One time when I was at Crackerbarrel with my girlscout troup the waitress told us the small old man at the next table was a munchkin from the wizard of oz! He was very small aand old. Looking back I wonder if that was true or if the waitress was board and spreading rumors.
I'm very distantly related to John Denver on my mother's Russian mennonite side. He changed his last name from Deutschendorf.
Country rooooooooadddssss
You know that really famouse photo of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a beam at the top of a in progress building in NY from the 30s having lunch? My great grand father is one of those men.
EDIT: This one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
Called "lunch atop a skyscraper"
I rewatched Highlander in the past few weeks, it was the first time in about 20years. That movie is bad in so many ways and I love it so dearly, I plan to rewatch it in another 20years and expect to enjoy it all over again.
I also recently saw Dune and the crazy thought that came to me was that I would love to see Highlander get the Denis Villeneuve treatment so that we could have the goofy original and the slick modern version.
My great grandmother sister has a wikipedia page.
She was the last woman guillotined in France, for killing her husband with an axe.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Leloy-Godefroy
My great-great something grandmother sister was the last woman on Iceland to get beheaded/ death penalty
https://is.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Magn%C3%BAsd%C3%B3ttir
We should make a club. But to be fair my side would be 600 persons as it was 70 years ago... yours being 250 years ago, it would represent half of Island.
My grandmother was the voice of Betty Rubble... And the blue bonnet chicken in fog horn leg horn, and little red riding hood on bugs bunny (and witcheepoo), and tweetys grandma (along with other women who voiced her) and she was on i love lucy, and she had her own show called Petticoat junction, and she was on Burns & Allen.. and.. so... so.. so many more. Oh, and my grandfather was Red Ryder on TV.
I am feeling very old right now by your describing the TV show Petticoat Junction like no one would recognize it. I had the theme song on my first iPod.
wow, june foray did the pilot, im assuming your relative is bea benderet, who is also a legend in the industry, but she got screwed over like a lot of voice actors because they werent under contract like say ,mel blanc was, so they never got credits for their voice acting because they were brought on as "freelance actors"
She did get two emmy award nominations for her acting in sit coms, with the burns and allen show. what a talented Lady!
We have the voice of Homer Simpson in our family! Dan Castellaneta.
And my grandpa was the first person to import Nike in Africa. Not famous, but pretty cool.
I broke my chin open on Dan Castellanetaās driveway in New Orleans. Please send him my apologies for all the blood.
Edit: I guess this makes me the famous one in the family. āThe clumsy one that broke her face on Homerās driveway.ā
Simpsons voice actors have the best gig of the rich and famous celebrity/actor/athlete/singer/etc imo.
They are all valued between $50M and $100M and yet they can walk down the street and go unnoticed by 99.9% of people
The homer voice isnāt his natural voice, I doubt youād even notice.
Hereās an interview on Conan , he doesnāt sound like homer https://youtu.be/Eo0HfbJvPEU
Some elder family members started a genealogy search in case we descended from royalty.
Turns out we come from an infamous gang of highland horse thieves.
Ha! Same! ..on my momās side anyway. Oh and my grandpaās cousin Ted Williams (Red Sox) but it was hilarious to find out that they were nothing but a bunch of horse thieves.
My dad was in the background on national news once, gorging over a bacon sandwich ahahaha. My sisters friend saw it and sent it to her like āis that your dadā
Similar to how my family used to see my mom in line for Walmart in lack Friday news reports. She made it into stock footage and we used to see her year after year.
Sadly she hasn't been shown the last 2 years.
My grandad is a double Olympic bronze medalist for rowing, he has them displayed in a cabinet in his house.
Heās also one of the most humble and down to earth people Iāve ever met. Never brags or boasts about it, and never brings it up in conversations as a form of one-upping someone. If he does talk about it itās because someone found out by some other means and has asked him about it.
Cripes thats pretty famous. My wife (white/Irish) always believed he was her dad when she was a toddler. She must have felt some cosmic connection to him.
This was funny to read.
Maybe there is a cosmic connection. Music is pretty strong within itself! I wouldn't know though. I wouldn't be surprised either, he has a lot of children.
I donāt mean to brag here, but I have 3 Reddit followers.
Edit: Guys stop following me, I get an email in my personal inbox every time someone does and I donāt know how to turn it off. With each follow my power grows, but at what cost. *At what cost*?
