<p>As for me, I'm a collateral descendant of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and a royal family in Ireland. Glenn Campbell, an actor, is a distant cousin of mine as well. =]</p>
<p>“I’m famous” posts don’t count.</p>
<p>I am Hu Haifeng, firstborn son of 胡锦涛 (Hu Jintao), Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China. I am posting on CollegeConfidential from Peking University through my father’s personal satellite internet.</p>
<p>One of my ancestors was in the state legislature quite a few greats back, but that’s as famous as we get… :P</p>
<p>idk if you know about art history, but I’m a very distant relative of Winslow Homer</p>
<p>I’m a direct descendant of a someone who was a member of the House and Senate, served for a short period of time as Secretary of War and Treasury, wrote the eulogy for George Washington, and administered the oath of office to John Marshall. He also served in the Revolution as a captain under Alexander Hamilton.</p>
<p>I’m a cousin of Allen Iverson.</p>
<p>I’m distantly related to English royalty.</p>
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Even if I am?</p>
<p>And according to my great great great great aunt who’s scottish… she told my dad that we have some DISTANT relation to royalty.</p>
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<p>Hudson School?</p>
<p>Post Hudson River</p>
<p>He was more of a Realist whose nature scenes were more commonly depicting the ocean than the Hudson River School did</p>
<p>[History</a> of Art: Winslow Homer](<a href=“http://www.all-art.org/impressionism/homer1.html]History”>http://www.all-art.org/impressionism/homer1.html)</p>
<p>I was about to type the name of a person… but I stopped myself.
Somebody rather famous for being a leader shares the same ‘rare’ surname as me.</p>
<p>William Bradford</p>
<p>Considering the exponential nature of this question, I do not give it much weight.</p>
<p>However, I am related to myself.</p>
<p>I’m related to Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>Yup.</p>
<p>^So am I, in fact everyone on this forum is. Hey your my brother/sister.</p>
<p>So we’re all tangentially famous in a way :D.</p>
<p>im distantly related to the first human being</p>
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<p>I hope it’s Zedong</p>
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<p>Dude, are you my cousin?</p>