List of last descendants of notable individuals

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Individuals of note may be those that "[are] likely known outside of their organization, or considered a founder or pioneer,"[1] or those whose "importance can have a Wikipedia entry."[2] Last descendants are those last surviving individuals who are "born into or legally adopted into the direct line of an individual’s descent."[3] However, there might be instances of collateral descent, where an individual "descends from the same common ancestor as the decedent, but does not descend directly from the decedent."[4]

List of last descendants of individuals of note[]

Notable individual Last family member Died Relationship Generations Notes Ref.
Chester A. Arthur Gavin Arthur 1972 Paternal grandfather 3 Son of Chester Alan Arthur II, son of Chester A. Arthur. [5]
Dido Elizabeth Belle Harold Davinier 1975 Paternal great-great-grandmother 5 Relations unknown, however, direct male descent.

Recent research has determined that there might be collatoral descendants through her mother and maybe her father living in Pensacola, Florida, where the couple might have kept a ten year relationship.

[6][7][8]
Lucien Bonaparte Roland Bonaparte 1924 Paternal grandfather 3 Son of Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, son of Lucien Bonaparte.

Last male-lineage descendant of Lucien Bonaparte, from whom the genetically senior branch of the family descended since 1844, when Napoleon's eldest brother, Joseph Bonaparte, died with no male children.

[9]
Edmund Burke Richard Burke Jr. 1794 Father 2 Predecceased his father and there is no evidence that he ever married or had children. [10]
Miguel de Cervantes  [es] 1652 Father 2 Last direct descendant. Illegitimate daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, she was recognized later on. Saavedra had a daughter, Isabel Sanz y Saavedra, however, she predeacesed her mother in 1622.

The last two known collateral descendants, descended from Cervantes's brother, Rodrigo (1550–1600), are brothers Javier and Manuel de Parada Luca de Tena, the latter being the former  [es].

[11][12][13]
Millard Fillmore Millard Powers Fillmore 1889 Father 2 Only son. Neither he nor his sister married or had children. [14]
Ian Fleming Caspar Robert Fleming 1972 Father 2 Only child. [15]
Galileo Galilei  [it] 1672 Paternal grandfather 3 Third son of Vincenzio Galilei, third child of Galileo Galilei. [citation needed]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walther von Goethe 1885 Paternal grandfather 3 Son of August von Goethe, son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [16]
James Joyce Stephen James Joyce 2020 Paternal grandfather 3 Son of Giorgio Joyce (1905–1976), son of James Joyce. [17]
Franz Kafka Michael Steiner Still living Maternal grand-uncle 3 Last collateral descendant. Son of Marianne Steiner (1913–2000), daughter of Valli Kafka, Franz Kafka's sister.

Others have claimed descent, nevertheless they are extended relations, as Steiner is Hermann Kafka's, Franz's father, only living descendant.

[18][19][20][21]
Rudyard Kipling Elsie Bambridge 1976 Father 2 His other children predeacesed Kipling and Bambridge died childless. [22][23]
Vladimir Lenin Olga Ulyanova 2011 Uncle 2 Since Lenin died childless, he only had collateral descendants. Daughter of Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin's younger brother. [24][25]
Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith 1985 Maternal great-grandfather 4 Last undisputed direct descendant. Son of Jessie Harlan Lincoln, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln.
Martin Luther Martin Gottlob Luther 1759 Paternal great-great-great-grandfather 6 Last direct-male line descendant. Son of Johann Martin Luther II (1663–1756), son of Johann Martin Luther (1616–1669), son of Johann Ernst Luther (1560–1637), son of Paul Luther, son of Martin Luther. One estimate "has up to 5,000 descendants worldwide," all descended from Paul, or his sister, Margarethe Luther (1534–1570). [26][27]
Thomas Robert Malthus Emily Malthus 1885 Father 2 None of her father's children had children of their own and Emily Malthus survived her whole family. [28]
Samuel Morse Leila Livingston Morse 1977 Paternal grandfather 3 Last direct-descendant. Daughter of William Goodrich Morse (1853–1933), son of Samuel Morse. [29]
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez María de los Dolores Medina 2014 Great-great grandmother 5 Relations unknown. News reports stated that three years previous to her death, the Congress of the Union had certified her as Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez's "last direct descendant." She died on the 246th anniversary of her ancestor's birth. [30][31][32]
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Rhea Leen Linder (formerly Bonnie Ray Parker) Still living Aunt 2 Daughter of, Hubert “Buster” Parker (1908-1964), Bonnie Parker's brother.

Buddy Barrow is a living nephew of Clyde Barrow, being Leon C. ��L.C.” Barrow's (1913-1979) son.

[33][34][35]
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot 1970 Maternal grandfather 3 Son of Marie Louise "Zizi" Pasteur (1858–1934), daughter of Louis Pasteur. [36]
Giacomo Puccini Simonetta Puccini 2017 Paternal grandfather 3 Only granddaughter, last undisputed descendant. Illegitimate daughter of Antonio Puccini (1886–1946), son of Giacomo Puccini. [37]
Alexander Pushkin Grigory Pushkin 1997 Paternal great-grandfather 4 Last direct male descendant. Son of Grigory Alexandrovich Pushkin (1868–1940), son of Gen. Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin (1833–1914), son of Alexander Pushkin. [38]
Rembrandt Titia van Rijn 1725 Paternal grandfather 3 Only grandchild. Daughter of Titus van Rijn, son of Rembrandt.

Rembrandt has living collateral descendants through his eldest brother, Adriaen Harmenszn van Rijn (1597–1652).

[39][40]
Auguste Rodin Auguste-Eugène Beuret 1934 Father 2 Rodin's only child, however, not recognized by him. Rodin later married his longtime lover Rose Beuret (1844–1917) in the last year of both parents' lives. [41][42]
Bertrand Russell John Russell, 7th Earl Russell Still living Paternal grandfather 3 Son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, son of Bertrand Russell.

Lady Felicity Anne Russell (1945–present) was adopted by John Russell, 4th Earl Russell, and has a daughter of her own, Rowan Bell.

[43]
Chief Seattle Kikisoblu 1896 Father 2 Chief Seattle's first born. [44][45]
Elizabeth Ann Seton Ferdinand Talbot Roscoe Jevons 1967 Maternal great-grandmother 4 Son of Isabel Jevons (née Seton) (1844–1929), daughter of Lt. William Seton III (1796–1868), son of Elizabeth Ann Seton. [46][47]
William Shakespeare Elizabeth Barnard 1670 Maternal grandfather 3 Daughter of Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare. Was the only grandchild Shakespeare ever knew. [48]
Mark Twain Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch 1966 Maternal grandfather 3 Daughter of Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. [49]
Mary Wollstonecraft Percy Florence Shelley 1889 Maternal grandmother 3 Son of Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.

See also[]

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