Inspired by the Old/New World relatives thread,
is anyone here related to some known (meaning the person somewhat gained some kind of fame during or after life) person here?
Me, by marriage I've acquired a quite famous (in Italy) TV and newspapers journalist and writer,
and a top-level football player of 20 years ago, one of the first italian players to go playing and then coaching abroad in the late nineties.
L.
Someone is related to a writer. I think it's Ed and the Gor guy.
My maternal grandfather was a member of the Korean legislature and got a fancy schmancy state funeral.
As a kid my father was the sports columnist for the local paper. This being in the days before the internet it was a big deal at the time, so I'd always get asked if I was related to him.
My great-great uncle was one of the founders and first president of one of Spain's largest basketball clubs. He wasn't famous himself but the club is (over here).
My brother was a sports anchor for the local telly, so he's sorta known around town.
That's about it.
Quote from: Pedrito on October 13, 2015, 02:03:51 PM
top-level football player of 20 years ago, one of the first italian players to go playing and then coaching abroad in the late nineties.
L.
Who!?? Ravanelli?
My name here is very inspired by the most notorious man in my family. Not particularly famous but he worked for king Christian IX as keeper of the royal hunting grounds. Very drunken man who later opened a now semi-famous restaurant.
Nobody in my family has ever done anything of note to draw attention from the general public.
Not by blood, no. My second brother-in-law's brother (my "Schwippschwager") is a somewhat famous singer and songwriter here in Germany.
None that I know of, but no doubt it'll be a question often asked of my descendants. :bowler:
My uncle is a dirigent and componist apparently known in the classical music circles over here. My girlfriends uncle won an etappe in the tour of France 1980 and two etappes in the Vuelta 1973. He cycled as helper of Eddy Merx. Her nephew has been Belgian champion jumping (horse) a couple of years ago.
I had a great uncle who ran with Capone. They never did find out where he's buried. Some more recently who are cut from the same cloth. I'm distantly related to Shelby Foote. There's a monument to one my ancestors in Connecticut.
Quote from: Liep on October 13, 2015, 02:17:21 PM
Quote from: Pedrito on October 13, 2015, 02:03:51 PM
top-level football player of 20 years ago, one of the first italian players to go playing and then coaching abroad in the late nineties.
L.
Who!?? Ravanelli?
Better: Gianluca Vialli :P.
I never had the pleasure to meet him, though :(
L.
Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2015, 02:53:28 PM
None that I know of, but no doubt it'll be a question often asked of my descendants. :bowler:
Didn't know you have kids.
Jimmy Stewart on one side, Jesse James on the other.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 13, 2015, 03:45:58 PM
Jimmy Stewart on one side, Jesse James on the other.
Which Jesse James?
Quote from: Razgovory on October 13, 2015, 03:24:50 PM
I had a great uncle who ran with Capone. They never did find out where he's buried. Some more recently who are cut from the same cloth.
:o I think you were completely right about Erdogan. :unsure:
Famous? No, well known? Depends on your definition of well known.
My grandfather from my mom's side was well known in PR, he was the first rican superintendant of the Methodist Church in PR, he and his church was responsible for the little town/community to exist/grow.
My grandfather from my dad's side was the barber in his town, he was extremely well known in his town.
Yes, an aunt who is a famous writer.
Quote from: Malthus on October 13, 2015, 04:20:18 PM
Yes, an aunt who is a famous writer.
Wait did she write Harry Potter?
Quote from: Valmy on October 13, 2015, 04:22:34 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 13, 2015, 04:20:18 PM
Yes, an aunt who is a famous writer.
Wait did she write Harry Potter?
All of Malthus' posts, it's her novel for the social media age.
Quote from: Malthus on October 13, 2015, 04:20:18 PM
Yes, an aunt who is a famous writer.
I remember in university I had a lecturer who worshipped your aunt. It got totally ridiculous as she mentioned her almost every other sentence. I swore that I would not read any of her books as revenge. Never imagined that I would talk to one of her relatives in this fashion after all these years :hug:
Quote from: Syt on October 13, 2015, 02:17:25 PM
Nobody in my family has ever done anything of note to draw attention from the general public.
Same here.