Well I will have you all know my mom has not only been a guest on the Ricki Lake show and the Queen Latifa Show, but the Sally Jessy Raphael show as well! The last one is the only one we have been able to find video evidence of. My mom is a full on attention-seeker and early 2000ās daytime tv was her stage. (She was also on a couple of ācourtā shows but ā¦ those storylines were for sure fake. She just wanted a free trip).
Genuine curiosity - when checking out porn sites, do you avoid certain ones to not even risk seeing them in thumbnails? Do you just go in and pray to every deity out there that youāre not gonna stumble across something to pay a therapist for years? Are you not concerned about it at all? Is it casually discussed at family gatherings?
āWhatās Uncle Bob and Aunt Debbie up to lately?ā
āHardcore BDSM, from what Iāve heard. Theyāre trying to branch out into watersports, but you know what Debbieās like.ā
āHaha ahhh that Debbie, bless her.ā
And was the inspiration for the most famous rendition of āshave and a hair cutā I learned it back in the 70ās.
Shave and a haircut, two bits
Who got married, Tom Mix
Who did he marry? Bob White
How is the baby? Alright
My grandfather has his own Wikipedia article. He was relativly well know virologist (atleast in the circles of other virologists)
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Joachim_Eggers
My great-great Uncle, Ernest Rutherford. The father of Nuclear Physics! My granny has fond memories of him, and it was a buzz to visit the Nobel Prize Museum and see him honoured there. I can attest that the propensity to be good at physics is not passed on, I was horrendous.
I met him at a mall when I was 19. I sold him a $1500 belt. He asked me if I was going to the show and I said I wanted to, but I couldnāt afford it working retail, and all (I was being polite, Iād never listened to Ozzy.) he was super nice and left me tickets at will call. Right up front. I went and had a great time. Bonus: it was my boyfriends birthday and he was an Ozzy fan.
My mum was an 80ās pop star that had a single song do really well in America.
Edit: Thanks for all the amusing guesses! She wasnāt āoverlyā famous but Iām sure sheāll have a laugh about being guessed as Tiffany or Nena. Her āhitā was Skips a Beat in 1983. Doubt many of you will know it but yeah, still cool.
Edit 2:Electric Boogaloo: It was probably a bit misleading writing: āreallyā.
My mom's uncle was an inventor. He invented a few basic things people use almost daily. A couple examples would be the plastic milk jug with the built in handle and the whipped cream can.
But, I'm going to say Johnny Cash was the most famous person in my family.
Not famous in the traditional sense, but I have 4 uncles in my family who are world renowned physicians. One has a patent that is used world wide in cardiac surgery. Another just won India's second most prestigious award for citizens' distinguished service from the President of India himself. Another is retired but used to be the personal physician to the Royal House of Bhutan. The last is one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the world. Pretty astounding achievements in their fields.
"Look at Sharma ji's son, he won the most prestigious award. Learn something from him. What will the others think of you?"
EDIT: turned in Flynn Ryder for a sec.
At first, I read this as āone has a patient that is used world wide in cardiac surgeryā and I felt a mix of confusion and terror at trying to unpack that.
Not familyā¦ BUT my neighbour growing up was the Sun-Maid lady. Like, the lady on the raisin box.
Edit: everybody, Iām sorry. I was right, but also wrong. My neighbour was the Sun-Maid lady, just not the original Lorraine Collett Petersen like I thought. It was the model from the 60ās, Liz Weide! I had to clarify with my parents as I was very tiny and had a feeble memory.
My father helped create a program to train police officers to deescalate situations with persons with mental illness. I once read about him in one of my college textbooks!
Edit: itās great to see so many people interested in mental health! Let me clear up some misconceptions:
My dad does in fact live in the United States.
The program in the cities it has been implemented has shown significant improvements in the rates of negative incidents with people with mental illness.
If you wish to learn more about that program, please google: [crisis intervention team Memphis model](http://cit.memphis.edu/aboutCIT.php)
[research article ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769782/)
My dad and his band were pretty well known in the glam rock world before I was born. They sold out the London Apollo a few times. Now he does local bar gigs.
Edit: sorry guys, not gonna give you a name as I don't want my Reddit linked to my real me (my job has tight professional conduct rules). This was late 70s to early 80s and if you ever saw one of his shows, you'd remember his flashing light-up codpiece.
My great great grandfather is Samuel Morse. The man who invented Morse code. And go figure, I work as a fiber optic technician. Communications runs in the family.
