who survived was his 3rd wife (she was pregnant at the time of the trials, which worked to her advantage).

No, but I'm a descendant of someone employed specifically as a bullet-absorber!

I have you all beat. I am the proud descendent of the guy who invented Tabasco Sauce.

Yes, but if I tell, everyone will want something from me.

i am sure I answered one like this before, but here goes: On the one line we can trace really well, we go back through most of the medieval nobility of england, to the Plantagenets, to the Normans, to Charlemagne and his famous ancestor, Charles Martel, to the kings of Hainault (modern Belgium)Hungary, Poland, Russia, Croatia, the Khans of the Kumans, the Byzantines, the Armenian and Georgian Kings, the uighur Khans and the Emperors of Xian, China. Now this is not a unique line. Most people have it, though they do not know it. We were lucky to find the link on this one line. Other branches of the same line go back to the Viking lords of Scandinavia, the kings of Scotland, Ireland and Wales and the anglo-Saxon kings...if I have to choose one I really like being descended from it is Lady Godiva...and she didn't ride naked through coventry. She was extranged from her husband, who demanded from her that if she wanted him to relieve the taxes on Coventry and allow her to support churches and the poor, she would have to reconcile with him. So she rode in her shift ( a sign of repentance and humilty) through the streets of the town, ready to sacrifice her own body for the betterment of others.

Not to my knowledge (I feel so left out!)

An estranged, adopted cousin of my wife's claims to be related to Billy Ray Cyrus. Personally, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I find it highly unlikely... though it would be good for her. My father sold insurance to The Shiek, an old time wrestler, from Michigan... where we live.

God?

My youngest sister is kind of famous. She's a musical prodigy.

My mother always told me we were the poor cousins of the Reynolds (Tobacco Company.)

My Dad won the Pulitzer Prize in Photography in 1956 for a photo he took of the Andrea Doria sinking. He was also the recipient of many news photography awards over the years including the Graflex Diamond Award for the most significant news photograph of the decade captured using a Graflex camera. He was always very modest about his accomplishments in photography. He considered his greatest achievement in life to be returning to college at age thirty-eight, obtaining his degree, and becoming a school teacher. He taught for twenty-two years in inner-city high schools in the Boston neighborhood where he grew up. Additionally, I have done some genealogical research on my family, and have been able to definitively trace my ancestry back to the arrival of a Captain William Traske (born 14 Dec 1585, East Coker, Somerset England) to Salem, Massachusetts in 1640. Captain Traske then governed the Salem colony for sixteen years before his death. I also have a copy of a family coat of arms that was awarded to an ancestor in some war in Poland in the fourteenth century. This ancestor (originally from Scotland) was working as a mercenary for the king of Poland. During a battle, this Traske person found himself surrounded by enemy troops. In the heat of the battle, he broke his sword. He retrieved another sword from a deceased soldier in his troop and continued fighting. The second sword subsequently broke also. The king's guard then rode in and rescued him and his remaining men. In appreciation for his bravery, the king knighted him and granted him a coat of arms. The coat of arms has a lion that was featured on the Polish king's coat of arms, and underneath the lion are two broken swords crossing each other. Therefore, I am nobility...albeit Polish nobility :-)

My family can be traced back to Nathaniel Greene and some royalty from britain or england (I can't remember which).

Two Civil War generals (McClellan and Lee); William the Conqueror; Robert the Bruce.

Yes Betrix Potter the childrens writer.

Jose Rizal... He's the national hero of the Philippines. Actually it's not direct... He was my grandfather's uncle... I guess that's closer than most folks...

No, but I'm the descendant of a professional bullet absorber...

My great or great-great (can't remember) grandparents were Italian marquis, so that's kinda cool.

one side of my adopted family is related to dolly madison somehow.

Yes, I am. I am the 13th generation grand daughter of Pocahontas, or Matoaka. I am also a Sizemore. These people are from Kentucky and are famous for being highly spirited and mean as cat P. I was not raised around them and only discovered the origins of my "take no crap, no prisoners and always leave them wanting more" genetic disposition. Little did Pocahontas know that she opened the door for the slaughter of her people when she thought she was bringing peace with her marriage to John Roth. It's very difficult for me to celebrate the 4th of July now.

Well - I've always been told that I'm a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton. However, I've looked him up and found that he never married, and there were no children listed... so perhaps someone else in his family was the one further up in my family lineage - because it probably wasn't him. Possibly other people - but I honestly don't know.

Unfortunately not, but I pacify myself by thinking of the "six steps of separation". In that case, I am only six or even less steps away from the most glamorous, lol!

Adam And Eve

Like two of the other people who have answered, I have connections to Salem, Massachusetts or the Salem Witch Trials. My 13x Great Grandma Ann Greenslit Pudeator was executed in September, 1692 by hanging. There were 18 hangings, one torture death by "pressing" (crushing with stones to try to extract a confession), and several deaths in prison. (Plus everyone in prison, even before being convicted, had to PAY daily rent for being there). I am from her first husband, Greenslit. He died; Mr. Pudeator died; and she was a 70 - 75 year old widow with her sons living out of town when they came after her. She'd been working as a nurse and I believe her accuser owed her money and was eager to get rid of her because of that. (She had nursed his wife during his wife's final illness). The evidence against her was that she had several little jars of fat or lard in the house, supposedly to make devilish potions. As a nurse, of course, she WOULD have several jars of fat or lard around the house, to make healing lotions (with willow bark, for example, which has the same ingredients as aspirin). Grandma Ann defended herself at trial by pointing out that her accuser was a known liar who had been whipped for perjury just the year before, but it didn't matter: she was a widow with property, she spent a whole long hot summer in a filthy prison, she was convicted, she was killed, and the sheriff and her accuser profited from it. One of her adult sons tried to save her by offering testimony against someone else -- but the someone else was a man who was already dead. It wasn't enough to save her.

Someone on my mums side of the family helped to catch Ned Kelly, the Australian Bushranger. Funniest part is someone on my Dads side user to ride with Ned Kelly.

yes, I am 11th cousin to President Bush, 10 cousin to the first President Bush

Im a distant cousin of Charles Dickens

I'm a direct descendent of Charles Carroll, who also signed the Declaration of Independence. And my grandmother has traced her heritage through British history to the War of the Roses, where she insists that our family played a crucial role in the victory (who knows how accurate that is). And I'm also supposedly a distant cousin of John Bobbit (as in married to Lorena Bobbit).

Nolan Ryan is my cousin, and my uncle was a bank robber!

I said this in a question about thirty seconds ago, but I'm related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. That's on my mother's side....

Descendent of a few famous people in history... Robert the Bruce and John Knox.

Depends on what you mean by famous... If you mean rich, then no. But I do have a lot of famous historical persons in my family line.

Nope. Slackers, drunks, layabouts, general ne'er-do-wells, slags, bums, hobos, vice-presidents, and lunk-heads all.

Im an influential person :D my mommy said so =]

George Washington Our family bible, family tree, and the papers we need to be DAR's.