List of coupled cousins

• Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib (c. 546 - 570/571) and his third cousin once removed, Aminah (549-577/578)
• John Adams (1735-1826) and his third cousin, Abigail Smith (1744-1818)[1]
• John Adams II (1803-1834) and his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen
• Mary Louisa Adams, granddaughter of John Quincy Adams by his second son John Adams II, and her second cousin William Clarkson Johnson, a great-grandson of John Quincy Adams' father John Adams by his second son Charles Adams
• Mary Gardiner Adams, granddaughter of John Quincy Adams by his third son Charles Francis Adams Sr., and her distant cousin Henry Parker Quincy
• Ali and his first cousin once removed, Fatimah
• Mark Antony and his first cousin, Antonia Hybrida Minor, and later his fourth cousin once removed, Octavia the Younger (69-11 BCE)

B

• Johann Sebastian Bach and his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach[2]
• Josiah Bartlett, second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Mary Bartlett[3]
• Ilsley Boone and his first cousin, Ella Murray "Mae" Boone, founder of the American Sunbathing Association, which today is known as the American Association for Nude Recreation
• James Boswell (1740–95) (biographer of Samuel Johnson) and Boswell's cousin Peggie Montgomerie married in 1769.[4]
• Christine Boutin and her first cousin, Louis Boutin[5]
• Wernher von Braun and his first cousin, Maria Luise von Quistorp[6]
• Marcus Junius Brutus (assassin of Julius Caesar) and his half-first cousin, Porcia
• Charles Bulfinch and his first cousin, Hannah Apthorp[7]

C

• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and his first cousin, Clodia Pulchra
• John C. Calhoun, seventh Vice President of the United States, and his first cousin once removed, Floride Calhoun[8]
• Jeanne Calment, the oldest person whose age was verified by official documents, and her second cousin, Fernand Calment[9]
• Benedict Swingate Calvert, third Proprietor Governor of Maryland and father of Eleanor Calvert, and his first cousin once removed, Elizabeth Calvert
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his second cousin, Mary Darnall[10]
• Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and his second cousin, Cornelia Africana Major

D

• Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood[11] Their respective siblings Caroline Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood III also married. In addition, their grandparents, Sarah Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood, were third cousins.[12]
• Alfred I. du Pont, great-grandson of DuPont founder and his cousin-by-marriage, Bessie Gardner, as well as his second cousin, Alicia Bradford Maddox[13]
• Pierre S. du Pont married his first cousin, Alice Belin, in 1915
• Andrew Jackson Donelson and his first cousin, Emily Donelson; later, his first cousin, Elizabeth Martin Randolph

E

• Albert Einstein and his first cousin (through his mother) and second cousin (through his father), Elsa Löwenthal née Einstein[14]
• William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis (and grandfather of poet T. S. Eliot), married his first cousin.
• William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin once removed, Abigail Cary[15]
• William Crowninshield Endicott, former US Secretary of War, and his first cousin, Ellen Peabody[16]
• John Wayles Eppes and his half-first cousin, Mary Jefferson

F

• James Fenner and his first cousin once removed, Sarah Whipple Jenckes.
• John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston and grandfather of John F. Kennedy, and his second cousin Mary Josephine Hannon[17]

• Vivian Fuchs, British explorer, and his cousin Joyce Connell[18]

G

• Carlo Gambino, a mob boss, and his first cousin, Catherine Castellano[19]
• Harry Augustus Garfield and his second cousin, Belle Hartford Mason
• Buddha Gautama and first cousin Yaśodhara
• André Gide, Nobel Prize-winning French author, and his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux[20]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American author, and her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman[21]
• Carl Giles, cartoonist, and his cousin, Joan Giles
• Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York, 1994–2001, and his second cousin, Regina Peruggi[22]
• A. D. Gordon and his cousin , Faige Tartakov.
• Laurent Gouvion, French general and later Marshal of the Empire, and his first cousin, Anne Gouvion
• Samuel L. Gouverneur and his first cousin, Maria Hester Monroe
• Duncan Grant, Scottish painter, who was in a relationship with his male cousin, the English writer Lytton Strachey.[23]
• Bibb Graves, and his first cousin, Dixie Bibb
• Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer, and his first cousin, Nina Hagerup[24]

