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The Holocaust was one of the biggest tragedies in human history and&nbsp;as the number of living survivors dwindles with the passage of time,&nbsp;descendants of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/photos-of-concentration-camps-in-the-holocaust/philgibbon">Holocaust</a> survivors strive to keep the memories of their ancestors alive. Unsurprisingly, many children and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-descendants-of-holocaust-survivors/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">grandchildren of Holocaust survivors</a> work in creative mediums like art and film.&nbsp;As genocides continue to occur worldwide, many of these famous artists are inspired by their ancestor's experiences.&nbsp;Through their works, they strive to tell stories of oppression, hate, and prejudice in hopes of building a better future.&nbsp;Gal Gadot, for instance, used the memory of her ancestors to inspire her role as Wonder Woman.&nbsp;The four actresses below represent just a handful of the artists and performers whose families are descended from the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust.

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This is a list of celebrities that you didn't know were siblings, ranked by how shocking the discovery might be to the average pop culture fan. Everyone knows that <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/women-who-john-cusack-has-dated/celebrityhookups?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">John and Joan Cusack</a> are siblings. They look alike, they share a last name, and they have appeared in several movies together. However, some famous siblings aren't so easy to spot. This list shows some celebrity siblings that have changed their names, leaving them to have no apparent connection other than DNA.Who are the most famous pair of celebrities that you didn't know were siblings? Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez would probably top our list. Both brothers were born with the last name Estevez, but Charlie decided to adopt their father, Martin Sheen's, stage name. They have appeared together in the film Men at Work, and Estevez did a guest spot on Sheen's television show “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/two-and-a-half-men-dark-behind-the-scenes-stories/zack-howe?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Two and a Half Men</a>.”Also on this list are famous siblings who work in different industries, making it difficult to pair them together. Pop singer Lily Allen has hit songs like “Smile” and “Womanizer” while her brother Alfie Allen has been scheming for power as Theon Greyjoy on the HBO show “Game of Thrones.”Are you surprised that these famous folks are siblings? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

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Shocking Siblings: Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Related

20+ Celebrity Sibling Duos You Didn't Realize Were Related

These are the most dramatic, petty, savage, and entertaining rivalries since Cain & Abel.

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Anyone who has grown up with a sibling knows&nbsp;how easily rivalries can develop. The desire of brothers and sisters to&nbsp;outperform each other is a nearly universal emotion,&nbsp;one that transcends social class, culture, and time period. In other words, everyone is prone to this rivalry, even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/embarrassing-presidential-siblings/melissa-sartore" target="_blank">US presidents</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;

History is chock-full of famous siblings with particularly juicy beefs. If humans are already naturally inclined toward&nbsp;competing with their sibs, adding power, wealth, or fame to the equation only inflames that tendency. In societies with hereditary governments, siblings have done all kinds of terrible things to each other to seize power for themselves. In more modern times, while dynastic political families do still exist, high-stakes sibling squabbling&nbsp;often plays out in corporate boardrooms or lawsuits. But throughout history, one thing is clear: <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/whoa-british-royal-family-facts/alby-thompson" target="_blank">Family is complicated</a>.

Read on for some&nbsp;of the ugliest sibling rivalries across history.&nbsp;

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In March 2025, Kieran Culkin won the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/academy-awards-best-movies-oscars-years/anncasano?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Academy Award for Best</a> Supporting Actor for his performance in the film A Real Pain. For years he had been known as Macauley Culkin's younger brother, but, along with his success on the HBO series Succession, this honor showed that he had stepped out of his famous older brother's shadow.In 2012, retired NBA star Reggie Miller was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, making him one half of the only brother-sister pair to be enshrined in the hall (his sister Cheryl had been inducted in 1995).Culkin and Miller are just two of the many people in the entertainment and sports industries who have followed an older sibling into the profession. Here are some stories of how a younger sibling not only chose the same profession as their older sibling but ended up (arguably) surpassing that sibling's fame.

