Famous relatives? Without saying who...

lefthanded

Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury who was famously held captive in the Lebanon from 1987 to 1991 - related on my mother’s side.

Yours is the only name that I know out of all the hints on this thread.
A great man!😃

According to a family tree on Ancestry, I'm descended from Anne Boleyn
🤔
Not sure how that's possible but you never know 👸

How many fingers do you have Callistemon ? 😆

Oreo

How many fingers do you have Callistemon ? 😆

Well funny you should say that.

My great-grandfather was married to one of 2 sisters, in Leeds. The girls' father owned a firm of hatmakers. The other sister married another well-known family in Leeds, the Middletons. They were pretty close friends with my rellies, who were in the woollen industry and had ran a bristle factory. They all lived in the same neighbourhood, buried in the same church. They were good friends with the Middletons and/or Lupton's. (Oddly enough, my mum's solicitor, and later to be mine, is Lupton-Fawcett in Leeds). and, yes, the connection is the present Princess of Wales, Catherine Middleton, now Windsor. Small world!

Not me personally but my son in law is the half brother of a member of a very famous American rock band.

Sorry!! I mis-read, and gave the name away...silly me.

Not Don Revie..was it?

That is quite a story! Thanks for sharing that.

A wonderful singer/songwriter, who travelled the world, in the 50/60s. In her travels she met Elvis in Germany, Noel Coward in Malta, Ella Fitzgerald. She wrote just about all the hits for Pet' Clark, which made her so famous. And, a number 1 record that knocked The Beatles off the chart! She wrote so many lyrics but never got credit for them. The best female vocalist of our times back then.

Yorkslass23

A wonderful singer/songwriter, who travelled the world, in the 50/60s. In her travels she met Elvis in Germany, Noel Coward in Malta, Ella Fitzgerald. She wrote just about all the hits for Pet' Clark, which made her so famous. And, a number 1 record that knocked The Beatles off the chart! She wrote so many lyrics but never got credit for them. The best female vocalist of our times back then.

Oh, we were only talking about her (and her partner) yesterday, if she's who I think 🙂

Oreo

How many fingers do you have Callistemon ? 😆

I didn’t think it was the number of fingers that identified Anne Boleyn
.)(.
If you see what I mean.

What, you mean she had three nipples like Scaramanga?😂
No wonder she was so popular at Court.

Yes, infamous Great, great Grandad. Was caretaker at famous public school and features in the book by Thomas Hughes. Yes, he was as awful as depicted in the book.
Also a female cousin, very famous actress.

My cousin was in an 80’s British girl band

Yes, but can't think of anything to say that wouldn't give it away!

Taking the thread a slightly different route here as I have no connection (that I know of) to anyone famous/infamous. But I had a second cousin who shared a name with a famous character from literature, Jane Eyre, and my BIL was called Robert Bruce.

I think this a a silly post and a waste of time without knowing the names.
What would be wrong in saying who the person is ? “ A footballer in the 70’s “ or “A famous author “. Like a quiz with no answers.

We are related to a direct descendant of a Victorian food manufacturer. The company which he founded is extremely well known. Another member of my family is a real live Sir Humphrey but would only be recognised in his field!

A distant cousin by marriage who was a famous USA leading man AND can anyone else claim to have a distant cousin who was hung by Pierrepoint for treason at the end of WWII ?

DH uncle when aged 10 was a main witness in a murder trial. No one in the family had ever talked about it but reading a book about local murders his name and address were there his own children knew nothing until DH told them. The murderer was hung by Pierrepoint.

DH could trace his ancestry back to Robert the Bruce on 11 separate lines. what a showoff however, he did admit that probably everyone in Scotland could too .

As for that hangman family: I lived door to them for a time. Does that count?

Yes. My fairly distant cousin is/was an author. Long dead now but her books are regularly reprinted and dramatised.

I have 'Kiss me Hardy''s bible from my mother's family line. DH is a professional artist if that counts, as is DD1?! Quite a small world the living artists, so we know a fair few others. A friend acted in a few Game of Thrones series too... But shamefully, I guess, we haven't watched him in that, but we have enjoyed seeing him in other things.

Not related to anyone famous but I did have a steamy relationship with a famous boxer no longer with us