The Following is a Finding List for, at last count, about 400 Notable Persons who Have Ancestral Connections to that of the Descendants of Charles D. Langdon (1848-1908) of Brooklyn. The research was conducted by Edward Rockstein over the last several years and took an estimated 600 hours to complete so far. One of the primary tools that has facilitated this work is the [A Family Tree for the Human Family "the largest shared family tree in the world". It contains some errors. This research certainly contains some errors. Most, but not all, of the biographical material included comes from Wikipedia for which we are most grateful. This work is being shared on Facebook by Davey Langdon. If you have corrections please contact Davey Langdon on Facebook. Personalities have been loosely categorized and listed under the following categories, roughly within some semblance of alphabetic order in each category:
Categories: Royalty & Nobility * Politicians & Military Leaders * Performers & Athletes * Magnates * Inventors, Scientists, & Scholars * Writers, Artists, Composers, & Lyricists
Royalty & Nobility
King Æthelwulf of Wessex
Marie Antoinette [Queen Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne Lorraine]
Prince Consort Albert
King Albert II of Belgium
Czar Alexander II of Russia--Seward's Folly
Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Berenger I, King of Italy
Berenger II, King of Italy
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria
Prince George of Cambridge
King Carol II of Romania
Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans
King Charles III, UK
Charles Martel--Charles the Hammer
King Christian X Denmark
King Constantine I of Greece
King Constantine II of Greece
King Christian IX of Denmark
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the British Isles
Thomas Darcy, First Baron Darcy of Chiche
Domhnall I, Earl of Mar
Ecgberht King of Wessex
King Edward I England -- Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots
King Edward II--Edward of Caernarfon
King Edward III -- Windsor--Hundred Years' War
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Queen of France, Queen of England, Duchess of Aquitaine
Queen Elizabeth II
Emengarde of Italy, Queen of Provence
Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
King Francesco I di Borbone delle due Sicilie
King Frederick William II of Prussia
Kaiser Frederick William III von Prussia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand von Österreich
King George III
King George V
King George VI
Kaiser Wilhelm der Große
Kaiser Wilhelm II
König Friedrich Wilhelm III von Hohenzollern of Prussia
King Frederik VIII of Denmark
King George I of Greece
King George II of Greece
King Haakon VII of Norway
King Harald V of Norway
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Henry I of England -- Henry Beauclerc, House of Normandy
King Henry II Plantagenet -- Henry Curtmantle
Henry I Sinclair -- Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin
King Henry III Plantagenet -- Henry of Winchester
Hugh Capet, King of the Franks
Isabella of France -- Queen of England
Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
Duke William Douglass Hamilton
King James I of Scotland
King James II of Scotland
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford--Henry VII's Commander at Battle of Bosworth Field
King John I of England -- Plantagenet -- John Lackland
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster--Founder of the House of Lancaster
Isabella of Mar--Mother of the Founder of Scotland's Royal House of Stuart
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor--Benign Despot/Mozart Patron
King Leopold III of Belgium
Lothair I, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Romans
Louis I, The Pious, Holy Roman Emperor
Louis II the Younger, King of Italy and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire
King Louis IX of France -- St Louis
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Empress Maria Theresa
Holy Roman Empress Matilda -- Queen of the Romans
Queen Maud of Norway
King Michael I of Romania
Czar Nicholas II of Russia---Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer
King Olav V of Norway
King Paul of Greece
Pepin the Short, King of the Franks
Pepin II, The Younger, de Heristal
King Philip III Capet of France -- Philip the Bold
King Philip IV Capet of France -- Philip the Fair
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
King Philippe of Belgium
Prince Rainier III de Monaco
Richard I -- Plantagenet --The Lion Heart
King Robert I of Scotland -- Robert the Bruce
Robert II, the Pious, Capet, King of the Franks
King Robert II of Scotland
King Robert III of Scotland
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov of Russia
Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
Diana, Princess of Wales, Spencer
Queen Victoria
Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands
King Willem I of Netherlands
King Willem II, King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
William I England -- William the Conqueror -- Guillaume le Bâtard --House of Normandy
King William III of Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Duke of Limburg from 1849 -1866
Ludwig I Karl August Wittelsbach King of Bavaria [Oktoberfest]
Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Bavaria
Politicians & Military Leaders
Abigail [Smith] Adams
President John Quincy Adams
Col John Bayard
Benjamin Gratz Brown
President George H.W.Bush
President George Walker Bush
LTG Ralph J. Canine--First Director of NSA
Dick Cheney
Liz Cheney
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Cassius Marcellus Clay--"The Lion of White Hall"
Henry Clay--The Great Compromiser
President Calvin Coolidge
Governor DeWitt Clinton
Sir Henry Williams, alias Cromwell
Governor Howard Dean
Governor Thomas E. Dewey
General Simeon De Witt
Senator Bob Dole
Governor Hamilton Fish--Master of Diplomacy
Millard Fillmore
Frederick Theodore Freylinghuysen
President James Garfield
President Ulysses S. Grant
Benjamin Franklin Hallett--First Chairman of the DNC
Townsend Harris--Educator, Merchant, Politician, Envoy, & Treaty-Maker
President Benjamin Harrison
Senator Orrin G. Hatch
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
John Jay
Jackie Kennedy
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.
