37 Lesser-Known Facts About Celebrity Relatives
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Have you ever seen that show Claim to Fame on ABC? It’s a reality competition that’s mashed Big Brother and The Masked Singer into a blender and poured out a schlocky smoothie for people who are too wine-drunk to change the channel after The Bachelorette. Hosted by two bargain-bin Jonas Brothers, the show sees contestants with secret famous relatives trying to suss out the identities of their fellow famous-adjacent roommates. For most people, this would present quite a challenge. For you, though — dear reader who has devoured all the facts below — it will be a total piece of cake.
Bob Ross
![CRACKED.COM It's no surprise that Steve Ross, Bob Ross' eldest son, grew up painting. It is surprising that he was 12 before he realized that not everybody painted.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/866416.jpg)
Oprah Winfrey
![Patricia Lee managed to reconnect with Oprah Winfrey, her long-lost half sister, thanks to the media mogul's fame. Lee was watching an interview of Oprah's mother when she realized that her information about her children matched the details in Lee's own birth certificate. She reconnected with Oprah three years later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/866418.jpg)
Sofia Vergara
![CRACKED COM OC BS Manolo, Sofia Vergara's son, went to a Catholic school and says that the priests would ask him for his mother's autograph and if he could give them some of her calendars.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/3/866413.jpg)
Robin Williams
![Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin OLD Williams, с was harassed and bullied on Twitter after her father's suicide in 2014. She was sent disturbing photoshopped images of her dad and even blamed for his death. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/4/866414.jpg)
Kim Kardashian / Kanye West
![North West was literally named by fake celebrity news. When the media falsely reported that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would name their daughter North West, positive reactions from celebrities like Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour encouraged the couple to go along with it. CRACKED G COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/866417.jpg)
Dennis Rader / BTK
![Kerri Rawson suffered from depression, anxiety, and PTSD after she learned that her father Dennis Rader was the infamous serial killer ВТК. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/866419.jpg)
Eminem
![CRACKED.COM x When Eminem first hit it big, his mother Debbie Mathers became famous as well, receiving polite treatment and autograph requests from his fans. As the rapper continued slurring her in his songs, her fame backfired, as fans began yelling abuse at her and harassing her whenever she was spotted on the street.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/866420.jpg)
Mr. Rogers
![It wasn't easy for Jim Rogers, Fred Rogers' eldest son, to be the son of a modern day saint. All through middle school he was bullied over the fact that his dad was so famously moral and upstanding. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/866415.jpg)
Dick Van Dyke
![Dick Van Dyke had a brother who was both a comedian and a TV actor. Jerry Van Dyke showed up on a bunch of TV shows starting in the '60s, and got four Emmy nominations for playing Luther Van Dam in Coach. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/866421.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Ariana Grande
![Frankie, Ariana Grande's brother, is a dancer and singer, among other things. He's also an active YouTuber with over 400,000 subscribers, has appeared on Broadway, and has been a judge on America's Best Dance Crew. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/866411.jpg)
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Kurt Cobain
![Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain, EXIT SCH TV GOOFY really doesn't like Nirvana's music (or any grunge) and can't relate to much of '90s culture in general. She says it's because it's been shoved down throat her whole life. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/866412.jpg)
Martha Stewart
![To stay sane while Martha Stewart was on trial, her daughter had to quit all media. To make sure she didn't see anything upsetting about her mom, Alexis Stewart had to stop reading newspapers, listening to radio, and watching TV. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/866410.jpg)
Ron Jeremy
![Ron Jeremy's grandmother had to leave her home for a month after she was pestered by gay men trying to reach him. Born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, his admirers tried finding him in the phonebook after his Playgirl photos were published, but the R Hyatt they found was his grandmother Rose's listing. Не dropped his family name shortly thereafter and Ron Jeremy was born. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/4/866404.jpg)
LeVar Burton
![Mica Burton, LeVar Burton's daughter, was unable to watch Roots into her teenage years. She knew that Kunta Kinte was tortured, and couldn't bear to see her father, even acting, going through that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/866408.jpg)
Hugh Hefner
![Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, lived every teenage boy's dream, spending days CRACKED.COM and nights at the Playboy Mansion. However, in a twist with Freudian implications, a large naked portrait of Kimberley Conrad, 1989's Playmate of the Year and Cooper's mom, hung in the mansion's library, past which Cooper walked nearly every day. In Conrad's own, understated words: Yeah, that was weird.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/866409.jpg)
Queen Elizabeth
![CRACKED.COM Being a royal sounds awesome... Until you realize it comes with incredible amounts of pressure and expectations. According to historian A.N. Wilson, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's sister, once confessed to him that she had recurring nightmares about disappointing Elizabeth and couldn't go back to sleep until she heard her sister's voice.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/7/866407.jpg)
James Franco
![James Franco's bro Tom is an artist who mostly works with found objects. One time, he collaborated with James on an exhibition called Pipe Brothers, for which they both made art on ceramic sewage pipes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/2/866402.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Taylor Swift
![Taylor Swift's brother Austin is an actor who's been trying to make it in Hollywood. Не was in the Ben Affleck drama Live By Night, had a big role in Cover Versions, and also acted with Pierce Brosnan in John Moore's I.T. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/5/866405.jpg)
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Jonah Hill
