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

[Ca Bob]

Curious question. My family may be related to the guy who was a political polemicist and then became Lenin's companion, all this going on around 1905. He worked to smuggle Lenin into Russia in the "closed train" trip in the pre-war and pre-revolution era. I learned about this quite by chance after attending a silent film festival which happened to be doing a retrospective on pre-revolution Russian films and early Soviet era films, and out of this experience I did some reading of history and a name popped up.

A member of my family discovered the L-strand transcripts of the human mitochondrial genome, but that was me, and it was well before there was any inkling that the human mitochondrial genome can through mutation be a source of lots of different genetic diseases.