Huey "Kingfish" Pierce Long, jr.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
James Mott & his wife Lucretia Coffin Mott
President Richard Milhous Nixon
President Barack Hussein Obama
Sandra Day O'Connor-First Woman Justice on SCOTUS
General George S. Patton
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
President Franklin Pierce
Senator Harry Reid
Senator Jay Rockefeller--Student of Japanese and Chinese
Vice President & Governor of New York--Nelson Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller--Governor of Arkansas
[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt III
Henry Rutgers
Brigadier General George Henry Sharpe--"Father of Military Intelligence"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
President Martin Van Buren
Manfred Albrecht von Richtofen--The Red Baron
President Harry S. Truman--Give 'em Hell, Harry!
Governor Foster McGowan Voorhees
Governor Peter Dumont Vroom
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Joseph Welch
Elihu Yale
Brigadier General Chuck Yeager--First Man to Break the Sound Barrier
Performers & Athletes
Lola Albright
Neil Armstrong
James Arness
Jean Arthur--"everyday heroine"
Kevin Bacon
Lucille Ball
Warren Beatty
Humphrey [DeForest] Bogart
Marlon Brando
Tom Brokaw
Elizabeth Burridge
David Carradine
John Carradine
Keith Carradine
Robert Carradine
Johnny Carson
Lon Chaney, jr
Cyd Charisse--Studied Dancing After Polio
Anderson Cooper
Dick Clark
[Edward] Montgomery Clift
Tim Considine
Kathrine Cornell--"The First Lady of the Theatre"
David Van Cortlandt Crosby--The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Joan Crawford
Walter Cronkite
Dagmar
Linda Darnell--Movie Star at Fifteen
James Dean
Carl William Demarest
John Denver
Colleen Dewhurst
Susan Dey--3 Emmys & 6 Golden Globes
Andy Devine
Howard Duff
Nathaniel Eaton--First Headmaster of Harvard University
Nelson Eddy
Jack Elam
Frances Farmer
Geraldine Fitzgerald & Orson Welles
Jay C. Flippen
Bridget Fonda
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Peter Fonda
Mona Freeman
Crystal Gayle
Will Geer
Paulette Goddard
Betty Grable
Sue Grafton
Glen Gray
Peter Graves
Jane Greer
Jim Harbaugh--Head Coach University of Michigan, former Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
John Harbaugh--Baltimore Ravens Head Coach
Mark Harmon
Tom Harmon
Phil Harris
June Haver--"The Next Betty Grable"
Sterling Hayden
Jim Henson
Audrey Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
"Wild Bill" Hickock
Stirling Holloway
Celeste Holme
Dennis Hopper
Ken Howard
Ron Howard
Gordie Howe
Barbara Hutton, "Poor Little Rich Girl"
Betty Hutton (Elizabeth June Thornburg}--Comedienne & Songbird
Waylon Jennings
Eddie Joost
Sally Kellerman
Alan Ladd--"Shane"
Julie London
Allen Ludden
Paul Lynde
Loretta Lynn
Shirley MacLaine
Raymond Massey
Elsa Maxwell
Darren McGavin
Gary Merrill
Agnes de Mille
Cecil B. DeMille
Marilyn Monroe--Blonde Bombshell
Elizabeth Montgomery
Robert Montgomery
Demi Moore
Lois Nettleton
Marni Nixon--"The Ghostess with the Mostest"
Jack Oakie
Edna Mae Oliver--character actress extraordinaire & a true Nutter
Merlin Olsen
Geraldine Page
Ethan Peck
Gregory Peck
Slim Pickens
Eleanor Powell--Queen of Tap
Tyrone Power
Elvis [Aaron] Presley--The King
Vincent Price
James Randi
Gene Raymond
Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett
Pee Wee Reese
Jason Ritter
John Ritter
Ginger Rogers
George C. Scott
Norma Shearer
Sally Struthers
Taylor Swift--Singer, Songwriter, Business Mangate
Norma Talmadge--Shining Star of the Silent Cinema
Robert Taylor
Shirley Jane Temple
Gene Tierney--"the most beautiful woman in movie history"
Liltin' Martha Tilton
Alex Trebek
Lana Turner
Norm Van Brocklin
Lee Van Cleef
James Van Der Beek--Dawson's Creek
Marcia Van Dyke
