Ancestry of Famous Names Today

Overview

A number of our readers have asked that we give some ancestry and family history of famous people of today.  So this is what we have done in this section of the website.

A few factors guiding our choice of people:

• that the person chosen is alive at the time of writing.
• that he or she is well-known in the English-speaking world, or at least in some part of it.  As such, information about him or her is usually part of the public record.
• that their surname will usually be one of the thousand and more surnames that we cover in this website.
• and, perhaps most important, that their family history should have something of interest for our readers and might give us some insight into that person and what perhaps made him or her famous.

Here follows a list of some 80 famous people in the English-speaking world today.  They are a fairly diverse group of people.  You will note the large number of singers, actors and sporting people in the list.  But politicians and business entrepreneurs are also well represented.

Click on any name of interest to you from the list below: