Famous Relations
A listing of how some various individuals are related, either by blood or marriage. Some are rather interesting and some border on sheer irony.

Ann Landers (advice columnist) is the sister of Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby- advice columnist)

Pablo Picasso's (Spanish painter and sculptor) common-law wife, Francoise Gilot, was married to Jonas Salk (developer of the polio vaccine)

Jackie Kennedy Onasis (American first lady) shared a step father, Hugh Auchincloss, with Gore Vidal (American author).

Franz Liszt's (Hungarian composer and pianist) daughter Cosima was married to Richard Wagner (German composer)

Hernando Cortez (Spanish conqueror of Mexico) was the first cousin of Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conqueror of Peru)

Cokie Roberts (TV personality) is the daughter of the late Hale Boggs (U.S. congressman and House leader)

Boris Karloff (actor) was the grandnephew of Anna Leonowens (Anna of Anna and the King of Siam fame)

Jerry Lee Lewis (performer) is the first cousin of Jimmy Swaggart (TV evangelist)

Ulysses S. Grant (American president) was the first cousin-three times removed of Judy Garland (American actress and singer)

Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Mountbatten) is the first cousin-twice removed of the late Czar Nicholas Romanov (last czar of Russia).

Jean-Paul Sartre (philosopher and novelist) was the first cousin-once removed of Albert Schweitzer (theologian and medical missionary)

Dina Merrill (actress) is the daughter of the late E.F. Hutton (stockbroker) and the granddaughter of the late Charles Post (Cereal giant)

Ernie Banks (baseball MVP) is the second cousin of O.J. Simpson (football MVP and disputed killer)

Zachary Taylor's (American president) daughter Sarah, was married to Jefferson Davis (Confederate president).

Elizabeth Tudor (Queen Elizabeth I) was the first cousin-once removed of Mary Stuart (ill-fated last queen of Scotland)

Camilla Parker Bowles (mistress of Prince Charles) is the great granddaughter of the late Alice Keppel (mistress of King Edward VII)

Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (National Geographic publisher) was the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell (American inventor)