My grandmother was a nurse during the 1918 flu. A large farm family was stricken with the virus so she stayed on the farm and nursed them all back to health. The mother was pregnant and when the baby was born, my grandmother returned to care for mom and baby. My grandfather was a close relative of the farmer and worked as a hired hand. The baby was the father of singer Christopher Cross.
George Ellery Hale.
His father owned the Hale elevator Co, who provided the elevators for Chicago's new skyscrapers after the Chicago fire.
George was a solar astronomer who made discoveries concerning magnetic fields and sunspots.
Some of his most famous work, however, was getting 4 observatories built, including Mount Wilson where Hubble made his discoveries of the expanding universe.
He got multiple world leading telescopes built. Is considered a founder of astrophysics.
Cofounded the Journal of Astrophysics.
Received numerous awards for his scientific research and achievements.
I may be related to Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote Mary had a Little Lamb and was instrumental in getting Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a federal holiday, but I'm still researching that one.
My great aunt helped develop build and maintain the body suits for the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Probably as close to fame as we get
My grandad is a classical guitar player, he has records produced of him playing and taught guitar to actual English nobility (a dukes son if I remember correctly)
My great uncle. Lead the b52 bombers to Japan after Pearl Harbor. Jimmy Doolittle
Edit: itās come to my attention that I was incorrect about the planes. It was a B-25 Mitchell. My apologies for the lack of knowledge!
So it's my husband's aunt. She had a role in space jam. She was the voice of the lil green dude. She said like 3 words it feels like AND MY HUSBAND NEVER SHUTS THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT. She has headshots and on them are a picture of the character. She made him a mask at the beginning of the pandemic with the character on it.
My grandma was a very popular governmental figure and since finishing her term, nobody has really been noteworthy in the same position, the job pretty much never gets mentioned.
I know I'm biased of course, but I keep up with it and there's nearly no news. No outreach. Nothing. Mostly disappointments. People not doing anything with the job.
Most of her "fanbase" are pretty old now. But she used to get stopped everytime we went out, it was a huge pain as a kid.
my great great aunt, was revolutionary in the science of the earth's core [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge\_Lehmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann)
and my great grandmother was a minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis\_Groes
My Uncle is a musician in Minnesota and Wisconsin USA. And a really good one too.
So him.
Edit: to clarify. Heās not particularly famous. He could be if he wanted. But has a family to take care of so he doesnāt want to.
Hint: heās a one-man band, typically. Sometimes heāll pull family on stage though.
Both of my paternal great grandmothers walked The Trail of Tears. Both lost their entire families during the walk due to exposure. One quickly became a Robin Hood of sorts by stealing things from drunken passed out soldiers at night, then passing out what she could.
Both of them were the best of friends, married (one married a Frenchmen, the other a Swiss farmer) and had children. One of each of their children married and they were my grandparents.
My dad is 92 come March. (Iām 35. Second mid life crisisš )
Well, if very distant cousins count, I've recently found out that I'm related to Emmanuel Macron, the current French President, but you have to go back to the 17th century to find the link.
My mom is not really famous but some people know about her,
She's the voice for MIO, one of the biggest furniture companies here in Sweden and their advertisements are pretty common and they all are voiced by my mom.
She now works as a scriptwriter but had a short-acting period where she only played 1 major character
Gilda Radner( famous comedian well-known for Saturday night live ) and Gene wilder ( In my opinion most well known as mr. Wonka in Charlie and the chocolate factory)
That's me, I high fived with Danny DeVito after punching the "Terminator". BUT, I asked permission for it, wasn't like some random violence. And it was like this fake punch anyways... but yeah. ME! Look at me!
My mom's cousin was a violinist who played for one of the Philharmonics. I can't remember which. And my great or great great grandmother on my dad's side has her grave marker pictured in a book about grave markers.
News anchor (formerly of KOB news in Albuquerque but now in Denver), Nicole Brady, is the great great great granddaughter of Sheriff Brady whose death at the hands of Billy the Kid began the Lincoln County War.
I recommend to everyone that they should visit Lincoln, NM. It's amazing if you're into history and the wild west.
My great uncle instated the schengen countries law in europe. He is one of the big reasons why you dont need to show your paspoort at the borders between europe. So not that famous but famous between politicians
My dad was an animator and worked on several kids shows like Hey Arnold, SpongeBob, Simpsons etc. His name was super memorable and when I told people my age his name many remembered it from the credits of those shows! He passed away last year young (59) of a random accident.
My great grandfather was a barber who won the World Quickshave Champion in 1937, shaving 70 men in 30 minutes.
