Famous Descendants of the Mayflower
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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
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