Quite a few famous people are present in this database - here is a quick guide to finding more about them and their genealogical background.
Famous Authors and Poets
Jeffrey Archer
Jane Austen
Sir John Betjeman
Robert Bridges
Lord Byron
Barbara Cartland
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Winston Churchill
George Edward Cokayne (aka G.E.C.)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Roald Dahl
Ian Fleming
Ludovic Kennedy
Rudyard Kipling
Clare Boothe Luce
Somerset Maugham
Norman Mailer
Daphne du Maurier
Beatrix Potter
Siegfried Sassoon
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Southey
Alec Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Mary Wollstonecraft (aka Mary Shelley)
Adeline Virginia Stephen (aka Virginia Woolf)
William Wordsworth
Pop Culture
Fred Astaire (dancer)
Brigitte Bardot (film actress)
Helena Bonham-Carter (film actress)
Glen Buxton (lead guitarist for Alice Cooper)
Jamie Lee Curtis (film actress)
Tony Curtis (film actor)
Bryan Ferry (musician)
Henry Fonda (actor)
Jane Fonda (actress)
Cary Grant (film actor)
Hugh Grant (film actor)
Rex Harrison (film actor, My Fair Lady)
Paris Hilton (model)
Anjelica Huston (film actress)
John Huston (film director)
Jodie Kidd (super-model)
Janet Leigh (film actress)
Groucho Marx (comedian)
David Niven (film actor)
Liam Neeson (film actor)
Laurence Olivier (actor)
Jackie Onassis (Jackie Kennedy)
Preston (singer with The Ordinary Boys)
Mary Quant (fashion designer)
Vanessa Redgrave (film actress)
Gloria Vanderbilt (fashion label)
Roger Waters (rock musician, Pink Floyd)
Famous Explorers and Adventurers
Sir David Attenborough
Captain William Bligh (HMAV Bounty)
Sir Francis Chichester (Gipsy Moth IV)
'Bear' Grylls (TV adventure presenter)
Captain Meriwether Lewis (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (South Pole explorer)
Sir Ernest Shackleton (South Pole explorer)
U.S. Industrialists
John Jacob Astor (China trade)
Jay Gould (railroads)
William Randolph Hearst (newspaper publisher)
Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotels)
Howard Hughes (Hughes Aircraft Co)
W. K. Kellogg (Kelloggs - cereal)
Pierre Lorillard II (J. Lorillard - tobacco)
Henry Robinson Luce (Time magazine)
Condé Nast (magazine publisher)
Ted Turner (CNN)
Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads)
F. W. Woolworth (Woolworths - stores)
