Famous Descendants of Henry Howland (1565-1635)

The following famous people share our ancestor with us:

John Howland (Mayflower passenger)

Nathaniel Gorham (Signer of the U.S. Constitution)

U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

Governor Jonathan Worth of North Carolina

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

Governor Henry Crapo of Michigan

U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton

Governor James Y. Smith of Rhode Island

Horace Gray (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Henry H. Rogers (oil tycoon)

Mark Hopkins Jr. (Central Pacific Railroad)

Governor Adelbert Ames of Mississippi

Governor Henry H. Sibley of Minnesota

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

O. Henry (author)

Governor Chase Clark of Idaho

Alonzo Clark (Smithsonian)

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon

Humphrey Bogart (actor)

U.S. First Lady Edith Roosevelt

Bing Crosby (singer/actor)

William Durant (General Motors and Frigidaire)

U.S. Vice President James Sherman

Governor Samuel Goddard of Arizona

Governor Eugene Foss of Massachusetts

Governor Owen Brewster of Maine

Governor Curtis Guild of Massachusetts

Sir Winston Churchill (UK Prime Minister)

Marilyn Monroe (actress)

John Steinbeck (author)

Johnny Carson (television host)

Meryl Streep (actress)

Cecil B. DeMille (film director)

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts

U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

Ezra Pound (poet/critic)

Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania

Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins

U.S. President Gerald R. Ford

John Carradine (actor)

Norman Rockwell (artist)

Chevy Chase (comedian)

John Lithgow (actor)

Harry Chapin (singer/songwriter)

Governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts

John Paul Stevens (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Governor Gary Herbert of Utah

Geena Davis (actress)

U.S. Senator Henry J. Heinz of Pennsylvania

Hal Holbrook (actor)

Richard Chamberlain (actor)

Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. of New Hampshire

U.S. C.I.A. Director Porter Goss

Glenn Close (actress)

Alec Baldwin (actor)

David Carradine (actor)

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska

Thomas J. Watson (IBM)

James Taylor (singer/songwriter)

Matt Bomer (actor)

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden

Penn Jillette (magician)

Jon Meacham (historian)

Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont

U.S. President George H. W. Bush

U.S. President George W. Bush

John Stamos (actor)

Timothy Hutton (actor)

Ben Jealous (NAACP)

Taylor Lautner (actor)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Governor Jeb Bush of Florida

Governor Kate Brown of Oregon

Source: Famous Kin of Henry Howland

Famous Kin of Lonnie Wayne Hendrix

The following people are kin to me through my father's line:

Opechancanough, Native American Chief

James Tarpley, Williamsburg Store Owner/Bruton Parish Church contributor

James Vann, Native American Chief

John Marshall, U.S. Chief Justice Supreme Court

George C. Marshall, U.S. General WWII and Secretary of State

Walt Whitman, poet

John McCain, U.S. Senator and Vietnam POW

Barak Obama, U.S. President

David McCullough, historian/author

Mary Chapin Carpenter, country singer/songwriter

Warren Buffett, Chair/CEO Berkshire Hathaway

Brenda Lee, singer

Famous Descendants of Sir Henry Greene, Chief Justice of King's Bench 1361-1365

We share our ancestor with the following distant cousins:

Robert Catesby, Gunpowder Plot

Abigail Smith Adams, wife of Pres. John Adams

John Quincy Adams, U.S. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President

Horace Gray, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

T.S. Eliot, poet/playwright

Sir Winston Churchill, U.K. Prime Minister

Guy Ritchie, British filmmaker

Hugh Grant, actor

Ted Danson, actor

Story Musgrave, astronaut

Angela Davis, civil rights leader

FamousKin.com/Henry Greene

Famous Descendants of Sir Warin Trussell 1310-1365

Through our shared ancestor, Warin Trussell, we are distant cousins of the following:

Meriwether Lewis, explorer

James Madison, U.S. President

Zachary Taylor, U.S. President

Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic

Alice Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Teddy Roosevelt

General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. WWII Pacific

Marilyn Monroe, actress

Jack London, Call of the Wild

Barbara Bush, wife of George H.W. Bush

Richard M. Nixon, U.S. President

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President

Sir Winston Churchill, U.K. Prime Minister

Mitt Romney, Governor of Mass. and U.S. Senator

Warren G. Harding, U.S. President

Robert Frost, poet

Randolph Scott, actor

John Kerry, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State

George W. Bush, U.S. President

Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of U.K.

King Charles III, monarch of U.K.

General George S. Patton, U.S. WWII, Europe

Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen Consort U.K.

Raquel Welch, actress

Kyra Sedgwick, actress

General George C. Marshall, U.S. WWII

George H.W. Bush, U.S. President

Princess Diana of Wales, mother of heir to U.K. throne

Warren Buffett, Chair/CEO Berkshire Hathaway

Alec Baldwin, actor

Sally Ride, astronaut

Kit Harrington, actor

James Taylor, singer/songwriter

Geena Davis, actress

Hal Holbrook, actor

Glenn Close, actress

Billie Eilish, singer/songwriter

Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator

Source: FamousKin.com/Warin Trussell