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

[lost in space]

The most interesting person I knew was my wife's late father. He was a physicist; taught at Kansas University for decades. One of his summer research projects was to find the temperature of the moon's surface using red shift, back in the 60s. He was almost finished when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. He was also an accomplished violinist, playing from the age of 6 until a stroke at the age of 92. He was an avid birdwatcher and traveler. When the weather was bad in Kansas, he and his wife went down to the apartment they kept in Mexico. He designed and built a synthesizer for a violin. Late in life as a widower, he went blind, but still entertained. He was the kindest man I ever met, and was the quintessential absent-minded professor.