List of coupled cousins

A

• John Adams II (1803–1834), American government functionary and businessman, and his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen
• Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (c. 659 - c. 713), fourth Imam in Shi'i Islam and his first cousin, Fatimah bint Hasan
• Mark Antony and his first cousin, Antonia Hybrida Minor

B

• Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Mary Bartlett[3]
• Ilsley Boone (1879–1968) 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 his first cousin Margaret Montgomerie married in 1769.[4]
• Christine Boutin (b. 1944), French politician and her first cousin, Louis Boutin[5]
• Wernher von Braun and his first cousin, Maria Luise von Quistorp[6]
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), American architect, and his first cousin, Hannah Apthorp[7]

C

• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and his first cousin, Clodia
• Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843) and his first cousin, Sara Coleridge

D

• Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood.[8] Their respective siblings Caroline Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood III (1795-1880), entrepreneur, also married.[9]
• Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954), American businessman and philanthropist, married his first cousin, Alice Belin, in 1915
• Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871), American diplomat and his first cousin, Emily Donelson (1807-1836)

E

• Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist, and his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal née Einstein[10]
• William Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900), former US Secretary of War, and his first cousin, Ellen Peabody[11]

F

• Viriato Fiallo, Dominican Republic dissident, and his first cousin Prudencia Fiallo, daughter of his uncle Fabio Fiallo.[12]
• Vivian Fuchs (1908-1999), British explorer, and his cousin Joyce Connell[13]

G

• Carlo Gambino (1902-1976), a mob boss, and his first cousin, Catherine Castellano[14]
• Buddha Gautama and first cousin Yaśodharā
• André Gide, Nobel Prize-winning French author, and his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux[15]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American author, and her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman[16]
• Carl Giles, cartoonist, and his first cousin, Joan Giles
• A. D. Gordon and his cousin, Faige Tartakov.
• Samuel L. Gouverneur and his first cousin, Maria Hester Monroe
• Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and later Marshal of the Empire, and his first cousin, Anne Gouvion
• Duncan Grant, Scottish painter, who was in a relationship with his male first cousin, the English writer Lytton Strachey.[17]
• Bibb Graves, and his first cousin, Dixie Bibb
• Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer, and his first cousin, Nina Hagerup[18]

H

• Shaykh Haydar and his first cousin Alam-Shah Begum
• Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-British economist, and his cousin Helene Bitterlich[19]
• Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and political activist, and his cousin Natalya Zakharina[20]
• Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), fifth President of Iraq and his first cousin Sajida Talfah (b. 1937)

J

• Jacob was married to two of his first cousins, sisters Leah and Rachel
• Ja'far al-Sadiq (700 or 702 - 765), Muslim scholar, and his first cousin, Fatima bint al-Hussain'l-Athram bin al-Hasan bin Ali
• Jesse James (1847-1882), American outlaw and guerilla, and his first cousin, Zerelda "Zee" Mimms (1845-1900)[21]
• Jón Sigurðsson (1811-1879), leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement, and his first cousin, Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir

K

• Naoto Kan (b. 1946), former Prime Minister of Japan, and his first cousin, Nobuko Himei (b. 1945), essayist[22]
• Nobusuke Kishi (1896-1987), former Japanese statesman, and his first cousin, Yoshiko Kishi[23]
• Kujō Michiie (1193-1252), Japanese regent, and his first cousin, Saionji Rinshi

L

• David Lean, British film director, and his first cousin, Isabel Lean (his first wife)[24]
• Charles Lilburn Lewis and his first cousin, Lucy Jefferson Lewis
• Li Ka-shing, founder of Cheung Kong Holdings, married his first cousin Chong Yuet Ming, who died in 1990
• John Amory Lowell and his first cousin, Susan Cabot Lowell