H

• Monty Hall and his distant cousin Marilyn Plottel
• Benjamin Harrison V, American revolutionary leader, and his second cousin, Elizabeth Bassett[25]
• Anna Tuthill Harrison, daughter of William Henry Harrison, and her first cousin once removed, William Henry Harrison Taylor
• Elizabeth Bassett Harrison, daughter of William Henry Harrison, and her first cousin, John Cleves Short[26]
• Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-British economist, and his cousin Helene Bitterlich<[27]
• Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and political activist, and his cousin Natalya Zakharina[28]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the poet, and his second cousin, Amelia Lee Jackson[29]
• Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his second cousin, Sarah Scott[15]
• Saddam Hussein and his first cousin Sajida Talfah

I

• Isaac was married to his first cousin once removed, Rebecca

J

• Jacob was married to two of his first cousins, sisters Leah and Rachel
• Ja'far al-Sadiq and his first cousin, Fatima bint al-Hussain'l-Athram bin al-Hasan bin Ali
• Miss Velma Jaggers and her first cousin Orval Lee Jaggers.
• Jesse James and his first cousin, Zerelda "Zee" Mimms[30]
• Thomas Jefferson and his third cousin, Martha Wayles[31]
• Jón Sigurðsson, leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement, and his first cousin, Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir

K

• Naoto Kan, former Prime Minister of Japan, and his first cousin, Nobuko[32]
• John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, was married to (then divorced from) his distant cousin Julia Thorne.
• Arthur Henry King and his second cousin Patricia[33]
• Nobusuke Kishi, former Japanese statesman, and his first cousin, Yoshiko Kishi[34]
• Kujō Michiie and his first cousin, Saionji Rinshi
• Kujō Yoritsune and his second cousin once removed, Minamoto no Yoshiko

L

• Mark Labbett and his second cousin, Katie Labbett
• David Lean, British film director, and his first cousin, Isabel Lean (his first wife)[35]
• Charles Lee and his second cousin, Anne Lee
• Edmund Jennings Lee I and his second cousin, Sarah Lee
• Robert E. Lee and his third cousin, Mary Anna Custis
• Charles Lilburn Lewis and his first cousin, Lucy Jefferson Lewis
• Fielding Lewis and his second cousin, Catharine Washington, and later his second cousin, Betty Washington, the sister of George Washington
• Jerry Lee Lewis, rock and roll musician, and his first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown[36][37]
• Li Ka-shing, founder of Cheung Kong Holdings, married his first cousin Chong Yuet Ming, who died in 1990
• Edward Philip Livingston and his third cousin, Elizabeth Stevens Livingston
• John Henry Livingston and his second cousin, Sarah Livingston
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, and his distant cousin, Anna Parker Lowell[38]
• John Amory Lowell and his first cousin, Susan Cabot Lowell

M

• John A. Macdonald, first prime minister of Canada, and his first cousin, Isabella Clark[39]
• Rob Roy MacGregor and his cousin Mary Helen MacGregor of Comar, who married in January 1693
• Gerardo Machado y Morales, fifth president of Cuba, and his first cousin, Elvira Machado Nodal[40]
• Maeda Toshiie, Japanese Daimyō in the 15th century, and his cousin, Matsu.
• Thomas Malthus, British academic, and his first cousin once removed, Harriet Eckersall[41]
• Delarivier Manley, British playwright and political satirist, and her first cousin John Manley[42]
• Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, and his second cousin Luo Yixiu[lower-alpha 1]
• Francis Marion, American revolutionary leader also called the "Swamp Fox," and his first cousin, Mary Esther Videau[44]
• Humphrey Marshall and his first cousin, Anna Maria ("Mary") Marshall.
• Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, and his first cousin, Bertha Goodman[45]
• Matthew Fontaine Maury married his first cousin, Ann Hull Herndon, sister of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died on his ship SS Central America
• Hipólito Mejía, Dominican Republic president, and his third cousin Rosa Gómez[46]
• Darius Milhaud, French composer, and his first cousin Madeleine Milhaud[47]
• Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne who was the model for the character Christopher Robin of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, and his first cousin Lesley Sélincourt
• Marina Mora, Peruvian beauty queen and former Miss Peru, and her first cousin Gustavo Mora[48]
• Mōri Terumoto, Japanese Daimyo in late 15th and early 16th century, and his cousin (first wife), Minami no Kata.
• Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, and his first cousin once removed, Agnes Priscilla Randolph Barton
• Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the Morse code, and his first cousin once removed, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold, his second wife[49]
• Ignacy Mościcki, Polish chemist and president and his first cousin, Michalina Czyżewska
• Muhammad, Islamic prophet and his first cousin, Zaynab bint Jahsh
• Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and his second cousin, Catherine Anne Muhlenberg. Their son William Frederick Muhlenburg married his second cousin, Henrietta Augusta Muhlenberg.

