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Offline Corhellion

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Reply #20 on: March 21, 2004, 07:22:44 pm
Eric Clapton ;) (the song writer/musician)

He's my...3rd cousin I think...on my mothers mothers side of the family.
 

Offline Stealth

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Reply #21 on: March 21, 2004, 07:54:40 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
I am the famous person in my family.


lol, i knew that was coming
 

Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #22 on: March 21, 2004, 08:09:09 pm
Corhellion wins.
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Offline Corhellion

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Reply #23 on: March 21, 2004, 08:11:12 pm
:D:D:D

Although...I've never met him...we are distant cousins :)
 

Offline Xelion

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Reply #24 on: March 21, 2004, 10:22:10 pm
My Uncles name is Adolf but AFAIK I don't think his related to Hitler, which I think is a good thing...because I would have probably killed him :nod: Besides the point I'm sure no one in my family is famous 'famous' YET anyway..:D
 

Offline demon442

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Reply #25 on: March 21, 2004, 10:31:48 pm
Personally, none that I know of on either side.  A friend of mine though, is related to General Westmoreland of the Vietnam War.
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Reply #26 on: March 22, 2004, 01:01:31 am
I'm related to this dude through my mom's side; both my dad's parents were orphans so tracing things on that side is a bit tough.

Do I win? :p
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Reply #27 on: March 22, 2004, 01:56:40 am
No.

Layla owns.
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Offline kasperl

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Reply #28 on: March 22, 2004, 03:33:15 am
there is a nobel prize winner somewhere in the family, IIRC. Chem or Physics, a guy named Eindhoven AFAIK.
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Offline Gloriano

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Reply #29 on: March 22, 2004, 09:25:47 am
I don't know if there is or was any famous peoples in my family but I know my familys history is very    old (fathers side)
mother side is very old too I don't know how old 1000-800years

there is even few Crusade knights in my family tree (mothers side)
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Reply #30 on: March 22, 2004, 09:38:54 am
My father is (apparently, it's not the kind of thing I hear about directly) internationally recognized in the vanadium chemistry fields and he's a plenary speaker at this year's IUPAC conference in Hungary.  That's about as famous as my family gets.

Oh, and my great-to the Nth grandfather was Jesus's second cousin's roommate.  Almost forgot.
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Offline Martinus

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Reply #31 on: March 22, 2004, 09:50:44 am
[color=66ff00]My surname means great chieftan so no doubt somewhere in Ireland's past I had a badass ancestor.

Oh yeah, my dad once talked to Shaft (he's a baddd mother golfer) at a local golfing tourney. I think I win on coolness factor. ;)
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Offline 01010

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Reply #32 on: March 22, 2004, 01:00:25 pm
My great-great-great (or something to that effect) grandfather was one of the founding members of the Irish Republican Army (family tree gets a little difficult to trace correctly so this isn't a definite), and my Grandad was a unstated war hero. Anyone that knows the story of the bridges at Arnhem and knows of Sgt Baskeyfield , well my Grandad helped this man defend against Panzer tanks and also buried his corpse after one of them fired a shell directly into him.
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Offline Cannikin

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Reply #33 on: March 23, 2004, 08:44:39 am
My great-uncle is Admiral Yeh Chang-tung, former commander in chief of Taiwan/ROC's navy.
 

Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #34 on: March 23, 2004, 09:28:47 am
Well my father was Pertti Reponen

If you want to read up on him, you can check out the biography written of him here.

My second cousin is also one of England's top child, medical and human rights lawyers. He also had something to do with the Hutton inquiriy and often pops up Sky News as a guest.

Well thats who I'm related to atleast. Though I've met quite a few famous people in my time...
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #35 on: March 23, 2004, 03:03:50 pm
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Originally posted by Zeronet
The O'Dea family has a castle, thats about it.
You're lucky. They took away our castle after we supported the Stuarts.
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Offline demon442

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Reply #36 on: March 23, 2004, 10:28:19 pm
I asked some family members and found a few things out on my mother's side.  My great-great-grandmother traced our line back and Pocohantas (Indian guide for colonial settelers) was mentioned as family.  Also, Johnny Appleseed's real name was John Chapman, most of my mother's family are Chapman's.  Unfortunately, 'John Chapman' was the 'John Doe' of the 17-1800's.
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #37 on: March 23, 2004, 10:54:28 pm
Does Leif Erricson count?
 

Offline Culando

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Reply #38 on: March 23, 2004, 11:07:57 pm
My grandma served Jerry Seinfeld lunch in high school. Does that count?
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Offline Odyssey

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Reply #39 on: March 24, 2004, 04:20:55 pm
[color=cc9900]I believe one of my relations is to blame for Woody Woodpecker.[/color]
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