![Jonah Hill's brother Jordan Feldstein was Maroon 5's longtime manager. Не also founded Career Artist Management, a company that managed Maroon 5, Elle King, Miguel, Robin Thicke, and other artists. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/3/866403.jpg)
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Woody Harrelson
![Woody Harrelson's dad was a murderer, high-stakes gambler, and womanizer. POLICE DEPT. HOUSTON TEXAS to 5 Charles Harrelson was arrested for assassinating a judge in 1979, and got two life sentences. Не went to prison and ultimately died there, in 2007. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/6/866406.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Calvin Klein
![Being the daughter of Calvin Klein has a weird downside, according to Marci Klein. My only complaint about having a father in fashion Calvin Klein Calvin Klein is that every time Colunter I'm about to go to bed with a guy I have to look at my dad's name all over his underwear. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/9/866399.jpg)
Danny DeVito / Rhea Pearlman
![CRACKED.COM Lucy DeVito, daughter of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, doesn't divulge her last name on first dates. CULCOLOGY COMPANY THE TA 8th A Con h er В k s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/6/866396.jpg)
John Lennon
![Julian Lennon has been collecting his famous father's memorabilia using money from the settlement of the late Beatle's estate. His father, rock icon John Lennon, was a lousy parent, once publicly claiming that Julian was a mistake who had been born out of a bottle of whiskey on a Saturday night. Julian was left out of his father's will and sued the estate, eventually settling for a reported £20 million. The irony isn't lost on me that I am using his money to buy back his things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/0/866390.jpg)
Carl Sagan
![CRACKED.COM Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan, was the voice of the children of Earth on the Voyager Golden Record. When his parents were designing the record, they needed a child's voice, and he was a perfect example, so his voice was sent into the cosmos on the Voyager.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/5/866395.jpg)
Ewan McGregor
![Ewan McGregor's bro Colin is a pilot in the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force. Internet rumors say he uses the callsign Obi-Two, which would be hilarious if true -- but it sadly hasn't been substantiated so far. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/7/866387.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Chadwick Boseman
![Chadwick Boseman's brother Kevin is a choreographer, dancer, and writer. Probably his most notable appearance so far is as part of the cast of the legendary Lion King musical on Broadway, where he's one of the dancers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/7/866397.jpg)
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Kurt Vonnegut
![Kurt Vonnegut's brother Bernard was a really accomplished chemist. In 1946, he discovered a cloud-seeding technique that could literally be used to create rain (unfortunately, it turned out to be very inefficient). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/2/866392.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Miley Cyrus
![Miley Cyrus' sister Noah is a musician (and says she grew up in Miley's shadow). One of her songs, Young and Sad, is about the issues she had to deal with as a kid because her older sister was so extremely famous. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/0/866400.jpg)
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Michael Jackson
![CRACKED.COM Even though most of the tabloid reading world was aware, Paris Jackson, (daughter of Michael Jackson) didn't know who her mom was until she was 10 years old. Paris found out more about her mother, Debbie Rowe, by searching the internet after Jackson died. She was 13 when they met for the first time.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/6/866386.jpg)
Brandon Lee
![Brandon Lee said that being Bruce Lee's son meant that kids at school would ZERSTA always challenge him to fights. Brandon won them all. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/1/866391.jpg)
Eugene Levy
![CRACKED.COM Eugene Levy's 15 year old son Dan had a hard time in high school when American Pie came out. AMERICAN PIE Eugene plays the dad of a teenager who is on a mission to lose his virginity. Dan's schoolmates thought that the movie was about him and would regularly joke 'Ooh. Is that a story about your life?'](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/5/866385.jpg)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
![Neil deGrasse Tyson's daughter was SO surrounded by the scientific mindset that she used the scientific method to test if the tooth fairy was real. She wound up setting traps and working with her classmates, eventually theorizing that the Tooth Fairy might actually be her parents. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/1/866401.jpg)
Rooney & Kate Mara
![Rooney and Kate Mara's uncle Art Rooney II owns the Pittsburgh Steelers. The sisters' great-grandfather founded the Steelers, but the team was sold in 1940. It was bought back in 1941, and has stayed in the family since. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/8/866398.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Chelsea Peretti
![Chelsea Peretti's brother Jonah came up with two of the biggest media sites. hCrunch DISRUPT P Не co-founded BuzzFeed, and in 2005 also co-founded The Huffington Post (with Ken Lerer and Arianna Huffington, who reached out after an email of his went viral). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/8/866388.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Bernie Sanders
![Bernie Sanders's brother is also a socialist politician -- but in Oxford, UK. Until his retirement in 2013, he was a county councillor for the Green Party for East Oxford. In 2016, the Party made him its health spokesperson. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/3/866393.jpg)
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Ian Fleming
![Peter Fleming, brother of lan, was a travel writer who also wrote popular history. Не wrote travelogues about journeys in Brazil, Central Asia, India, and Russia. Later, he wrote about historical events in those regions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/4/866394.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)
Cristiano Ronaldo
![Cristiano Ronaldo's sister Katia Aveiro is a musician who's put out six albums. Until 2013, her stage name had been Ronalda, and at one point she announced that she wanted to represent Portugal in the EuroVision Song Contest. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/9/866389.jpg)
Source: 15 Celebrities With Little-Known Relatives (Who Are Amazing In Their Own Right)