From a ship that carried just 102 passengers, the family tree now stretches into presidents, poets, actors, musicians, explorers, and cultural figures whose names are instantly recognizable today.

Film, Television, and Entertainment
Marilyn Monroe
Katharine Hepburn
Humphrey Bogart

Jane Fonda
Pete Seeger
Alec Baldwin

Ashley Judd
Sigourney Weaver
Jodie Foster
Benedict Cumberbatch
Matt Damon
Meryl Streep
Taylor Swift

Zac Efron

Dick Van Dyke

Sally Field

Avril Lavigne

James Spader

Presidents and Political Figures
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
George W. Bush

Writers, Thinkers, and Cultural Voices
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ernest Hemingway
Robert Frost
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Emily Post
Pete Seeger
Benjamin Spock

Explorers, Science, and Public Life
Amelia Earhart
Alan Shepard
Julia Child