Followers of my Colombian thread know that I was (briefly) el hijo de Jeff Immelt. :alberta: ;)
Quote from: DGuller on October 13, 2015, 04:01:38 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 13, 2015, 03:24:50 PM
I had a great uncle who ran with Capone. They never did find out where he's buried. Some more recently who are cut from the same cloth.
:o I think you were completely right about Erdogan. :unsure:
My cousin is married to a Union boss :) I have another cousin that is married to Genovese in the banking industry. That's his actual name as well. You'd think with name that well known you'd change it or something. Some who are blood relatives I don't want to mention do stuff around St. Louis. Don't worry, I have no talent for that kind of work. Well, I kinda do, but I makes you feel real bad afterwords. Anyway, those guys are bores and louts.
My grandfather had controlling shares and was president (later Chairman of the Board) of William Morrow Publishing.
His great grandfather was Henry Wise, the Virginia governor who hanged John Brown and later became an incompetent Civil War General.
There are some other fun people on this side of my family, but that is enough.
10th cousin twice removed of FDR.
Yes. John Morgan, John Quincy Adams, John Adams, and Robert the Bruce are rather well-known, I would say.
Well hell if we are going that far back I descended from Henry VII as well as the Patrick Stewart 'The Bastard of Orkney' the guy who inspired Ramsay Bolton for George RR Martin.
My great-uncle was a mid-level TV producer (mostly for the USA Network, not sure if it's still around) and high-level L.A. sleaze who always had young casting-couch girlfriends. He was in Rao's in NY once when it got shot up in a mob beef in the early 90s and was mentioned in the Post. :)
EDIT: Looking him up he is noted for his work on made-for-TV movie Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! (released in Germany as Marabunta) among other things. :lol:
Beyond Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme tune guy: No.
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:15:26 AM
Beyond Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme tune guy: No.
You are related to Ennio Morricone?
My great uncle was a philanderer and a popular insult around his time was to tell someone to go "cry to their father Joe" (ie you were the bastard son on my uncle). I always found that amusing.
So not "Famous" Famous, but famous enough in his city to be the origin of an insult.
Quote from: Valmy on October 14, 2015, 10:27:32 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:15:26 AM
Beyond Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme tune guy: No.
You are related to Ennio Morricone?
No, a minor musician who did the whistling for it.
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:35:56 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 14, 2015, 10:27:32 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:15:26 AM
Beyond Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme tune guy: No.
You are related to Ennio Morricone?
No, a minor musician who did the whistling for it.
Well that's still pretty cool. :)
Oh, my first cousin is the radio play-by-play guy for the Winnipeg Jets (and before that was for years the radio play-by-play guy for the minor league baseball Winnipeg Goldeyes) so he's famous in Winnipeg.
I have a good friend whose father used to be a dubbing actor for our regional television, and during his career he dubbed hundreds and hundreds of characters. One of his more iconic performances is the dubbing of Cheech Marin's character in "From dusk till dawn". When they showed that film on tv, my friend was watching it with his family, and when that character appears, in his role as announcer from the bar advertising the girls on it (the "pussy" monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVgdYFmtmtM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVgdYFmtmtM)), my friend says that the whole family's mouths dropped to the ground and turned to his dad, and he said something like "Oh, yeah, I did that one a bit ago, didn't remember it anymore".
To this day to many people who don't know my friend that much he still is the son of the guy who did the pussy monologue in that film. :lol:
À famous hockey player, Raymond Bourque, is the closest.
My grandfather was a federal MP.
My biological paternal grandfather was a famous radio host in the 50s.
Holy crap you know Ray Bourque?
Not really, only met him once when I was a small child.
He married my aunt by law sister.
Your Aunt-in-law's sister's husband? Close enough I say.
I know I would make sure to attend every family reunion with that branch :P
Hmmm... my mom's cousin is - or rather was - one of the primary ideologues of the Danish People's Party, and he was quite topical for a decade or two in Danish politics.
My step-dad's great-uncle (?)(some sort of relation) was a Jewish "adventurer" (family lore has him as a mobster) known as Two-Gun Cohen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(adventurer)), who later ended up as a bodyguard for Dr. Sun-Yat Sen.
On my dad's side, I'm told my (great?-)great-grandfather's brother was Bob Fitzsimmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons), a bare-knuckle boxer and the first three-division champion. I can believe it, because he looks a lot like my dad.