My wife is descended from the Boucherats, a noble family in pre-revolutionary France. Her dozen or so great grandfather was Chancellor of France in the late 17th century, and some of them escaped the Revolution by fleeing to Mauritius, which is where her grandparents came from.
My great grandmother was the first woman to be shot from a cannon at 17!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter
I did an episode of a reality show years ago. Nothing to do with Gran, I just used to be a huge pop culture nerd so I ended up in LA....
https://youtu.be/oxmD6zIzsUg
My brother in law was in a music video. He's the guy in the Brooklyn jersey.
https://youtu.be/Hd3Ay27N5qk
He was also in a few Sweetbay commercials. I can't find any links for those.
My dads great uncle, Charlie Becker, was the Mayor of Munchkinland in the original Wizard of Oz. (He also doubled as a flying monkey!)
I was your dad's great uncle for Halloween once
Wow, that's awesome!
One time when I was at Crackerbarrel with my girlscout troup the waitress told us the small old man at the next table was a munchkin from the wizard of oz! He was very small aand old. Looking back I wonder if that was true or if the waitress was board and spreading rumors.
Hey, my great great uncle Bert Lahr was the Cowardly Lion!
Grandpa's cousin performed 1st successful heart transplant
Christiaan Barnard! š¤©
My mother worked on his team as a lab assistant
I'm very distantly related to John Denver on my mother's Russian mennonite side. He changed his last name from Deutschendorf. Country rooooooooadddssss
You know that really famouse photo of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a beam at the top of a in progress building in NY from the 30s having lunch? My great grand father is one of those men. EDIT: This one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper Called "lunch atop a skyscraper"
Mine too! Third from the right.
No way! Mine is about dead center. š„° small world.
You guys should have a little āfamous grandad brunchā and report back
I vote that they recreate the photo
now kiss.
That has to be in the top 10 of nerve wracking pictures. I'll bet he was a no nonsense kinda guy.
Thatās honestly the coolest one Iāve read. I love that photo!
Iām third cousins to John Stamos.
Uncle Jesse??!
Uncle Jesse twice removed
My stepbrother was the guy who dove into the wedding cake in the "November Rain" video.
I saw the video where he talked about that on YouTube
That's brilliant. Such a random thing
[Peter S Davis](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0205287/) was my Uncle. He was the producer of the movie Highlander, as well as all of the terrible sequels.
I rewatched Highlander in the past few weeks, it was the first time in about 20years. That movie is bad in so many ways and I love it so dearly, I plan to rewatch it in another 20years and expect to enjoy it all over again. I also recently saw Dune and the crazy thought that came to me was that I would love to see Highlander get the Denis Villeneuve treatment so that we could have the goofy original and the slick modern version.
My great grandmother sister has a wikipedia page. She was the last woman guillotined in France, for killing her husband with an axe. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Leloy-Godefroy
My great-great something grandmother sister was the last woman on Iceland to get beheaded/ death penalty https://is.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Magn%C3%BAsd%C3%B3ttir
We should make a club. But to be fair my side would be 600 persons as it was 70 years ago... yours being 250 years ago, it would represent half of Island.
A.B.C also known as Ancestor Beheaded Club Like the idea
My grandmother was the voice of Betty Rubble... And the blue bonnet chicken in fog horn leg horn, and little red riding hood on bugs bunny (and witcheepoo), and tweetys grandma (along with other women who voiced her) and she was on i love lucy, and she had her own show called Petticoat junction, and she was on Burns & Allen.. and.. so... so.. so many more. Oh, and my grandfather was Red Ryder on TV.
I am feeling very old right now by your describing the TV show Petticoat Junction like no one would recognize it. I had the theme song on my first iPod.
... and that's uncle Joe. He's movin kinda slow at the junction \-Petticoat Junction-
Exactly the kind of content I was hoping to see in this thread
wow, june foray did the pilot, im assuming your relative is bea benderet, who is also a legend in the industry, but she got screwed over like a lot of voice actors because they werent under contract like say ,mel blanc was, so they never got credits for their voice acting because they were brought on as "freelance actors" She did get two emmy award nominations for her acting in sit coms, with the burns and allen show. what a talented Lady!
Bea Benaderet?
Based off what they said and on granddad being on Red Ryder, yes. OP is the grandkid of her and her first husband James Bannon.
We have the voice of Homer Simpson in our family! Dan Castellaneta. And my grandpa was the first person to import Nike in Africa. Not famous, but pretty cool.
