Most famous relative/ancestor

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Terry Tuman a Civil War hero right off the boat from Ireland. That's all I know so far.

I don't know ancestors farther back than grandparents (have never looked it up), but we do have an artist who is locally well known, and I have been in a local paper and interviewed on a radio program, though I'm hardly famous.

The only two I know names of are on my mom's side, I have no idea about my dad's side. The most popular one would probably be Ulysses S. Grant, US President. The other is Jonathan Edwards, the preacher.

Apparently, I am very distantly related to the English Royal Family. I don't know how it works, but one of my great-great-aunts was the illegitimate daughter of one of Queen Victoria's lesser-known cousins. Sadly, there aren't any huge fortunes coming my way.

adam and eve are our parents silly

On my mothers side, her father's name is Verdugo and can trace his ancestry back to Spain, where his familiy name was originally Berdugo. The Berdugo family in spain, according this site I read online, can trace itself back to King David. I don't know if it's true, but it would be cool if it was true.

My maternal grandfather served in the British Veterinary Core in World War One but he wasn't famous. I never met him as he died when my mother was 6 years old.

Mariano Escobedo is a famous Mexican hero. Paternal grandmother's side.
On my paternal grandfather's side there's someone that helped in the U.S. war of independence. I forgot his name though.
My paternal grandfather's step-mother, who I was named after, is Elois Jensen and designed the attire in I Love Lucy.

My grandfather told me that I'm a descendant of Benedict Arnold, but my dad says he doesn't know that for certain. I hope that Americans on WP won't hate on me because I might be related to some guy who switched sides during a war and his original side won anyway...
I worry about that only because when Benedict Arnold is brought up in American movies and TV shows, the characters react with hate and anger. I've only seen a few examples though...

Gen. Benedict Arnold actually thought he was being patriotic. He had, after all, been trained in the classical European methods of warfare as practiced in the 18th century - and by those rules, there was no way the rebellion could succeed. He thought he was saving the Colonies from the inevitable British retaliation after the rebel forces fell.

Fortunately for those of us who like the US (but unfortunately for the General's reputation), the rebels declined to dress in bright colors, march in rows, and fire in volley...

Guy Wedick and Walt Duley.
Look them up.( And I'm 99% sure walt is an aspie)

Captian William Kidd.. maybe.

We know that someone with the last name of Kidd married into the family who was the right age to be captain Kidd's granddaughter. We know who Captain Kidd's children are, but we don't know who his grandchildren are if he even had any. We also know that the daughter of the Kidd who married into the family shares a name with William Kidd's daughter... named for her grandmother or great-aunt perhaps.

It's really speculation at this point. There's some circumstantial evidence at the moment but no hard evidence.

I'm ashamed to admit that my most famous ancestor that I know if is Brigham Young.

On my mom's side of the family there was a Ziegfield Follies dancer and a Circus Strongman. Also, my mom's great grandmother had a sister who was a neighbor of Lizzie Borden at the time that she axed her parents. On my dad's side of the family there was nobody.

My stepdad OTOH, grew up in India, where his parents were Presbyterian missionaries. His brother Tom grew up to be an actor in a bunch of Bollywood films, and also had a role as a doctor in the movie Ghandi. His brother in law was the Minister of Health in Bangladesh, and worked for the UN in the WHO. I believe that he currently is a faculty member of some sort at Harvard. My (now quite former) stepdad is currently a professor at Yale, before that, he went through a series of jobs teaching spoiled rich kids English Lit at private acadamies in Connecticutt, New York, and Tanzania. --He and my mom had a rather messy separation/divorce spanning 1981-83. I have only spoken briefly with him one time since 1985, and that was in 1989.