How's that for a headline, Barack Obama is a distant cousin to Brad Pitt.

Once you get beyond grandfathers and so forth I get pretty mixed up with this "once or twice removed" business. I really don't know much about genealogy but the folks who do say that Obama and Pitt are distantly related.


If you look very, very closely, you can see the similarities between these guys. They're both in good shape, they both apparently like the seashore, they both have short hair, they both squint when the sun is in their eyes, they both get wet when near water, they're both at least 6 feet tall, yeah, I can see the family resemblance.

Even more astonishing is the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Brad Pitt's wife, Angelina Jolie, which is starting to make this whole thing seem a bit incestuous in an abstract way.

Here's the link to the Obama, Pitt, Clinton, Jolie cousins story and while you're there check out the links on the left side of the page for more celebrity genealogy information.

Obama Image Source:www.textually.org
Pitt Image Source:www.data1.blog.de