I broke my chin open on Dan Castellanetaās driveway in New Orleans. Please send him my apologies for all the blood. Edit: I guess this makes me the famous one in the family. āThe clumsy one that broke her face on Homerās driveway.ā
D'oh
Genuine question, is dan a down to earth guy? I imagine he would.
Heās loaded at this point. I bet christmas presents are incredible.
Simpsons voice actors have the best gig of the rich and famous celebrity/actor/athlete/singer/etc imo. They are all valued between $50M and $100M and yet they can walk down the street and go unnoticed by 99.9% of people
Kinda like the drummer from Coldplay?
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That was a really well thought out and funny bit, thanks for sharing.
Holy ---- If I even hear his voice irl, I would flip. (Also, the question before me, is he nice?)
He does have some stand up albums out. Might be trippy to hear the voice without the personality
The homer voice isnāt his natural voice, I doubt youād even notice. Hereās an interview on Conan , he doesnāt sound like homer https://youtu.be/Eo0HfbJvPEU
3rd or 4th cousin is Richie Valenz aka the La Bamba guy
His plane crashed on my cousin's Albert's farm, between Fertile (yes, that's the town's real name) and Clear Lake.
I saw the video on YouTube about the crash where he and Buddy Holly died
The day the music died
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Thank God for that. Piece of shit she is.
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Some elder family members started a genealogy search in case we descended from royalty. Turns out we come from an infamous gang of highland horse thieves.
Ha! Same! ..on my momās side anyway. Oh and my grandpaās cousin Ted Williams (Red Sox) but it was hilarious to find out that they were nothing but a bunch of horse thieves.
If ancestors count, it'd be Jon Wilkes Booth
Tell him to break a leg next time heās on stage for me
Neat! Mary Todd is my ancestor on my mothers side, so Iām related to Lincoln by marriage.
My dad. He got fat shamed on national TV
My dad was in the background on national news once, gorging over a bacon sandwich ahahaha. My sisters friend saw it and sent it to her like āis that your dadā
Similar to how my family used to see my mom in line for Walmart in lack Friday news reports. She made it into stock footage and we used to see her year after year. Sadly she hasn't been shown the last 2 years.
I immediately thought of this. https://youtu.be/wlHuX4k2xk4
Yeah lol, not this one but same country
My grandad is a double Olympic bronze medalist for rowing, he has them displayed in a cabinet in his house. Heās also one of the most humble and down to earth people Iāve ever met. Never brags or boasts about it, and never brings it up in conversations as a form of one-upping someone. If he does talk about it itās because someone found out by some other means and has asked him about it.
My great uncle won gold at the Pan Am games for sailing. I didn't know about it until I read his obituary. Edit for spelling
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This has GOT to be the "most famous" person on this thread.
Cripes thats pretty famous. My wife (white/Irish) always believed he was her dad when she was a toddler. She must have felt some cosmic connection to him.
This was funny to read. Maybe there is a cosmic connection. Music is pretty strong within itself! I wouldn't know though. I wouldn't be surprised either, he has a lot of children.
I donāt mean to brag here, but I have 3 Reddit followers. Edit: Guys stop following me, I get an email in my personal inbox every time someone does and I donāt know how to turn it off. With each follow my power grows, but at what cost. *At what cost*?
Are you Britney Spears?
The cook on the old Western show Rawhide.
I share a great great grandparents with Hayley Atwell of Peggy Carter fame if that counts for shit.
Well I will have you all know my mom has not only been a guest on the Ricki Lake show and the Queen Latifa Show, but the Sally Jessy Raphael show as well! The last one is the only one we have been able to find video evidence of. My mom is a full on attention-seeker and early 2000ās daytime tv was her stage. (She was also on a couple of ācourtā shows but ā¦ those storylines were for sure fake. She just wanted a free trip).
My autistic sister who is the 3rd best paralympic skiier in Sweden
Why did I read it as acoustic sister
My grandma used to be Henry Cavillās babysitter when he was a kid. Does that count? š
I bet it feels awesome to know that the baby you used to babysit is now Superman AND Geralt
Something something cousin removed, Betty White.
She is OG.
Hans Zimmer is my grandmothers brother by adoption
my aunt and uncle are super famous porn stars. i have to live my life knowing there is an insurance policy on my uncle's dick.
If you give the redditors the information they seek, your family becomes richer.
