Famous Cousins with Mayflower ties
These people are cousins of Mayflower descendants or cousins once removed since all of the lines are intermingled at some point.Click on the picture or name of an individual for their descendancy and a biography.
John Adams
Second President of the United States
A descendant of four Mayflower Passengers, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, William Mullins and Wife Alice.
John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States
A descendant of four Mayflower Passengers, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, William Mullins and Wife Alice.
Zachary Taylor
Twelfth President of the United States
A descendant of Mayflower Passengers, Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris.
Ulysses S. Grant
Eighteenth President of the United States
A descendant of Mayflower Passenger, Richard Warren.
James A. Garfield
Twentieth President of the United States
A descendant of three Mayflower Passengers, Francis Billington and his parents John and Eleanor Billington.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thirty-second President of the United States
A descendant of eight Mayflower Passengers, John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, Richard Warren, John Cooke and his father Francis Cooke, Mary Allerton, and her parents, Isaac Allerton and Mary Norton.
Richard M. Nixon
Thirty-seventh President of the United States
A descendant of Henry Howland, father of Mayflower Passanger, John Howland.
Gerald R. Ford
Thirty-eighth President of the United States
A descendant of Henry Howland, father of Mayflower Passanger, John Howland.
George H. W. Bush
Forty-first President of the United States
A descendant of six Mayflower Passengers, John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, Francis Cooke, Mary Chilton and her parents, Mr. and Mrs James Chilton.
Barbara Bush and her springer spaniel, Millie, at the White House
Photo by Carol Powers Courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady, Mother and Author
A descendant of Mayflower Passenger, Henry Samson.
George W. Bush
Forty-third President of the United States
A descendant of seven Mayflower Passengers, John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, Henry Samson, Francis Cooke, Mary Chilton and her parents, Mr. and Mrs James Chilton.
Sir Winston Churchill
Statesman, historian, and biographer
A descendant of Henry Howland, father of Mayflower Passanger, John Howland
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet, educator, linguist
A descendant of eight Mayflower Passengers, Richard Warren, John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, Henry Samson, William Mullins and Wife Alice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pastor, lecturer, essayist
A descendant of Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.
Henry David Thoreau
an American writer, a dissenter, and a transcendentalist
A descendant of Mayflower passenger, Richard Warren.
Noah Webster
America's greatest lexicographer
A descendant of Mayflower passenger, Gov. William Bradford.
William Cullen Bryant
Poet
A descendant of four Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, Edward Fuller and Mrs. Fuller.
Joseph Smith
Mormon founder and leader
A descendant of four Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, Edward Fuller and Mrs. Fuller.
Anna Mary Robertson, "Grandma Moses"
Renowned American folk artist
A descendant of Mayflower Passenger, Francis Cooke.
Orson Welles
Considered not only one of the greatest directors of film but also that of the theatre, as well as a fine actor, screenwriter, broadcaster and producer
A descendant of seven Mayflower Passengers, Richard Warren, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, William Mullins and Wife Alice, John Cooke and his father Francis Cooke.
Humphrey Bogart
Academy Award winning American actor
A descendant of Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley
Bing Crosby
Academy Award winning American singer and actor
A descendant of two Mayflower passengers, William Brewster and Wife Mary.
Marilyn Monroe
A twentieth-century movie star, sex symbol and pop icon
A descendant of five Mayflower Passengers, Francis Cooke, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, William Mullins and Wife Alice. Also a descendant of Henry Howland, father of Mayflower Passanger, John Howland.
Hugh M. Hefner
Founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine
A descendant of Mayflower passenger, Gov. William Bradford.
Johnny Carson
Entertainer
A descendant of Henry Howland, father of Mayflower Passanger, John Howland.
Clint Eastwood
American actor, Academy Award winning film director, film producer and composer
A descendant of Mayflower passenger, Gov. William Bradford.
Christopher Reeve
American actor, director, producer and writer
A descendant of Mayflower passenger, Gov. William Bradford.
Richard Gere
American Actor
A descendant of eleven Mayflower passengers, Degory Priest, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Dr. Samuel Fuller, George Soule, Samuel Eaton and his parents Francis and Sarah Eaton, Francis Billington and his parents John and Eleanor Billington.
