7Eleanor Roosevelt and Alexander Hamilton
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a cousin of her husband President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a descendant of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton.
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8Geoffrey Chaucer and King Richard III
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Geoffrey Chaucer the most famous author of the 15th century and author of the Canterbury tales is regarded as the father of English Literature. Chaucer’s sister in law, Katherine Swynford had four children from husband John of Gaunt. One of them, Joan went on to become the Countess of Westmoreland and the grandmother of King Edward IV and Richard the III. Incidentally, Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is the 16th cousin of Richard the III.
9Ozzy Osborne and Jesse James
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Yes bad boy Ozzy Oborne is also related to outlaw Jesse James. This was found out because of a very expensive DNA test done on the singer at a genome lab in New Jersey. It was also found that the singer was distantly related to Russian Tsar Nicholas II, King George I and ancient Romans killed in Pompeii in 79 AD.
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