# Famous people who have no right to be related to each other
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 26, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854 "2000-07-26T01:06:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/41 "2000-07-27T16:25:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by irish\_bill \*
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> Not many people know that…
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> Jon Voight (actor) and Barry McGuire (singer) are brothers.
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> (McGuire had a hit with “Eve of Destruction” in the 60’s.)
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This automaticly creates anothr one. Angelina Jolie is Barry McGuire’s niece.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/42 "2000-07-27T16:31:39Z")
WAIT A MINUTE…
I just thought that Harper Lee and Truman Capote were neighbors. Capote WAS the inspiration for the character of Dil, though…
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/43 "2000-07-27T16:35:58Z")
I recently bought a used copy of the Reader’s
Digest edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. According
to their insert, Lee and Capote were cousins and
she helped him research In Cold Blood.
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### Author:  [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/44 "2000-07-27T16:42:12Z")
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were college roommates at Harvard.
Damn, this game is TOUGH…
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/45 "2000-07-27T17:20:42Z")
Courtney Love is Ronald Reagan’s love child from an illicit affair with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Well, OK, not really.
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/46 "2000-07-27T17:22:22Z")
This one is for real.
Geraldo Rivera is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s ex-son-in-law.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/47 "2000-07-27T21:14:54Z")
Hmmm…I didn’t know that Annie-my teacher only said they were neighbors. Still, that’s pretty neat.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/48 "2000-07-27T21:27:59Z")
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> Fretful: Wouldn’t Ed be Geoff’s father-in-law?
Not quite. John of Gaunt was married to Katherine Swynford, whose sister Philippa was married to Chaucer.
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### Author:  [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/49 "2000-07-27T22:46:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by irish\_bill \*
> \*\*
> Not many people know that…
>
> Jon Voight (actor) and Barry McGuire (singer) are brothers.
>
> (McGuire had a hit with “Eve of Destruction” in the 60’s.)
> \*\*
Voight’s brother is Chip Taylor, not Barry Mcguire.
Taylor - born James Voight - is a prolific song writer. His credits include Wild Thing" (The Troggs, Jimi Hendrix), “Angel of the Morning” (Merilee Rush, Juice Newton, Chrissie Hynde), “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)” (Janis Joplin), “I Can’t Let Go” (The Hollies, Linda Ronstadt), “Country Girl, City Man,” (Ike and Tina Turner), “Poppa Come Quick” (Bonnie Raitt), and “Son of a Rotten Gambler” (Emmylou Harris).
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### Author:  [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/50 "2000-07-27T22:55:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by irish\_bill \*
> \*\*
> Not many people know that…
>
> Jon Voight (actor) and Barry McGuire (singer) are brothers.
>
> (McGuire had a hit with “Eve of Destruction” in the 60’s.)
> \*\*
Voight’s brother is Chip Taylor, not Barry Mcguire.
Taylor - born James Voight - is a prolific song writer. His credits include Wild Thing" (The Troggs, Jimi Hendrix), “Angel of the Morning” (Merilee Rush, Juice Newton, Chrissie Hynde), “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)” (Janis Joplin), “I Can’t Let Go” (The Hollies, Linda Ronstadt), “Country Girl, City Man,” (Ike and Tina Turner), “Poppa Come Quick” (Bonnie Raitt), and “Son of a Rotten Gambler” (Emmylou Harris).
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/51 "2000-07-27T23:19:14Z")
Annie X-mas: Roy Lichtenstein and Pinky Lee? This one is too bizarre to think about. Two the hard way!
Pat Boone is Daniel Boone’s descendant. Whoops, rule violation. But I wonder of old Dan’l did the speaking in tongues thing?
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### Author:  [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/52 "2000-07-28T21:43:54Z")
**Frank Gifford** was **Michael Kennedy** ’s father in law.
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### Author:  [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/53 "2000-07-29T03:43:44Z")
Prize?
Who won?
Gold stars?
Hum?
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/54 "2000-07-29T12:41:52Z")
If we are including in-laws, let’s not
forget Michael Jackson and Elvis spinning
in his grave.
Also, Debbie Boone is married to Rosemary
Clooney’s nephew, therefore creating a
Boone-Clooney-Farrer tangle.
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### Author:  [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/55 "2000-07-29T14:06:03Z")
Anna Lyonowens, famous governess [Anna and the King]
and
Boris Karloff, famous character actor and narrator of the animated The Grinch Who Stole Christmans.
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/56 "2000-07-29T14:54:41Z")
Elvis Presley and Mrs. Michael Jackson.
ok I’m really stretching the rules here, but still…
Albert Brooks and Super Dave? Well…they’ve both made careers out failing in public. I guess it makes sense.
(I mean pretends to be a failure. I like Albert Brooks.)
The best one is still jerry lee lewis and jimmy swaggert. Two diametrically opposed sides of the same coin.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/57 "2000-07-29T15:42:45Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*
> **Camillia Parker Bowles is the great-granddaughter of Mrs. Alice Keppel. WHAT? you say?
> Alice Keppel was the mistress of King Edward VII, and Camillia, as we all know, is the mistress of Prince Charles, Edward’s great-great grandson!**
Against the rules. Seems to me that their fame comes from the same profession: Boinking royalty.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/58 "2000-07-30T02:38:50Z")
Ah, yes, that’s true.
Dammit!
Ah, well, I’ve still got Winston Churchill and Princess Di.
(And no, they weren’t quite the same profession-government, House of Commons and Royalty).
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### Author:  [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/59 "2000-08-02T17:33:03Z")
I realize this one is against the rules, but I just heard and confirmed it, and had to post it.
Geoffrey Fieger, of sleazy lawyer fame
Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-have-no-right-to-be-related-to-each-other/26854/60 "2000-08-04T00:50:47Z")
I’ve got a good one that actually fits all the rules.
John Schmitz, the ultra-right-wing congressman who ran for president in 1972, is the father of Mary Letourneau, the schoolteacher who is doing hard time for having sex with her jailbait boyfriend.
Schmitz himself was one of those “conservative family values” types who was caught with his pants down in an adulterous affair and disgraced.
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