# Any Famous Relatives? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335 "2001-01-16T16:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/61 "2001-01-18T23:19:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silly Rabbit \* > \*\*Well, for those who know art, Edvard Munch is my Great Great Uncle. > > \*\* I’m **so** jealous of you. (Happens to be my favorite artist) ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/62 "2001-01-18T23:23:34Z")
Oops! Forgot to mention my own! I was too busy wallowing in jealousy over Silly Rabbit’s relative… My great-uncle was a famous professor at Duke. Theodore Ropp. He rubbed shoulders with presidents, Kissinger… Mom’s second cousin is Bill Cowher, the Pittsburgh Steelers coach. We’re related somehow to John Hancock (I inherited his tendency to write a large showy signature :)) and John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/63 "2001-01-19T01:14:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zumba The Cat \* > \*\*It looks like we have something in common **Ashtar**. > I’m Cecil Adams’ bastard love-child too! (by a different love) > > Unless he comes in here and denies it there is no way to prove I am not. > \*\* \*\*Ashtar! Zumba! I AM YOUR FATHER!!! JOIN ME! SERVE THE EMPEROR! Come over to the Dark Side of the Force!\*\* [sub]We have cookies.[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/64 "2001-01-19T03:53:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JimmyNipples \* > \*\*My wife is somehow related to Dr. Jonas Salk. > He invented the plastic thingys on the end of shoe laces. > > and insulin. \*\* Didn’t he also come up with the vaccine for polio? ---
**Author:** ![mkmiller99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mkmiller99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkmiller99)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/65 "2001-01-19T04:26:59Z")
Not me…but my roommate in college. Her uncle was in the band “The Dead Kennedy’s”. Since I love their music…I was impressed. My best friend is related to Robert E. Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/66 "2001-01-19T05:48:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Zumba The Cat \* > > \*\*It looks like we have something in common **Ashtar**. > > I’m Cecil Adams’ bastard love-child too! (by a different love) > > > > Unless he comes in here and denies it there is no way to prove I am not. > > \*\* > > \*\*Ashtar! Zumba! > > I AM YOUR FATHER!!! > > JOIN ME! SERVE THE EMPEROR! > > Come over to the Dark Side of the Force!\*\* > > [sub]We have cookies.[/sub] 😉 > > \*\* Well that was weird and unexpected. 😛 In all seriousness–the only famous relative I can find is John Smith, the explorer. Of course–that’s only what I can piece together from heresay. My family has very few records of lineage. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/67 "2001-01-19T07:03:56Z")
I’m really not related to anyone famous, although my former uncle represented Liberace’s lover in that palimony suit back in the 80s. He (my former uncle) was subsequently disbarred. It’s one of the reasons why he’s my former uncle. Robin ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/68 "2001-01-19T07:35:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*mmmmmmmmmmm Val Kilmer! I’m not allowed to watch his movies anymore. ☹ Damn that man is hot. > > Um, sorry, I’ll just go now. \*\* It would be nice if I bore any physical resemblence to Val. Unfortunately, I get more “You look like Brendan Fraser” and if/when I tell people about Val, they just nod and smile politely most of the time. They don’t see it (quelle shocque). I seem to have met just about every person who doesn’t care either way about Val Kilmer. Isn’t being related to him supposed to carry some sort of automatic popularity? ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/69 "2001-01-19T18:55:03Z")
Would it help if I said mmmmmmmmmm Brendan Fraser!! He’s damn good looking too. I learned my lesson with Val Kilmer so I haven’t mentioned my thing about Brendan Fraser to my husband. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/70 "2001-01-19T20:41:02Z")
I’m supposed to be related to a British horse thief who was then sent to Australia. That and I’ve been told that I have a relative that was one of the first leaders of the Cech republic. Very exciting stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Darkrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Darkrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkrabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/71 "2001-01-19T21:58:32Z")
Im related to John Muir, he married a great-aunt of mine. That’s pretty much it. ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/72 "2001-01-20T06:42:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*By the genealogical research my family has done, supposedly I’m the Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great(who remembers how many) grandson of Sir Isaac Newton. Woo. \*\* You might want to revisit some of that research. Isaac Newton never married or fathered a child; in fact, some believe he died a virgin: [http://www-ctp.mit.edu/~alford/newton.html](http://www-ctp.mit.edu/~alford/newton.html) As for myself, well…When I first started college at Ohio State back in the 80s, I lived in a temporary dorm room with the cousin of Tina Yothers, the ugly kid from the “Family Ties” sitcom. I’ll be signing autographs later, behind the dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335/73 "2001-01-20T12:57:44Z")
[http://www.bway.net/~abbot/gunshot.html](http://www.bway.net/~abbot/gunshot.html) Dutch Schultz, aka Artie Flegenheimer. Rather infamous gangster, subect of several plays & books. Third cousin or something on my mother’s side - her maiden name is Flegenheimer, though it was shortened to “Fleg” on immigrating here from Germany in the early days of the Holocaust. Artie’s last ramblings as he was on his deathbed in the link above are strange, to say the least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-relatives/50335.md?page=3)