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During the Gilded Age, the mass accumulation of money by families like the Vanderbilts changed the economic,&nbsp;social, and physical&nbsp;landscape&nbsp;of the United States. The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.ranker.com/list/members-of-the-vanderbilt-family/reference">Vanderbilt family's</a>&nbsp;wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, in the late 19th century. His hard work set the foundation for his sons and&nbsp;grandsons to continue making money, but their&nbsp;descendants became less&nbsp;inclined to earn and more likely to spend.As it goes in&nbsp;many wealthy families - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.ranker.com/list/dark-rockefeller-family-facts/harrison-tenpas">such as the Rockefellers</a>,&nbsp;for instance - the Vanderbilts were prone to excess. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/over-the-top-homes/erin-cody">The houses</a>, the luxury, and the spectacle that defined&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/members-of-the-vanderbilt-family/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the Vanderbilt family</a> eventually brought about their decline from atop the&nbsp;financial and social ladders they once dominated.

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Once you've found The One, what's next? Matching t-shirts, matching names, and matching tats—in that order.

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This is a list&nbsp;of the longest Hollywood marriages&nbsp;ranked by their duration in years. Hollywood marriages are known to be notoriously short, but a few couples have remained happy together for decades. Some couples are both successful actors, while other couples have one spouse who is a mega-star and the other is unknown to the public.Who tops our list of the longest Hollywood marriages? Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara appeared to have been one of the happiest celebrity couples ever. There are other old Hollywood marriages that have lasted, such as the relationships between James Garner and Lois Clarke, and&nbsp;Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are another of the&nbsp;Hollywood&nbsp;couples&nbsp;with&nbsp;long&nbsp;marriages. They tied the knot in&nbsp;1988. They're often praised as one of the most successful marriages in Hollywood. Hume Cronyn&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jessica Tandy&nbsp;are one of the seriously impressive famous couples who have been married for over 50 years. Lasting relationships like that are exciting to read about, because they clearly worked at being husband and wife. There are other famous elderly or old Hollywood couples below.&nbsp;&nbsp;Check out these <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-have-killed-people/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword" target="_blank">famous celebrity</a> successes, and our list of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-white-guys-married-to-black-chicks/celeb-stalker" target="_blank">famous interracial couples</a> as well.

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This is a list&nbsp;of celebrities who married the same person twice, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. Several famous people have been married multiple times to the same person. Some people took only a short break between marriages, and other Hollywood couples were separated for decades before they reconnected. This list includes many <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-with-the-most-marriages/general_crack">celebrities with the most marriages</a>. One famous comedian even married two different wives two different times each.Who is the most famous celebrity who married the same person twice? Pamela Anderson&nbsp;announced that she remarried her ex-husband Rick Salomon in 2014. The couple were previously married from 2007-2008. Rodney Dangerfield married,&nbsp;divorced, and remarried&nbsp;Joyce Indig between 1949 to 1970. They share children Melanie Roy-Friedman and Brian Roy. They weren't the only celebrities who were remarrying their exes though.Comedian Richard Pryor gave love a second chance two times. Pryor first married Jennifer Lee from 1979–1982. The couple remarried in 2001 and were together until Pryor's death in 2005. He first married Flynn Belaine from 1986–1987 and then again from 1990–1991. He was married a total of seven times in his life. Other famous <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/13-people-who-married-inanimate-objects/jude-newsome?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">people who married</a> the same person after divorce&nbsp;include Elizabeth Taylor, Melanie Griffith, Marie Osmond, and Eminem.You might be surprised by the number of divorces that turn into remarriages. Scroll on below for some true Hollywood romantic history.&nbsp;