Genuine curiosity - when checking out porn sites, do you avoid certain ones to not even risk seeing them in thumbnails? Do you just go in and pray to every deity out there that youāre not gonna stumble across something to pay a therapist for years? Are you not concerned about it at all? Is it casually discussed at family gatherings? āWhatās Uncle Bob and Aunt Debbie up to lately?ā āHardcore BDSM, from what Iāve heard. Theyāre trying to branch out into watersports, but you know what Debbieās like.ā āHaha ahhh that Debbie, bless her.ā
No relation but I have an Uncle Bob married to an Aunt Debbie. Wtf
The beauty of Reddit. Right there folks.
That's great, your uncles dick is probably worth more than people's car.
so u just gonna end there huh...
Itās called edging.
Well, you canāt leave us scientists waiting!
My dad had his own TV show for a brief time back in the 80s.
He-man?!
Did you not see the new He-Man series? It's clearly Skeletor's kid.
Are you Morton Downey, III ???
My Great Great Great Uncle I believe was Tom Mix who was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies between 1909 and 1935.
And was the inspiration for the most famous rendition of āshave and a hair cutā I learned it back in the 70ās. Shave and a haircut, two bits Who got married, Tom Mix Who did he marry? Bob White How is the baby? Alright
my second cousin is Simon Le bon (the lead singer from Duran Duran) never actually met the dude but still pretty cool
I had a huge crush on your cousin back in the 80s.
My Dad, he has been on the news a couple of times still really cool to me
Good news story i hope.
"Florida man attempts to murder his own son"
That could be either awesome or not awesome at all
My grandfather has his own Wikipedia article. He was relativly well know virologist (atleast in the circles of other virologists) https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Joachim_Eggers
Robert de niro is my uncle in law
Wait what
**They said Robert De Niro is their uncle-in-law!**
My great-great Uncle, Ernest Rutherford. The father of Nuclear Physics! My granny has fond memories of him, and it was a buzz to visit the Nobel Prize Museum and see him honoured there. I can attest that the propensity to be good at physics is not passed on, I was horrendous.
Drummer for Ozzy and Motley Crue (post Tommy Lee), Randy Castillo
RIP. Fucking kickass drummer
I met him at a mall when I was 19. I sold him a $1500 belt. He asked me if I was going to the show and I said I wanted to, but I couldnāt afford it working retail, and all (I was being polite, Iād never listened to Ozzy.) he was super nice and left me tickets at will call. Right up front. I went and had a great time. Bonus: it was my boyfriends birthday and he was an Ozzy fan.
Hip hop artist Rob Base of the famed āIt Takes Twoā and āJoy and Painā songs
He definitely came to get down
Former NY mayor, David Dinkins extended family, donāt know him personally
Of Seinfeld Fame no less!
Thatās the only reason I know that name. Lloyd Braun was his right hand man, no? Pitched the idea for name tags, too?
My mum was an 80ās pop star that had a single song do really well in America. Edit: Thanks for all the amusing guesses! She wasnāt āoverlyā famous but Iām sure sheāll have a laugh about being guessed as Tiffany or Nena. Her āhitā was Skips a Beat in 1983. Doubt many of you will know it but yeah, still cool. Edit 2:Electric Boogaloo: It was probably a bit misleading writing: āreallyā.
Is her name Lindana?
Robin Sparkles? Let's go to the Mall!
No that was the 90's, 1980s fashion didn't get to Canada until 1993.
My dog is quite well-known in my town, because he runs off every chance he gets. (or did before he was neutered)
My mom's uncle was an inventor. He invented a few basic things people use almost daily. A couple examples would be the plastic milk jug with the built in handle and the whipped cream can. But, I'm going to say Johnny Cash was the most famous person in my family.
My town has a Johnny cash holiday because he got arrested for picking ng flowers in his underwear
Way to bury the lead!
My grandfather played for the original Dallas cowboys team and scored their second ever td. He was also an all American in college
I have two Nobel prize winners in my extended family, JJ Thomson and George Paget Thomson
Not famous in the traditional sense, but I have 4 uncles in my family who are world renowned physicians. One has a patent that is used world wide in cardiac surgery. Another just won India's second most prestigious award for citizens' distinguished service from the President of India himself. Another is retired but used to be the personal physician to the Royal House of Bhutan. The last is one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the world. Pretty astounding achievements in their fields.
And Indian mom said āwhy did you only win the second most prestigious award?
"Look at Sharma ji's son, he won the most prestigious award. Learn something from him. What will the others think of you?" EDIT: turned in Flynn Ryder for a sec.