M

• Rob Roy MacGregor and his cousin Mary Helen MacGregor of Comar, who married in January 1693
• Gerardo Machado, fifth president of Cuba, and his first cousin, Elvira Machado Nodal[25]
• Maeda Toshiie, Japanese Daimyō in the 15th century, and his first cousin, Matsu.
• Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand), and her first cousin, William Gannin Ormsby
• Delarivier Manley, British playwright and political satirist, and her first cousin John Manley[26]
• Francis Marion, American revolutionary leader also called the "Swamp Fox," and his first cousin, Mary Esther Videau[27]
• Humphrey Marshall and his first cousin, Anna Maria ("Mary") Marshall.
• Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, and his first cousin, Bertha Goodman[28]
• John Minor Maury and his first cousins, Eliza Maury
• Matthew Fontaine Maury married his first cousin, Ann Hull Herndon, sister of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died on his ship SS Central America
• Darius Milhaud, French composer, and his first cousin Madeleine Milhaud[29]
• 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[30]
• Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer, and his first cousin Mary Morgan (daughter of his uncle Edward).
• William Morgan (c. 1640 – 28 April 1680) and his first cousin, Blanche Morgan
• Mōri Terumoto, Japanese Daimyo in late 15th and early 16th century, and his cousin (first wife), Minami no Kata.
• Gouverneur Morris Jr. and his first cousin, Martha Jefferson Cary
• Ignacy Mościcki, Polish chemist and president and his first cousin, Michalina Czyżewska
• Muhammad, Islamic prophet (c. 570 - 632) and his first cousin, Zaynab bint Jahsh

N

• Naoe Kanetsugu (1559-1620), Japanese samurai and Karō of the Uesugi clan in 16th and 17th centuries, and his first cousin, Osen.

O

• Ōtomo no Yakamochi (c. 718 - 785), Japanese statesman and waka poet in the Nara period, and his cousin, Sakanoue no Ōiratsume.

P

• Endicott Peabody (1857-1944) and his first cousin, Fannie Peabody.[31]
• Edgar Allan Poe and his first cousin, Virginia Clemm (1822-1847)[32]
• John J. Pettus (1813-1867), 23rd Governor of Mississippi, and his first cousin, Permelia Virginia Winston
• Peter A. Porter (1827-1864), lawyer, politician and a Union Army colonel, and his first cousin, Mary Cabell Breckinridge

R

• Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, and his first cousin, Natalia Satina[33]
• Satyajit Ray, Indian film-maker, and his first cousin, Bijoya Ray[34]
• Lionel de Rothschild and his first cousin, Charlotte von Rothschild
• Nathaniel de Rothschild and his first cousin, Charlotte de Rothschild
• Anselm Salomon von Rothschild (1803-1874) and his first cousin, Charlotte Nathan Rothschild
• Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820-1886) and his first cousin, Louise von Rothschild
• Hassan Rouhani (b. 1948), 7th president of Iran and his first cousin Sahebeh Rouhani née Arabi (b. 1954)

S

• Greta Scacchi, actress of Presumed Innocent, and her first cousin, Carlo Mantegazza[35]
• William Stith and his first cousin, Judith Randolph
• Igor Stravinsky, composer, and his first cousin, Katerina Nossenko[36]

T

• John Edward Taylor (1791–1844), 1821 founder of The Manchester Guardian (since 1959 The Guardian), in 1824 married his first cousin, Sophia Russell Scott.[37]
• Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese daimyō, a son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and his first cousin Senhime[38]

U

• Uthman Abu Quhafa (538 or 540 - 635), father of the first Rashidun Caliph, Abu Bakr and his first cousin, Salma Umm al-Khair (d. between 632 and 634)

V

• Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate, and his first cousin Patricia Llosa[39]

W

• H. G. Wells (1866–1946), author, and his first cousin, Isabel Mary Wells (his first wife)[40]
• William Whipple (1730-1785), signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Catherine Moffatt[41]
• John A. Winston (1812-1871), 15th Governor of Alabama and his first cousin, Mary Agness Jones
• Henry Winthrop (1608-1630), son of founder and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his first cousin Elizabeth Fones (1610 - c. 1673)

Y

• Annie Henrietta Yule (1874-1950), film financier and breeder of Arab horses at Hanstead Stud in England, and her first cousin Sir David Yule, 1st Baronet (1858-1928), Scottish business based in British India[42]

• Avunculate marriage
• Consanguinity
• Cousin marriage
• Marriage