Someone Online Asked, “Who Is The Most Famous Person In Your Family?”, And 30 Delivered

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.

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.

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.

My autistic sister who is the 3rd best paralympic skiier in Sweden

You know that really famous 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.

Called "lunch atop a skyscraper"

My dads great uncle, Charlie Becker, was the Mayor of Munchkinland in the original Wizard of Oz. (He also doubled as a flying monkey!)

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.

Grandpa's cousin performed 1st successful heart transplant

My stepbrother was the guy who dove into the wedding cake in the "November Rain" video.

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.

Eartha Kitt is my great aunt, so… yeah

Robert de niro is my uncle in law

One of my great-great uncles escaped from a maximum security jail (Texas, 1920s) and was never caught. He lived under an assumed name for 30 years or so after.

Alec Guiness. He is a great great uncle of mine. Most famous in film for playing Obi Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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

I have two Nobel prize winners in my extended family, JJ Thomson and George Paget Thomson

My great uncle designed outfits for Princess Diana

My great-grandmother was Charlie Chaplins niece.

Sadly me, I've been on American Ninja warrior for about 20 seconds after competing 5 times lol.

My mum's stepdad is a famous British painter, who's son to another famous British painter, who is grandson to Sigmund Freud