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Everyone knows celebrities can be cuckoo bananas, but did you know that they also have access to biological technology unavailable to the rest of us plebs? The latest in celeb fads: cloning. Here is <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-influential-contemporary-americans?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">a list of famous people</a> who have literally cloned themselves by copying their own DNA and creating new people. Don't believe it? The proof is in the pudding, sirs. Just take a look at these snaps of celeb &quot;children&quot; compared to their famous &quot;parents.&quot; Is that a pre-teen Reese Witherspoon sulking in the schoolyard? Nope, it is her clone, a brand new second person that everyone has agreed to call &quot;Ava Elizabeth Phillippe.&quot; Were you watching Fargo and trying to place the young policeman, but feeling a little nutso because who is that guy? Don't worry - it is just the clone of Oscar-winner Tom Hanks. This new fella's name is Colin, and he is an actor, too, wouldn't you know it.Why is cloning so popular in Hollywood / the entertainment industry? Well, stars are just like us. They want their kids to succeed - and they are already famous, so why not make sure the apple falls pretty close to the tree? Also, it's a safer bet to swirl some DNA around in a dish, Gattaca-style (ahem Uma Thurman) than to roll the dice and risk mixing genes with a second parent. With a star's own identical genetic information, hot looks, sparkling personalities, je nais se quoi, and Tinsel Town connections, each of these cloned precious angels is sure to be a smash hit - even if it is not exactly one-of-a-kind.Clones.&nbsp;What do you think about the celebrity trend of playing God creating mini-mes and genetically identical lookalikes? Voice your educated opinions in the Comments.

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Despite all of their riches and fame, celebrities' lives can be devastated by accidents, abuse, death, and other awful surprises.

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Lists of interesting trivia and fun facts about where famous people were born, how they grew up, and what their lives were like when they were young.

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It&#39;s tragic to lose a sibling at any age, but these celebrities who lost siblings young were under 30 when their brothers and sisters passed away. Several actors, musicians, comedians, and artists have siblings who died at a young age. Some celebrity&nbsp;sibling deaths were accidental, and&nbsp;others were more sensational. Whatever the cause, the loss of a loved one is always tragic.&nbsp;

What famous people have lost a sibling young?&nbsp;When Chelsea Handler was 10 years old, her older brother was felled in a tragic hiking accident. In 1992, Queen Latifah&#39;s 23-year-old brother, Lance, was felled in a motorcycle accident. Joseph Gordon-Levitt lost his brother at 29, while Kelsey Grammer&nbsp;lost his sister and two half-brothers at a young age.&nbsp;

To learn more about celebrities who lost siblings at a young age, read this list.&nbsp;

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Most people know the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. He was a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and a slave-owning Southern farmer. She was his property. Their relationship allegedly&nbsp;began in 1787, when Hemings was just 14&nbsp;years old. Over the next three decades, Jefferson had as many as six children with her.There are many <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/founding-fathers-horrifying-facts/isadora-teich">horrifying stories about the Founding Fathers</a>, but perhaps one of the most unscrupulous among them was Jefferson. Jefferson, who did other&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.ranker.com/list/reasons-thomas-jefferson-was-awful/stephanroget">pretty awful things</a>, also broke his promise to the mother of his children: he swore to free her and their progeny, but it didn't happen until he passed away.&nbsp;Jefferson and Hemings's Black descendants&nbsp;have faced discrimination within the Jefferson family. Jefferson's white descendants showed their prejudice when they stated they didn't believe <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1266">Jefferson&nbsp;would</a> "rear a race of half breeds."&nbsp;Even when DNA evidence finally proved Jefferson was the father of Hemings's children, some white descendants continued&nbsp;to deny it.

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For as long as history has been recorded by humankind, it has been common for a child to choose the same profession as one or both of their parents. One drawback to following in a parent's footsteps is that if the parent achieves significant success and/or fame in their careers, that success can overshadow the child's achievements.This is definitely a concern for upstart actors who have <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/current-stars-with-famous-parents/carly-kiel">famous parents in the industry</a>. However, there are many examples of second and third-generation actors who have achieved a significant amount of fame in their own right. And while the general public is often aware of the connection between the actor and his famous parent, there are times when the link is not common knowledge.Here are just some of the TV stars who people might be surprised to learn have at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/firsthand-accounts-of-famous-parents/ivey-nucilli">least one famous parent</a>. Vote up the thespians you were unaware grew up in the shadow of the limelight.

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For some actors, fame is the family business. Yet the TV and film actors on this list have famous parents who aren't well-known for acting. Instead, they gained fame and fortune by following a slightly different career path. Some actors on this list had rich parents who were titans of industry, rock stars, or federal officials; others had parents who worked in the movies, but from behind the camera. No matter what their surprising jobs were, the parents of these actors had the connections and wealth to help their <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-former-child-stars/carly-kiel">children succeed in show business</a>.Read on and vote up the actors <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/tv-stars-realize-famous-parents/tracey-graham">you didn't realize had famous parents</a>.

