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

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Alexander Hamilton is the only one I know of.

[Cary]

My great great Uncle - Sir John Monash
General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB, VD; 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was a civil engineer and an Australian military commander of the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with whom he took part in the Gallipoli campaign. In July 1916 he took charge of the newly raised 3rd Division in northwestern France and in May 1918 became commander of the Australian Corps, at the time the largest corps on the Western Front. The successful allied attack at the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 was planned by Monash and spearheaded by British forces including the Australian and Canadian Corps under Monash and Arthur Currie. Monash is considered one of the best allied generals of the First World War and the most famous commander in Australian history.

He has a statue in Melbourne of him on a horse. When we were kids, and we played Monopoly, we all wanted the horse playing piece because of that.

My great grandfather - Wilhelm Fliess
Wilhelm Fliess was a German Jewish otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed highly eccentric theories of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by modern scientists. He is today best remembered for his close personal friendship and theoretical collaboration with Sigmund Freud, a controversial chapter in the history of psychoanalysis.

My brother-in-law - manages U2, Madonna and others.

[vicrock]

Not exactly famous - but Uncle Henry was known for his 8 wives (not all at once) and was known at the lodge as Henry the 8th

[SteveG]

Uncle who was a lead chemist on the Manhattan Project.

Even among the various distinguished and honored and award-winning ones, he's acknowledged to have been the most important. He saved the world.

[Don C]

Dad was honored by Baraboo, WI as the "six million dollar man" because of the money he had a hand in acquiring for the hospital, the Methodist Church, the Baraboo Housing Authority (has a low income apartment building named for him), and the Baraboo Development Corp. Probably some other organizations that were better off because of him. He may have had an impact on the early growth of the Circus World Museum on the grounds of the Ringling Bros Circus.

Important guy in a small town.

[Z]

One of my uncles got us back to Charlemagne...

[NewtonMP2100]

....Neanderthal man......

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Oh, my mom semi-confirmed that my grandfather was at least partly the basis for the sawmill manager in Twin Peaks by saying the show was trash and refusing to watch it (even though Snoqualmie Falls was 150 miles away, and the location Agent Cooper identified* seems to be Metaline Falls, Eastern WA).

* Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. wrote:

[NewtonMP2100]

....Pocohantas [ .15% Native American ]......

[PeterB]

I had an uncle (no joke) who wrote a book, some would say THE book, on quantum mechanics. Interesting in no small part for the fact that he was a bio/organic chemist, and not a physicist.

And one of my nephews is slowly but surely making a mark as a filmmaker. He's got a documentary which is currently at #5 on iTunes list of documentaries. I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard it's good and the reviews seem to agree.