Who is your most famous, infamous, or interesting relative?

[pRICE cUBE]

Nothing stands out for me.

No time limit on the lineage.

[anonymouse1]

How distant?

The Vilna Gaon for me, but that's hundreds of years ago.

[Speedy]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
Nothing stands out for me.

Me, neither. And I hope that it stays that way.

[testcase]

Adam


(Eve's husband)


:boink:

[rgG]

testcase wrote:
Adam


(Eve's husband)


:boink:

Eve, Adam's better half.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

How recent? My dad supposedly traced us back to a cousin of Sir William Wallace (assuming nobody cheated over 700 years).

[Ombligo]

My wife's uncle was Tiburcio Carias Andino, he was president of Honduras from 1933-1949, creating the National Party in the process. He would be their FDR.

The best I can offer up for me was from 350 years ago - Marie Grandin (1651-1715), she was a Filles du Roi (King's Daughter). That made her one of 768 women who King Louis XIV of France sent to help colonize New France (Canada) between 1663 and 1673. I can only imagine what Quebec was like when she arrived only 50-60 years after it was founded.

Closer in time would be my father, James Alfred Thompson, he was on the first bobsled down the 1932 run at Lake Placid, NY. His army group built the run in advance of the Olympics. In 1937, he was a Sitdown Striker against GM in Flint, Mi to become a founding member of the United Auto Workers.

[steve...]

i have a distant cousin who was chained to a truck in a Mad Max movie. I've never met him.


(the one on the right

[lost in space]

Carmen Miranda is a 3rd cousin once removed.

[NewtonMP2100]

....'Turner & Hooch'........related to Hooch.......