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Amy Grant

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Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter


Who is Amy Grant?

Amy Grant is an American contemporary Christian singer and songwriter. She won a number of Grammy Awards in the 1980s in the Best Gospel Performance category and in 2006 she won a Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album. In 2003, Amy Grant was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Famous Kin

Amy Grant's great-grandfather was Andrew Burton, founder of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company which is now part of AIG. She also has a number of American historical figures in her family tree including women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony, signer of the Declaration of Independence William Williams, signer of the U.S. Constitution Nicholas Gilman, painter John Trumbull, abolitionist John Brown, Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith, and Revolutionary War spies Robert Townsend and Nathan Hale.

Amy Grant has a number of U.S. Presidential kin including Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, James Garfield, Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, and Gerald Ford. Hollywood celebrities with family connections to Amy Grant include Walt Disney, Humphrey Bogart, Lillian Gish, Raquel Welch, Anthony Perkins, Jodie Foster, and Richard Gere. Her famous literary kin include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Tennessee Williams.

Finally, it's only fitting that Amy Grant has a number of famous singers and musicians in her family tree. These include Cole Porter, Pete Seeger, Janis Joplin, the Wilson brothers (i.e. Beach Boys), Britney Spears, and Donnie & Marie Osmond.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Amy Grant

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Mitchell

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Ford

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Lyman Spitzer

Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Ford

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Allerton

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Porter

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Alpheus Felch

5th Governor of Michigan

8th cousin 4 times removed
via Allerton

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Elizabeth Charde

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Stanley

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

4th cousin 2 times removed
via William Paine

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Horatio Alger

Author

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Ames

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Horatio Alger

Author

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Experience Mitchell

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

7th cousin 4 times removed
via William Paine

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Allerton

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Experience Mitchell

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Styles Bridges

63rd Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Wight

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Millard

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

10th cousin
via Experience Mitchell

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

12th cousin
via Allerton

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

10th cousin 1 time removed
via William Carpenter

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Samuel Edson

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Experience Mitchell

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Samuel Edson

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Experience Mitchell

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Dewey F. Bartlett

19th Governor of Oklahoma

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Matthew Grant

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Dewey F. Bartlett

19th Governor of Oklahoma

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Josias Hull

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Amy Grant photo by Ruth Daniel (CC BY 2.0)