# Notable people without living descendants **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 22, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214 "2007-02-22T13:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/21 "2007-02-22T16:11:14Z")
A very obvious answer is the Last Russian Royal Family, the Romanovs: Nichols, Alexandria, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/22 "2007-02-22T16:11:27Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] I guess that means he wasn’t forward-thinking? [/QUOTE] Nope. Just a silly old fart. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/23 "2007-02-22T16:25:03Z")
Me. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/24 "2007-02-22T16:48:58Z")
Friedrich Nietzsche ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/25 "2007-02-22T17:21:15Z")
I think the Douglas MacArthur line died out. I had the pleasure of meeting a great-great-great-grandson of US Grant. Wonderful old Army family. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/26 "2007-02-22T17:25:54Z")
Hitler James Buchanan Napolean? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/27 "2007-02-22T17:47:37Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] I think the Douglas MacArthur line died out. [/QUOTE] Douglas MacArthur’s son Arthur is, as far as I know, still alive, although living under a different name. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/28 "2007-02-22T17:55:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Douglas MacArthur’s son Arthur is, as far as I know, still alive, although living under a different name. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t/isn’t he a piano bar guy? ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/29 "2007-02-22T20:11:55Z")
Isaac Newton. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/30 "2007-02-22T20:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Napolean? [/QUOTE] Napoleon has living descendants through his illegitimate son Alexander Walewski. The boy’s mother was the glamorous Countess Marie Walewska. Napoleon recognized Alexander as his son. There’s a picture of Alexander at [Alexandre Colonna-Walewski - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Joseph_Count_Colonna-Walewski) He bears an unmistakable resemblance to Napoleon. I believe there may have been another bastard son alive at the time that Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, but I don’t have any information beyond a recollection that in exile he expressed concern about the boy’s welfare. Does anybody know who the boy was and if he left descendants? Napoleon had a legitimate son, Napoleon II, aka L’Aiglon, but he died at the age of 21 or 22 without heirs. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/31 "2007-02-22T20:46:19Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Douglas MacArthur’s son Arthur is, as far as I know, still alive, although living under a different name. [/QUOTE] Who could fault Arthur MacArthur for changing his name? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/32 "2007-02-22T22:41:36Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio] Who could fault Arthur MacArthur for changing his name? [/QUOTE] His grandfather didn’t. Neither did his great grandfather. Nor his uncle. > **[Arthur MacArthur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur%2C_Arthur)** > > Arthur MacArthur is the name of: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/33 "2007-02-22T22:44:06Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] Me. [/QUOTE] No, me! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/34 "2007-02-23T03:58:25Z")
Henry VIII ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/35 "2007-02-23T05:02:10Z")
**Julius Caesar** , if I am not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/36 "2007-02-23T06:16:43Z")
Those who grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” books may be surprised to know that none of Laura’s family have any living descendants. Laura and Almanzo Wilder had one daughter, who as an adult wrote under her married name, Rose Wilder Lane. RWL had no children. None of Laura’s sisters had any children, either. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/37 "2007-02-23T10:39:13Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] William IV [/QUOTE] No, he has plenty of living descendants from his numerous illegitimate children. Including… David Cameron (the current Leader of the Opposition). ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/38 "2007-02-23T11:04:40Z")
[Rudyard Kipling.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#Death_and_legacy) > [@Wikipedia](#): > > …his only son, John, died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos… > > Elsie, the only of his three children to live past the age of eighteen, died childless in 1976 ---
**Author:** ![GomezK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GomezK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomezK)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/39 "2007-02-23T12:03:34Z")
Sultan Qaboos of Oman ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-without-living-descendants/393214/40 "2007-02-23T12:07:22Z")
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