Friday, December 1, 2023

Langdon Notables: Finding Lists by Category

 


 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

Eli Whitney

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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