N

• Naoe Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai and Karō of the Uesugi clan in 15th and 16th century, and his cousin, Osen.

O

• Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese statesman and waka poet in the Nara period, and his cousin, Sakanoue no Ōiratsume.

P

• Karen Pini and her second cousin, Garry Carpenter
• Edgar Allan Poe and his first cousin, Virginia Clemm[50]
• Peter A. Porter and his first cousin, Mary Cabell Breckinridge
• Bolesław Prus, Polish novelist, and his cousin Oktawia Trembińska[51]

R

• Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, and his cousin, Natalia Satina[52]
• Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and his double third cousin, Martha Jefferson Randolph
• Satyajit Ray, Indian film-maker, and his first cousin, Bijoya Ray[53]
• José Rizal, Philippine national hero who had a relationship with his second cousin Leonor Rivera
• Theodore Douglas Robinson and his sixth cousin Helen Rebecca Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president, and his fifth cousin once removed, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt[54]
• James Roosevelt I and his second cousin, Rebecca Brien Howland, and later his sixth cousin, Sara Delano
• Philip Roosevelt and his second cousin Jean S. Roosevelt
• Alphonse James de Rothschild and his first cousin once removed, Leonora de Rothschild
• Edmond James de Rothschild and his first cousin once removed, Adelheid von Rothschild
• Ferdinand de Rothschild and his second cousin, Evelina de Rothschild
• James Nathan de Rothschild and his second cousin, Laura von Rothschild
• Lionel de Rothschild and his first cousin, Charlotte von Rothschild
• Nathaniel de Rothschild and his first cousin, Charlotte de Rothschild
• Salomon James de Rothschild and his first cousin once removed, Adèle von Rothschild
• Adolph Carl von Rothschild and his first cousin once removed, Julie von Rothschild
• Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild and his second cousin, Bettina Caroline de Rothschild
• Anselm Salomon von Rothschild and his first cousin, Charlotte Nathan Rothschild
• Mayer Carl von Rothschild and his first cousin, Louise von Rothschild
• Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild and his first cousin once removed, Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild
• Hassan Rouhani, 7th president of Iran and his first cousin Sahebeh Rouhani née Arabi

S

• Eisaku Satō, prime minister of Japan, and his cousin, Hiroko Sato[55]
• Greta Scacchi, actress of Presumed Innocent, and her first cousin, Carlo Mantegazza[56]
• Lucius Scribonius Libo and his half-first cousin twice removed, Cornelia Pompeia
• Igor Stravinsky, composer, and his first cousin, Katerina Nossenko[57]
• Werner von Siemens, founder of Siemens AG, and his third cousin once removed, Antonie Siemens

T

• Alphonso Taft and his fourth cousin twice removed, Louisa Maria "Louise" Torrey
• Jacob Taft, the grandfather of Rhode Island governor Royal C. Taft, married his first cousin once removed, Mary Taft. His brother Eastman Taft, grandfather of Ezra T. Benson, married his second cousin, Mary's niece Hannah Taft.
• Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese Daimyō, a son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and his cousin Senhime[58]
• John Alexander Tyler and his third cousin, Sarah Griswold Gardiner

U

• Uthman and his second cousin, Ruqayyah bint Muhammad, and later his second cousin, Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad

V

• Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus and his half-first cousin, Domitia Lepida the Younger
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate, and his first cousin Patricia Llosa[59]
• Martin Van Buren, US president, and his first cousin once removed, Hannah Hoes[60]
• Stephen Van Rensselaer and his third cousin, Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler

W

• Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park mathematician-cryptologist, and his cousin, Elisabeth Huber (his third wife)[61]
• H. G. Wells, author, and his first cousin, Isabel Mary Wells (his first wife)[62]
• Zack Wheat, baseball player, and his second cousin, Daisy Forsman[63]
• William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Catherine Moffatt[64]
• Dennis Wilson and his first cousin once removed, Shawn Marie Love
• John A. Winston and his first cousin, Mary Agness Jones
• Henry Winthrop and his first cousin Elizabeth Fones

Y

• Annie Henrietta Yule, breeder of Arab horses at Hanstead Stud in England, and her cousin Sir David Yule, 1st Baronet, Scottish business based in British India[65]