Quote from: Jacob on October 14, 2015, 03:32:38 PM
Hmmm... my mom's cousin is - or rather was - one of the primary ideologues of the Danish People's Party, and he was quite topical for a decade or two in Danish politics.
My step-dad's great-uncle (?)(some sort of relation) was a Jewish "adventurer" (family lore has him as a mobster) known as Two-Gun Cohen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(adventurer)), who later ended up as a bodyguard for Dr. Sun-Yat Sen.
On my dad's side, I'm told my (great?-)great-grandfather's brother was Bob Fitzsimmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons), a bare-knuckle boxer and the first three-division champion. I can believe it, because he looks a lot like my dad.
On my mom's side, the "black sheep" of the family was a great-uncle who was a Jewish gangster involved in rum-running during the Prohibition era ... but who wasn't very good at gangster-dom: he ended up getting murdered by rival gangsters.
Family lore has it that he was shot so many times, they had to sweep up the bits and bury him in a bag!
Quote from: Jacob on October 14, 2015, 03:32:38 PM
On my dad's side, I'm told my (great?-)great-grandfather's brother was Bob Fitzsimmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons), a bare-knuckle boxer and the first three-division champion. I can believe it, because he looks a lot like my dad.
One drop of Irish in an otherwise Danish family tree? I'm confused.
Quote from: Jacob on October 14, 2015, 03:32:38 PM
My step-dad's great-uncle (?)(some sort of relation) was a Jewish "adventurer" (family lore has him as a mobster) known as Two-Gun Cohen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(adventurer)), who later ended up as a bodyguard for Dr. Sun-Yat Sen.
I listened to a pretty cool podcast on him.
http://chinahistorypodcast.com/chp-130-morris-two-gun-cohen-part-1
http://chinahistorypodcast.com/chp-131-morris-two-gun-cohen-part-2
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:35:56 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 14, 2015, 10:27:32 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 10:15:26 AM
Beyond Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme tune guy: No.
You are related to Ennio Morricone?
No, a minor musician who did the whistling for it.
What a missed opportunity, you could have used this smiley - :whistle:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 14, 2015, 03:39:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on October 14, 2015, 03:32:38 PM
On my dad's side, I'm told my (great?-)great-grandfather's brother was Bob Fitzsimmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons), a bare-knuckle boxer and the first three-division champion. I can believe it, because he looks a lot like my dad.
One drop of Irish in an otherwise Danish family tree? I'm confused.
British - English really - and more than a drop. My biological dad was - and still is I presume - English, which he described as a mixture of English, Irish, Scottish and more, all mixed in the metropolis of London. He's a bit of a character, and I can spin a few yarns about him when the occasion calls for it.
The Danish side of the family has both Norwegians and Prussians (vons, no less) when you go back a few generations (with the Prussians being a bit further back).
Asoka
Quote from: Valmy on October 14, 2015, 03:25:24 PM
Your Aunt-in-law's sister's husband? Close enough I say.
I know I would make sure to attend every family reunion with that branch :P
Yes, if there ever is one.
Nobody in immediate family of notoriety.
Distant cousin on mother side was nfl QB who spent most of career as backup, but Holds record for leading biggest comeback in playoff game in game he started.
Dads side there is former PGA rookie of year and distant cousin is actress Eva Longoria.
Ah, yes, apparently, I am related to a guy famous for his Elvis impersonations. Forgot his name though. Related through my paternal grandmother's side, son of one of her cousin, I think. Grey Fox might now of him, he's got some ads on tv and his shows are apparently popular.
Quote from: Valmy on October 13, 2015, 09:52:38 PM
Well hell if we are going that far back I descended from Henry VII as well as the Patrick Stewart 'The Bastard of Orkney' the guy who inspired Ramsay Bolton for George RR Martin.
Yeah I don't think it's 'fair' to go that far back. If so, almost everyone here who has any English ancestry is a direct descendant of the Plantagenets.
I don't think I have any close relatives who are 'famous'. I am distantly related to a couple of Pennsylvania Dutch notables like Dwight Eisenhower and Milton Hershey. Princesca is fairly closely related to Jim Beam on one side of her family, and Johnny Cash on the other.
