On my grandmother’s side, I am allegedly descended from William Dawes, aka, ‘‘HOLY SHIT! THE BRITISH ARE COMING!’’
That’s pretty much it.
My grandmother’s maiden name was Bragg. We’re told we were related to Braxton
I was once told, though it was never conformed, that we were related tothese fine folks.
I hear the woman was a real bitch.
Bastogne is in Belgium, not France. It may be a relatively small town, but the military significance of the place is huge! I mean, you’re talking about the Battle of the Bulge, here.
I have an apparently somewhat distant lateral relationship to Nikola Tesla ( supposedly via someone he referred to as a “smelly aunt” ) on my father’s side.
Otherwise nothing of much note - next most prominent would have been a “Croat” ( the term as used here is in reference to geographic origin, not religio-ethnicity, which in this case was Serb ) cavalry officer that served under Napoleon, again from my father’s side.
I’m fairly ignorant of my maternal genealogy past a couple of generations.
Speak for yourself. My great great (etc.) grandmother was an English teabag. A peace-loving woman, drowned in the harbor. She never had a chance.
She was a mother for sure, and gullible, or so the story is told.
Hey, cousin! (My grandfather was a something-cousin of Cecil Rhodes, too, I think that makes me 4x removed from whatever.)
I forgot, my grandmother was a Ms. Twenty Nine Palms, CA in the 1940s. She was a looker too. Had I been around I’d be my own grandpa. :eek:
My great-grand uncle won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
William Francis Giauque
What up cuz? 
Seriously cool!
My great-great-great grandfather was Robert Blum, a leader of the German revolution of 1848; he was executed by the Austrians for his trouble. Songs were written about him!
One of my wife’s ancestors was Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary under Lincoln and then Chief Justice. One thing we learned only recently is that he was responsible for putting “In God We Trust” on US currency.
My paternal great-grandfather was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He lost a leg at Vicksburg and wound up teaching math at the University of Mississippi.
His wife was the daughter of Col. William Fairfax Gray, the diarist of the Texas Revolution.
no French and Indian War, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, or Middle East vets? Slackers!
No one famous but I have two ancestors who were killed by being hit by trains. While walking. Two separate incidents.
My first thought was “Great. I’m descended from Wile E. Coyote.”
Hiya, Cuz! 
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a distant cousin on my paternal grandmother’s side. Besides him, I have no confirmed knowledge of anyone else in my family tree who achieved fame and/or fortune.
Quite a few, and quite recent. Thank you, dear reader, for the opportunity to brag. 
My fathers family is a patrician one. I don’t make that up, we are actually in the list of patrician Dutch families.
My great uncle was an Dutch aviation pioneer. The first one to make a solo-flight from the Netherlands to Indonesia. Also the first one to make a non-motorized flight in the Netherlands.
His brother, my grandfather, was one of the pioneers of social architecture. He was also the architect of the first high rise tower in the netherlands.
Their other brother was a war hero. In the war, he was captured by the nazi’s, and taken to a high-rise building, as a high ranking army official, in the hope he would betray strategic intel. Instead, he threw himself out of the window and died.
My father was knighted recently for his lifelong dedication to Third World developement.
On my mothers side, my grandfather was also knighted. He was a Dutch psychiatry pioneer.
My husband’s great-something-grandfather was injured in the Civil War.
He was a teamster, and wrecked his back loading barrels.