Fred Waring--"The Man Who Taught America How to Sing"
Jane Wyatt
David Wayne--1st Tony for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Musical)
John Wayne [Marion Morrison]
Adam West
Robin Williams
Jane Wyman
Magnates
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
John Jacob Astor IV
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
Walter Chrysler
Bill Gates-Co-Founder of MicroSoft
WT Grant
Mason W. Gross
Major Thomas Jones
The Koch Brothers -- David Hamilton Koch
J.P. Morgan
David Rockefeller--Chairman & CEO Chase Manhattan Bank
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., Co-founder Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller, jr., Philanthropist & Bloody Strike-Breaker
William Avery Rockefeller, jr., Co-founder Standard Oil
Colonel Harland D. Sanders
Grant Tinker
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Theodore Newton Vail
Inventors, Scientists, & Scholars
Dr. Virginia Apgar
Sir Frederick G. Banting
Clarence Birdseye
Michael Coe--Eminent Mayanist
Lee DeForest
Rev. William Henry Steele Demarest, 11th President of Rutgers
Jennifer Doudna
Alan B. Dumont
Thomas Alva Edison
Gari K. Ledyard
Margaret Mead
Maria Mitchell--First American Woman Astronomer
Barbara McClintock--Nobel Laureate
Linus Pauling
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
Doctor Spock
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck--Nobel Laureate--Manhattan Project
Edward W. Wagner
Noah Webster, jr
George Westinghouse
The Wright Brothers -- Wilbur & Orville
Founders
Claes Jacobus Backer and Margaretha Stuyvesant Backer
Robert Benchley- American Humorist
Mary Barr Clay
Samuel Clowes
Robert Coles--Early Settler & Founding Member First Baptist Church in America
John Concklyne [Conklin]
Richard Henry Dana, jr.
Gerret Dircksen Croesen
John Dickinson
Rev. Theophilus Eaton, Cofounder & Governor of New Haven Colony & Original Patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John King Fairbank--A Founder of Chinese Studies in the U.S.
Thomas Garrett
Samuel Gorton--Champion of Civil Rights
John Langdon of Hempstead and Boston
Evert Pels
Captain Adrian Crijnen Post
Joris Janssen Rapalje
John D. Rockefeller, III, Founder of the Asia Society & the Population Council
Reverend Balthazer Johannes Stuyvesant
John Townsend
Catalyntje Trico, My 10G Grandmother, Wife of Joris Rapalje
Egbert Van Borsum
Pieter Pieterszen Vannest
Aert Thunissen van Putten
Writers, Artists, Composers, & Lyricists
Louisa May Alcott
Alice Austen
Ambrose Bierce
Margaret Wise Brown--Goodnight Moon
Orson Scott Card
Dale Carnegie
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Fannie Farmer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Erle Stanley Gardner
Sue Grafton
Dashiell Hammett
Buddy Holly
Edward Hopper
Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE--Best Selling Fiction Writer of All Time
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, sr.--"Old Ironsides"
Rockwell Kent--An American Modernist
Joyce Kilmer
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Edna St. Vincent Millay--First Woman to Win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Andre Norton
Olivia Iona Louise Langdon "faithful, judicious, and painstaking editor"
Mary Margaret McBride
Herman Melville
Johnny Mercer--Four Best Song Oscars
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
Drew Pearson -- Washington Merry-Go-Round
Edgar Allan Poe
Norman Rockwell
Bob Ross
J.D.Salinger--Catcher in the Rye
John Singer Sargent
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Louis Comfort Tiffany
John Updike
Henry Jackson Van Dyke
Gloria Vanderbilt
Edith Wharton--First Woman to Win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Meredith Wilson--The Music Man
Thomas Wolfe
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