top of page

Famous Descendants of the Mayflower

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

ADVERTISEMENTS

This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories

This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories

Hardcover

River of Doubt

River of Doubt

Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

facts.png
FACTS YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN
Why Movie Theaters Started Selling Popcorn
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Why Movie Theaters Started Selling Popcorn

Why Icelandic Kids Go"Puffling Hunting" Each Fall
SCIENCE & NATURE

Why Icelandic Kids Go"Puffling Hunting" Each Fall

The Most Televised Face in History
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Most Televised Face in History

The Fish That Fed Empires
HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

The Fish That Fed Empires

Why the Middle Finger Is Such an Old Insult
HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Why the Middle Finger Is Such an Old Insult

Homes That Outsmarted the Tax Collector
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Homes That Outsmarted the Tax Collector

ADVERTISEMENT

popular.png
POPULAR NOW
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Famous Descendants of the Mayflower

Photograph of Henry David Thoreau
HISTORY & INNOVATIONS

Thoreau Lived at Walden, But His Mother Still Did the Laundry

Photograph of John Houseman
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Man Behind Robin Williams, Orson Welles and an Oscar

Photograph of a young woman drinking water
SCIENCE & NATURE

Your Water is Billions of Years Older Than You Think

Image of a figure walking into a room with a table with flowers and a door in the distance
SCIENCE & NATURE

Why You Forget Why You Walked Into A Room

Image of a hydrothermal vent underwater
SCIENCE & NATURE

Every Living Thing Shares A Single Ancestor

ADVERTISEMENT

bottom of page