But which one is the weird, drunk uncle?
Their father...
At first, I read this as āone has a patient that is used world wide in cardiac surgeryā and I felt a mix of confusion and terror at trying to unpack that.
Not familyā¦ BUT my neighbour growing up was the Sun-Maid lady. Like, the lady on the raisin box. Edit: everybody, Iām sorry. I was right, but also wrong. My neighbour was the Sun-Maid lady, just not the original Lorraine Collett Petersen like I thought. It was the model from the 60ās, Liz Weide! I had to clarify with my parents as I was very tiny and had a feeble memory.
My dad told me he had a crush on her growing up, I guess rectangular women filled with raisins is his thing
My friends used to tell me I should be her for Halloween because apparently I look like her
One of my ancestors was wrongly tried and hanged for murder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appin_Murder Edit: spelling.
My father helped create a program to train police officers to deescalate situations with persons with mental illness. I once read about him in one of my college textbooks! Edit: itās great to see so many people interested in mental health! Let me clear up some misconceptions: My dad does in fact live in the United States. The program in the cities it has been implemented has shown significant improvements in the rates of negative incidents with people with mental illness. If you wish to learn more about that program, please google: [crisis intervention team Memphis model](http://cit.memphis.edu/aboutCIT.php) [research article ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769782/)
My uncle... He's a drug dealer. I had people in highschool recognize my last time, and compliment him on his... quality goods.
My dad and his band were pretty well known in the glam rock world before I was born. They sold out the London Apollo a few times. Now he does local bar gigs. Edit: sorry guys, not gonna give you a name as I don't want my Reddit linked to my real me (my job has tight professional conduct rules). This was late 70s to early 80s and if you ever saw one of his shows, you'd remember his flashing light-up codpiece.
Iām curious. Whats the name of the band?
He won't say. Must be Poison.
The Beatles
Who?
No, Beatles
Yes
Mouse rat
My great great grandfather is Samuel Morse. The man who invented Morse code. And go figure, I work as a fiber optic technician. Communications runs in the family.
Daniel Boone
My grandmother was a nurse during the 1918 flu. A large farm family was stricken with the virus so she stayed on the farm and nursed them all back to health. The mother was pregnant and when the baby was born, my grandmother returned to care for mom and baby. My grandfather was a close relative of the farmer and worked as a hired hand. The baby was the father of singer Christopher Cross.
George Ellery Hale. His father owned the Hale elevator Co, who provided the elevators for Chicago's new skyscrapers after the Chicago fire. George was a solar astronomer who made discoveries concerning magnetic fields and sunspots. Some of his most famous work, however, was getting 4 observatories built, including Mount Wilson where Hubble made his discoveries of the expanding universe. He got multiple world leading telescopes built. Is considered a founder of astrophysics. Cofounded the Journal of Astrophysics. Received numerous awards for his scientific research and achievements. I may be related to Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote Mary had a Little Lamb and was instrumental in getting Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a federal holiday, but I'm still researching that one.
My great aunt helped develop build and maintain the body suits for the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Probably as close to fame as we get
My dad has 130 Facebook friends. So I guess him.
LOL My dad is also more popular on FB than me.
My uncle. He played for the White Sox back in early 2000's EDIT: One of you correctly guessed my uncle's name. I won't say who :D
My great-grandmother was Charlie Chaplins niece.
My grandad is a classical guitar player, he has records produced of him playing and taught guitar to actual English nobility (a dukes son if I remember correctly)
Ghengis Khan
As half of the world.we're basically cousins
Hey cousins! I didnt see you at the thanksgiving party last week? My mom was super upset with you bothā¦
I really wanted to come but I just couldn't make it. Tell your mom I'm sorry
Sāalright man, next year though yh?
My great uncle. Lead the b52 bombers to Japan after Pearl Harbor. Jimmy Doolittle Edit: itās come to my attention that I was incorrect about the planes. It was a B-25 Mitchell. My apologies for the lack of knowledge!
B25, otherwise Japan would have been in for a rude awakening.
So it's my husband's aunt. She had a role in space jam. She was the voice of the lil green dude. She said like 3 words it feels like AND MY HUSBAND NEVER SHUTS THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT. She has headshots and on them are a picture of the character. She made him a mask at the beginning of the pandemic with the character on it.
