Ok I'm pretty sure this topic has been covered a million and a half times, but I just felt like doing it again:
What connections do you have to famous people?

*My aunt went to school with Lonnie Anderson

*When my dad was a kid, he lived down the street from the bass player of Lynyrd Skynrd.  The band was actually named after a teacher at the school they went to.

*My boyfriend's uncle is Clarence Williams III. Well, I myself am not really familiar with any of his movies, but apparently he was in "Half Baked" and "The Mod Squad."

My uncle knew Burt Mustin who was an old character actor who played the really old guy (Gus the Fireman) on Leave it to Beaver.  He played in hundreds of roles in the 50's and 60's.  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615993/

My cousin was a teacher and Arnold Palmer was one of her students.

My Dad use to do business with John Hess, brother of war criminal Rudolf Hess.

My grandfather lent a dress shirt to Charles Schwab when he went to interview for a job with Carnegie Steel.  Schwab later became an exec at Carnegie Steel and then later founded Bethlehem Steel. (Grandpa continued to mine coal).

:DMy dad went to the same college---San Jose State-University--as the Smothers Brothers.

my uncle was born in the same town as robert e howard, the creator of conan the barbarian. i always wanted to ask him if he was in anyway related...

my best friend went to the acting school which william b davis owned in vancouver BC. mr. davis played the cancer man in the x-files. he said mr. davis was a good teacher and a class act.

-My grandfather was in the Army with Elvis Presley. He said he was a great guy who would give his army pay to anyone who needed it.

-When my grandmother was a little girl, her family was quite poor and her father was dead. One day, my grandmother, her sister, and my great-grandmother were walking down a road in Oklahoma. A guy in a car picked them up. In the backseat were guns of every sort. The guy took them to the next town, got them a place to stay, some groceries, and gave them some money. You may know him as "P
retty Boy" Floyd.

-Don't know if you would consider this one, but some of Ritchie Valens' family still lives around these parts. My dad used to talk to his brother, Bob, all the time.

-Family friend of ours used to work for Clint Eastwood.

My dad does security work for Russell Crowe.

He is also on a WIRES (wildlife rescue) commitee with aussie legend Jack Thompson.

My dad and Frank Sinatra were cousins through marriage.  (although they never met).

I went to Ball State University. As you know, it's that same college as David Letterman.
And I went to high school with Vivica A. Fox, the actress.

Former Heavyweight Champ Riddick Bowe is my uncle through marriage

Buckshot shorty from the rap group Black moon is my cousin from my dad's side

As a Box office attendant I've sold tickets to the following people:
Liza, David Guest, David Schwimmer, Natasha Lyonne, Mandy Moore and Heather Mattarazzo

Lets see I kinda have a few.

My dads half-brother is Bobby Ross the football couch at Army and former couch of the Detroit Lions and San Diego Chargers.

I am related to Jane Seymour the third wife of King Henry VIII, she was his favorite wife and is buried next to her today.  So I am related to royality, kinda cool.

My dad knew Jackie Gleason.  He worked for him on his talk show.  One day Gleason invited my dad to his house.  Gleason had a pool table in his basement (as I am sure you could have guessed) and my dad started playing and my dad is not very good.  Gleason watched him for a while and finally stepped in and my dad said that Gleason ran the table on the first try.

My dad's family was and still is good friends with the Rooney family.  Art Rooney was the former owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and his son Dan Rooney is the current owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

My sister is friends with the lead singer of Poison Bret Michaels.

Boxer Evander Holyfield Lives about 10 minutes from me.

I have met several celebraties too like Mark Martin (twice), Dale Jarret, Michael Jorden (before he became pro), Gaylord Perry, Tiger Woods (will he was still an amature), Former President Jimmy Carter, and probably someone else I am missing.  Those are people I have actually talked with.

I was within spitting distance of Robin Williams a couple times :)

Helen Adams used to go to the same high school as I did - St Julian's Comprehensive.

I also know two recent singles that have connections with siblings.

Kylie Minogue - Red Blooded WomanIn this track, she sings, "You got me spinning round, round, round, round (Like a record)." This is a connection with Kylie's sister, Dannii. Dannii's I Begin To Wonder was mixed with Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record.

Twista - Slow Jams Both Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross are mentioned in this song. Janet Jackson did a duet with Luther called The Best Things In life Are Free.

I know Richard O'brien through second-cousin.

errrrm...and I can sorta link forever to celebreties past that then!

Hooray, 2nd page!

I have a few big black boxes in my house, and when you turn it on, you get a glimpse of another dimemsion, and see millions of people! Including the likes of Robin Williams, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Tom Green, Jay Leno, Conan O' Brian, Carson Daly, the list goes on and on.................

My aunt married into the Roundtree family back in '65...
So my uncle, James Roundtree is the cousin of this other Roundtree in the family.
Richard Roundtree, the actor. So I'm like the third(?) cousin (twice removed or something) or so of "Shaft"  ;D 8) .

Actually met him once when I was only 6 in NYC in '73 a few years after the movie was popular. I don't remember the meeting much except that he was a very imposing person.
Thats as close as I am to any part of "fame" or celebs.

- My grandfather played in a St. Louis blues band with Ike Turner.

- My father sold a car to Abdul "Duke" Fakir of The Four Tops.

- My mother is a registered nurse and she helped care for the granddaughter of Gil Hill, a former Detroit police officer and city councilman. Hill also played Eddie Murphy's foul-mouthed Inspector Todd in Beverly Hills Cop I and II.

- My mother, while in the Army, was asked out by a then unknown singer named Teddy Pendergrass.

- My mother, who was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, met John F. Kennedy on November 21, 1963 - the day before he was assassinated.

- John Kennedy, Pope John Paul II, Ed McMahon and Gene Kelly are brothers of my fraternity.

- I played high school football with Derrick Alexander, former NFL wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings.

- I went to college with Denver Nuggets point guard Earl Boykins and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch.

- Two of my upstairs neighbors at my apartment in college were former University of Michigan football stars Desmond Howard and Ricky Powers.

- One of my neighbors growing up was Violent J of the rap group Insane Clown Posse.

- The old houses of Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin were within a five-minute drive of my parents' first house in Detroit.

- One of my brother's fellow churchgoers used to babysit Sacramento Kings star Chris Webber and his family.

- An aunt of one of my childhood friends sings backup for Luther Vandross and used to be in a Detroit-based group called Chapter 8 with Anita Baker. This same friend's younger brother was friends with the late Aaliyah when they were younger.

- The family of former NFL wide receiver Andre Rison lives two blocks from my cousin in Flint, Michigan. My cousin also went to high school with the members of the 1980s group Ready for the World.

- I used to work at a record store in high school, and one of our patrons was Lynn Thomas, wife of NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas.

- While living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early '90s, I had the same barber as former University of Michigan basketball player and current Orlando Magic forward Juwan Howard.

I just remembered another one.  My Aunt and Uncle are good friends with and go to church with Sid Bream former 1st Basemen of the Atlanta Braves.

My Mum once met Honus Wagner when she was a kiddie.  :D