<p>My grandmother, who is 100% Italian, had a relative (some relation of her father) who invented the movie projector. He took the invention to Edison at some point, who stole the idea. That's the extent of it. I am seen nationalities (Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Austrian, German, Russian, and French), so I bet there's some famous person mixed in there somewhere that is distantly related to me.</p>
<p>My great uncle was a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1920's.</p>
<p>Haha. I'm also seven nationalities (Italian, Irish, Polish, German, Austrian, Greek, and Russian). Maybe I am also related to some famous European person.</p>
<p>Wow...We have five overlapping nationalities...Weird...</p>
<p>w1cked</p>
<p>I'm sorry to hear that. Please know that he will welcome you back any time.</p>
<p>Haha maybe we are long lost cousins.</p>
<p>one of my relatives invented Powdered Egg. yes you heard me right. for the military or something...</p>
<p>also my cousin in florida is seriously going to be the next Michael Phelps.... he's an amazing swimmer on his way 2 the olympics</p>
<p>also my uncle's a graphic designer- so, not that famous, but he did like images for Yoplait, and for the 1999 ING NYC marathon, and some Hockey CUp or w/e</p>
<p>That would be very interesting Xavier, lol.</p>
<p>Remembered another one! Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration and the person for whom 'gerrymandering' was named.</p>
<p>hey I've seen Elbridge Gerry's house in Marblehead! awesomeness</p>
<p>No one famous related to me but..</p>
<p>My classmate's mom competed and won some famous beauty pageant.</p>
<p>My friend's former teacher's husband plays in the NBA</p>
<p>that's about it =(</p>
<p>my grandfather's brother in law Milt helped open department stores with his brother James... Cash Penney. </p>
<p>and somehow, Abraham Lincoln... dont know how that one works out.</p>
<p>Michael Westbrook (former NFL Redskin and Bengal) is my 2nd cousin.</p>
<p>Also a kid in my class is related to pocahontas, I believe.</p>
<p>My friend's cousin is "Mikey" (from the old life cereal commercial...you know "Hey Mikey! He Likes it!) he is like 17 now...</p>
<p>One of my good friends is the niece of the current president of Pakistan.</p>
<p>As for me, not much, unless you go way back. My mom's dad (aka my grandfather) is a direct male descendent of Confucius and the father of my paternal grandmother is a direct male descendent of the entire Han dynasty.</p>
<p>My great-something-grandfather was the "the Red Robber of the Rio Grande"... Juan Nepomuceno Cortina.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/juan-cortina%5B/url%5D">http://www.answers.com/topic/juan-cortina</a></p>
<p>Chillaxin, how exactly would you know you were somehow related to Confucius? Oh, and there was a boy in my school whose last name was Darwin, and I believe I was told that this kid is related to Charles Darwin. Interestingly, this kid looks like a monkey.</p>
<p>hhahahahahaha mcz oh man.......</p>
<p>My PE teacher was Big Bird on Sesame Street for a while... but that's about it.</p>
<p>One of the people I used to know from taekwondo went to be a power ranger! I don't know which color but I thought it was pretty cool. </p>
<p>Also, my great-grandfather was in some sort of Boston mob a long time ago. And one of my relatives flew over the Berlin Wall in a hot air balloon at night. That's all I think.</p>
<p>It's this whole Chinese thing, where the Kongs are super-obsessed (or at least my mother's family's branch is) with what generation of descendents they are from Confucius. I believe it's the 86th or 87th.</p>