Shocking Celebrity DNA Results
DNA Profiling, also known as DNA fingerprinting, was first used as a forensic technique to compare criminal suspects’ profiles with DNA evidence.
Since its inception in the 1980s, it has been developed and used for many research areas and fields of study.
One area is genetic genealogy, the study of using DNA to determine ancestral genealogy relationships or to trace your line of descent within their family.
The first family history website providing direct-to-consumer genetic DNA testing, GeneTree, focused on DNA testing to trace ancestry.
The company was founded back in 1997. Since then, many more companies have come into the business, and their popularity was massively increased after the arrest of the infamous Golden State Killer in 2018.
Law enforcement used genetic genealogy to track down the perpetrator 44 years after his first known crime.
Nowadays, many people, including celebrities, use DNA testing to determine their own background, and many celebrities have reported their findings. Here’s a list of celebrity DNA results you’ll find shocking.
The British Royal Family
Kate Middleton
The beautiful Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is the eighth cousin, eight times removed to George Washington.
This fact is according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston.
Princess Diana
Princess Diana was George Washington’s eighth cousin, seven times removed.
She was also related to Humphrey Bogart, his seventh cousin, Rudolph Valentino, Winston Churchill. The list of relatives includes a myriad of other U.S. presidents, including Franklin D Roosevelt, John Adams, Calvin Coolidge, John Quincy Adams, and Millard Fillmore.
Prince Charles
Heir to the throne of Britain and head of the Commonwealth, Charles, Prince of Wales, has a dark family history.
Through the wife of George V, the queen consort, Mary of Teck, he’s supposedly related to Vlad the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula.
Hollywood Celebrities
Hugh Grant
Maintaining the royal theme, the English king of rom-com films is descended from Tudor King, Henry VII, King Henry VIII’s father.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah famously took a DNA test a few years ago for the show African American Lives on PBS.
She had matches to various descendants who came from Africa, specifically Liberia, Zambia, and Cameroon.
Surprisingly she also matched as 8 percent Native American and 3 percent East Asian. Oprah Winfrey also admits being a distant cousin to Elvis Presley.
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy’s third great grandfather immigrated from Prussia to America before the Civil War and signed up to fight for the Union.
U.S. Presidents
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the ninth cousin to Hollywood superstar, Brad Pitt, and the tenth cousin once removed to George W Bush.
George W Bush
Furthermore, George W Bush is the eleventh cousin, twice removed, to Playboy creator, Hugh Hefner.
Abraham Lincoln
The third cousin, four times removed, Tom Hanks, is related to Abraham Lincoln, but it doesn’t stop there.
Other famous relatives of Abraham Lincoln include:- George Clooney, first cousins, five times removed; movie actor and WWE star John Cena is a fifth cousin, five times removed, and movie actress Amy Adams is a sixth cousin, six times removed.
Donald Trump
No doubt something neither of them would want to admit, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are nineteenth cousins.
The two connect at the people who were their eighteenth great grandparents, the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster, who were married in 1396.
Sports Stars
Muhammad Ali
Destined to make an impact in this world, Muhammad Ali’s third great grandfather was a heroic slave, Archer Alexander.
Archer Alexander was the model for the slave in the Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park. Reaching starry heights in sport, Ali was also the sixth cousin to Edwin Hubble, a famous astronomer whom the Hubble Telescope is named after.
Billie Jean King
Pro-tennis champion, Billie Jean King, is the eighth cousin to the singer, songwriter James Taylor, ninth cousin to TV and Movie actress Liv Tyler, and ninth cousin two times removed to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Kevin Love
As you may know, professional basketball player Kevin Love is Nephew of Mike Love, co-founder of The Beach Boys.
However, did you know that he is also a third cousin, nine times removed to John Fitch, a famous inventor, and engineer of the first U.S. steamboat? Fitch died of an opium overdose in 1798.