Quote from: katmai on October 14, 2015, 04:58:52 PM
Distant cousin on mother side was nfl QB who spent most of career as backup, but Holds record for leading biggest comeback in playoff game in game he started.
Frank Reich, correct?
Did he play well with Deutsch Land?
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2015, 07:47:20 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 14, 2015, 04:58:52 PM
Distant cousin on mother side was nfl QB who spent most of career as backup, but Holds record for leading biggest comeback in playoff game in game he started.
Frank Reich, correct?
yes sir.
My grandfather once commissioned someone to design a family coat of arms. He traced the family back to the 15th century looking for inspiration but didn't find anyone that ever did anything remotely interesting. The matter was then quietly dropped.
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2015, 07:47:20 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 14, 2015, 04:58:52 PM
Distant cousin on mother side was nfl QB who spent most of career as backup, but Holds record for leading biggest comeback in playoff game in game he started.
Frank Reich, correct?
:lol: (Frankreich being German for France)
My maternal great great uncle was the former President of the Mormon Church.
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2015, 07:47:20 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 14, 2015, 04:58:52 PM
Distant cousin on mother side was nfl QB who spent most of career as backup, but Holds record for leading biggest comeback in playoff game in game he started.
Frank Reich, correct?
It would be better if he was related to Wilhelm Reich.
Quote from: Caliga on October 14, 2015, 07:40:15 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 13, 2015, 09:52:38 PM
Well hell if we are going that far back I descended from Henry VII as well as the Patrick Stewart 'The Bastard of Orkney' the guy who inspired Ramsay Bolton for George RR Martin.
Yeah I don't think it's 'fair' to go that far back. If so, almost everyone here who has any English ancestry is a direct descendant of the Plantagenets.
I don't think I have any close relatives who are 'famous'. I am distantly related to a couple of Pennsylvania Dutch notables like Dwight Eisenhower and Milton Hershey. Princesca is fairly closely related to Jim Beam on one side of her family, and Johnny Cash on the other.
I just drop the Robert the Bruce thing because it's interesting, and my great-grandmother actually went to Scotland and used the headstones and a ton of primary sources to trace back
how we're related. That family tree is enormous, and knowing my great-grandmother's penchant for history (she was a higher-up in the Pennsylvania Historical Society), that tree is probably a lot less error-prone than other family trees of that size.
JP Morgan is pretty much the butt of family jokes. He was the uncle (IIRC) of my great-great grandmother, and went complete douchebag and refused to talk to the less wealthy side of the family.
Oh. The car in this picture belongs to my great grandfather. :lol:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fd1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Farticle_media%2Fku-klux-klan-ceremony-ap.jpg&hash=72d4b7924968fc10d32ddbabd76b97a3fe5292c9)
Yeah, same side of the family as the Jesse James thing. Grandma wouldn't let us talk about either one.
Was he the Imperial Grand Wizard or something of that sort? :hmm:
[I love those insane sounding KKK titles :D]
My family is rather unremarkable.
Two of my paternal uncles fought the nazis and the communists and got the highest level military medals from the underground state (little good it did them, as one of them was killed by the nazis and the other by communists). My paternal grandfather was a kulak who died of a heart attack after his sons were killed (my dad was one of thirteen children).
My maternal grandfather was also in the anti-communist resistance (and he was imprisoned during the post-war era). Too bad he was a fucking asshole who terrorised my grandmother, my mum and my aunt (who ended up single, depressed, schizophrenic and died a couple of years ago).
Just a normal boring kind of East European family. Executed by the Nazis yada yada
Quote from: Valmy on October 20, 2015, 02:38:05 PM
Just a normal boring kind of East European family. Executed by the Nazis yada yada
Yeah. :P
It's just funny that people who are "heroes" often end up as assholes in their private lives. Or perhaps it's not funny - one's emotional capacity can only stretch that thin, I suppose.
Quote from: Malthus on October 20, 2015, 02:34:57 PM
Was he the Imperial Grand Wizard or something of that sort? :hmm:
Of West Virginia. Yes.
Do wizards or dragons rank higher?
I have a couple brothers who might become famous for all the wrong reasons...well, no, even that isn't true. They are too petty and pathetic to even become criminally notable.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 20, 2015, 02:47:22 PM
Do wizards or dragons rank higher?