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Students learn a&nbsp;ton&nbsp;about historical figures throughout school, but classes usually focus on the major cornerstone moments of these people&#39;s lives and their contributions to history. What about the smaller details, such as what happened to the children of historical figures? Many well-known&nbsp;historical people actually have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/historical-figures-with-living-family/alby-thompson" target="_blank">family living today</a>. Others had children who went on to contribute to history in their own, perhaps less noteworthy (but no less interesting), ways.&nbsp;

From the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Aaron Burr&#39;s daughter to the princess who dedicated her life to being by Queen Victoria&#39;s side, the figures featured here were crucial parts of their parents&#39; lives. However, their stories are likely nowhere to be found in history textbooks. Vote up the figures whose stories deserve to be told.

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What Happened To Children Of Historical Figures

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There are some historical figures whose names are immediately recognizable: <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/badass-alexander-hamilton-facts/setareh-janda" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton</a> and Winston Churchill, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/descendants-of-historical-villains-lives/nicky-benson" target="_blank">historical &quot;villains&quot;</a> like Benito Mussolini, celebrities like Charlie Chaplin.&nbsp;Their lives have been well-documented and studied by countless experts and hobbyists. But less widely known is what happened to their descendants. It&#39;s not uncommon for children and grandchildren of historical figures to etch their own names in the annals of history, but their achievements and stories are often overshadowed by their more famous grandparents - history&#39;s main characters.&nbsp;

Below are some grandchildren who <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/historical-descendants-of-famous-figures/setareh-janda" target="_blank">followed in their famous forebears&#39; footsteps</a>, left their own mark on history, or paved a different path.&nbsp;Vote up the ones whose fates surprise you the most.

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<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/current-stars-with-famous-parents/carly-kiel" target="_blank">Celebrities with famous parents</a> are a dime a dozen. After all, the easiest way to get your foot in the door of the biz is to have your parent(s) make a few blockbuster films or record some hit singles -&nbsp;and that&rsquo;s totally fine. You&rsquo;d do it if you could. But it&rsquo;s really weird when some of the celebrities with famous parents look like <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-who-paid-homage-to-their-parents/ryan-izay" target="_blank">younger clones of their progenitors</a>. Celebrities who look like their famous parents can&rsquo;t help that they share more than a passing resemblance to the folks who supplied their genes, but it is strange to look at the duos side by side and notice the intricate similarities that they each share. There are definitely more than a few entries on this list that you&rsquo;ll be staring at and forgetting which photo belongs to the parent and which belongs to the child. 

To purposefully misquote the Insane Clown Posse:&nbsp;genetics, how do they work? Why do these celebrity children look exactly like their famous parents when other famous kids look like they could belong to anyone? Whether you understand why these celebrities <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-who-cloned-themselves/carlybobarly" target="_blank">look like clones of their famous parents</a> or not, you&rsquo;ll be more than a little freaked out by how much they look alike, and you&rsquo;ll want to vote on the parent-kid duos who look the most alike. Can they all be number one? There&rsquo;s only one way to find out. After you&#39;ve had your fill, make sure to peruse <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-and-their-famous-parents-at-the-same-age/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">this list of father-son celebrity duos</a>.

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18 Photos of Celebrities And Their Parents At The Same Age

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Some celebrities become famous for being <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-film-actors-and-actresses-of-all-time">great at acting</a>, or for their ability to perform great music. Some are famous for a mixture of these talents and for having numerous children. Indeed, there are a number of celebrities who, either through birth or adoption, have managed to accrue quite a surprising, and sometimes even shocking, number of offspring.&nbsp;Moreover, while some of these children of the wealthy and famous and successful have gone on to become famous in their own right - the Kardashians being perhaps the most notable example - others have preferred to fly under the radar. As such, they reveal the many different paths that the children of famous people can take, particularly when they are part of a large family.

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