William Bradford (1590-1657)/List of Famous Descendants

List of famous descendants of early Plymouth Colony Governor, William Bradford (1590-1657).

A

 * Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley, wife of David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley

B

 * The Baldwin brothers (Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen), American actors
 * Ambrose Bierce - American dystopian novelist and satirist

Bradford

 * Gamaliel Bradford (1768-1824) - American Revolutionary War officer - and his descendants, including Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932), American biographer and journalist
 * Robert F. Bradford, - American lawyer, Republican Party strategist, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1949
 * William Bradford (1624-1703), military commander of the Plymouth forces during King Philip's War[citation needed]
 * William Bradford (1729-1808), American physician, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[citation needed]
 * William Bradford (painter), American painter, photographer, and explorer
 * Rob Bradford - Aviation Maintenance Tech, winner of the 2000 Golden Wrench Award for Aviation Maintenance Excellence.

C

 * Ronald J. Carpenter - Author, served in the armed forces and political activist.
 * James G. Carter, American congregational minister, Massachusetts State Representative, and pioneer of Normal schools and public education
 * Julia Child, - American entrepreneur and chef of French and French-influenced cuisine
 * Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter

D

 * Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, and his descendants, including Nelson Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday, Jr., and Russell Doubleday

E

 * George Eastman, American inventor and the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company
 * Clint Eastwood, American film actor, director, and producer

G

 * Charles Dana Gibson, - illustrator, best known for his "Gibson girl" drawings

L

 * Edward "Ned" Lamont, American businessman and Democratic Party politician
 * John Lithgow,[22] American actor and philanthropist
 * Jan Masaryk,[23] Czechoslovak diplomat and politician

Other

 * George B. McClellan, - Civil War general, Governor of New Jersey, Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 United States presidential election
 * Thomas Pynchon, - American short story writer and novelist
 * Christopher Reeve, American film actor and political activist
 * William Rehnquist, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005
 * Deborah Sampson, female member of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
 * Benjamin Spock, - child care specialist and author
 * Adlai Stevenson III, - United States Democratic Senator representing Illinois from 1970 to 1981, two-time candidate for Governor of Illinois
 * Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.,- publisher of the New York Times since 1992
 * Charles Sumner,[34] American statesman and Republican Party politician
 * Noah Webster,[35] American educator, journalist, and lexicographer noted for his Webster's Dictionary
 * Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator from Rhode Island
 * William Collins Whitney - American financier and politician, and his descendants, the Whitney family