Are we talking about the KKK, or AD&D? :D
Either one.
What kinds of relatives are we talking here? Family, or The Family? :ph34r:
I'm not sure how the Klan felt about Eye-talians.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 20, 2015, 02:42:14 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 20, 2015, 02:34:57 PM
Was he the Imperial Grand Wizard or something of that sort? :hmm:
Of West Virginia. Yes.
In a horrible way, that is kinda awesome. :D A link to history!
Quote from: Martinus on October 20, 2015, 03:35:58 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 20, 2015, 03:28:24 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 20, 2015, 02:47:22 PM
Do wizards or dragons rank higher?
Are we talking about the KKK, or AD&D? :D
Kobolds, Kenders and Kritters? :D
The real KKK weren't nearly as cute as any of those. :P
If the KKK had instead focused on the persecution of Kender I might have joined up.
Quote from: Malthus on October 20, 2015, 04:00:48 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 20, 2015, 02:42:14 PM
Of West Virginia. Yes.
In a horrible way, that is kinda awesome. :D A link to history!
My dad discovered it because the pic was in his history textbook in junior high.
We don't know much about it though, because grandma was apparently incredibly ashamed of her dad's...extracurricular activities. He might be a murderer for all we know. I do know great grandad was a barber, and had several shops. Where the hair of all the most horrible people in Appalachia was cut.
If you think about it, it's the obvious best thing to do if you're a subversive dick in 1935.
What happened to the car?
I really wish I knew.
I'm sure it's rust or bolts now.
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.
Comming to you on the next edition of "Antiques Roadshow". ;)
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.
Oh my god, my grandma would have had a stroke or something. It's probably buried very deep in some coal mine, waiting for the sun to expand.
My grandpa took me to Devil Anse Hatfield's grave. Not as a tourist thing. As a honoring our ancestors thing.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 20, 2015, 04:22:26 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:18:28 PM
How awesome would it be to have the car with that original tag, and show it with the picture in the history textbook.
Oh my god, my grandma would have had a stroke or something. It's probably buried very deep in some coal mine, waiting for the sun to expand.
:(
I understand your grandma been ashamed, but history is cool, simple as that. And any physical connection to history would be awesome to have.
BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rides motorcycles?
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rode Sandra Bullock.
:sleep:
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia. She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht. The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.
Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.
Goddamn it I knew it! I thought your accent was Sudentan German.
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia. She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht. The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.
Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.
I am reminded of a moment in Middle School where we reached the Normandy invasion and the teacher asked if any of us had grandparents who participated in the battle. Two kids raised their hands and she asked one of them what unit his grandfather was in. The kid answered 'the 21st Panzer Division'
That was awkward :lol:
Quote from: Valmy on October 20, 2015, 08:54:56 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia. She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht. The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.
Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.
I am reminded of a moment in Middle School where we reached the Normandy invasion and the teacher asked if any of us had grandparents who participated in the battle. Two kids raised their hands and she asked one of them what unit his grandfather was in. The kid answered 'the 21st Panzer Division'
That was awkward :lol:
:lol:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 20, 2015, 04:34:49 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 20, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
BTW, you did not give us much about the other well notorious family member. I hope we mean the one that rode horses and not the one that rode Sandra Bullock.
:sleep:
Yeah. Frank James is my 3xgreat grandpa. Grandma's dad was the highest-ranking klansman in WV, and her great grandfather was part of the James gang. Wonderful people my gramps married into.
Quote from: Hansmeister on October 20, 2015, 06:41:06 PM
Well, my grandmother spied for the Nazis in Tschechoslovakia. She would bring reports of Czech troop positions over the border to the Wehrmacht. The border police didn't suspect a 20-year-old girl of being a spy. After the annexation she was invited to Berlin to meet the Führer and promptly fainted in his arms.
Her brother in law, my great uncle, ended the war a Colonel in the Waffen-SS, captured in Budapest in 1945 and spent 10 years in Siberia.
Who wouldn't? :wub:
I am thankfully not related to the Canadian douchecanoe Michael Ignatieff or his family. I am also not related to famed Australian painter Alexander Ignatiev. My ex-wife is Conway Twitty's sixth cousin.