Notable People
22 Feb 2026


Clint Eastwood (0.1202; not public) - actor

Lucille Desiree Ball (0.1841; not public) - actress, comedian, studio
executive; did the television shows "I Love Lucy" and "The Lucy Show"

Mike Trout (0.2211; not public) - professional baseball player

Suzan Ann Ball (1.203, child i; not public) - actress

Richard McCord Long (spouse of 1.203, child i; not public) - actor

Richard Gere - actor; great grandson of Nelson Leroy Tiffany and Eva Harriet
Williams (parents of second spouse of 3.159)

Virginia Clara Jones (3.191) - actress, dancer, known as Virginia Mayo

Simon Lake (9.1135) - known as "The Father of the Modern Submarine", owned
submarine companies, invented submarine components, sold submarines to
foreign countries

John Henry Lake (9.1758, child iii) - champion bicyclist, competed in 1900
Olympic Games in Paris, France

James Longstreet (9.1797) - served as a General for Confederacy during
American Civil War

William Garrison (17.121, child i) - mountain man, took the name John
Johnston, served as sheriff of Red Lodge, Montana, movie loosely based upon
the life of William Garrison (John Johnston) entitled "Jeremiah Johnson"
and starring Robert Redford

Simon Wesley Lake (17.205), Simon Lake (28.35) and William B. Wood -
founded Ocean City, New Jersey on 21 Oct 1879

Enoch Gerritsen (30.141) and Joseph M. Gerritsen (30.142) - departed on
the first immigrant wagon train to go all the way to Oregon on 19 Apr 1843

James Parker (55.81) - established first printing press in New Jersey (in
Woodbridge) 1751; published first periodical in New Jersey (New Amsterdam
Magazine) 1758



Others, not in SOT2-LAKE ...

Ann Sothern - actress, born Harriette Arlene Lake; daughter of Walter
John Lake and Annette Yde Nilson; Walter John Lake son of Frank Simon Lake
(born 1861 in England)

Irma Lake - actress, born to Mabel Lake and Ellis Alexander in Port of
Spain, Trinidad

Agnes Louise Messman - circus performer and circus owner, married first
William Lake Thatcher (said to be born 1816 in New Jersey), dropped Thatcher
and went by William & Agnes Lake; 1860 formed a partnership with veteran
circus man John Robinson; William Lake Thatcher murdered in 1869 by a man
trying to get into the circus without paying; Agnes married second Wild
Bill Hickok in Mar 1876; Hickok was killed in Aug 1876

Veronica Lake - actress, Lake was her stage name; born Constance Frances
Marie Ockelman

Arthur Lake - actor (Blondie movies), Lake was his stage name; born Arthur
Silverlake


familysearch.org says:

Harper Lee (author of "To Kill a Mockingbird") is my 12th cousin, once removed
Ginger Rogers (actress, dancer, born Virginia Katherine McMath) is my 12th
  cousin, twice removed
Helen Keller (author, advocate, activist) is my 12th cousin, twice removed
Winston Churchill (statesman) is my 13th cousin, once removed

However, all of these connections are unproven as far as I'm concerned.