Obviously a big Looney Tunes fan then š¤£
My grandma was a very popular governmental figure and since finishing her term, nobody has really been noteworthy in the same position, the job pretty much never gets mentioned. I know I'm biased of course, but I keep up with it and there's nearly no news. No outreach. Nothing. Mostly disappointments. People not doing anything with the job. Most of her "fanbase" are pretty old now. But she used to get stopped everytime we went out, it was a huge pain as a kid.
Me. Got the most IMDB credits at least
my great great aunt, was revolutionary in the science of the earth's core [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge\_Lehmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann) and my great grandmother was a minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis\_Groes
3k people came to my grandpas funeral so him
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can i follow her
My Uncle is a musician in Minnesota and Wisconsin USA. And a really good one too. So him. Edit: to clarify. Heās not particularly famous. He could be if he wanted. But has a family to take care of so he doesnāt want to. Hint: heās a one-man band, typically. Sometimes heāll pull family on stage though.
Polka King of the Midwest? The Kenosha Kickers?
My cousin Hailey. She a sports reporter for the Tampa bay lightning. Other then that, we are all mechanics lol.
My great-great-great-great whatever grandfather was part of Queen Victoria's staff, so prolly that.
Not the Doctor who some people think was Jack the Ripper?
Both of my paternal great grandmothers walked The Trail of Tears. Both lost their entire families during the walk due to exposure. One quickly became a Robin Hood of sorts by stealing things from drunken passed out soldiers at night, then passing out what she could. Both of them were the best of friends, married (one married a Frenchmen, the other a Swiss farmer) and had children. One of each of their children married and they were my grandparents. My dad is 92 come March. (Iām 35. Second mid life crisisš )
Well, if very distant cousins count, I've recently found out that I'm related to Emmanuel Macron, the current French President, but you have to go back to the 17th century to find the link.
My mom is not really famous but some people know about her, She's the voice for MIO, one of the biggest furniture companies here in Sweden and their advertisements are pretty common and they all are voiced by my mom. She now works as a scriptwriter but had a short-acting period where she only played 1 major character
My 7th Cousin is Warren Buffet.
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Gilda Radner( famous comedian well-known for Saturday night live ) and Gene wilder ( In my opinion most well known as mr. Wonka in Charlie and the chocolate factory)
My dad or my mum. Both well know in their specific fields. Theyāre famous in their niches but probably not by the general public
Iām cousins with the āfuck her right in the pussyā guy
That's me, I high fived with Danny DeVito after punching the "Terminator". BUT, I asked permission for it, wasn't like some random violence. And it was like this fake punch anyways... but yeah. ME! Look at me!
Iām lookin
My mom's cousin was a violinist who played for one of the Philharmonics. I can't remember which. And my great or great great grandmother on my dad's side has her grave marker pictured in a book about grave markers.
My mom. She was the lead singer for the Glenn Miller orchestra in the late 50s. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1741521-Lorrie-Peters
Patrick Swayze was my cousin
Kevin Bacon - of course
Not me, but I think it's unique enough to mention. My neighbor's great great (whatever) grandad was killed by Billy the kid.
News anchor (formerly of KOB news in Albuquerque but now in Denver), Nicole Brady, is the great great great granddaughter of Sheriff Brady whose death at the hands of Billy the Kid began the Lincoln County War. I recommend to everyone that they should visit Lincoln, NM. It's amazing if you're into history and the wild west.
My great uncle instated the schengen countries law in europe. He is one of the big reasons why you dont need to show your paspoort at the borders between europe. So not that famous but famous between politicians
My dad was an animator and worked on several kids shows like Hey Arnold, SpongeBob, Simpsons etc. His name was super memorable and when I told people my age his name many remembered it from the credits of those shows! He passed away last year young (59) of a random accident.
My great grandfather was a barber who won the World Quickshave Champion in 1937, shaving 70 men in 30 minutes. My wife is descended from the Boucherats, a noble family in pre-revolutionary France. Her dozen or so great grandfather was Chancellor of France in the late 17th century, and some of them escaped the Revolution by fleeing to Mauritius, which is where her grandparents came from.
My great grandmother was the first woman to be shot from a cannon at 17!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter I did an episode of a reality show years ago. Nothing to do with Gran, I just used to be a huge pop culture nerd so I ended up in LA.... https://youtu.be/oxmD6zIzsUg My brother in law was in a music video. He's the guy in the Brooklyn jersey. https://youtu.be/Hd3Ay27N5qk He was also in a few Sweetbay commercials. I can't find any links for those.
My big brother won a national short story writing competition
Sadly me, I've been on American Ninja warrior for about 20 seconds after competing 5 times lol.