Anyone Related to Anyone Famous?

by stevieb1 59 Replies latest jw friends

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  Chia

  I'm not, but my boyfriend's distant cousin is Phil Rizzuto (baseball player).
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  stevieb1

  Thanks for all the replies to my thread!
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  stevieb1

  Thanks for all the rpelies to my thread!

  I'm related to Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.
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  Crumpet

  our very own dorayki is related to an award-winning author, but I will let him say who if he wants.!
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  moshe

  Me- nadda, but you might recognize my wife's cousin

  Moshe
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  IronGland

  Lord Nelson... sadly

  Why sadly? Are you french or something?

  Lets just say that many of the traits survived and are going strongly...

  Please elaborate. What traits? A genius for naval warfare? Unusual bravery in the face of cannon fire? You are referring to Horatio Nelson aren't you?
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  Pleasuredome

  i'm related to Joseph Goebbels
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  misspeaches

  My boyfriend again.... On his dad's side his (insert greats here) grandfather was the first president of El Salvador. And on his mum's side his (insert greats here) grandfather was the second president of El Salvador!
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  jeanniebeanz

  Please elaborate. What traits? A genius for naval warfare? Unusual bravery in the face of cannon fire? You are referring to Horatio Nelson aren't you?

  LOL... Possessing a head for warfare, unusual bravery in the face of fire, the ability to tell ones commanding officers to 'get bent' when you know they are wrong, an insatiable libido and the inability to be anything but passionate about all four things quite often leads to serious injury. Sometimes our natures conspire to make us more than we want to be.

  And no, I'll not be showing you my scars or the newspaper clippings...

  Jean
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  dorayakii

  Crumpet: our very own dorayki is related to an award-winning author, but I will let him say who if he wants.!

  Yes, hehe, my cousin is Zadie Smith, the author of White Teeth , The Autograph Man and On Beauty.

  She's won The Guardian First Book Award, The Whitbread First Novel Award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the WH Smith Award for New Talent the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award and the Betty Trask Prize for her books. My side of the family, who are JWs, and her side split many years ago (in 1975), so i don't really know her as well as one SHOULD know one's first cousin.

  A couple of years ago there was a television remake of her book 'White Teeth', which is about three British families from different ethnic backgrounds whose lives become intertwined. One of the main story-lines is about a girl named Clara (allegorical of Zadie's mother) who is brought up as a witness, but who rebels against her hysterical JW mother and runs away from home and from the cult. She goes to live with a man named Archie and has a child named Irie, who is allegorical of Zadie herself (both are born in October 1975)...

  Zadie's two brothers are both garage artists (garage is a form of British Hip-Hop, pronounced 'garidge'). One of them, who goes under the pseudonym of 'Doc Brown' has just released an album called 'The Document'. I'm not sure if this song make it into the final album, but in the demo CD there was a song that talks about the life of growing up as a witness (even though none of them were brought up as JWs).