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Aaron Rodgers

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Aaron Rodgers

NFL Quarterback


Who is Aaron Rodgers?

Aaron Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, he led the Packers to a Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP, and he was voted the league MVP in both 2011 and 2014. Currently Rodgers is said to be the NFL's all-time career leader in passer rating and the only one with a career rating over 100. He is also said to have the best touchdown-to-interception ratio and lowest career passing interception percentage during the regular season.

Famous Kin

Aaron Rodgers can count a number of U.S. Presidents as kin including William H. Taft, Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover, and both Presidents Bush. His family connections to U.S. First Ladies include Edith Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Ellen Wilson, Nancy Reagan, and Bess Truman.

Aaron Rodgers also has a number of celebrity kin including Richard Gere, Vincent Price, Humphrey Bogart, Oliver Platt, Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Liv Tyler, Jodie Foster, Ed Helms, Christopher Lloyd, and Janis Joplin. Some of his historical kin include Aaron Burr (killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel), Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin), John Brown (abolitionist), and Declaration of Independence signers Robert Treat Paine and Roger Sherman.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Aaron Rodgers

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John Howard Pyle

9th Governor of Arizona

12th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Sherman

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

13th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Sherman

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

14th cousin
via Henry Sherman

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Dewey F. Bartlett

19th Governor of Oklahoma

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Gerard Spencer

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Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert Poyntz

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Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

14th cousin
via John Collamore

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 7 times removed
via George Griswold

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George Winston

New Age Pianist

11th cousin
via Edward Griswold

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George Winston

New Age Pianist

11th cousin
via Andrew Ward

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Hal Holbrook

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin
via Robert Poyntz

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Gerard Spencer

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Brewster H. Shaw

NASA Astronaut

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Andrew Ward Jr.

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Louie Anderson

Comedian and Game Show Host

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Spencer

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Charlie Day

TV and Movie Actor

13th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry Sherman

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Elias Howe

Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine

9th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Sherman

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Hiram Bingham

69th Governor of Connecticut

13th cousin 4 times removed
via John Fortescue

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King Charles III

King of the United Kingdom

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert Poyntz

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Joe Keery

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin
via Samuel Buell

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William Rush Merriam

11th Governor of Minnesota

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Sherman

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James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Edmund Sherman

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Charles Edward Merrill

Co-Founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Edmund Sherman

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Jane G. Austin

Author

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Griswold

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Elizabeth Banks

TV and Movie Actress

12th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Sherman

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General Joseph Wheeler

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Andrew Ward

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General William Hull

American Revolution, War of 1812

4th cousin 7 times removed
via Andrew Ward

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Aaron Rodgers photo by Mike Morbeck (CC BY-SA 2.0)